Fitness for Life

HLAC- Lifelong Wellness Application Paper 

1. What did you learn about “lifelong wellness” from taking this activity class?

I learned the benefit of exercise and eating right but also that those two things are not the only requirement for total wellness. You must balance and cater to your physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and spirital needs. You cannot have total wellness without all of these being balenced in your life. Doing so helps increase your activity and relieves/heps you deal with stress in your life. 

2. How would you apply this information to your life?

I realize this will take time to do, but I need to reevaluation what I want in life and change my lifestyle in order to improve. By changing how frequently I exercise and the quality of foods I eat, I am able to lose weight wich helps me emotionally feel better about myself. This in tern gives me more energy to be able to concentrate better and learn more things. Having more energy also means more time after my commitments to improve my social and spiritual needs. I am very glad I took this class my first semester of college. This has given me a better outlook on how to take care of myself while still giving in to the demands of school, work, and society. 

3. What is your intention to continue to exercise in your life and why?

Two years and 30 pounds ago I was hired to do an office job. Prior to this job I my work involved moving around all of the time. Outside of work I didn't need to do much excersicing. However, after starting this job I immediately started to gain weight and became overweight by over 35 pounds within 8 or 9 months. After starting this course in May and excercising almost every day and eating better, I am now only about 16 pounds overweight. Now that i have seen the light, I will continue to practice what I have learned in order to get back to my target weight.

4. General ideas for improving this course?

I don’t have a lot of things that I would recommend for improving this course. An added perk might be to add an open discussion threat to a few of the sections to generate some conversation amongst the students. I may also suggest instead of having a six week exercise log, to do an online input weekly. Also, along with that online entry I would suggest splitting classmates into teams and tracking their time exercising vs. other things like watching television. I think that would open up discussion and encouragement for those in each team, and some competition for the class.