Fit for life homework

Muscles are a great contributor to your health. They help with strong bones, better sleep, better metabolism, lower risk of injury, and more. Muscular strength is how much force can be put together against something trying to resist the force, in other words how much you can hold, push, pull, etc. Muscular endurance is how long you can withstand a hard activity, like biking, running, hiking, and more. These are important to maintain because you will have an improved, healthier life.

            Isometric exercise is building up your muscle strength, but the joints don’t move. When doing this type of exercise you are working with resistance against force like pushing your body away from something. Isotonic exercise is used to build up muscle strength like isometric, but your joints move around when doing this exercise. Doing push-ups is a type of isometric exercise because your arms are moving in a range of motion. Isokinetic exercise is an exercise that isn’t constant, but has continuous limb movement. An example would be jogging in place or one a bike that stays in place.

            Lifting weights can be a real benefit to losing weight and gaining strength, but there are some precautions that you should take. Don’t overdo it because you can possibly die from overexertion. If you feel any pain stop, you could make it worse by continuing lifting weights. Don’t lift weights till about 15 or 16 because lifting weights can stunt your growth. Just remember to be careful and watch yourself as well as having someone with you when you are lifting weights. Along with the safety of lifting weights there is also natural weight lifting and supplemental weight lifting. Most weight lifters you see take some type of supplement for weight lifting, but they are careful when choosing the right ones. They all say that they are the best and they will give you the best results, but you have to read more than just the label. They are both okay and if you want better and faster results then taking the supplements would be good, I would recommend doing it all naturally though.

Something new!

School. Need I say more? Yeah, it's not the best thing in the world, it's not the worse though either. I like it, sometimes, but I definitely don't hate it. There might be a few teachers I could slap right now, but I won't. I've always had an issue with stress about school and now that we're towards the end of the term, I'm super nervous. My grades are good, but not as good as I would want. I feel like I talk about this all the time and if you're reading this you're probably getting super duper tired of me talking about my grades all of the time, trust me you're not the only one. So, I'm going to talk about something else.

Technology, the internet, facebook, twitter, youtube, commercials, reality TV, and more! Did you know that reality TV isn't always reality what they film is the "most important" parts that will get the producers money, but they don't show everything that happens when the cameras aren't rolling! Facebook, seriously I honestly only know about 2 people that don't have a facebook account. The terrible thing is most of the posts are from people that probably should have their facebook taken away because their posts are pretty much their journal. Facebook is not a journal, so please, don't tell me what your cat just did while you went to the bathroom, because I don't care. ha ha. Twitter, now this, this is pretty close to something that's your journal, but you update it every 2 minutes. Don't mix up twitter and facebook though when it come to posting, please. Even then, most of the post are like hey follow #someonethatwantstolookcool, they will follow you back! or OMG! you need to see this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dj-4RYjbdY&feature=youtube_gdata_player just a bunch of links, or maybe once in a while you get something funny.

Seriously though, what the heck has happened to society? People are crazy these days. Commercials. Whoa, I mean some of the local one's are super dumb, then most of them are insurance commercials. Allstate, farmers (we are farmers! bum dabum bum bum bum bum!), or Geico, and I seriously have seem these commercials over and over again that I have them memorized, whatever happened to watching an actually episode of friends when there were like 2 commercials the whole entire time, not 20.

Youtube + facebook = famous! If you haven't heard about Kony 2012, you're crazy and need to go watch this, yes it's long but who cares. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc it got like 32 million views within a day or two it was crazy, but if you want to everyone to see something get a bunch of friends, put a video on youtube, get people to share it on facebook and the world goes crazy! If it's a crappy video, it will be famous, but people will also tell others not to watch it so make sure it's something good. My grandpa, he's 80, was telling me the other day that this generation is the craziest he's ever seen and watched. He thinks we'll all be brain dead by 2015 with all the computer, cell phones, and TV radiation waves going to our head, who knows? He might be right.

Busy, Busy, Busy!

I always told myself that I wouldn't pile my stuff with things to do. Then all of the sudden February and March totally took control of my life, bassoon lessons, band concert, band recital, bassoon competition, homework, church activities, party commitments, working, meetings, and that's just the beginning! I've been so stressed and now were close to the end of the term and my grades seriously aren't bad at all, in fact they're pretty good, I want to get one of the up though to an A and I don't know how I'm going to do it. I've just been feeling way overwhelmed and I had no idea when it was going to stop. I had to wake up at 5 today, it's Saturday, to go to a convention thing... I'm so exhausted. My parents were complaining about how I'm never home, and if I am I'm always working on school stuff and I just never stop. When I got home from the convention, I did stop. My mom took away my lap top, my phone, my homework (who does that?), and we sat and talked.

I really had no idea how much stress I had put on myself and I never knew just talking could make me let it all go. She took me out to eat, we watched a movie, and just relaxed... I couldn't even bring up anything about school or things that I needed to do, my mom wouldn't let me. I finally got my stuff back and now I'm working on my homework, but that little time that I got to just let everything go was awesome. I finally realized that yes, school is important and so is my music, but I can't let it take over.

