my fitness journey essay

A Reflection on my Fitness Journey

I’ve absolutely fallen in love with fitness, but to tell you the truth, I didn’t always have this love for it. My fitness journey has been going on for years now and it’s evolved SO much during that time. When I first started to work out in the early stages of my weight loss journey, I had very limited knowledge on exercise. I would run one mile on the elliptical (which gradually increased to 3) and use the strength circuit machines at the gym. I also discovered my love for Zumba around then, which still is one of my favorite forms of cardio.

Over time, I learned more and more and began using free weights, alternating different body parts on different days (back, arms, legs, then core) and using the elliptical at different levels of resistance, creating a HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) cardio routine. A couple of years later, I obtained my ACE Fitness Personal Trainer Certification and learned so much more about the science behind exercise. I continued to do the same weight training & elliptical on most days, plus Zumba on other days.

When I started dating my now-fiancé, VJ, I became so enthralled in spending time with him that my exercise routine slowed down quite a bit. Instead of the 4+ days I was used to working out, I was only making it to the gym about once or twice per week. I ate a bit more junk than I was accustomed to, as is SO common in new relationships. (If you’re going through this, you’re not alone!) As a result, I put on a few pounds over time. I didn’t have nearly as much energy, since I wasn’t staying on track or eating as healthy as I used to. But at a certain point, enough was enough.

Last summer, I realized that I had to get back to the person that I had been before and who I was meant to be: Bri Healthy. I took control of my health again and started accurately tracking my food through MyFitnessPal, as I had during my weight loss journey. I joined ClassPass and discovered a ton of group fitness classes that I fell in love with. Group exercise pushes me harder than I would on my own, and the sense of community that exists within the classes makes it that much more fun. Through ClassPass, I discovered 24 Hour Fitness and the most AMAZING instructor in the world, Michelle Jordan. I also fell in love with barre, spin, and strength training classes that pushed me to achieve levels of strength that I never knew possible.

I’ve been consistent with my fitness because I’m obsessed with how it makes me feel. Exercise makes me happy. It makes me feel confident. It makes me feel that absolutely anything is possible as long as I set my mind to it. It gives me energy, it calms my mind, and it’s almost meditative in a sense. During exercise, I can completely clear my mind and be 100% in the moment. I focus on the moves that I am performing, and in those moments, nothing else matters other than how I feel physically and how proud I am of myself. This is where I am now. I’m working out consistently 4-6 times per week and loving every second of it. As with all health journeys, my fitness journey is never-ending, and I look forward to seeing which exercises I love best in 5 or 10 years!

Exercise has become my favorite pastime and one of my favorite social activities. I love meeting a friend at a fitness class to get our sweat on. I love trying new things with people I love and also by myself. Plus, I’ve met so many amazing people by going to these classes. I’ve met a multitude of incredible instructors who inspire me SO much. I’ve made friends that I see consistently at the same classes, some of which now feel like family.

Exercise continues to shape my life in a positive way. It’s not a chore or something that I only view as a method to lose weight. I view it as the most incredible activity, a celebration of our bodies and of the joy of movement. Fitness has always been a passion of mine, but I feel it now more than ever. If you’re new to exercise or if you’ve been in the game for a while, I highly recommend trying group fitness classes. They truly changed my life. However, one of the most beautiful aspects of fitness is that it’s different for everyone. Some people love to run miles, some people love to dance, and some people love to lift, to name a few. Whatever works for you is the best thing for you! 

I suggest trying out as many types of fitness activities as possible to find what you really love. There’s an exercise for everyone, even if it’s simply walking. Fitness should be enjoyable, not dreadful. I promise you’ll find something that you love, as long as you try. Step outside of your comfort zone and reap the benefits of physical activity! I’m brainstorming ideas on how I will incorporate more fitness-related content to Bri Healthy in the near future, so stay tuned!

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My PWR Journey

I wasn't always as fit, healthy and physcially strong as I am today. It was by caring for my body through exercise that I discovered how powerful a tool fitness is — and why I chose to become a personal trainer so I could share this insight with women everywhere. 

Fitness empowers me every day

Through moving my body, I learned, bit by bit, how valuable and important my health was. As I cared for my body I learned that I was worthy of self-love — and I became inspired to share my experience with you. Here's a glimpse into my story. 

My fitness journey began at home

I began my fitness journey and my path to self empowerment at home. It was at home, before joining social media and in the midst of some of my most painful and private struggles, that I found my passion for fitness and my intrinsic calling to help all women unlearn their own toxic beliefs and find their truth — by empowering themselves through fitness. This first year of my fitness journey was intensely personal. The small space between the wall and the sofa in our basement apartment, just wide enough to fit my borrowed yoga mat, became my sanctuary. In that space I cried. I sweat. I faced deep fears and deep rooted negativity towards my body. Slowly, through challenging and caring for myself, I learned to look at myself differently — POSITIVELY. In that first year, working out at home in that small space, I quit, again and again and again because motivation wore off and the road seemed too long and the changes I longed for too big. 

The birth of my son changed my attitude to fitness and health

My entire adult life, until the birth of my son, Anderson, I had a sedentary lifestyle. I ate a lot of fast food and drank a lot of soda.

I thought “healthy” eating meant severe calorie restriction or going on extreme fad diets, and viewed exercise as the ultimate chore — I simply had no understanding of fitness or nutrition.

