How Sport Has Influenced Me Research Paper

Sport has had a big role in my life. It has helped me become the person i am today. Most sports that i have participated in throughout my life have been team sports, therefore i have learnt to work with different types of people in different types of environments. An example is cheerleading, this is a very stressful sport where everyone has to get along or else what you are trying to execute will not work. This has affected who i am because without this i would not be able to communicate properly with others and in the future i will be able to adapt to different opinions and personalities.

My social influence is family, they have had a role in me playing sport because when i was younger my parents decided that i had to be doing a sport all the time. This decision my parents made, impacted my involvement in sport because if i didn't like a sport i would try something new, here as most people would just quit the sport. My school has had an impact in my sport because at my primary and intermediate it was compulsory to do swimming sports and cross country. This was because of the environmental factor that we had access to a

without sport i would not be me. working in teams has made me confident in a social environment. In cheerleading if we did not voice our opinion on what we thought was going wrong or affecting our performance, nothing would get fixed. this is the same with everything else in life, if we do not speak up we will not get heard. Mentally and emotionally sport has helped me alot. when doing physical activity endorphins are released making me feel happy. If i have a bad day, then do physical activity i immediately forget about what has happened and focus on what i am doing. Sports have also had big effect on my physical well-being. Without doing the fitness involved in sport i would not be as healthy as i am today. Being committed to a sport mean that i have to eat healthy and keep my fitness levels