Personal Narrative: Strength And Lift Weights

An essential part of living a healthy life and managing a healthy body is participating in routine weight training. Many times throughout our lives we find ourselves eating unhealthy and forgetting that being active daily is essential to our health. As individuals go through their lives, they may consider going on a diet but in doing so, they are under the impression that eating healthy is the only essential aspect of staying healthy. This is incorrect due to the fact that routine weight training is what tones up the body, keeps the body in shape, and increases physical fitness overall. Along with these things, routine

Millions of students across the nation spend countless mornings and late nights in the weight room trying to achieve something greater. Weight rooms, much like the one I grew to know here in Aberdeen, are the beginning to so many dreams coming true. The bright lights and loud music invite you into a place of team building and hard work.

Everyone remembers that one place, that one place that instantly makes you feel good, that one place where you can completely act like yourself. For me, that one special location forever remains Texas Best Gymnastics, in McKinney, Tx. What I always adored was practicing with my team.I began competing there at the age of eight, and I competed my last competition shortly after my thirteenth birthday. However, even though I no longer spend half my time at the gym like I used to, it still invokes the same effect on me. Now that I stepped away from competing for a few years, when I look back on how stressful it seemed, I can still see all the wonderful memories I created. More than anything, I see what a wonderful impact the gym had on my life.

I've always been the odd man out on any sports team who looked forward to conditioning at the end of practice and would hold my plank an extra few seconds until I really felt the pain. I loved pushing myself beyond my expected limits and the satisfaction of leaving the gym knowing I gave my full effort. Although the thought of taking a weight lifting class was extremely intimidating, I acknowledged my deep love for training and bettering myself.

As the famous bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger once said, “Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.” During my 3 years of training, I learned much about what it takes to make an out of shape person to a healthy and fit person with just the right decisions and knowledge. For instance, I learned the importance of consistency, in which in order to be actively fit and healthy, there must be consistency. As a young fitness fanatic, I

Since I got my first set of Legos when I was seven, I have always loved to build. I would spend hours-on-end building a different house, car, robot, or spaceship out of Legos. As I got older and I eventually moved out of home school, this love for building transcended from Legos into people. When I am in a team setting, I build fellow members up while keeping the overall positivity of the atmosphere high. I do this by interacting with individual teammates and pushing them past their present limit to build them up all while motivating them not to quit. In the weight room

I walk in and hear the stereo blaring with rock or hard rap, I know I’m in the right place. The sound of the bar getting racked, jump ropes smacking on the ground, and people yelling at each other to get the weight up. When life’s coming at me full blast and I can’t handle it, when I’m about ready to just quit, I turn to the weight room. I can take my anger, my sadness, or any of my other struggles I have out in the weight room. When I enter the room with any of these emotions, the weight room helps me get my mind right and conquer the day. It's like my mood completely shifts and everything is okay again. The weight room is the my medicine for

Are you tired of the same old exercise routine? Maybe you bought a gym membership as a New Year’s Resolution to get in better shape, but have used it only a handful of times, or not at all. (Haven’t we all?)

You decided that it is time to start lifting weights, so you joined a gym. Now you are not

After a year of weightlifting I realized that I was no longer doing this for anybody other than me. I was doing this to become the best me. My actions in the weight room are not as far-fetched compared to the

Working out in a group setting has a long track record of forming positive bonds. This is part of why the military structures PT the way it does. It isn't simply about getting soldiers physically fit. It is also about forging them into a strong unit with good communication and a high level of trust.

My topic for the descriptive essay is going to be about my gym, Mountainside Fitness. I go every day after work, but before I start my homework during the evening. The main effect of going to the gym is going to be that it melts away my stress and is just as beneficial in a mental health capacity as a physical capacity. The body of my paper will encompass the three ways that the gym has a profoundly affected me. First I plan on talking about how the gym puts completely engrosses me in one activity. I can forget about the daily troubles going on at work, school and life in general. Next I want to go into the two main chemical reactions of a completed workout that help you feel happier and more relaxed: Serotonin and Endorphins. Lastly, the sense

¨Stay strong.Finish strong.¨ A phrase I hear constantly during track practice.It could be said just to encourage runners to hurry up and finish faster, but I use it on and off the track. When I was six years old, I was left in the care of my grandmother my mother had left me and my father stayed in California while my mom came back to Washington alone after she found out she was pregnant with me. At such a young age, I was confused and couldn't comprehend what was going on. Being the oldest child I had to take on the role of an adult in a household of my grandma,my handicapped auntie, and my two younger siblings which was a huge responsibility for a ten year old. I lost an important part of my childhood having to mature so early. I did the

When I started working out, I wasn't the strongest critter in the jungle. I felt ashamed of myself, I was a walking stick, my little sister weighed more than me and most of all, I was below the average height, but I didn't let that stop me, in fact I used it as a motivation to accomplish my number one goal of a healthier lifestyle

One of the best things about working out in a gym is the gym’s openness to the public. Gym’s look for people to hire that are friendly, motivated individuals that can help people set and achieve their goals. Gym’s have an open door policy, meaning that anyone can make a membership and become a part of their community any time they want. This makes the gym a very diverse place with lots of different people. Members tend to meet people that they wouldn’t have had the opportunity to outside of the gym setting. When working out at home, there is usually very limited motivation and will make it a lot harder to get the most out of the workout.