I gave birth to Anderson when I was 24, and as incredible and magical as motherhood is, I found myself in a very dark place. I was so grateful for my beautiful and healthy baby boy, but at the same time, I was drowning in anxiety, insecurity, body dysmorphia, and self-doubt.

At my two-month check-up, I knew things weren’t right. I burst into tears as I filled out the survey to assess my mental health. I definitely had postnatal anxiety.

I discovered that exercise could benefit my mental health

My midwife suggested that introducing daily exercise could help to improve my overall wellbeing. It seemed too simple to be true, but I was willing to try it. 

This appointment marked the beginning of my fitness journey. Step by step, I unlearned some of the toxic beliefs that I had held. Instead of using exercise as a punishment to change a body I didn't beleive was good enough, I began to use exercise as a tool to care for and strengthen my body. 

Each time I gave up, my anxiety and baby boy stood as constant reminders of WHY I started my fitness journey in the first place. So I got up. There, in the privacy of my home, day by day, workout by workout, set by set, rep by rep, I unlearned the painful narratives about fitness that I had subscribed to my whole life and uncovered TRUTH.

Fitness is not about aesthetics. It is about health. Exercise is not a punishment to change my body. It is a tool to care for and strengthen it. I am not broken, weak, ugly, or unworthy. I am capable. I am strong. I am powerful. I am enough.

I made small, sustainable changes

At first, I simply exercised by walking around the neighborhood. Shortly after, I started to work out at home, incorporating body-weighted resistance sessions into my routine. I was extremely discouraged to find I could not do a single push-up or sit-up. 

I struggled and stopped so many times, and felt weak and utterly overwhelmed. It was in those moments — there in our small basement apartment; sitting, feeling discouraged, on my borrowed yoga mat — that my self-acceptance began. 

I met myself RIGHT where I was — physically and mentally — and I accepted myself and my body completely.   

Rather than looking at the big picture and becoming overwhelmed, I learned to make one small change  and to stick with it until it become routine. Once that change was in place, I chose the next one.  

The more I cared for my body, the more I began to love myself and believe I was worth caring for.

I decided to say 'screw the scale'

In the beginning, I would weigh myself every morning and obsess over the number I saw. I allowed the number on the scale to impact my mood and even dictate my perceived worth. 

I set a goal weight for myself — a number (based on NOTHING) that I thought I would make me happy. I now know that this number is not healthy for my frame or height, but I did reach it. 

As I continued to progress my fitness, I began weighing myself less frequently. However, my weight began to increase. One day I was particularly upset — I began to cry and expressed my frustration to my husband. I told him I felt better than ever and that I didn’t understand why my efforts to be healthy were no longer working.

He gave me a much needed reality check. I was stronger than I’d ever been and I felt better than I ever had. My clothes fit better and most importantly, I was HEALTHIER mentally, emotionally, and physically. 

I decided to say  screw the scale . I stopped weighing myself all together and began to focus on measuring progress by how I felt inside instead. 

I became a personal trainer to share my love of fitness

As I continued my personal journey to empowerment, I studied to become a personal trainer and eventually launched my own  PWR program through SWEAT. This was something I could never have imagined when I first started! 

PWR is a hypertrophy-based weight-training program with proven training techniques and exercises. I took my favorite aspects of weight training, incorporated some plyometrics, stability and body-weight work and combined them to create a science-based program. It’s designed to help women achieve the best results possible in the shortest amount of time. 

I also launched a specific PWR Post-pregnancy program for moms, to help women heal their bodies post-pregnancy, regain their inner strength and build confidence. My personal journey began postpartum and I knew there was a massive need for a program to help moms ease themselves back into exercise, while taking into consideration the many changes their body has just gone through. 

Finally, I released my PWR At Home program in 2019. I wanted to ensure women who don’t have access to a gym, or prefer to work out in the privacy of their own homes, can still workout using the program. 

My PWR community inspires me

One of the most rewarding aspects of my journey has been to witness the community of amazing women supporting one another through my PWR programs. I can truly say I’ve poured my heart into my work and it makes me so happy to see women from all over the world making healthy changes in their lives.  

I want women to know the number on the scale cannot measure health or happiness. You have to look after yourself physically, mentally and emotionally . You don’t need hours in a gym or extreme diets. Simply live an active life and make a conscious effort to make your internal dialogue a positive one. It is never too late and you are never too old to change your life. Fitness can, and should be, an incredible tool for self-empowerment. 

Weight-training can be for everyone

Exercise should never be a chore. This means that you have to find an exercise style you enjoy and look forward to doing. For me, that is PWR style weight-training . 

Whether you're a beginner, or more advanced, weight training is a fantastic option. Personally, not only do I love the physical side and the results achieved, but I also love how this kind of training empowers me from the inside out and helps me to develop self-confidence. 

I’ve never been as muscular as I am now, and I’ve also never felt as confident, comfortable and feminine. Every day, I’m empowered by the hard work, principles and discipline I practice.

Fitness is a powerful tool to magnify gratitude

Fitness can change how you feel on a daily basis. Through fitness, you can cultivate gratitude  for your body, your health and every aspect of your life. I want women to finish each of my workouts feeling powerful, strong and full of appreciation for what their body can do. 

Weight training is not necessarily just about gaining strength. It's about discovering just how strong you are and what your body can do. It's about finding out what you can achieve if you choose to believe in yourself. 

By caring for your body, you can learn to love yourself 

I hope that this insight into my fitness journey so far can encourage you to start your own fitness journey.

