...Informative Title: Effects of Running PROS Today I am here to share with you the effects of not taking care of your health. What running and working out daily with the right diet and sleep will do for you. Many people are looking for motivation in a bottle or depend on a buddy. What happens when you buddy cancels out on you repeatly. You need to depend on yourself. You can do this you don’t need someone to motivate you it’s all in your head. The spirit of this journey lies in you. You are in control of your own journey. I say all of things due to the mental toughness that running takes. There will be times when your body says stop and your mind says go. You will find out inside yourself what you are capable of. Everyone has limits and goals. You will find out what you can do. There is not drink or gym that will make you motivate yourself to workout unless you do it. Running is hard but it’s mind over body once you train and prepare your body. I do realize the mind and body doesn’t work hand and at times. That’s why you are going to condition yourself to achieve that goal. The input will be hard at first to get into the mode of a healthy lifestyle. On the other side the rewards of a health body are worth more than the struggles to get there. Starting today is the time NOW! Don’t wait for tomorrow and yesterday has come and gone – START RIGHT NOW. In my view running is the best cardio you can do. Running with the proper diet will get...
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...Running Header: Task I 1 Task I Abigail M. Garcia Western Governor’s University: Accreditation Audit Running Header: Task I 2 Executive Summary Nightingale Community Hospital is committed to providing quality care and aims to be the first choice hospital for patients in the community. Four core values represent the passion Nightingale has for excellence: Safety, Community, Teamwork and Accountability. The goals of the hospital are to uphold an atmosphere of healing, promote the benefits of health, and to provide a compassionate experience for all. Overview In order to reach the aforementioned goals, values and commitments, Nightingale Community Hospital must be in compliance of regulatory agencies which outline specific, goaloriented sets of standards. The Joint Commission is one such agency that provides assistance and support to health care facilities to ensure that certain standards are met, education for implementing new standards and feedback of current healthcare practices as part of the accreditation process. According to Facts about Hospital Accreditation (2014), the “Joint Commission standards address the hospital’s performance in specific areas, and specify requirements to ensure that patient care is provided in a safe manner and in a secure environment (p. 1).” This agency uses a Priority Focus Process methodology to identify areas within healthcare organizations which have a significant impact on patient safety and quality of care. One of these...
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...strides out on the course had given me the chills. My heart had pounded as fast as it had never pounded before, and that was when I instantly knew that I was a runner. I wasn't quite gifted in running as I had thought the others were, at that age, but as I grew more passionate for the sport I began to surpass others throughout the years. I had gone from basically being the slowest person on my team in the fourth grade to the second fastest on my team in eighth grade. This had pushed me to desire to strive for greatness step by step; by my freshman year I had entered into high school on a varsity level which had caught me by surprise. From now and then, I have developed into a student that has become known around school for running. I have reached my barrier of improving my running, and need some way to advance my running strategy and improve my time. My interest in the advancement of strategies in running, were triggered when I had first heard that math can be applicable during a race this year. To explain further, I had decided to do my investigation on running because I have been running since I was six years old, and have participated in both cross country and track for years. I am passionate about running and would even consider taking the challenge to a new level of even participating in cross country in college. Running has been a part of my life forever and I’m always up to the challenge of improving even just one factor that comes with strategizing my running. Since first...
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... The Running Dream, is about a teenage girl, Jessica, whos life changed after a bus crash with her whole track team on it. This tragic accident left one dead, and Jessica with an amputated leg. This was an experience that no one could forget. After Jessica loses her leg, she thinks that her life is over, and her dream to win a sponsorship to college can’t happen. With a prosthetic leg, Jessica thinks that she is in the spotlight, but also “invisible”. She feels that one little thing can change how people look at others. When Jessica learns that, she realizes that she has made others “invisible” because she didn’t know what to say to them. She did that to a girl named Rosa who has cerebral palsy. Their friendship sparks a light in Jessica's life and makes her want to give something back to Rosa. With the help of her family and friends, Jessica's dream may come true. On April 15, 2013, the Boston Marathon Bombing occured. This was an event where two men made homemade bombs and set them off near the finish line during the Boston Marathon. This bomb killed 3 people...
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...Jazmine Menees ENGL 110 1/21/2014 My first 5k Shoes hitting the pavement, crowd cheering. Those were the sounds I remember the most while running my last mile. The sounds of other runners panting, and faint music playing from another iPod. In that moment, I knew that I had made a life changing decision. It was a new year, and like most I had a few new years resolutions for 2013. At that time, I'm not sure the word “run” was even in my dictionary. Honestly, the thought of running for longer than 5 minutes made me slightly nervous. Since it was a new year though, I figured I'd give it a shot and sign up for one of the biggest races in Peoria. The steamboat days race. This race will be held in June, just five months from now. Don't get me wrong getting on the computer that day and telling myself I could run that far wasn't easy. I knew it would take everything I had to start every single day by getting up and going for a run. It was winter, snow on the ground, and freezing. Who would want to get up early every morning in the cold for that? I did. I needed to change my clothes, put on my shoes, and just go. While my first days on the treadmill were hard, I had to keep telling myself that I was doing this for the right reasons. I made sure I got up every single day to run at least one mile, and that's when running started to change my life. I started to see changes in my weight, and my clothes fitting loosely on my body. I started to have more energy throughout the...
