What Is Physical Literacy Essay

2031 Words5 Pages

Don’t be fooled by the title I don’t actually expect everyone to get physical. As some would agree that being physical is on there list of things to avoid. Now this isn’t a shot at people who don’t like exercise or people that see tuesday as taco tuesday rather than tricep tuesday. However,that's just how things are. Exercising is for people who either want to cut away that extra belly fat,get those muscles for you trip to the beach or simply to regain power and mobility in certain parts of their body. In the “Exercise World” there is a lot to learn. So being literate and knowing about literacy in general is a important thing especially if the world of exercise is something in your interest or possible you take being physical and turning it …show more content…

We had this project that our school was involved in called the IB project(International Baccalaureate). This was a year long project that had to be completed or there was a risk of not graduating if you choose to not do the project at all. So typical me had a hard time on finding out what I wanted to do for my IB project. This all changed when I decided to take a trip to my grandmother's house a few days later from the start of the project. I remember the environment when I showed up to my grandmother's house. There was a slight breeze,the sun was still out but it was cold enough to send goose bumps running up your sleeve. I typically enjoyed the weather like this however, this weather proved to be difficult to my grandmother. My grandmother has a hard time moving her elbow due to her age and a past injury she got when she was younger. So a typical day it's already tough for her as is, but when the temperature begins to drop, it becomes harder for her to move her elbow. Even though she has this injury that she deals with everyday she still is tough but every few days she has to go into town and go to her physical therapy appointment and work with the doctors there to try and gain more control and strength in her elbow . I always knew she did it but I didn’t know what it was exactly. So after doing some research on my own I developed a vast amount of …show more content…

One important thing that I learned, that I call now beginner's luck, is when you start working out and lifting heavy you can put on a lot of muscle in a short amount of time typically between 7 month to a year. Also note how I say lifting heavy. Now here is a like education there are different workout with sets and reps that you do for the type of body/ability that you want. So because of my genetics I have a higher metabolism which can be used to my advantage but also a disadvantage but that's for a different time. See at the time I didn't care how I looked I just wanted to be strong I wanted in a way to be still small but insanely strong kind of like a personal surprise. So what I did was what I call a powerlifter approach. What that mean is I would only do a few basic exercises like bench,squats and deadlifts. However I would do 3 reps with 4-6 sets but with heavy weight. Since my body never picked up a weigh in my life I knew that for my beginners luck period that I would put on a lot of muscle/weight by following this routine for a year and that's what I did I was hooked it got to the point where that's all I wanted to do for my life was be one of those strong men you see on tv. So after a year I was surprised on how much weight in total I put on from sophomore year to beginning of senior year. I went from 125 to 140

Open Document