Whether you choose to train at home, in the gym, or outdoors, I encourage you to begin to move your body. 

Try out different training styles to find a workout plan that you can stick with  — and be sure to share your journey with those around you! You never know who you might inspire to uncover their own inner power. 

* Disclaimer: This blog post is not intended to replace the advice of a medical professional. The above information should not be used to diagnose, treat, or prevent any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before making any changes to your diet, sleep methods, daily activity, or fitness routine. Sweat assumes no responsibility for any personal injury or damage sustained by any recommendations, opinions, or advice given in this article.

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My Personal Fitness Journey Had Been My Metaphor For Life

Get past that hurdle.

“Give me everything you got; V, you can do anything for 15 seconds!” the instructor yells as the blaring beat drops, and I flex every muscle in my body, sprinting at a 11.5 speed on the treadmill under the dim red light, as my intense eye contact in the mirror affirms that I got this — I am strong, I am powerful, I can do anything. Holy sh*t. An 11.5. That’s 0.2 up from yesterday’s class. As I walk down my heart rate at a three speed, sweat is spewing off my forehead, my legs are shaking. This 50-minute Barry’s Bootcamp class just made my entire day.

If you can’t tell, I am one of those rare people who actually enjoys working out. My personal fitness journey can be summed up as equal parts mental and physical. Overcoming an obstacle and showing myself how strong I am serves as a metaphor for real-life scenarios. Whether it’s the actual data of an improved speed, hitting a new weight bracket, or the mantras I tell myself in the mirror when I’m moving — I always walk away from a workout feeling better than before. Getting past the hurdle motivates me to take on the day with confidence.

Don’t get me wrong: I’ll occasionally have days when I need a rest and skip the gym. But whenever I find myself feeling down, the first thing I notice is that I have not been consistently working out . It keeps my energy levels up, my nutrition healthy, my sleep sufficient, and my mental health in check. Movement has become a nonnegotiable form of therapy in my life. But it has been one hell of a journey to find my niche, and it wasn’t always linear.

The Journey

After being a childhood athlete growing up in Connecticut and juggling more than three sports a year, the whole team dynamic with a coach has stuck with me through adulthood. I still remember the immense impact my childhood coaches had on me. It’s why I prefer community fitness to a personal trainer or stand-alone gym sesh. I’ve tried the latter, but I was never able to stick with it. In fact, I’ve tried just about every style of workout imaginable to arrive on what works for me. I’ve dated hundreds of different workout styles to finally commit to the ones I love… if only actual dating was that clear.

During college, when I didn’t have soccer practice on my daily schedule, my physical fitness and overall health was quick to fluctuate, and I knew I needed to find a new routine. I would go to the gym but didn’t like the idea of working out next to frat guys who I’d be partying with that weekend. So I sought out off-campus alternatives.

That’s when I first fell in love with hot vinyasa yoga. I started off as a timid newbie that hid in the back corner, hoping to hide from whatever mistakes I was already prepared to make. From a great instructor, I quickly learned that there are no mistakes. Simply showing up, breathing through the poses and staying in the hot room meant it was a successful class. Prior to this, I never considered myself to be the yogi type — I blamed it on my short attention span. But the difficulty of the hot room forced me to focus and gave me the challenge I longed for but in a low intensity movement. One class a week turned into four, and after a few months, my new spot in the class was front row center.

I was drawn to overcoming the challenge of each class, the diverse community that had no ties to my personal life, and the life lessons I took away from each sweat sesh. The slow buildup of confidence, strength, and stamina was profoundly empowering to a college student trying to find her way in the world.

After I graduated and moved to New York City, I remembered that everyone was a newbie once, so I took what I learned from hot yoga and applied it in classes all over town to find my new niche. I would raise my hand high when an instructor asked if there were any new students. I wanted to learn it all. Plus, full disclosure: I worked at a fashion and fitness magazine, so the access to trendy new studios was abundant.

You name it, I’ve tried it, thanks to my job and ClassPass. From New York to L.A. (where I moved in 2017), I compared Mark Wahlberg’s F45 circuit training to Training Mate and dabbled in Taryn Toomey’s “The Class,” and then tried out Julianne Hough’s Kinrgy, which taps into breathwork and emotion through movement. I’ve really experienced it all. Through all these various classes, I learned that community and performative leadership motivate me, hold me accountable, and breed connection. There’s something especially empowering about overcoming a difficult challenge together, whether it’s fitness-related or not. Even though everyone is on their own journey, when you have someone next to you bringing the energy, it’s contagious. Plus, when you start to build a relationship with instructors and fellow classmates, these workout classes start to feel like home.

The COVID Effect

When the first wave of COVID hit and businesses were forced to temporarily shut down, my whole life of fitness changed. As someone who always found it difficult to work out alone, I had no other choice. Luckily, being “bored in the house” served as a motivator to seek out a virtual fitness community.

I began daily walks, which turned into runs in Beverly Hills, where I lived at the time. I used Instagram and Spotify as a tool to share my journey, resonate with a community, and discover playlists others were running to. I always enjoyed working out to music, but over COVID, I became particular about it. It was my new way of receiving a mantra when pushing myself through a workout. I timed my own playlists to hit a specific hill when Nicki Minaj’s “Chun-Li” came on.

I also supported instructors who were furloughed with donation-based classes and invested in booty bands for floor strength, a Crossrope jump rope for cardio, and Bala Bangles for my daily walks. It was a difficult start, but the more I incorporated Zoom workouts into my routine, the more I became hooked. I missed my classes but found a sense of community online.

