My slow transformation

These are pictures from 8th/9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade and  12th grade. big difference

Beginnings 1

Whatever it was, it blew my mind open with the different scenarios that could be attached to the writting. They could be in love with each other but both of them are married. Their partners both believe that they are out of state on a business trip, in reality both are in a a beautiful hotel suit surrounded by the smell of plumeria. He is in love with her and she is in love with him. She had recently found out she's pregnant with his child. Neither of them can bare the pain of their other family through, they decide to take drugs and jump off the top of the hotel. Holdings hands, looking at the side walk, she counts to three, he felt her smooth hand slip out of his.

Thats the type of story I would assume would be the beginning of beginning 1.

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the cross roads between should and must

Should I keep working my seven to eight hour shifts to try and live off of minimum wage and play it safe? Should I just forget about what I've always wanted to design and crumble up all my ideas and toss it in a trash bin? These were the thoughts going through my mind as I was reading the article. Usually when I read an article that makes me ask myself a lot of questions and then I start to think down deep into what I really want to do, I enjoy it. The difference between SHOULD and MUST is mind blowing. Actually, while reading this post it reminded me of this time my friend Tim and I were riding our bikes in the rain during a Washington state winter and we had stopped at the cross walk. While waiting for the light to show the white person light I was thinking, Reversd. Reversd was this idea that My friends and I were going to make a clothing company that would evolve to this huge success and we would all move to Long Beach or Santa Cruz and live the life of rich people. Did that happen though? No. Do we still want to do it? Heck yeah! But I live in California and they live in Washington. We still text every blue moon to say Hi and Tim is planning on becoming a designer. This is my MUST. I want to have this  huge, well established company that I can be able to say "My friends and I started this from the ground, F yeah". I personally have my own obstacles to overcome and I'm trying to jump off the cliff. It's so damn hard to leave the comfort zone.

I, ENTREPRENEUR

I dont believe that the expert I would've asked my ten questions is a entrepreneur according to our class definition. I believe that if a bunch of people have the same concept or idea as the person who originated the idea they would be classified as followers. Since health and fitness is my masterpiece the "followers" are either young experts or old fitness veterans. Personally I'm just another follower and if I want to be an expert in the field of health and fitness its not that hard. Experts are easy to get information from. Internet and youtube chanels, I wont have a certificate or a degree in kinesiology but I'll get you ripped if your dedicated.

Resource of the day(monday and tuesday)

Tumbler.com
Reditt.com

10 questions

1. What made you embrace fitness/bodybuilding?
2. What was your motivation?
3. Did you set goals? If yes, what goals? If no, why not?
4. What's more important, diet or actual exercise?
5. What's a appropriate time to work out for?
6. Do you believe in over training? explain.
7. How many meals a day do you consume?
8. Are you satisfied yet? Explain
9. When will you stop lifting?
10. Is fitness a necessity in life? Explain.

Resource of the days (4)beginning of march

http://healthy-evolution.tumblr.com/
Pintrest.com
Youtube channel massive joes
Facebook

Benchmark project

Reading the thread on my blog will probably have you stressing out and going "what the...?". What I'm doing is 100 day challenge or to see how fit I could get by the due date of the masterpiece. I'm documenting everything I feel, my mood and how its changing my life and how its slowly starting to enhance my life. In a little under 1 and 1/2 weeks I've lost 9-10 lbs and my goal is to get down to 185lbs or even 180lbs. I set my wallpaper picture to this very motivating quote " I never dreamed of success, I worked for it". I look at that everything, think if my goals and crawl out of bed and head to the gym. Its a life challenge. Its a life commitment to get fit and to stay fit. Its your choice to decide whether you wanna start getting fit or you hafta start getting fit. If you're one of those people scratching for an excuse, then see how much free time you have during day. If you're bored and channel surfing, you're lazy.  It's 1 to 1 1/2 hours a minimum of four days a week to change your mood, physique, and life. Anyone can do it.

Water retention? Weight loss?