Seriously if you feel a little stress or just feel like you need to get something out in the world that you feel like you've held in for a while, do something about it. Don't let it build up till you explode, because if you're anything like me, you will explode and the earth will move like God is playing basketball with it. If you have a best friend or your mom or just someone you can trust, tell them what's going on because if you don't you'll later regret it. If talking doesn't relieve your stress just take everything off you mind and find your favorite movie, for me it's anything that's a old 90's classic Disney movie, I seriously can't get enough of them. Make sure that you have your favorite snack too, but don't pig out, you don't want to gain weight because then there's another thing that will build up your stress. I know just getting outside and being active also helps me a ton because I just learn to relax and enjoy the outdoors. Music is also something that really helps me, as long as it's not some depressing crap that feels like your story, listen to something fast, and happy that you'll enjoy.

These are just some of my favorite things(:

If you know me, you know that I'm a little crazy and do weird things, say weird things, and just act pretty nuts most of the time. A lot of you guys don't really know what I like though, so that's what I'm going to write on.
1. Laughing- that's a no brainer though haha I laugh all of the time.
2. Music! I seriously have no idea what I would do without this stuff, I mean I listen to it everyday and play 5 instruments ha.
3. My room, ha it's probably where I spend most of my time and it's just full of stuff that represents me.
4. Singing- I only sing in front of people I'm really good friend with though ha.
5. Shoes- I have like a gazillion pair, I don't even wear all of them I just think they're cute and maybe they'll come in handy one day.
6. Google... it completes me(; not really but just about ha.
7. Taking pictures- I just love capturing precious moments(; ha
8. Watching movies- I can never be bored with a blanket and a good movie.
9. Running around at midnight with my friends- haha they're the reason I'm crazy.
10. Playing/watching basketball- I love being competitive, I even get into it when I'm watching.. and that is why my voice sounds so weird right now (not that you can hear it), because I've been yelling at games ha.
11. Eating- I love food just in case you weren't aware.
12. That moment where you know spring is coming(:
13. wearing shorts.. or sweats... I just love it!
14. Family... when they aren't being annoying haha, but I still love them.
15. Water, whether it's drinking or splashing around I just love it! ha
16. Creating house plans- I think that's what I want to do when I grow up.
17. Writing the beginning of stories- I can never finish them though.
18. Camping! yeah you smell like smoke when you get back home, but who cares.
19. Talking, which is why I can't get rid of my voice issue either haha.
20. Cooking(mostly experimenting) Shh! don't tell my mom, she thinks I hate it! haha
21. English- Yeah I'm kind of a nerd when it come to writing and grammar and stuff.. reading though, not my forte.
22. Decorating- as long as it's not Christmas or something haha, and not when I'm being told to.
23. Autumn- I love crunching leaves!
24. The beach- and this is why I want to move! haha I can't stand it here.
24. Playing jokes on people.(in case you didn't notice, there's two 24's)
26. Even numbers- I'm kinda OCD and I can't stand odd numbers... I skipped 25 ha.
27. Cheese- it's delicious.
28. Animals! They're adorable!
29. Stalking people on facebook- it's kind of a bad habit, I don't enjoy that much but I still do it haha.
30. Sleeping in! 
31. Shopping! I just hate the feeling of losing money though.
32. so, um Money haha, it's kinda bad but I do like it.
33. Nice people, they're awesome.
34. Those little helicopter things that come of those trees.. I have some in my backyard... I don't know what they're called though. ha
35. Ending at the right spot.

Healthy junk(;

So my mom has always felt bad about letting herself go and gaining weight, I really don't think it's that bad but of course she does. I think we're always paying attention to society though and comparing ourselves to them and I know she does this sometimes, but she really doesn't need to. So, she's trying to lose weight and I'm proud of her for doing that she's being a really good example for me, but we've been eating the strangest foods ever now and I'm trying to show her that we can still eat normal things, and she can still lose the weight.

Quinoa, yeah look at the way it's spelled... it's not how you pronounce it though it's more like Keen-wah! ha ha. Anyway if you go to costco you can get this stuff and it's probably one of the weirdest things I've ever ate in my whole entire life... and I've lived in weird places with weird food. It's like this little bean things that you steam and it's kinda like a grain, but it replaces your grains with protein. It's strange, and I don't like it, it tastes like the smell of smoke, now I don't mind people smoking but there seriously should not be a food that tastes that way. Mom! Come on! You're killing me here!

So I did some research on the internet(Hopefully this stuff is true though, unlike somethings you find on the internet). I found that onions are probably one of the most healthiest things you can eat, who would have known I though it would have been something that was green at least. Now I don't enjoy onions plain that's nasty and they have a weird spicy taste, not a good one. Anyway, sautéd onions are really good though, so I did that and hopefully my mom will read up on onions. This article I was reading said that onions can help prevent some types of diseases, cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart problems and lots more. I was so surprised!