On the flip side, my body experienced true rest, probably for the first time. Over quarantine, I learned the importance of recovery, proper sleep, and the right fuel for a true holistic approach to wellness. It was a turning point in my fitness journey where I learned that a rest day or two is just as important as the workout itself. I was working out less but somehow gaining the aesthetics of muscle definition that I always wanted. Whether it was the stress of being “busy” all the time or not allowing myself a rest day, quarantine really forced me to actually listen to my body and practice the knowledge I consume… not just post quotes about doing it on Instagram.

The Return To Studio

Barry’s Bootcamp was one of the few studios that reopened in Phase One. The franchise came up with “Barry’s Outside.” It literally brought bikes, treadmills, weights and benches into parking lots, garages and rooftops, along with a silent disco-style headphone workout that required face masks, of course. While it wasn’t the same as the red room, it was a lot more fun than the computer screen, so I became a regular no matter what it cost. I was hooked on certain instructors, mostly for their like-minded music interests that motivated me to push harder with each beat drop.

When all classes started to reopen, and Barry’s went back inside, I still felt committed to the studio. It’s a sentimental feeling, walking through the parking lot we used to workout out in, knowing how far we’ve come as a #BarrysFamily. My now weekly rotation of high intensity Barry’s Bootcamp, hot vinyasa yoga, and the occasional boxing or Megaformer Lagree class, along with leisure walks, bike rides, and full-on rest days are where I currently live.

The Future Of Fitness

I once prided myself on working out seven days a week for an aesthetics goal, even if it meant getting a lousy five hours of sleep to make a 6 a.m. class. But now after all these years, and especially after quarantine, I have learned more about what my body needs. I’ll gladly take my eight hours and a rest day. I also care more about fueling my body for a workout with the proper macronutrients for sustained energy. Plus, workouts in general are far more enjoyable when you’re properly fueled — whether it’s fruity carbs for a cardio blast or protein for strength training. I also make a point to stretch, meditate, and massage my body with the proper tools when needed. Prioritizing wellness and longevity over aesthetics has brought me peace.

I’m not here to push my style of working out onto anyone else. My journey certainly has not been linear, but by putting myself out there to try new things, I’ve been able to carve a path I love, and I encourage others to do the same, whether it’s an at-home Peloton bike or simple daily walks. For me, it’s a combination of high energy motivation, loud house music, and a like-minded community that gets me going. If you happen to catch me in a Barry’s class, I’m the girl that sings to herself in the mirror and loudly “whews” after a treadmill sprint (Team No Shame). Something about it brings me back to the crossroads of childhood dance class and soccer practice where my coach was playing tough love with competitive drills.

If you’re searching for your motivation, pay attention to what strikes your interests and just try it. ClassPass is a great tool for that. If you prefer softer music, find an instructor that matches. Tell them you’re new and don’t expect to be good at it. Instructors are there for a reason and every other person in that class was new once too. Stay present in the sensations of your body over the workout, and remember: A little patience for progress and showing up consistently could turn into something you can’t imagine living without.

This article was originally published on Feb. 2, 2022

6 Things I’ve Learned On My Fitness Journey

My fitness journey began during my university days, back in 2015, when I fell in love with home workouts. Since then, my fitness journey has taken on new paths, and somewhere along the way, I’ve learnt a lot about myself as a person. I’ve had successes, I’ve had failures and I’ve had a lot of lessons to learn from, that’s for sure.

In this blog post, I share with you all 6 things I’ve learned on my fitness journey so far. If you’re just starting out, or need a little bit of a helping hand, then perhaps you’ll find this post helpful in finding your own success in your personal fitness journey.

1. Fitness isn’t one size fits all

No matter what the latest fitness trend is, fitness doesn’t fit all. Over the years, I’ve gone from working out in the comfort of my living room to deadlifting 110kg during a CrossFit class, and along the way I’ve slowly come to realise that it takes months, if not years, to figure out what your passion is when it comes to fitness.

I always say that whatever keeps you coming back for more is what will work for you in the long run. Figure out what is best for YOU. What are your goals? What do you enjoy? What workouts motivate you? Do you prefer yoga or lifting weights? It’s important to ignore the trends and the workouts your favourite influencers do, and instead focus on yourself. There really is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to fitness, so get out there, experiment and find what makes you tick. Nowadays, I love a mix of everything: yoga, running, weight lifting & swimming.

2. Rest is a part of training

I learned the hard way that rest is just as important as your workouts. It’s so incredibly important to allow your body to rest so it can recover and grow, and most importantly, so you can utilise your training! Thinking about it now, I used to feel somewhat proud of myself for going weeks without taking a rest day, but now I couldn’t think of anything more damaging!

I often speak about the importance of rest days on my IG page , especially as I’ve had to help support my body with imbalanced hormones over the past year, so for me, rest is just as important as what I do in the gym. I can happily say that I now work out 3x a week while synching my hormones to my menstrual cycle to help support my body further!

3. Your fitness journey will change over time (and that’s ok)

I think as humans we often fear change, especially when it comes to what we already know, but over the years you’ll find that your workouts will change, especially as you go through different phases in your life. When I first started working out I worked out from home following a guide that mostly consisted of cardio 5x a week. Since then I’ve tried my hand at CrossFit , running almost half a marathon , yoga and I’ve even got back into swimming .

