Personal Narrative: My Muscular Strength

This semester I worked on increasing my muscular strength. I feel that overall I was successful in my goal. Determination made me successful along with the help of a fitness app called “Lose It!”. The drive to eat the food that my body needed to gain muscle. The drive to work out and to push myself to the max. I had to really want to achieve my goals to succeed. Tracking my diet and activity in the Lose It app showed me information I was unaware of in my everyday life. I learned that it is actually very hard to eat as much food as my body needed to gain muscle. Not only that, but also that the food I ate had to be healthy. I learned that the activity’s that I was doing didn’t burn as many calories as I had originally thought. The food I was eating did not come close to containing the nutritional value I needed. I had to eat more food. Which is harder than most would think because the food needs to be healthy. My family has a relatively healthy lifestyle which made this behavior change relatively easy. Some major health issues are affected
I have learned that with better lifestyle choices comes a longer life and a better quality of life. Choosing to change behavior for a non-positive change can affect you, your family, and the society. The behavior change project was a success in that I increased my muscle mass and I learned to document my diet and exercise in the Lose It app. To be even more successful I could have exercised more to increase my gains. However, with an already busy schedule and many other things I decided that my plan was adequate. My strategies included exercising on a regular basis and eating healthy foods that help with muscle growth. I would run 1 mile every other day at around an eight minute pace. Along with is I would work on my muscular strength by using the machines. Increasing the amount of weight each week allowed me to gain