So today I was introduced to water retention pills? I haven't taken it but they are interesting. The way they work is by taking the water out of your skin. I know it sounds trippy but water or water weight makes the human body look more puffy then it really it. All the huge body builders with thick veins and has like the defined lines take these pre contest so they look even more cut. I think I want to try them out just for the heck of it. Also, if you're going to cut weight don't take weight loss pills. Most of the pills just trick your mind  to thinking that you aren't hungry; losing all your gains over time.

Master piece essay #1

My masterpiece, fitness transformation. Documenting the struggle, the commitment and the ethic of people who are in shape. At the moment I've been reading articles about how and what people have done to motivate themselves and commit to the change. Im in shape but I am not "FIT". Being fit and what the girls drool over is being fit.

My network

Shane, Gabi, Carlos and summer all have topics that made me curious to what they're going to end up doing for their final master piece. What made me curious about shanes is that he is studying how music makes you emotional and I've always been a big fan music because every song has a story unless its modern hip hop/rap (which only consist of money, drugs, alcohol and sex). Music has helped me change my point of view or perspective on the paths that I choose today and further down the road. Gabi is doing her masterpiece on compassion, I may look like a big jerk but I'd lend the shirt off my back to anyone that needed it. I feel like our generation lacks compassion and commitment because what ever they want is simply handed to them. Carlos and his masterpiece of muscles and boxing has me really interested because im always looking for a good work and boxers are usually in fantastic shape. Maybe we could try each others workout plan for a month and document any changes?

Fitness vocab #2

Vitamin- organic components that are essential for normal growth and nutrition.
Herobic metabolism- the metabloic process that occurs in the cell by which the body uses oxygen to produce energy.
Bpm- the unit of heart beats per minute
Cardio respiratory- concerning the heart and respiratory system.
Cardio vascular- concerning the heart and blood vessels.
Fartlek training- training in which the pace is varied from a fast Sprint to slow jogging.
Frequency- how often you work out.

Peer review

So I looked at five blogs that my peers have controlled and I was only impressed by one of them. Dale is straight killing it in our expository class! Every assignment done. Literature analysis done. Creativity check. Passion about what he is posting is there to! I'm going to start using his blog when I need a little help. The others were good, but dales blog was way better.

Resources #2

Eatingwell.com
Health.com
Dr.oz.com
Superfoods(wiki)

With a little help from my friend

A semi expert that I have as a resource is my buddy and gym partner tim. Tim is currently a student at allan hancock community college but is taking three different types of health clases (even though he wants to become a diesel mechanic). He knows what he is talking about and can school me with his muscle and fitness knowledge. Im going to ask him to help with my senior project.

Welcome to the interdisciplinary

Im just brainstorming here, but here are the thoughts I have of the things within fitness. 1.yoga 2. Pilates 3. Kinesiology 4. Dieting 5. Psychology

Launch

I am passionate about nursing and helping people who need and want change in their lives. It makes me feel like im doing something to make the world a better and healthier place one step at a time. A personal trainer is also what I would enjoy doing as a career.
I could use the internet to research anything I need information about; nursing, lifting, diet and exercises.
I would like to meet the people that influenced me to start to change my fitness level and interview them to hear their story.
If I could train and live the life of a personal trainer or body builder that would dope as heck.
In order to achieve that I have to reach out to the experts.
Resources
Youtube: ct fletcher, jay cutler, scooby, jeff seid, kali muscle.
Internet: iron man magzine, muscle mag, bodybuilding.com.

