Lifetime Wellness
What did you learn about “lifelong wellness” from taking this activity class?
The greatest, and most important thing that I have taken away from this class is the importance of getting your life to a healthier, and thereby, more enjoyable state. I always thought that being healthy just meant diet and exercise. But this course opened my eyes to the truth that real, 'total wellness', includes much more, namely; emotional, social, spiritual, physical, environmental, and intellectual health. These concepts re-invented my whole philosophy and approach towards my health. Now I have a much better understanding of what it means to be healthy, and a greater desire to attain better health, in all its facets and forms. I know the path to achieving better health won't be an easy one to tread, it will be uphill. But I'm ready for the challenge and know that nothing worth attaining is done so on level, or down-sloped terrain. To become better, and achieve higher, one must climb. I will climb.
How would you apply this information to your life?
By continuing to update, re-create, and adapt my nutrition/diet, my exercise regimen, and my outlook on life as necessary. Life's circumstances will change, and therefore so must I. I'll continue to reevaluate my progress and make the appropriate adjustments so that I can reach the best version of myself possible. To simply 'have been taught' the material isn't good enough. One must LEARN the material. I personally believe that the word LEARN implies much more than just attaining new information. To me, learning means that you've developed an understanding of how to better a process/practice/behavior/skill-set/ and/or knowledge base that up until this point was lacking. To learn something new, means you absorb it, apply it, live it, become it.
What is your intention to continue to exercise in your life and why?
Well for me exercising this semester has done more than just help me lose weight and have more energy on a day-to-day basis. It has significantly increased my confidence and self-image, while also greatly reducing chronic pain in my back and neck that I've felt for years since a serious car accident that I had. I always used my injury/pain as an excuse to abstain from activity. I believe I did this (somewhat unknowingly) to....absolve myself of responsibility from my own health, which of course was absurd. This class has helped me to LEARN that I have to take control of my health, my life. Exercise (and a good, nutritional diet) will become a regular part of my life because of its miraculous, yet practical, ability to make everything better, stronger, healthier. I want to continue feeling free of chronic pain. I want to continue to feel better about myself. And I want to continue to look better in my own image. Exercise is the key.
General ideas for improving this course?
This course has been absolutely fantastic. It was helpful, enlightening, encouraging, eyeopening, and very user-friendly. I believe that the only recommendation that I'd have for improvement of this course is to change the "2 Day Nutritional Analysis Assignment" to a mandatory 7 day analysis. My reasoning for this (and I didn't do this personally) is because anyone can either lie, fake, or practice/suffer through a good diet for 2 days to look good. Whereas, on the contrary, a 7 day analysis would be more informative, more detailed/accurate, and more educational in terms of helping people see where they need to make changes on a bigger scale. In 2 days, anyone can have a good or bad stretch that doesn't fairly or adequately reflect their actual, usual diet. Over 7 days, you get more consistency, more regularity. I feel this would be a more accurate measuring stick to determine where people need to make significant changes in their diet. Other than that, this course was fabulous and wonderful. I wouldn't change anything else about it!
The greatest, and most important thing that I have taken away from this class is the importance of getting your life to a healthier, and thereby, more enjoyable state. I always thought that being healthy just meant diet and exercise. But this course opened my eyes to the truth that real, 'total wellness', includes much more, namely; emotional, social, spiritual, physical, environmental, and intellectual health. These concepts re-invented my whole philosophy and approach towards my health. Now I have a much better understanding of what it means to be healthy, and a greater desire to attain better health, in all its facets and forms. I know the path to achieving better health won't be an easy one to tread, it will be uphill. But I'm ready for the challenge and know that nothing worth attaining is done so on level, or down-sloped terrain. To become better, and achieve higher, one must climb. I will climb.
How would you apply this information to your life?
By continuing to update, re-create, and adapt my nutrition/diet, my exercise regimen, and my outlook on life as necessary. Life's circumstances will change, and therefore so must I. I'll continue to reevaluate my progress and make the appropriate adjustments so that I can reach the best version of myself possible. To simply 'have been taught' the material isn't good enough. One must LEARN the material. I personally believe that the word LEARN implies much more than just attaining new information. To me, learning means that you've developed an understanding of how to better a process/practice/behavior/skill-set/ and/or knowledge base that up until this point was lacking. To learn something new, means you absorb it, apply it, live it, become it.
What is your intention to continue to exercise in your life and why?
Well for me exercising this semester has done more than just help me lose weight and have more energy on a day-to-day basis. It has significantly increased my confidence and self-image, while also greatly reducing chronic pain in my back and neck that I've felt for years since a serious car accident that I had. I always used my injury/pain as an excuse to abstain from activity. I believe I did this (somewhat unknowingly) to....absolve myself of responsibility from my own health, which of course was absurd. This class has helped me to LEARN that I have to take control of my health, my life. Exercise (and a good, nutritional diet) will become a regular part of my life because of its miraculous, yet practical, ability to make everything better, stronger, healthier. I want to continue feeling free of chronic pain. I want to continue to feel better about myself. And I want to continue to look better in my own image. Exercise is the key.
General ideas for improving this course?
This course has been absolutely fantastic. It was helpful, enlightening, encouraging, eyeopening, and very user-friendly. I believe that the only recommendation that I'd have for improvement of this course is to change the "2 Day Nutritional Analysis Assignment" to a mandatory 7 day analysis. My reasoning for this (and I didn't do this personally) is because anyone can either lie, fake, or practice/suffer through a good diet for 2 days to look good. Whereas, on the contrary, a 7 day analysis would be more informative, more detailed/accurate, and more educational in terms of helping people see where they need to make changes on a bigger scale. In 2 days, anyone can have a good or bad stretch that doesn't fairly or adequately reflect their actual, usual diet. Over 7 days, you get more consistency, more regularity. I feel this would be a more accurate measuring stick to determine where people need to make significant changes in their diet. Other than that, this course was fabulous and wonderful. I wouldn't change anything else about it!