It’s safe to say my fitness journey has certainly changed over the years and what I’ve realised most along the way is to fully embrace the change. Because whatever I did at that moment in time, I did it because I enjoyed it. And when things started to shift again, it’s because I needed a boost of motivation or a change of scene (and that’s ok).

4. Too much of a good thing can be bad

I suppose this ‘lesson’ comes from my heart as it’s one of my biggest regrets in my fitness journey. I’ve been battling with imbalanced hormones for almost 3 years now, which were caused by overtraining, under-fuelling & not allowing my body the rest it truly deserves. While exercise can be extremely beneficial to our health, it’s also a stress to the body and just like anything, too much of a good thing can still be bad for you.

Over-exercising can increase cortisol levels and too much cortisol can wreak havoc on the body, including imbalanced hormones, poor sleep & mental health issues. Don’t make the same mistakes I did. Fuel well, maintain a healthy relationship with exercise, prioritise sleep, listen to your body & take enough rest days. Signs of overtraining include poor sleep (waking up in the middle of the night), increased PMS, little to no progress with your workouts, mood swings, period issues, weight gain, water retention, bloating, and more.

5. It’s not about the calories you burn

I used to get so hung up about the calories I burnt at the end of my workout that I often chose the most intense workout just so I could feel like I really smashed an intense workout (I know, I know, you don’t need to tell me). Now, I’ve learned to ignore the number because I’ve finally learned that the real importance is how you feel after a workout – not the silly little score at the end of a workout.

Focusing on what really makes me feel good in the gym (or wherever I am), has actually really helped me progress well throughout my fitness journey. It’s allowed me to find my true passions, whereas before, I would have ignored exercises like yoga or mobility work because they ‘simply didn’t burn enough calories’. Although, let me just say that yoga can burn a heck load of calories! That stuff is sweatyyy!

Luckily, I’m in a really good mindset with exercise now, and depending on how I feel on the day, I’ll choose whatever exercise my mind and body craves that day – not how much it’ll burn. Love that for me.

6. Health > fitness

I’ve left the most important one till last. It’s taken me a long time to prioritise my health before my gym goals, but I’m at a point in my life where if I don’t feel good or haven’t slept well the night before, I won’t workout. Period.

I’ve learned along the years that while fitness can feel like it’s doing wonders for my body, it can in fact be doing the opposite.

Nowadays, whenever I find myself lacking in motivation (yes, really), I ask myself how I’ve been treating my body…

Am I sleeping ok? Or am I waking up throughout the night?

Am I consuming too much social media?

How’s my anxiety doing?

Do I feel tired?

Did I get more than 7 hours sleep last night? If not, does my body REALLY need to go to the gym?

What was my recent period like? Was it later or earlier than ususal? (note: those on the pill will find it harder to track as you’re experiencing a fake period).

The days when I start feeling unmotivated, stressed and fatigued, I no longer see the gym as a priority. Instead, my health HAS to come first. So many of us view fitness as a key priority when it comes to our health, but actually, if you’re running on 5 hours sleep 6x a week, then you’ll probably best off sacking your 5.30am workout for some much needed zzzzzzz and taking things easy.

What do you think? I’d love to know what you’ve learned during your fitness journey in the comments below. Come and say hi!

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It defintiely ebbs and flows and you have to go with it. Rest is a good one too – although not too much rest!!!

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Essay on Fitness: Samples for Students in 100, 250, and 350 Words in English

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Fitness is a crucial part of our lives, and incorporating the same in our lifestyle is now more essential than ever. Maintaining proper fitness can help an individual attain a general state of well-being and hence remain healthy. This will allow us to perform everyday functions without feeling fatigued or tired.  It not only refers to weightlifting and exercising but also, to a balanced and disciplined diet. All this will lead to a healthy body and even a healthy mind resides in a healthy body. Seeing the importance of fitness, we have included information on the same topic in our below-mentioned samples of essay on fitness. Let’s go ahead and look at the same.

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Essay on Fitness in 100 Words

Fitness is an extremely important aspect of our lives. It is essential to include fitness in our lifestyle and show discipline in the same because a healthy mind resides in a healthy body. Being fit can make an individual attain an extended life and live the same to the fullest. Also, being fit decreases the chance of diseases and hence improves overall health as well. 

Fitness is a state of mind as well. It doesn’t always mean heavy weight exercising but also maintaining a healthy and balanced diet. Diet is an important aspect of fitness and exercising and diet go hand in hand and both improve our fitness. Hence, fitness should be the priority of every individual for without it, we will be neglecting so much. 

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Essay on Fitness in 250 Words

In our everyday life, fitness plays a very important role. It should be every individual’s top priority as it allows us to lead a very happy as well as peaceful life. It is true what our elders say, ‘Health is true wealth’.

If an individual is unfit, it will become difficult for him/her to enjoy even the basic aspects of life such as playing sports, eating, etc. So, it becomes important that we remain fit and healthy. Good fitness doesn’t always mean heavy weight lifting, it also includes a balanced and disciplined diet, as well as maintaining good hygiene. We should maintain proper sanitation all around us and eat a balanced diet. A balanced diet does not mean that we cannot eat our favorite foods such as fried food, etc. It means that we have to maintain a proper balance between healthy and junk food giving priority to healthy food and occasionally eating our favourite fried food etc. 