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...high school never did I think running would become my main sport; becoming my number one reason for going to school. When a former teammate told me I had the potential to go on and run in college, every day I would show up to practice, putting all my effort to perfect my times. Not once did it ever cross my mind that it was possible to have something wrong with my body, causing me to sit out from running for what felt like two eternal years. From then on, I realized this sport was all I had; it was the only thing that helped me feel better. I learned never to take my sport for granted because I had big things ahead when it came to running. The start of my first year I was new in the state of Oklahoma, and I was to start high school off with no friends. It was a bit nerve wrecking but I had decided I would join a sport to become involved at school. Since I had been on the Track team in elementary school, I decided to try out for the Cross-Country team since it was similar to Track. Soon enough came the day of my first race on the junior varsity team, the feeling of finishing a race was great and I was...
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...As the cold weather is on its way out and the temperatures begins to rise, spring is the time that many people are excited to get outside and get active. Whether it is your goal be more active, shred some pounds, or are training for your first 5K, half marathon, or marathon this time of year often brings some of the best conditions for running and getting back into the swing of things! During the chilly winter months, it isn’t unusual for people to limit, reduce, or eliminate their running or exercise routines due to weather conditions. However, when the weather gets warmer, people are often longing to get back to running outdoors, expecting to start where they left off is not going to result well. Even remaining active and using the treadmill...
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...Running Since I was a young kid I always liked running. I always wanted to run the fastest and the farthest, constantly challenging my friends and acquaintances to a race. I used to play soccer when and of all the positions my team preferred to keep me in, the chose the only one that doesn’t have a great deal of running, goal keeper. But thankfully when they wanted to give me a break from standing in the goal they put me as a midfielder, because I could tirelessly run from end to end of the field. In high school I joined track and ran the 400, 800, 1600, and 3200 meter races. Gaming I’ve been an avid gamer my whole life, but I didn’t play them quite as much as I do now. When I was younger I only really played games on consoles like the PlayStation or the Xbox and I had never really thought about gaming on a computer, I just thought computers were used for work more than anything else. Then I got a free trial to World of Warcraft and decided to try it out. My parent’s computer at the time had a hard time running it, but that didn’t stop me from getting hooked. After using that computer more it finally gave out and I was left with just an Xbox and I started to play less and less choosing other options like running or other sports. Eventually my parents got a new computer and I began playing again. When I initially picked up gaming again I was trying to balance it out with sports at the same time, which meant cutting out a lot of sleep, but I eventually stopped...
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...The Simple Plan Run Smart, and Slim Down Eat Right, The Simple Plan From the editors of r 1 The Simple Plan Your Personal Calorie number Before you start figuring how you’re going to create a calorie deficit, you need to know how many calories your body requires to maintain the weight you are now. That calorie number is unique to you. It depends on many things—your size, your gender, your age, and how active you are. Roughly speaking, the more active you are and the younger you are, the more calories it takes to maintain your current weight. Bigger folks need more calories to fuel them; as they start to lose pounds, they’ll require fewer. Just go to www.runnersworld.com/ rybo and go to the basal metabolic rate (BMR) calculator, where you can enter your numbers. This tool measures how many calories you need each day to maintain your current weight if you’re sitting around doing absolutely nothing—and how many you need if you’re more active. Once you know how many calories you need to maintain your weight, you can make some well-informed decisions about the food you’re consuming and your exercise. You can eat less or move more to get the scale to move, too. n Calorie Math: A Quick Review Let’s strip this idea down to the simplest possible terms. Your body burns calories every day. If you eat more calories than your body burns, those calories are stored on the body as fat. If you eat fewer calories than your body burns, you lose fat. In other words, a calorie...
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...Running, Mind, Body, and Sole Health Benefits Running may be painful and tiring, but it has also become a very popular past-time all over the world. Running can benefit your entire body while keeping you fit and in shape. Studies show that running five miles a day can burn up to two thousand calories at a time. Running is a cost effective easy activity that anyone can do anywhere. Running cannot only be beneficial to your body but also to your mind therefore it helps your health in many ways. Knowing how beneficial running is has made it very popular in the last few years. By increases your health overall why wouldn't you consider it? In addition to losing weight, relieving stress, improving lung function, also running will help boost your immune system. A free, besides a good pair or running shoes, the activity that can benefit your way of life seems like a smart thing to start. There are so many more benefits to running that should get people motivated. Running is an easy, free, excellent way to lose weight and maintain the weight loss. Once achieve your targeted weight running will help you stay consistent. Running is an effective exercise that burns the most calories per minute. "Syracuse University researchers measured the actual calorie burn of 12 men and 12 women while running and walking a mile each. The men burned an average of 124 calories while running, and just 88 while walking; the women burned 105 and 74." (www.RunnersWrold.com, How Many Calories...
