Personal Experience: Exercise And Substance Abuse

It was a little hard to remember everything we had gone over during the semester. I finally had to flip through the book to make sure I didn’t forget anything. I felt like some of the chapters didn’t apply to me like the chapter about drugs, but then I remembered my almost addiction to the most used drug in society. I drink way too much coffee. It doesn’t help that I compare myself to other people and see they drink more so I think I’m doing fine if I don’t drink a pot a day. I think that is my worst flaw. I compare my health to others and if I am better than them, I think I am OK. Throughout this course I have learned ways I would like to change. Chapter three covered ways to exercise. It was really helpful. I didn’t know it was important
The pictures were the most helpful to me. I won’t try an exercise if I don’t know how to use it. I will be using the back extension exercise from now on. Posture and how someone does an exercise is really important. If I did something wrong, I could really hurt myself. Or I couldn’t get a good of workout if I do the exercise wrong. For example, my dad and I were at the Y and a woman was using the abdominal machine wrong. She was extending too far. My dad corrected her. I wanted to try it like she did and it didn’t seem as good a workout as I was used to. So from now on I will be getting instructions on how to do new
I learned a lot of good foods to eat. I really like the tables that were throughout the chapter. They told me the possible benefits of each food. Just from the tables I want to eat more tomatoes, nuts, onions and whole grains. It would be easy to incorporate this into my diet, considering most of these are lying around my house. I would also like to just eat 2,000 calories a day. Throughout the semester I adapted and learned many new things. By far the most helpful was learning how to cope with stress. Especially now when at work (I work at Dollar General), we have had a couple counterfeit bills (the company won’t buy a pen to check the bills). It is stressful hoping no one gets in trouble. I cope by listening to relaxing music and trying to find humor in the situation. I find that the more things I try to find the humor in, the easier it gets. By learning and implementing all these new strategies, I am really improving my life. I think it will be hard at first changing, but over time it will get easier. It may be hard today, making healthy choices, but I hope down the road I won’t think anything of grabbing an apple instead of a bag of chips to snack on. I also think I will start to run again. The way I exercise and how I eat are at the top of my list to change after this course opened my