Working Out In High School

So you’ve finally done it. After months and months of promising yourself you would get fit and healthy, you’ve finally joined a gym. Good for you! Now, the last thing I want to do is dampen the joy you’re probably experiencing right at this moment, but I do feel like I should warn you that things only get harder from here. If you’re going to get the results you’re after, you’re going to have to put in a lot of work at the gym, performing just the right exercises just the right amount of times. If you have no prior health and fitness experience, you can expect to make a couple of mistakes right off the bat. That’s just fine, mistakes are inevitable. That being said, I do want to use my extensive experience in this area to help

Currently I am in cross country, basketball, and track, but I have done many other sports in the past. I joined the cross country team in 8th grade in hopes of finding a new passion. I fell in love with running and decided to join the track team that same year. Basketball is a different story; I joined in 3rd grade just because my parents signed me up as most sports go when you're younger, and I struggled greatly with learning and understanding the game. I spent long summers training in my yard trying to get better. This determination helped me significantly when it became time for tryouts, as I ended up making the higher team. To this day I still have a lot of determination when it comes to sports and most things in

I was involved in many sports, but regardless of how much physical exercise I was involved in I was still heavy. I was always tired and found myself not being able to compete to level in which I wanted to be at.

I already had an extremely busy routine, maintaining a 3,7 GPA in college prep classwork, daily golf practice, volunteering through my school and my church, SAT / ACT prep. Add to that a very full tournament & travel schedule including at least 16 multi-day tournaments nationally. How would I find the time to get fit? After many excuses & false starts, in March 2016 I committed to making a change. I needed to be healthier, and needed to improve my physical fitness and stamina to continue to improve as an athlete. I began eating a low carb, high protein diet and going to the gym as a guest every day with two of my friends. I began to see changes in my body and health and became even more motivated by seeing the results from my hard work. It became easier to manage my studies and all my other activities around my commitment to health and fitness. I earned my own gym membership and began to work out every day, even during my travel to golf tournaments. This summer I traveled throughout Florida, to Alabama, Georgia, Arizona, and Tennessee for tournaments and

Ever since I was a kid, I have always been active. I fell into a deep depression and gained very few people knew about and gained

One of my best friends, who was on the track team before, told me how painful and gruesome the amount of exercising we had to do was. Because of this annoying but helpful fact she told me, I started going to the gym. At that time I wasn't a member of a gym. The next day I asked my parents for a membership at the gym, the Y. I started going three times a week. I had a day for abs, legs, and arms and and I saw a differance in my muscles immediately.

This program requires a determined will and patience as change is never easy but if you stick with it you will see great results that leave you feeling energized and more

Luckily, there’s a modifier on screen to help dial down the intensity of the workout if you’re struggling like I was. I only struggled for about the first couple days until day five when I really noticed myself getting visibly stronger. As soon as my strength and perseverance grew, I could keep up with the videos easier, without using the modifiers as much, sweating less, and not being out of breath as easily. About half way through the second week, my muscles seemed more toned, especially in my belly region. And by the third week, I didn’t even need the modifier at all.

Regardless of the fact I had no idea what I was doing, I was desperate to just get something done. I did push-ups and sit-ups before I went to sleep every single day, along with jogging on my treadmill in the basement every other day for a whole year. I saved up my allowance, and bought a pull-up bar and a pair of dumbbells. I used all the equipment at my disposal for the duration of that year. My motivation sprung from the fact that I could actually see my progression; I doubled the amount of push-ups and sit-ups I could do, I was able to run at higher speeds, and I could even do one pull-up. I decided to take it to the next step, and signed up for weight training my junior year. This was a class where you follow a strict weight training program in the school’s weight room. Most people signed up to knock off a required gym credit, and fooled around instead of following their plan. I was one of the few people who actually did what they were supposed to, which was lift. I followed my training plan to a T the whole year, and I can say it was the best decision I’ve made in a while. I’ve lost 4% of my body fat while gaining around 20 pounds of muscle ever since my junior year. I am in the best shape of my life as a result. Now in my senior year, I am happily taking the class

You are all capable of doing this workout and repeating it throughout each week. You have to start somewhere any time you want to see improvement in your life. I believe in

Many McLane high school students are working out and that's good and healthy. However, being unhealthy by eating junk foods is bad for the McLane students and within the McLane region. Therefore, eating healthy foods, is hard to eat such foods, so working out twice as hard is beneficial. Working out is healthy and effective for a better lifestyle. Reasons why working out is a priority and beneficial is because of how healthy the community and McLane students' needs should be to be happy and healthy. Working out is hard to accomplish, but everlasting results are always amazing. Even though working out is good for the human being, some people around the world and in McLane high school are not doing enough of

My physical activity journal is rather boring. The only real physical activity I do is walk to campus from my house. Since my house is somewhat far away, I walk for a decent amount of time. My total moderate intensity equivalent minutes for the week adds up to 485 minutes, all of this is walking around at about three miles per hour. I did not partake in any muscle strengthening days during the past week. I simply do not have enough time to go work out at the rec center, even though I would love to weight lift there. As I said before, I primarily walk everywhere I go. I work at Cambus, so I usually walk to campus and catch a bus to work from there. Most of my class times are spread out throughout the day, so I usually walk to campus three or four times a day. In

Being active has always been important to me, both physically and mentally. When I first started school, sports and learning became prominent parts of my life. I have played volleyball, basketball, and softball ever since I can remember and I have been very successful in athletics. Success also came to me intellectually. As a child, I loved to read and write about anything and everything. Learning all fifty states was an obsession I had before I had even begun school. My craving for knowledge increased even further when I actually enrolled in school. I always had the desire to push myself to achieve the best that I am capable of. Though I developed this drive and discipline at a young age, it has stuck with me all through my high school career.

I began to slack off on my exercising, being that I could already lift a great deal more than any of my friends, not to mention I had gained an additional five pounds bringing my total weight gain to twenty pounds. Adding even more difficultly to maintaining my exercise routine, I took on a career as a traveling salesman, requiring me work long days and living out of hotels most of the year. I also continued in poor eating, abuse alcohol, and sleep for only a few hours a night. Over the next two years of irregular and undedicated exercise, I had lost ten pounds and nearly all my strength. I began to notice my life style had suddenly taking a toll on my overall health, sending me to the emergency room on several occasions. I soon realized that I needed to make a change in my life style or it was going to destroy me. I again turned to exercise for the answers I needed to make the change. I had heard many times before, while talking to other people who worked out, that it is very important to eat healthy, get enough sleep, and avoid alcohol if I wanted to see results from exercising. I was always quick to brush off advice like this, because I seemed to be making progress without following such strict rules, but I knew now that I need to make a change. I set out to achieve a healthy life style and began to use exercise as a source of

Do you need some motivation to get off the couch and begin exercising? Maybe you have started to work out and then stopped your work out routine so many times that you cannot keep track of the number of programs you have tried. Well you are not alone. In fact, by statistics that would make you an average American. All the same, working out for the sake of health and well-being is becoming increasingly important as we continue to learn the effects of inactivity. There are many benefits that arrive from the presence of exercise in your daily routine. Improve strength, improved cardiovascular fitness, and an improved immune system are just three of the MANY benefits that come from exercise and activity. I will tell you a little bit more