Chapter 10
This chapter talks about fitness and physical activity. While reading this it has helped me a lot with my physical activity and fitness with my goals of getting back to the gym more than four times a week and what activity I should be doing and how long for my healthy life I want to live. When it comes to the physical activity in the first section of this chapter the proper ways when you are exercising and the effects on your body and health. One of the reasons why I changed recently what type of activity I was doing was because when I went to the gym, I was just doing weight not cardio which is why there was no difference anymore in my body and my health. I started doing a different type of physical activity which is a cardio sport, one which I’m getting to do four sometimes five days a week. I love it because I’m getting the cardio and muscle strength that I wasn’t getting at the other gym I was going to. Also, when you do join this gym it is by class and they are set times. From this happening I will also be able to go because I know what time and it set in those time. From switching to this it has helped me know what time I’m going and what time I can go through. My old gym you could go in whenever you want. I think for some people if you have the choice, they are going to not go maybe they don’t want to work out or their schedule is too busy they just want to go home and hangout about their house. My goal for doing this was being to want to work out using all the health benefits for my body. Once I started doing it, I has seen a different in the benefits I has done on my body and the way I fell about my body now. In this section there is one thing I would like to work on is the muscular endurance. My goal is to be able to get more muscle strength to be able to do more pushups than I can do now. I’m not good at doing pushups, I think my problem at first was that I wasn’t doing them right. From practicing them I have learned to do them correctly and have been doing then right for about two weeks now. By the end of the summer my goal is to be able to do about 15-20 push-ups each time I’m working out. The second one is the common obstacles for physical activity that I want to improve on and set goals for. One of the obstacles I come along with when it comes to exercise for me is that I don’t like to run. With my new gym/activity I’m doing now has part of it where you are running. From doing this I have gotten used to running. One of my goals is, to as time goes one and I get better at running, is to go faster when I’m running. One goal I want to do is run another 5k within the next year. I ran a 5k before and it took me about an hour to finish. When running more than before the next time I run a 5k I want to be able to reach my goal by doing a 5k under what I did before. I would like to be able to do it under 45 minutes. The last one for this chapter is the stretching. When I work out, I don’t think or even do it after working out. Once I’m done with my workout I leave. One goal I want to do is to start after every workout to stretch once I’m done. It’s important to stretch when you are done because it helps with your body in getting better with a range of motion when you are working out. I have noticed sometimes when I don’t stretch, I get muscle cramps like the next day or even shortly after a workout cause I’m not stretching out my muscle. I’m also not flexible when it comes to physical activity which is definitely because of not stretching. To improve my goals for a healthy lifestyle with exercise I will plan on, making time to stretch after a workout. I also found that I wasn’t stretching because I didn’t have enough time after my workout.
Chapter 11
This chapter talks about cancer, cardiovascular diseases, the effects it has on your body and risk factors. The ones that really caught my attention was the lung cancer, breast cancer and skin cancer. When I read the section on breast cancer, I didn’t think that it would be that high of the number for both men and women except for men getting this type of cancer. That way it is important to do self-examinations a couple times a week or even every day. I think that there are many people out there who think they don’t have to because they get exams when they go to the doctors for their physicals. When they go for the physical, they think that one time will be good enough to change but it’s not because one can get checked but weeks or months after something could happen. From this section I think about how I should be doing self-examinations more to prevent the chance of getting breast cancer. It important for me because I want to life a healthy lifestyle. The second is lung cancer and how it is more common in death then breast cancer is for women. I would have never thought that it is more common than breast cancer. One of the risk factors that I watch for when it comes to lung cancer is that my dad smokes. I grew up with it when we were going on family vacation of even parties, he would be smoking in the car with us. As we got older we would tell him how bad the second hand smoke is for us that he won’t do it as much depending on how long the car ride was he could wait till we get there are if it was long he would have one or two in the car. Now that I drive my own car and stuff, I will take my own car just so I’m not in the same car as him because he will smoke with me there. For my healthy lifestyle I will walk away from him when he is smoking to help prevent the risk of getting lung cancer myself. I know I’m still at risk for it because it goes right into his clothes and stuff so that smell is still there for anyone to inhale the cigarettes smell. Once I remove myself the risk is not so much as if I was standing right with him when he was smoking it. The last one is the skin cancer. When it comes to summer time or even before that when the sun comes out during the day and I’m outside I will be putting sunblock on me because I burn so quick. I have had people tell me in the past that my skin looks so good and that I take care of it when I’m in the sun. I have had many family members have had damaged skin removed from being in the sun. They did not have cancer, but it just makes me even careful when it comes to going outside in the sun. When I was in high school and still now, I know so many girls who would use the tanning salon to get tans or even lay out in the sun all day every day during the summer. I’m not that type of person I have never used a tanning salon or lay out in the sun all day long. I don’t like or want to use the tanning salon because you have a high risk of getting skin cancer from them. I want my skin to be healthy and look healthy when things like this happens your skin changes over time. My goals to prevent skin cancer is not use the tanning beds, applying sunblock when outside and watching what I use on my skin and how I should be using it. I want this goal for my skin for it to be healthy. I’m the type of person that applies sunblock all the time even when I could wait a little bit. I have got sunburn before in my life and when it happens it so red and hurts because I have the fair skin.
Chapter 12
In chapter 12 there are many factors that are discussed about your immune system, infections, and vaccinates. Vaccines are a big problem in this day in our world with people not believing in vaccinating their child. There are many reasons behind why parents don’t want or believe in getting their child vaccinated. I work with many children in a daycare setting who, if they aren’t vaccinated because of the age they are where they are too little that are at a higher risk for them to get sick. From that being said, as a teacher there were vaccines requested to have and have to show records before we can even start working there. I believe that children should be vaccinated for themselves and the other people around them. It’s an important thing to do in life because there are many illnesses that can be deadly to many young children. For example, the measles is so bad in a young child if an infant gets in contact with them that child could die. There have been cases that this has happened before. I have been vaccinated which is good for me because I’m able to do what I want to do as a career. There are going to be many people who will have a hard time getting a job if there are vaccines cause the job will require you to have them. For my health I feel that it important that I did get them when I was a child to protect anything from happening to me with a preventable illness. The second one of the immune systems for how it works on your body. My immune system, I feel it’s strong especially during sick season of colds or stomach bugs. I’m around children all the time during this season which is why I feel that my immune system is strong. I’m not the type of person who will catch it from another child. One of the important things I do for my health when working with sick children is always washing my hands or using hand sanitizer. I also clean and sanitize everything that child uses or is around like tables or toys. My goal of living a heathy life is by washing hands and keeping everything clean to protect any germs from spreading. The last one tick-borne bacterial diseases. I can’t stand ticks they freak me out so much. For my goal when I go out that close to the woods, I will start to wear bug spray to prevent anything happening with ticks or mosquitoes. I’m the type of person that doesn’t like to put on bug spray because I don’t like the way it feels and smells. One thing I can do to help prevent this for happening is to use bug spray. Another factor is if I see a tick on my body anywhere to remove it, so it doesn’t stay on me. I have a tick crawl on me before when this happen, I would remove it from my body to prevent anything from happening.
Katie's Blog 