The Importance Of Exercising

I’ve been in sports and working out since I have memory, but have never done it with the intention to change and improve myself, it has always been just random lifting, just doing what I knew and nothing else. Never checking what I eat, how much I eat and always just stopping exercising when I felt I hit that line where I’m no longer moving forward because complications. I never achieved anything with my body, looking wise or gained mass, I was always the same physically just simply strong and nothing else. So learning how to start making better choices, adopting a diet, learning to stick to exercising and learning what is making hit that line that never allows me to move on, Is what Is helping me finally feel and slowly see the results i’ve

First thing my mentor asked me was about my diet, first thing Mike chang mentions on his youtube videos is diet, same does Jordan D. Metzl says on his book. So me, someone who can eat three 4x4’s burgers from In-N-Out probably daily and eat whatever my parents make or buy, suddenly begins to worry me and here is where my struggle begins. I begin by doing daily journals of what I eat that my mentor reviews, researching and reading Jordan D. Metzl’s book where he says “The smarter you eat, the better your body feels and performs.” As time goes on I start to learn what each type of food does to my body, for example protein repairs/maintains muscle, Carbohydrates found in fiber give energy. I use this to start selecting what is good for my body and also this advice from Jordan D. Metzl “If a food has no purpose, don’t eat it. Look at the food in front of you and ask, “what’s in it for me?” If the answer is “Nothing” don 't eat it.” I really took this advice to heart, and used my desire to change, to stop eating all the burgers I love. As a student adopting a healthy diet on a budget can be quite difficult in order to get all the foods my body needs, this became another barrier I had to face, getting those 3 big meals and 2 snacks can get quite difficult. But again food choosing and knowing where to buy can be your friend, for example for my snack protein a greek yogurt followed with a peanut butter sandwich make great snacks, with 40 dollars at costco you get this

FIrst thing I learned was from Jordan D. Metzl’s Book and it says “To Strengthen Muscle Lengthen it.” he explains that when I work out any muscle If I strengthen it while also lengthens it can absorb so much more force and not hurt any tendons like I always did after a few months working out that would cause me to stop. The way you do this is that when you are lifting or working any muscle when you lower you also go very slow, really working those muscles. One example he gives is “In a calf raise, lift for 2 seconds, then spend 10 seconds lowering the weight.” My mentor knew this too so she gave me exercises to use this on and I have noticed great results in strength and I surpassed the barrier I mentioned earlier that always stopped me but it wasn’t just this, not yet at least. The second thing I was doing wrong that got me to stop exercising was because how tired I would be or weak I would feel and this was due to my lack of sleep I had that i discovered I had. Sleeping sometimes even 3 hours if it was a good day. For example this paper is being written right now at 4:33 to be exact. According to my mentor, Mike chang, and Jordan D. Metzl’s Book, “A huge amount of people don’t realize that when exercising sleep is the most important activity in our day” because as Jordan D. Metzl’s books