When reading chapter one there were a lot of new information that caught my eye. There are so many ways in which we could make our health goals a little bit easier and be a lot more motivated if we put all the knowledge that chapter one talks about in practice. The first thing that really caught my eyes was the definition of health and the their dimensions. When I think about someone being healthy, I think someone who is in shape, and who is not mentally ill. However, when the chapter explains how part of being consider healthy also means being mentally, socially, spiritual and emotionally stable, it makes me wonder, “am I really healthy?” and ” can anyone even consider themselves healthy”. When we think about it, we would all have our shrinks but also or weakness that might make us unhealthy. For instance, because I work out, and I have a good body weight for my body size, does not mean that I am healthy. After this chapter I would say that I am unhealthy because when I started working out I used to compare myself with other people and not appreciate what I have. I think self-love is something that sometimes I lack of, and even though working out brings out confidence in everyone, sometimes we have to work on our minds and spirit more than what we worry about or physic.
The other interesting topic would be “Setting a SMART GOAL”. I think when we set a goal, we get really caught up on seen the achievement too fast or get disappointing when we make a mistake. For instance, when I started working out to obtain muscle weight, I wouldn’t trust the process, and I would get dissapointed and want to quit after a month because I did not see the benefit. I wanted to dead lift 135lbs before I was even comfortable with the work out to begging with. I tried to bench pressed 135lb and, of course, I couldn’t even lift it because it was not REALISTIC. However, just one week ago I maxed out my dead lift with 215lbs because I stayed consistent. I think setting an specific goal and being realistic were the two most important things that I need to work on when I set a goal.
I think the last interesting thing in this chapter was the influence that we have in health and how sometimes it is hard for us to even change it. For instance, if your family is not economically stable or you are have a big family, your parents might not be able to afford healthier food choices. In addition, if your family drinks a lot or smokes, you would automatically be affected by the smoke, which is something that you can not control. However, if our government and schools were a little more consistent with the importance of healthy choices and reduce the variety of fast food and increase healthy foods and behavior maybe young kids might be a little more interested and motivated.
After reading this chapter, I think I would focus more on taking little steps at a time and try to have goals for every month. For this month, I am hoping to bench press 230lbs as well as doing 4 full ups.
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