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...Introduction Many people have never heard of Steve Prefontaine. These people are not ignorant, they just have not followed Americas distance running. In distance running Prefontaine, better known as Pre, is truly a legend. The people that knew Pre could see the passion and desire in everything he did. Not many people have heard of Steve Prefontaine because of his short life-span. He was only 24 years old when he passed. The purpose of this paper is to inform you on who Steve Prefontaine really was, and what he achieved as a high schooler and in his college years. Methodology When I was first given this assignment, my mind started racing on who I thought was a leader and a catalyst for change. Everyone started calling out who they wanted to do and slowly but surely every famous person I knew was taken. I was really stumped and started researching “leaders” on google but everyone who came up didn’t seem interesting enough. My AVID teacher Mrs. Swain asked me what I enjoyed doing and I replied with running and she brought up Steve Prefontaine. She brought me up to speed about him and it got me interested how he for the longest time he held the record in every distance track race. As I began researching about him, most of the cites said the same thing: He held the record in every distance track meet and died at age 24. So for a while I couldn’t find out more information on him. In the article “The Legacy of Pre still lives on” gave me Pre’s whole back story. Where he grew up, how he...
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...Professor Teresa Wilburn PSY 105 November 1, 2012 Assignment 1: Preferences ` I coach track and field and until a year ago, I could not run one lap around the track. I started out slowly but I am now able to run miles without stopping and I love it! Track and Field is a competitive sport with various athletic contests that include running (road, cross-country and race walking), jumping and throwing. It is normally an individual sport with athletes competing against each other to decide a single victor. The racing events, which are categorized as sprints, middle and long distance, hurdling and relays, are won by the fastest times. The jumping (long jump, triple jump and pole vault) and throwing (shot put, javelin, discus and hammer) events are won by the athlete with the furthest distance or height. I was first introduced to the sport of track and field in 2001 when my daughter who was six years old at the time, took a liking to running. Five days out of the week, I would take her to practice and before I knew it, I was assisting the coaches. By 2003, I was an assistant coach of this local track club and in 2005 I became certified by U.S Track and Field to be a coach. In 2011, I started my very own track club in my area. Although it is not a requirement to have been a track and field athlete to become a coach, I felt like I needed to put some experience with the book knowledge I had gained. I saw the physical and emotional difference in those I...
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...exercise with more of a focus on endurance. This means that I started doing aerobic exercise, jumping, running, and I continued to go on the elliptical. By doing more of these exercises I was able to improve my cardiovascular endurance which was more helpful toward my goal, instead of plain pilates and leg exercises. Some of the exercises I had done in the winter were still physical activity, which helped me achieve my goal, but not as much as running or jogging. My goal when running was to improve my stamina a few minutes each day because I struggled with long distance running and I knew if I pushed myself I would be more likely to achieve my goal. These exercises were my main plan from Winter to Spring to gain cardiovascular endurance. Between February and May I was exercising daily with a mindset focused on cardiovascular endurance. I still worked on pilates at the end of each day, however, I started to do exercises such as jumping jacks and mountain climbers in order to work the muscles I would be using when running. I ran often, at least once a week, either on the elliptical or back and forth in my basement. I also went to dance class at least three times a week, for three and a half hours on Tuesday, two and a half hours on Thursday, and two and a half hours on Saturday. I often went to rehearsals and practices for Beauty and the Beast, which included a lot of jumping and running. I ran everyday the week before the Pacer, which pushed me to a new level of endurance. When I was...
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...Running Running, we were always running. Running for our lives, running from our lives, but no matter what the reason, we were always running. The only time we ever stopped was about every few hours so we could rest and eat. “Who are we running from,” I would always ask my parents. They would just look at me for a while like I wouldn’t understand till I was older. Nothing else. Nothing more. During the day, there was much silence. Most noises came from the wind rustling through leave or the occasional bird. The only time anyone ever spoke was to hurry someone else up or to give directions. All this silence meant that there was a lot of time to think. I would mostly think about my life before we started running. I would think about playing in the park with other boys from...
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...your presentations, it is valuable to write the script out according to the Nine Steps of Story Structure. Here is an example of a story scripted with the Nine Steps. Step 1 - Set The Scene A good deal of my work involves giving storytelling workshops for large corporations. They're usually one-day workshops at some remote location like a conference resort or a fancy hotel. When you combine the natural stress that accompanies airports, shuttle busses and hotels with the physical work of being on your feet for 8 hours, it's pretty exhausting. A year ago, after one of these workshops, I went back to my room and laid down on the bed. I woke up four hours later at 9 pm in the same clothes I'd worn for the workshop. It was dark outside and for a moment, I didn't know where I was. It was at that point that I realized I had to make a change. Either I had to stop doing one-day workshops, which I love, or I had to get in better shape and develop more stamina. Step 2 - Introduce the Characters (There are no other characters in this story. In the Nine Steps of Story Structure, introduce the characters when they naturally appear in the story. This step is not necessarily Step 2.) Step 3 - Begin the Journey In March 2009, I made the decision to get back into running. I'd taken up running many times in my life, but never very seriously. At 59, I knew it was going to be like starting from scratch. And it was. I found a running path near my house along an abandoned railroad track:...
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