Personal Narrative: Stronger Faster Healthier

Feeling exhausted, I focus on my breathing. I breath in through my nose and then out through my mouth, breath in and out. Repeat. After passing the mile mark, my coach is shrieking for me to relax, because I am on my way to qualify for cross country states. The top twenty girls qualify, and I have been dreaming of this day since freshman year. All I have to do is hold my position, and then I am golden. Suddenly, my legs begin to feel like jello. My running partner slowly fades ahead of me, and I cannot keep up. It feels like I am running backwards as the rest of my teammates pass me one by one. Fighting fatigue, I tell myself I am finishing this race, whether or not I have to crawl like a turtle to do so. I am crossing that finish line.

At the age of nine, I watched my uncles lowering my father into the ground and what took his life was addiction. All my life I have watched addiction take over the lives of people, I love. My father's side of the family, besides my grandparents, has always faced addiction. Although, addiction runs through my blood, I will not take the same path I have watched people take all my life. I will be the one to end the cycle. Watching the majority of my family waste their life has motivated me to change the direction and better myself from living a life of addiction and misery.

I have been progressing fairly well on my learning goals for semester 1, from the beginning of semester 1 until now from learning about anatomy to physiology and to hands on techniques. I cant believe my own self that in such little time that I have learnt so much. One of the things I have learned so far is the muscles origin and insertion following the bones of the body this allowed me to apply my knowledge on hands on experience such as palpation of the bones and muscles. Another thing I learned in this semester is from physiology class learning about the cardiovascular system and blood flow this allowed me to apply my knowledge from that into my clinical assessment for taking blood pressure and vitals for a patient. Overall I think my learning

Week two has been a bit of a rough week for my behavioral change project. I became sick and was stuck at home for three days this week. This caused me to have a bit of a relapse because when I am not feeling well I turn to things that comfort me. A big comfort for me is technology and I hate to admit it but I binge watched a lot of television this week and I used social media quite often. The worst part is that now that the binge has started I am having a difficult time stopping again. I am so stressed now because I missed a great deal of class and as a result I feel extremely far behind and anxious about if I can make it up successfully. Yet, all I want to do is watch Netflix and in all honesty that is all I have been doing this week. After the first week, I felt so strong (naively so) but now I only feel defeated by my own mind. That is a hard concept for me to grasp because how is it that something that feels so good, relaxing, and happy is so detrimental to my life in the areas of education, work, and relationships? I suppose though that part of the reason we do this project is to see what will make us relapse. For me and

I started back lifting weights June 1 of this year. I had lifted in the past but always seem to have barriers getting in the way from either school or work. Since I have a home gym and free weights in my home office I decided to have a backup plan for any obstacle that gets in the way of me working out.

Later that year i have been doing my workouts and i really love them they're really fun to do .I'm glad that Zoey told me that. I wouldn't have found out how easy this was. I'm really proud of myself for doing this and i can enjoy now

My cardiovascular endurance goal that I’d like to attain by the end of this semester is to sustain a fast pace of running for 30 minutes a day 3 times a week in order to improve the intensity of my cardiovascular endurance. My goal for my health habit is to reduce my alcohol intake to 5 drinks a month.

have changed because, I’m doing better. Also I have changed my looks in the beginning I would wear my lip piercing; now I don’t bring it to school. i think it was important that I changed because i would always get I think in trouble from wearing the piercing and now that I don’t wear it, they don’t really tell me anything anymore. Now I actually do my make up calmly in the beginning I would always be in a hurry. I think I have also changed I my personality I’m more aware of what could happened if I don’t do the right thing, how back then I wouldn’t even care about what could happen. I think I’m changing slowly by slowly, but I’m changing in a good way. In a few years from now I’ll be proud that I changed my attitude. One thing I have been

I had many different goals that I wanted to obtain this semester. I wanted lose body fat, lose 5 pounds, gain more flexibility in my back, find exercises that I can do in my own home, tone my gluteus, and lastly tone my body. I tried to obtain all of these goals by adding different elements and ideas into my workout plan. Each workout or day has elements that can help me obtain at least two of the goals, while just doing workout which will help me reach all of my goals in s shorter amount of time.

I had to learn this lesson all on my own. It was hard and difficult to finally get the idea of my personal belief system. I believe it is mind over body if you can believe it you can achieve it. Just like the little boy playing with his fire truck when he grows up he can be a firefighter or anything that he believes he can be. Just like I believed that I would walk during my graduation. I actually got this idea of walking during graduation when I saw my older brothers graduation and had preconceived notions during seventh grade. I never thought that this dream possible to accomplish. It was at my eighth grade graduation that I really began to believe that it was possible for me to walk at my high school graduation. I am not saying that it was easy; I had to put in hard work, sweat, and tears to accomplish this goal.

¨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

My health has affected me in both a positive and a negative way. In a positive way because it taught me to be more confident and attentive in what I do and what I eat. There are also its side effects which I didn’t like at all. The pain I kept getting was sometimes a bit too much for me. Considering the pain I was experiencing I had to be going to the doctor’s office and sometimes even the hospital. Still, right now doctors have yet to figure out what is wrong with me, but I have confidence that they will figure it out soon.

I am strong, I am brave. I haven’t learned anything about myself that is valuable enough to write. What I have learned is that I am capable of achieving greatness through believing in the law of attraction. The idea that positive thoughts create positive life experiences and vice versa when talking about negative thoughts. Using this, I have done so much. Like venturing off my choice of education as an example. I am currently in an adequate position in life thanks to the law of attraction. Memories can serve as a tool to motivate you or as a weapon to prevent you from doing what your heart tell you to.Those bad memories, those fears are usually there to block ourselves from thinking that we can succeed. Feeling are great, we ourselves can determine how we feel about something. Not always, we are human.

It was time to face my impending doom, the one thing that stood between me and my ‘A’: fitness testing. My arms would not fail me. I was not going to fall, I was not going to break. I would face this like I faced everything else, with determination on my shoulders and perseverance on my back. As I lifted myself from the ground, sweat dripping from my forehead, I knew it would not end well. All I could think was, ‘I am not going to make it, I am not going to make it,’ and I absolutely did not. My arms gave out from under me as I hit the floor with a loud ‘thud’. My teacher looked down at me with disappointment in his eyes. In this moment I knew that me and push-ups were not meant for each other. Being 16 years old and not being able to master

Who can run the fastest, who’s the strongest, who can hold their breath the longest-my brother Joey and I competed over everything. He always beat me at everything we did. Joey didn’t only beat me at things. When I was growing up, it was always Joey did this, Joey did that, Joey won that. He was a big shot wrestler with national titles and a good academic student. I wanted what he had. Why does he get this, why does he get that. "I thought why can’t I get this"? That question drove me to where I am today.