Following fitness, we should incorporate exercising even if it is for 30 minutes. This will help make our heart muscles and our lungs stronger, improve blood flow, and decrease fat and bad cholesterol. These are just some of the goods that fitness provides us, there are innumerable benefits of the same. It is also essential for an individual to be successful and do good for the society. Hence, we should not ignore fitness, because if done so, we won’t be able to keep our minds strong and clear.

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Essay on Fitness in 350 words

Introduction

An individual’s top priority should be to remain fit. This will ensure their health. And one such way of that is by maintaining fitness. Health is a state of complete mental, physical as well as social well-being. A fit individual can accomplish much more in life. They are immune to many diseases, don’t feel fatigued in day-to-day functions, and have a positive mindset to strive in life for good. 

Maintaining fitness

There are several ways in which we can maintain our fitness if followed regularly. Some of those ways are mentioned below:-

• Fitness doesn’t always mean lifting heavy weights, a balanced and disciplined diet also holds an important role in the same. Eating the right amount of food rich in proteins, and good fats such as omega-3, vitamins and minerals, etc is essential. 
• Maintaining a proper sleeping pattern is another important aspect of fitness. Getting enough sleep ensures proper functioning of the mind thus making us more productive. Eight hours of quality sleep can boost our immune system, lower the risk of cardiovascular diseases, and improve our overall health. 
• Including exercise in our lifestyle is a must even if it is for just 30 minutes. It will help strengthen our hearts and lungs, improve blood flow in our blood vessels, help decrease blood pressure, fat and bad cholesterol, etc.

Importance of Fitness

The importance of fitness to maintain good health cannot be emphasized enough. An individual can even extend his/her lifespan just by maintaining fitness, not to forget it reduces the risk of several diseases and ailments. There are several advantages of being fit. Some of them are mentioned below:-

• Improves mental health and confidence level.
• Decreases the risk of several diseases such as diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, stroke, high blood pressure, etc.
• It also helps in managing and reducing levels of stress, anxiety, depression, etc.
• It can even extend an individual’s life span.

Conclusion 

Fitness should be a priority for people belonging to every age group. It brings happiness to life and improves the quality of the same, hence making it stress and disease-free.

Ans: Fitness is an extremely important aspect of our lives. It is essential to include fitness in our lifestyle and show discipline in the same because a healthy mind resides in a healthy body. Being fit can make an individual attain an extended life and live the same to the fullest. Also, being fit decreases the chance of diseases and hence improves overall health as well.  Fitness is a state of mind as well. It doesn’t always mean heavy weight exercising but also maintaining a healthy and balanced diet. Diet is an important aspect of fitness and exercising and diet go hand in hand and both improve our fitness. Hence, fitness should be the priority of every individual for without it, we will be neglecting so much.

Ans: The importance of fitness to maintain good health cannot be emphasized enough. An individual can even extend his/her lifespan just by maintaining fitness, not to forget it reduces the risk of several diseases and ailments. There are several advantages of being fit. Some of them are mentioned below:- -Improves mental health and confidence level. -Decreases the risk of several diseases such as diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, stroke, high blood pressure, etc. -It also helps in managing and reducing levels of stress, anxiety, depression, etc. -It can even extend an individual’s life span.

Ans: There are many ways in which we can maintain our fitness if follow regularly. Some of those ways are mentioned below:- -Fitness doesn’t always mean lifting heavy weights, a balanced and disciplined diet also holds an important role in the same. Eating the right amount of food rich in proteins, and good fats such as omega-3, vitamins and minerals, etc is essential.  -Maintaining a proper sleeping pattern is another important aspect of fitness. Getting enough sleep ensures proper functioning of the mind thus making us more productive. Eight hours of quality sleep can boost our immune system, lower the risk of cardiovascular diseases, and improve our overall health. -Including exercise in our lifestyle is a must even if it is for just 30 minutes. It will help strengthen our hearts and lungs, improve blood flow in our blood vessels, help decrease blood pressure, fat and bad cholesterol, etc.

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My Decades-Long Journey to Curls

“My hair’s growth these years, much like mine, has been stunningly imperfect.”

When my daughter was 5—an age many parents will recognize as the peak of their children’s vulnerability to the Disney-industrial complex—she started asking me to straighten her beautiful curly hair. A girl in her Pre-K class had the sort of shiny cornsilk hair that is particularly appealing to young girls; a kind of hair my daughter ironically portmanteau’d into “belong” (blonde and long), and increasingly requested to emulate with each passing day.

“Your hair is beautiful the way it is, my love,” rolled out of my mouth with regularity, and I went about my days buying up little accoutrements that might support this thesis. An 18-by-24-inch poster of Diana Ross for her bedroom wall. Hot pink Denman brushes. Late ‘80s beaded hair ties from Goody, like the ones from my childhood, which slide swiftly out of straight hair but cling lovingly, assuringly, to textured hair.

Because yes, as a woman of biracial white and Afro-Caribbean lineage, my hair is also extremely curly. Not that my daughter would have known this at the time. The hours of labor and management that I put toward beating it into straight, limp submission each week masked even the slightest hint of texture, and she, who will be 11 this fall, had no idea that I had been performing this straightening ritual on myself since almost exactly her age.

Soon after she began asking for straightened hair, Tracee Ellis Ross launched the haircare line Pattern. Earlier that year, we had watched Mixed-ish together, a sort of TV-bonding attempt to help my daughter understand what it was like to grow up mixed race before the internet. As most people understandably do, she immediately fell in love with Ross, and I used this love as a springboard to playing with curly hair products. I ordered the entire line, I hung the marketing materials on her bedroom wall, and I showed her videos of grown women talking about their long journey to embracing and understanding their curls. It was, in its most innocuous form, a propaganda war on my part, fueled by a deep desire for my daughter to feel pride in her curls, her culture, the way her own hair grew out of her head.

