Personal Narrative: Strength And Lift Weights

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.

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

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

Preparing yourself mentally for a workout can also help when it comes to staying motivated. If you don’t, you’re more likely to give up when the workouts start getting more demanding. So before you start your workout plan for the upcoming months, here are some things you can do to help maximize your time in the gym.

I completed my floor routine with ease! It showcased my best event and I nailed it; however, bars really created the pressure. My coach for the event was Coach Alex, and the determination I felt to make him proud overwhelmed me. I loved all my coaches, but he stood out as someone very special. I knew I would miss his constant nagging at me. I approached the springboard, enveloped with chalk and trembling from head to toe. I hit the springboard with such power it jumped backwards. My hands felt like fire as I spun around the bars. My hands released the low bar and after an eternity, I felt the bar again, but by that time I grasped onto the high bar. Before I knew it, I had finished my last bar routine with a successful

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

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

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

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.

Weightlifting is like studying, no matter how hard you try to concentrate. It`s tough to stay focused. Studying itself seems easy. You can walk in and at least attempt to study, but when it comes time to the test you just can’t stay focused. You start to try and remember the things you read and drilled into your brain the night before but nothing. Sometimes, no matter how much you study you still can fail if you don’t stay focused. Sometimes the stuff you studied just doesn’t click. The information you bombarded yourself with just can’t resurface. But while you were studying were you really focused is the real question. Then you remember while you were studying you were listening to music and

Gyms all around the country offer group classes for a wide range of cardio classes: Zumba, Spin, Kickboxing are a few of many. What are your options if you like the idea of cardio classes, but not the thought of exercising in a group? Perhaps you are just beginning to exercise and worry about not being able to keep up in a room of other, possibly more experienced, cardio classmates. Good news: the solution is coming this July 20th, and you are going to love it!

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

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