Wellness Reflection

In everyday life many people develop habits, but it is never too late to attempt to change that bad habit to live a healthier life. For this behavioral change project, I was asked to choose a health behavior that I would like to change for the better. So, I decided that I wanted to increase the amount of water I was consuming each day. The standard recommendation on how much water an individual should consume is about 64 ounces daily. However how much a person should drink is more individualized then one might assume. Therefore, for this particular project my goal was to at least consume 64 ounces of water daily as a baseline starting point. I also had to consider days when I worked out. So, I decided that I would attempt to increase that amount

Audience Analysis: since most of my audiences are students with a job, I will focus on how exercise can boost your energy, and mental health to get more accomplished in school.

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

Overall, I have been very impressed with how this course is going so far. I appreciate having a short presentation on the topic each week then having the opportunity to discuss the topic with other group members. I have learned a lot from the readings as well as from other group members. By having everyone share their ideas and thoughts, I feel that I have gotten more out of this course than I had expected. With everyone coming from different educational backgrounds and experiences, it has been interesting to be exposed to different ideas and perceptions on some of these topics. In addition, having group members question and challenge my ideas have promoted me to think more in-depth and explore more closely about the topics. As of right now, there seems to be no issues with my group. Everyone participates in weekly discussions as well as writing the summary. Ideas and opinions are shared in a respectful manner

When I first started this study, I had one objective: I wanted to see a difference in my mood and energy levels. When I was in high school, I always used to read articles and scroll past Instagram posts about fitness. It was not until my junior year of high school when I really made the decision to be serious about my health. Lately, I noticed that I have been struggling to both stay awake and be in a good without caffeine - specifically, coffee. And so, I wanted to change that through a more natural technique: working out.

This is a health behavioral change plan where I will prioritize the Seven Dimensions of Wellness as they rank in my current life and includes a rationale and details on why each category fell in particular spot when I rate it. The first dimension of health on my list is physical but it has an emotional component. I rated this on the top of my list because I have gained 26 pounds in about 3 years and 6-8 pounds have been in the past 6 months. I bought new jeans before Christmas and they no longer fit me. To give context to how I arrived here I had lost lots of weigh a few years ago but my brother died who is only 9 months older than me and more people followed along with other severe stressors. I have always have been interested in health and

Two summers ago, my godfather called me to work for The Heart of St. Louis Adult Health Daycare because there’s someone who really needs me and I answered to him why? He stated to go see for myself. When I arrive at The Heart of St. Louis Adult Health Daycare, the director gave me a tour and I saw the deaf elder man was so confused. I was really upset that they couldn’t help him get what he needed due to his disability. This has really impacted me that no one wanted to help the deaf elder man so I decided to take over activities assistance and interpret position immediately, just for him to represent my deaf community that I can be the person who is willing to sacrificed my time and my work. The point is not all businesses/public services shouldn’t

My physical health has improved drastically throughout this course. I started eating healthier and having fruits for breakfast instead of my usual stack of waffles. On top of this I started to workout with friends. This is great, but my goal for the future is to continue like this. I fear that once school starts again I will have more available excuses as to why I am not able to keep up these healthy habits. One thing that I really took away from our physical unit was that improving your physical health may take away from your mental/emotional or social health. With this in mind I came up with a way that I can improve my physical health, but at the same time stay

Upon taking Personal Fitness, I had an idea of how I could utilize the class to better my physical fitness. Therefore, I set goals to help me improve and ultimately guide me through the course of the semester. Furthermore, my current goals are to increase my muscle mass (muscle strength/endurance workouts 2 days per week) and improve my physical fitness (speed, strength, endurance, etc..). I chose these goals in order to better my overall cardiorespiratory endurance a my muscular strength, and my muscular endurance using the FITT principle.

What is wellness? “Wellness is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a healthy life. Wellness is also a process for change and growth” (Health Topic – What is wellness?). To have acceptable wellness you should have an equal amount of social, emotional/mental, and physical health. I, myself, believe that I have an okay wellness, I mean not like full wellness but just enough to pass I'll say. But how am I living in wellness?

In the past few weeks, I have attempted to exercise at least 5 times a week, challenge myself by eating more fruits and veggies, drinking more water, eating more superfoods, and getting at least 8 hours of sleep at night. I also worked on overall improving my own wellness with more meditation, winding down at night before sleeping, and dumping the processed, unhealthy foods. At the beginning, I thought this would be simple, but as days passed, I soon realized how unhealthy my usual lifestyle is and how much better I was feeling focusing more on my health. From running a mile around the neighborhood to sleeping more at night, I saw an improvement physically and mentally.

Health and wellness are increasingly being used. Health actually is more to a medical and describes the mental and physical state of a person. It will reflect a lack of disease of a person. In the contrary, wellness is defined as the overall process of maintaining a state of good health of a person. Wellness involves conscious decisions on the part of the individual, while health simply describes a person's condition of the body. However, the combined phrase health and wellness showed the meaning of the state of complete physical, mental, emotional health and social wellbeing, and it is when a person is absence of disease.

There are many personal self-care activities that are extremely important to our health. As a college student I chose an activity that I believe is one of the most important as well the most difficult for college students to do, exercising. I believe physical activity to be one of the most important personal self-care-activity a person can do to help improve their overall health. As a college student I have experienced what most college students or soon to be college students dread the most; “the freshman 15” which could easily be avoided with simply some exercise. Although many things lead to the freshman 15 such as irregular eating habits, stress, and lack of sleep I am going to discuss just how important exercise is as well as how it could help improve your overall health.

What health and wellness mean to me may be different than what the textbook would state health and wellness is. Health means to me the condition in which your body is, which could be poor or good health. The mind,spirit,physicality would pertain all to the state of one's body. Wellness is the consistent goal towards being in wellness meaning that one strives to be in good personal health. The book describes wellness as; “ wellness is the physical-well being , emotional-well being ,and spiritual- well being.” (Robert T. Harper) According to Merriam Webster the definition of health is “the condition of being sound in mind,body,and spirit.”(...) There is not much difference between what I perceive as health and

Although I do not usually have the time for exercising, I chose a health and wellness project to improve my physical health. For this project, I was required to complete some initial tests, set goals, make an exercise plan for a month, follow it, keep logs, and at the end of the month to complete the initial tests again. The exercise routine I made consisted of running, yoga and other stretches, weights, lunges, and planks. I generally alternated the running, planks, and lunges with the yoga and other stretches every day. I also used the slides of chapter 5 from the health and wellness chapter to decide on what stretches and exercises to do. Overall this project challenging, but was a rewarding experience.