Working Out

Courtney Bradshaw
English 1020
Professor Sumner
January 23, 2008
Working Out
This is my first real blog post to ever have. I have heard of people having Blogs but I have never really even looked or read one. My sister said she reads one everyday that is hilarious. I do not think mine is going to be as funny or enjoyable as his but I will try to not make it boring. I know we should have started writing about our topic that we picked in class today but I could not decide which one I wanted to write about so I thought of something random. Today I am going to talk about working out. I actually just got back from running at the school’s Hyper (the workout facility) and that is what made me think about this topic for the day!
Do you ever wonder why working out always seems to make you happy. Even if you did just do the most strenuous and tiring exercise it all seems worthwhile after finishing. Not only is it because you know you are getting your body in a better shape or because you are losing pounds but in fact the reason you get joy out of exercising is because when you workout your body releases endorphins. An endorphin is a natural hormone occurrence in the brain that affects emotion and reduces pain. Endorphins are natural painkillers. Who knew that a person addicted to morphine could just exercise and get the same painkiller effect as actually taking the drug.
I just got back from the gym and just being surrounded by so many people enjoying their time working out mades me happy. I saw Brooxie Davis up their and we started to work out together. Even though the physical aspect of your body doing that much work is hard it is fun being their with others and just messing around.
It is hard to find time to stop everything and go to the gym but it is a commitment you have to make if you want to stay in shape. Sometimes I feel really gross if I do not workout but never to the point where I am mad at myself or get in a bad mood because I did not workout that day. Some people are so obsessed with working out that they have a disease. They feel that they if they do not workout and feel skinny then they mentally do not feel okay as well. Working out can be a great thing but not when it is at the point where you do not have any self confidence if you do not. I think mainly people are so obsessed with how they look because of the images famous people portray now a days. They are having a competition to see who can get the skinniest. It just stinks because now that is the “going thing.” If you want to make it famous you have go to be tiny. It is such a wrong image to represent to young kids and teenagers. You just wonder when all the things totally switched. Back in the olden days if you were pale it meant you were wealthy because you did not have to work out in the yard unlike the tan people who were normally the slaves. If you were really skinny then it showed that you were poor because you could pay for enough food. So obviously everyone that was fuller and plump had a lot of money. Now all of a sudden it is as if it is just the opposite even though money does not matter. I think one of the reasons is because un healthy food is much cheaper. I am sure that McDonalds does have an enticing dollar menu but then you think about how that one hamburger you about to eat is enough calories for a whole entire day it makes you sick. It just stinks that if you are really trying to eat healthier it cost more. Yea you could think that “Oh I’ll just eat less” but that only causes a disease not a healthy diet. It is good to know that the world is moving on to a healthy country but it should not move on to the point where it encourages girls to not eat because supposedly that is what everyone thinks is “in style” and cute. Everyone needs to realize that the healthy and in style look is not ridiculously skinny even though that is what models and actresses are making us believe but rather a healthy body, mind, and spirit!

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