Millimeter by millimeter, it grew back—first, with trepidation, clearly demonstrating an absolute lack of trust in my ability to just let it be.

I will always have time to take care of your hair , I told her, as we spent combined hours in the bathroom washing, detangling, leave-in-conditioning, gently drying, over and over. Your hair is beautiful exactly the way it is , I would say, and like most other things I say to her, I realized I was also talking to myself. And slowly—then very suddenly—she grew to love it.

When I was her age, on the cusp of my first relaxer appointment (after a hard won battle with my mom, a homeopath with a thick, majestic mane that even other white women envy), all I wanted to do was be free. My curls were variegated, heretic, like no one ever quite made a decision on what I was supposed to look like before they sent me to this earth. Caring for my hair had caused such discord in my relationship with my mother—and my own self image—that by the point we reached that salon chair I think we were both just trying to escape. I envisioned a result that would make white girls stop telling me my hair looked like Brillo and would finally transform me into the small Mariah Carey I knew myself to be. A butterfly, if you will.

It did not. Instead, it launched a many-decades-long, thankless side hustle of managing and maintaining my own hair to an obsessive degree. I gelled it to my head, pushed down the breakage, spent my after-school job money on product, and flat ironed every last drop of life out of it. I had neither escaped, nor was I free.

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I recently learned the term “presentism,” or the tendency to interpret past events through modern day values. It’s important to note that while many women still choose to relax their hair—and all people should feel free to do as they wish—in the mid-to-late ‘90s a regular relaxer, a blowout, and a flat iron, for many, felt like less of a choice and more of a foregone conclusion. It was not an indicator of self loathing as some love to call it today, it was a commonplace, practical, and fashionable solution. Through today’s eyes, when I remember emerging from the salon with fresh lye burns all over my scalp without batting an eye, I am horrified. But while I was in there, the other chairs were never empty. I was one of countless women with textured hair on a quest to flatten ourselves into a manageable oblivion.

When the natural hair movement started taking hold in the early 2010s, it did cross my mind that my hair was rehabilitatable, and I started experimenting with chopping off some of the lifeless inches at the ends. I considered the idea of going fully natural and all that it entailed: doing The Big Chop, switching up my products, making time and space to find out what my hair actually looked like after all these years. And shortly into this experimentation, I became pregnant with my daughter.

By the time she was born, any dream I had of having the time and space required to explore my natural hair disappeared when I unexpectedly became a solo parent. My weekly wash and straightening meant not having to think about my hair for the rest of the week, allowing me to work and care for a child. And I clung to that wash ritual extra hard, because that one moment each week was my single instance of self care. When everything around me felt very tenuous, there was a surety in the management of my hair. The routine was a life raft.

Two years ago, after successfully training my daughter to embrace and adore her curls, I was ready to let go. So much had happened in order to get me there, including blending families with my partner, which meant I found myself more resourced for time and support than I had ever been before as a parent.

At the start of that summer, I stopped all straightening and heat treatment, cold turkey. At first, there was not much difference; decades of abuse had trained my hair not to step out of line even if offered the chance. Millimeter by millimeter, it grew back—first, with trepidation, clearly demonstrating an absolute lack of trust in my ability to just let it be. I was irritated by how slowly it transformed, even though I realized that when you do nothing but beat something down for the majority of its natural born life it might take a while for it to feel safe enough to reveal its true self again. I realize now I was mostly irritated because its slow growth highlighted my sense of shame in how cruel I have been to my hair all these years.

So I stayed the course. I wish the story was that a few months later my hair became the sort of natural mane that dreams are made of. The process has been, at best, profoundly uncomfortable. Halting treatments on my hair opened the door to confront every insecure feeling I have ever had about my looks, some so vain and embarrassing that I felt like less of a person for even feeling them. In this process, I’ve felt messy and unprofessional, less sexy; like my cloud of hair takes up too much space, like I am not holding up my end of the bargain by having perfect straight hair or perfect curls, but rather some Frankenstein hybrid. I am still too chicken shit to do The Big Chop, and my hair is high maintenance. It demands attention, forethought, care.

Its growth these years, much like mine, has been stunningly imperfect.

In this process, I’ve felt messy and unprofessional, less sexy; like my cloud of hair takes up too much space, like I am not holding up my end of the bargain by having perfect straight hair or perfect curls, but rather some Frankenstein hybrid.

“Look under your straight hair, mommy!!” I started hearing. “You have beautiful curly hair, just like me!” This was my first summer of natural hair. We had arrived on the Amalfi Coast to some of the hottest humidity I’d experienced in my life, the air like soup, thick and boiling. In every year of my life prior, I would have been worried about sweating out my straight hair.

Stepping into the Tyrrhenian Sea was the only relief from the heat, and I waded out to my customary chest-deep position; preserving my straight hair has always been more important than submerging myself in water for recreational purposes. At this moment, I stood with my daughter clinging to me and edged out a little deeper, until it reached my neck, and a little deeper, until it lapped at my chin.

Then a wave came, submerging us both momentarily, and when we were above again, I laughed and wiped my face, my hair soaked. The next wave pulled us out, and we swam, fully submerged, the sea floor nowhere to be seen. The cool, salty water on my scalp felt otherworldly, like being incorporated into nature for the first time ever. The salt burned my eyes, my ears filled with water. I knew I would look a mess afterwards and for the first time in my life it did not matter to me at all.

