Overall, my group and I have received various different perspectives about the healthy balance of mindset nutrition, and fitness. Some instructors believed that the most important aspect of health was your mindset, while others believed it was nutrition. Ultimately we determined that not many people believe that strictly fitness is beneficial to our overall heat because without the other components fitness means almost nothing. My most memorable interview was with our mentor, Rasheda Grayson, who gave a fascinating story about her fitness journey. She started off by telling us about her struggle with her weight from a very early age. She told us that her weight as a middle schooler was almost 200 pounds. We asked her what made her want to make a change in her life, and she responded "I realized I wasn't comfortable in my body". She dipped heavily into the mindset piece of her journey. We learned that her struggles as a child developed the ultimate love she has for helping others in their fitness journeys. At the end of our interview, she determined that mindset plays the biggest role in overall health because you need self-motivation to persevere. We received a different take when we talked to the one-to-one instructor where we participated in a jump roping class. We talked to a personal trainer and she presented a different perspective. She opened up to us about suffering from bulimia as a kid. From her experiences, she determined that nutrition was the most important part of health for her. She also shared that she is a type 1 diabetic so the emphasis on nutrition in her life is very prevalent. These two interviews are small examples of how the differences in experiences determine a person's balance of fitness, mindset, and nutrition in overall health.
As a reflection on my time during this project, I think about the various opinions and perspectives I’ve absorbed. from people who believed fitness was the most important part of health to people who believed nutrition was the most important part of health. I gained a better understanding of how important our experiences are to the shaping of our perspective of health. after interviewing so many professionals in the field I’ve decided that I think all three pillars, nutrition, fitness, and mindset are all important components to overall health. within my life, I’ve noticed my health was lowest when I left out one part of the three pillars. but I also realize that it’s very difficult to focus on all three pillars because outside influences heavily focus on only one. this is why one of my biggest takeaways was the importance of community. even though all instructors had different goals within Health a common theme that I saw was community. Group classes all were based on encouragement. w...
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