The Transtheoretical Model

Theories are extremely important when discussing exercise psychology, among many, there are two reasons that it stands out. First, theories make it possible to comprehend and predict physical activity behavior. Second, they provide information that are scientifically validated. In other words, whoever has put them together, has done a lot of research and experiments to have a valid framework, so it can be used to better design an effective and accurate exercise behavior intervention. With that being said, I’ve applied the Transtheoretical Model to try to implement a behavior change in my daily water consumption. (Lox, Martin Ginis, Petruzzello, 2014) Water is important for living beings because it is the basic element of the cells that make

When looking at the “Transtheoretical Model” I believe I started off this challenge at the “preparation phase,” since I did have the intention to drink water but I wasn’t fully committed to change. (Lox et al., 2014)

The first week of attempting to increase my water intake, the amount of water I was consuming would go up and down, and I wasn’t really keeping in track of my actions in order to fully complete my long-term goal. Once the first week went on, I designed a plan breaking down into small steps to be taken on a weekly basis, to effectively increase water intake to 2 liters. Once I got that done, things started to change in a very positive way. I found myself shifting from action to maintenance phase more towards the half of second week until the completion of the sixth week.

Goal

This was a very important step since it helped me to realize how my water consumption went down once I was traveling. I realized I struggled to keep up with my goals once I was in a different place. I travel a lot due to my job and at the first two trips of the season, I was barely achieving my goal of drinking two liters a day. I did decide to make a change and include at least one strategy from the ones I was originally doing to help me drink more water while traveling; I started to bring a gallon of water with me while traveling when we (me and the tennis team) used a van to go to different cities (since I could take it with me). Now, when I had to fly to different cities then I could not keep up with water consumption at all. Most times there was no water available to the busy schedule I had. The good thing is that, once I returned back home I was able to keep up with all the goals and strategies and get back on track.

Overall Behavior Change