Fitness Vocab

1.Adhesion - Fibrous patch holding muscles or other parts together that are normally separated.
2.Atrophy - Withering away - decrease in size and functional ability of tissue or organs
3.Biomechanics - Science concerned with the internal and external forces acting on a human body and the effects produced by these forces
4.Cut Up (or Cut) - A term used to denote a bodybuilder who has an extremely high degree of muscular definition due to a low degree of body fat.
5.Fascia - Fibrous connective tissue that covers, supports and separates ~l muscles and muscle groups. It also unites skin with underlying tissue.
6.Glycogen - The principal stored form of carbohydrate energy (glucose), which is reserved in muscles. When your muscles are full of glycogen, they look and feel full
7.HDL - This stands for "high-density lipoprotein." It's one of the subcate-gories of cholesterol--typically thought of as the "good" cholesterol. You may be able to raise your HDL cholesterol levels by ingesting qual-ity unsaturated fats like flaxseed oil. Exercise has ~so been shown to increase HDL levels.
8.Hypertrophy - The scientific term denoting an increase in muscle mass and an improvement in relative muscular strength. Hypertrophy is induced by placing an "over-load" on the working muscles with various training tech-niques during a bodybuilding workout.
9.Isotonic Exercise - Muscular action in which there is a change in length of muscle and weight) keeping tension constant. Lifting free weights is a classic isotonic exercise.
10.Kinesiology - Study of muscles and their movements.
11.Myositis - Muscular soreness due to inflammation that often Occurs 1-2 days after unaccustomed exercise.
12.Nautilus - Isokinetic type exercise machine, which attempts to match resistance with user's force.
13.Onion Skin - Slang denoting skin with very low percentage of subcutaneous fat which helps accentuate muscularity.
14.P.H.A. - Peripheral Heart Action; a system of training where you go from one exercise to another, with little or no rest, preferably alternating upper body and lower body exercises. Designed for cardiovascular training and to develop muscle mass.
15.Poundage - The amount of weight that you use in an exercise, whether that weight is on a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
16.Sticking Point - A stalling out of bodybuilding progress.
17.Striations - Grooves or ridge marks seen under the skin, the ultimate degree of muscle definition.
18.Tendon - A band or cord of strong, fibrous tissue that connects muscles to bone.
19.Vascularity - Increase in size and number of observable veins. Highly desirable in bodybuilding.
20.Vitamins - Organic compounds that are vital to Tile, indispensable to bodily function, and needed in minute amounts. They are calorie-free essential nutrients. Many of them function as coenzymes. supporting a multitude of biological functions.

Lit Analysis #1

Ghost Soldiers is about one of World War twos' greatest rescue mission. The story tells two parts of what was happening during the time that the mission was planned and thought through and what the POWs were enduring until they were saved. The author chose this event to write about because it was one of the greatest WW2 story that was never told. I believe that this story wasn't talked about a lot because it told the story about americans' surrendering; who wants to hear about that while we are trying to win the war and keep our countries morale up? The cover and title of the book made me want to read it and place myself as a soldier that was hand selected to slip behind enemy lines to rescue my fellow comrades and then I wanted to endure the rugged 30 mile march with my 500 or more POWs with no water, no food and no medicine only to be saved when I was approaching death at the hell like camp of my enemy. I made a small connection to the book and that was understanding how its like to crawl through the worst parts of life like a snail; only to be saved by another soul who wants the best for you.
 The authors choices really stand out because he made the story as real as it could be and I believe he chose to put parts in that showed the audience how gruesome it was and how complicated the situation really was. The tone through out the story is gruesome, real, and kind of suspenseful with a taste of old wine (gets better as you go). Colonel Mucci and Abie Abraham are the two characters that stand out to me and kept me with this book in my hand. Colonel Mucci is a medium sized man that is muscular, don't let his size fool you because he is one tough S.O.B.  Abie Abraham is a tall white soldier who protects his friend from death/ torture as they endured the 30 mile march. These characters stand out to me because of their acts of courage and bravery.
Through out the story the author either did long/ lengthy description and he did some parts of just action and dialogue. In the story it talks about two Japanese captains that led the march of the POWs; one that was harsh and cruel, the other was more gentle and caring. One captain sliced the swollen finger off of a man just so he could have his Harvard ring and the other was nice enough to share food and give the POWs breaks to drink water. I'm going to remember this because it relates to a lot of different things. Life can be hell and hard sometimes, if you hang for the ride you will get breaks in return.