Two years in, I am still uncomfortable, self-conscious, parading about trying to project a confidence I don’t honestly have. But something amazing has happened. My hair has begun to trust me. Now, down to my jaw, my original curls (all three patterns of them) are back, a little stronger and a little more insistent with every passing week. I’ve traded my heat tools for new gels, conditioners and oils, and I long for my weekly wash as a ritual the same way I used to long for the ritual of straightening.

I will always have time to take care of your hair , I tell myself, in my combined hours in the bathroom washing, detangling, leave-in-conditioning, gently drying, over and over. Your hair is beautiful exactly the way it is . And, years behind my own daughter, I have started to believe it.

This story appears in the 2024 Changemakers Issue of Marie Claire .

Anja Tyson is a twenty year fashion industry vet who specializes in developing purpose and values-driven businesses through communications, culture, and sustainability. In addition to her work in fashion, beauty and wellness, she sits on the advisory boards of non-profits involved in food justice and aid for families and children. She is a writer and a mother, and her mail gets delivered to Manhattan but her heart will always live in Brooklyn. 

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Karl Marx 1845

Theses On Feuerbach

Written : by Marx in Brussels in the spring of 1845, under the title “1) ad Feuerbach”; Marx’s original text was first published in 1924, in German and in Russian translation, by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Marx-Engels Archives, Book I, Moscow. The English translation was first published in the Lawrence and Wishart edition of The German Ideology   in 1938. The most widely known version of the Theses is that based on Engels’ edited version, published as an appendix to his Ludwig Feuerbach in 1888, where he gave it the title Theses on Feuerbach ; Translated : by Cyril Smith 2002, based on work done jointly with Don Cuckson.

The main defect of all hitherto-existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the Object [ der Gegenstand ] , actuality, sensuousness, are conceived only in the form of the object [ Objekts ] , or of contemplation [ Anschauung ] , but not as human sensuous activity, practice [ Praxis ] , not subjectively. Hence it happened that the active side, in opposition to materialism, was developed by idealism — but only abstractly, since, of course, idealism does not know real, sensuous activity as such. Feuerbach wants sensuous objects [ Objekte ] , differentiated from thought-objects, but he does not conceive human activity itself as objective [ gegenst�ndliche ] activity. In The Essence of Christianity [ Das Wesen des Christenthums ] , he therefore regards the theoretical attitude as the only genuinely human attitude, while practice [ Praxis ] is conceived and defined only in its dirty-Jewish form of appearance [ Erscheinungsform ] [1] . Hence he does not grasp the significance of ‘revolutionary’, of ‘practical-critical’, activity.

The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question. Man must prove the truth, i.e. , the reality and power, the this-sidedness [ Diesseitigkeit ] of his thinking, in practice. The dispute over the reality or non-reality of thinking which is isolated from practice is a purely scholastic question.

The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of changed circumstances and changed upbringing, forgets that it is men who change circumstances and that the educator must himself be educated. Hence this doctrine is bound to divide society into two parts, one of which is superior to society. The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-change [ Selbstver�nderung ] can be conceived and rationally understood only as revolutionary practice .

Feuerbach starts off from the fact of religious self-estrangement [ Selbstentfremdung ] , of the duplication of the world into a religious, imaginary world, and a secular [ weltliche ] one. His work consists in resolving the religious world into its secular basis. He overlooks the fact that after completing this work, the chief thing still remains to be done. For the fact that the secular basis lifts off from itself and establishes itself in the clouds as an independent realm can only be explained by the inner strife and intrinsic contradictoriness of this secular basis. The latter must itself be understood in its contradiction and then, by the removal of the contradiction, revolutionised. Thus, for instance, once the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the holy family, the former must itself be annihilated [ vernichtet ] theoretically and practically.

Feuerbach, not satisfied with abstract thinking , wants sensuous contemplation [ Anschauung ] ; but he does not conceive sensuousness as practical , human-sensuous activity.

Feuerbach resolves the essence of religion into the essence of man [ menschliche Wesen = ‘human nature’] . But the essence of man is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In reality, it is the ensemble of the social relations. Feuerbach, who does not enter upon a criticism of this real essence is hence obliged:

1. To abstract from the historical process and to define the religious sentiment regarded by itself, and to presuppose an abstract — isolated - human individual.

2. The essence therefore can by him only be regarded as ‘species’, as an inner ‘dumb’ generality which unites many individuals only in a natural way.

Feuerbach consequently does not see that the ‘religious sentiment’ is itself a social product , and that the abstract individual that he analyses belongs in reality to a particular social form.

All social life is essentially practical . All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.

The highest point reached by contemplative [ anschauende ] materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is the contemplation of single individuals and of civil society [ b�rgerlichen Gesellschaft ] .

The standpoint of the old materialism is civil society; the standpoint of the new is human society or social humanity.

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

1. “Dirty-Jewish” — according to Marshall Berman, this is an allusion to the Jewish God of the Old Testament, who had to ‘get his hands dirty’ making the world, tied up with a symbolic contrast between the Christian God of the Word, and the God of the Deed, symbolising practical life. See Feuerbach, The Significance of the Creation in Judaism , Essence of Christianity 1841

Deutsch | 1938 translation of Marx’s original | 1969 Selected Works translation | Engels’ 1888 version

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