Personal Narrative: My Workout Plan

Everyone has something they’re talented at, and many people have to try multiple things before they find their talent(s) that they have. As a child, my parents like many others had me participate in multiple activities. For example, I took dance classes, played a great amount of sports, and was a participant in many plays. In my freshman year, I tried running track and field. During the course of it, I developed shin splints and I proceeded to go to the athletic trainer. The athletic trainer here, Todd Korabek, has a system that works for the whole program. New injuries will see an aide, and that aide will then write up a card for them which lists their name, sport, injury, and body part. The aide doesn’t write the injury because only the athletic trainer can diagnose. After the athletic trainer treats all old injuries, he evaluates the new injuries, which happened to be me at that moment. Watching the aides assist Mr. Korabek really inspired me and his profession intrigued me.

The first time I realized that I wanted to be an athletic trainer was during my eighth grade summer at camp. I was working on a project where I had to find careers that I was interested in. Doing this project helped me realize how many job choices there were, but only one intrigued me as much as this one. My choice to major in kinesiology was made clear during my freshman year after I job shadowed an athletic trainer at my local college and high school. High school has helped me realize who I am and what I want to become, and college will help me become that person.

I grew up overweight, amidst incessant teasing and judging glances so frequent they felt normal. I knew I was unhealthy. I wanted to improve, and I did try to work out and eat right a lot of times - but to no avail. It never worked. In hindsight, it is clear my failures were because I prioritized health below everything - academics, a social life - you name it. Moving to the US for college, leaving behind a support structure for a foreign culture, I knew I had a fresh start that I could make the most of if I so tried.

My clinical rotation for the fall semester of my junior year is with the King’s College Men’s soccer team. As an athletic training student, I hold a lot of responsibilities regarding the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, management, and treatment of these student athletes. Most of my daily activities can be separated into three groups, the pre-practice, pre-game, during the activity, and post- practice and post-game.

My mom is a mass pro trainer at Honda. She has been working there for about ten years. She works non stop and loves it. I always hear the comment “ get a job you love”, well she got hers. My mom always told me hard work shows within somebody. She also always made the point that when you start something don't quit and that's one thing that has stuck with me in my whole career.

My goals in the physical category were to get more exercise, go to the gym at least an hour – 4 times a week. Eat healthy, eat at least 5 portions of fruits and vegetables per day. Eat less junk food and get more sleep hours, 8-10 hours per day. I tried to go every weekday to the gym with my friends, I did go for at least 4 times per week, sometimes I couldn’t because I had homework but overall this goal has been easy to reach and I will keep going because I want to be in a good shape. Eating healthy was a lot more challenging, sometimes I don’t eat so healthy because is easier to get some fast food instead, but I definitely eat 5 portions of fruits and vegetables per day, for example, after lunch or dinner I always get a good amount of fruit to eat because I love fruits. I will try to eat less junk food and maintain good portions of fruits and vegetables. Sleeping 8-10 hours every day is impossible in college because there is always things to do and sometimes

Olympic weightlifting has a special place in my heart. It’s a sport that many young athletes don’t consider; in fact, I didn’t consider partaking in this athletic discipline myself. It wasn’t until I realized what I was cable of; shaping and moulding myself into a strong, powerfully built, individual. The concept of improving myself was a fixed goal that I was willing to pursue. From there on, my weightlifting career quickly blossomed. I was first informed by my soon to be coach, that I would be competing in the school’s weightlifting competition. The word competition brought excitement and fear. A proper mind set was needed in order to compete. Building confidence on the platform and being consistent with my technique was the main focus. Countless

It was a strange and terrifying September morning. The birds were chirping ridiculously loud, meaningless music was blaring out of the extremely old radio, and lastly the most greatest sound of them all - the bell. Most of us students sprinted out of the gym upon hearing the bell because they were afraid of being late to their next late, even though all the teachers told us that we could be a bit late to our classes - but only for the first week of school of course. Anyways, I ran out of the gym like everybody else and took a peek at my schedule. Third Period, Lutthans, Math, okay. Simple. I made my way through the long and crowded halls and did my best to find the piece of paper hanging right above the four hundred hallway. Eventually, I found the paper sign and

Generally, if I wanted to improve my dietary habits, it has to begin with what I eat for breakfast. If I want to get a more satisfactory amount of nutrients and such, I would have to attempt to implement more fruits. I was thinking that perhaps I could attempt to add in more fruits such as strawberries, apples, oranges, and bananas. Both strawberries and oranges are widely recognized for the amount of Vitamin C they contain. However, both of those fruits also contain sugars, which although are in fact a bit bad in high quantities, are still quite healthy. In addition, apples also contain a lot of healthy nutrients, such as fiber, Vitamin C, and soluble and insoluble pectins.

My weight has been something that I have struggled with all my life. When ever I would look in the mirror I would feel this uncontrollable sadness. Of course my appearance was something that motivated me to lose weight, but my health also played a huge role in my weightloss journey. So I set a goal to become healthier, I stayed focused and determined on reaching that goal.

I am Abinaya (Abi) and I am from India. I am a junior doing a double major in Mathematics and Marketing. I also work part-time at Grafton Library. Some of my hobbies include watching movies, listening to songs, reading and taking long walks. My favorite drinks include coke and tea. I am a vegetarian except for the occasional egg. I love to eat spicy food. My favorite cuisines include Indian and Chinese. I also enjoy playing sports, specifically basketball and badminton.

I walked into a new gym, and I saw a guy hitting a volleyball harder than I had ever seen anyone hit before. In the next moment I saw him walking over to me before my practice started. He said hello to me. I was a 13 year old kid when I first meet KK Paela at club volleyball practice. After knowing KK for a year, he began to help me become a better volleyball player by fixing all of the mistakes that I was making. He told me how to improve my hitting by reaching my elbow up higher, how to become a better passer by keeping my platform out in front of my body, and to hit around the block instead of hitting right into it. Everything that he has taught me since the day that I first met him has made me the person that I

As of this morning, Compete shows 48 associates registered for the challenge. Fitness is still doing weigh-in this weekend so we could possibly see a couple more associates jump on before the official Monday start. I’ll update you, and the team, at next huddle if that’s the case. Next year I will start advertising the associate challenge as early as possible as well explore more creative ideas to encourage participation. On the member side, the total this morning was 161 registered so we have a grand total of

There are a few qualities within the readings that reinstate with me. I am going to start with the one quality that I find the most challenging, expectations or managing energy. I know where my energy derives from, it is from inspiration and meaning. I find this in people, projects, goals and anything that I feel passionate about. Where does it go? That is easy, obsessively into that person, project or goal. My obstacle is managing the energy, as I said, I am obsessive. Somewhere in my head I have unlimited time, several hands and stamina beyond any human. I need to learn to cut myself some slack and not try to do it all. The other problem is that I do not ask for help, I have viewed needing help as being weak and do not like to rely

By taking fitness again this term, I feel that I have accomplished my goals that I set for myself and have gotten into a great routine I could try everyday over the summer. Now experienced exercising on mostly all the cardio machines, I am able to effortlessly exercise through a workout for thirty minutes or more. For a specific goal this semester, I have wanted to succeed on levels 5-10, and I have actually reached level 10 on many occasions. Level 10 is still obviously a challenge for me, but this just pushes me to continue. In time, I might even reach higher levels than this and I will strive to do so. Another goal of mine was to lose a few pounds by the time I finished this class. I believe this is a check off my