Lemons, so they aren't so good for your teeth but just one lemon is more than 100% of your daily intake of vitamin C. So along with that it will help your cholesterol and bone strength. Broccoli, now I'm probably one of the weird kids, but I like pretty much every vegetable and broccoli is one of them. If you're needing in vitamin K, eat broccoli. One medium size stalk of broccoli is more 100% of you're needed daily vitamin K, and 200% vitamin C so you're set to go just with broccoli. It also helps with cancers too!

Dark Chocolate, yes! I love it! I can't really stand any other type of chocolate don't ask my why, but I just love dark chocolate 110% ha. So, just 1/4 of an ounce of this yummy stuff can reduce you're blood pressure.  It also reduces bad cholesterol and increases good levels of cholesterol. Potatoes! So I recently learned that sweet potatoes can help with those who need potassium, like me, because I'm allergic to bananas which are an amazing source of potassium but I had no idea what other types of foods had it, so potatoes are like my fave! They're also a great source of Vitamin A, and can help prevent cancer as well. Salmon, I had this for dinner last night! I seriously can't get enough of fish I love it! Salmon has niacin in it which is known to help with Alzheimer's and memory loss. I also was watching the news the other day and they said that individuals who intake a lesser amount of calories with have a better chance of not having memory loss, so I'm now at the end of this post and I'm pretty sure I'll remember this for the rest of my life. I hope this will help ya! Have a great week!

Just what any girl needs to hear

Today I heard one of the best things ever! I serious almost cried because it's exactly what I've been doing to myself. Now if you're a guy you might not find this interesting at all, but you know whatever just keep on reading if you want. So I know that every girl has compared herself to another girl. She might be really good at basketball or she has nice hair, those are her strengths. You, however, may not have the best hair (it's probably genetic anyway), and might not be very coordinated enough to play a sport, but that's your weakness. You may be really good at playing a musical instrument or singing or just being kind to everyone, those are your strengths and you need to focus on those things because that girl that you're jealous of because she's good at basketball probably isn't good at any of those things. You can't compare your weaknesses to her strengths, it's not going to turn out very well for you. You'll feel terrible about yourself and you don't need to, because there is probably someone else out there who wishes they could sing just as well as you. I've found this to be so true, and yes! I've done it many times, but I know now it's not going to get me anywhere.

Facebook, twitter, and even Pinterest may seem like fun at first, but once you finally sit down and realize what's going on, you'll finally see that you're looking at people that just seem perfect, and they aren't. You want to be perfect, you want to have all the things the girl next door does, but if you were really meant to have them you would, and you don't, so it wasn't meant to be. We, as girls, need to be happy with ourselves and our lives just the way they are. People love us no matter what we look like, because they look at our hearts, but it doesn't mean that we need to stop caring for ourselves.

You may feel like you need to help everyone you can, and be happy all the time and try to keep yourself together. Everyone needs to break down once in a while though. We need to give ourselves time and stop and appreciate ourselves. We need to stop and look around us so we don't explode! I do this all the time! I get so caught up in school and friends and work that I never stop and to see what's happening to myself. I just needed to pause and let everything go. It really helps, so if you feel so overwhelmed and you can't stop, just stop. If someone is nagging you tell them to leave you alone and take care of their problems for a little while, yes you may sound like a brat, but you deserve to just relax.

We also need to be around positive people so we can always look on the good when the situation is bad. I've learned that some of the decisions I've made in life haven't been the best, and I'm young! The situation I was in wasn't the best but I learned to see all of the good things that could come out of it. Everything happens for a reason.

A needed friend(:

Over the course of a lifetime you learn many things. You learn how to spell definitely right, which is a word I've had issues with my whole life. You learn right from wrong, not to drink and do drugs, and not to break the law. And, you learn to make friendships. There's also the moments where you feel like there is no one there for you that isn't your mom and when you need a friend the most no one shows up. Then you start to feel bad for yourself and complain all the time and the thing is you don't really need a friend at that time, you want one. Things aren't earned the right way when you want them, you have to need them. You may say that you need food because you're starving... well, at least you aren't the old man that sits on the corner because he's homeless, he's the one that's starving you're just the person that wants food. It's the same for pretty much everything else too, including friends. Some people have issues finding the right friend where others are surrounded by great people that would always be there for them and they have plenty of best friends. I used to be that way until I was just friends with everyone and I didn't have a best friend who would always be there for me. I've had so difficult times socially and also with my health and then I found who my best friend actually was.

I owe her everything! She's always been there for me when I've been down and I try my best to do the same. About a couple of weeks ago though, we found out that she might be moving there's like a 1 and 3 chance that she won't move. After both of us complaining to each other about her moving I figured that I should actually be positive about this. I don't want her to feel crappy about her moving knowing that I didn't support her. So I kept mentioning all of the good things that could come out of this. She could meet new people, she would experience new things, she'd still be close enough for us to see each other, and she'd get a bigger room in the house they're looking at. I noticed when I started doing this her mood became better and she wasn't as sad about moving and I'm glad I took the chance to be positive about her leaving.

It still won't be the same without her and strange not being able to hang out all the time and living like 2 minutes away from each other, but we can manage. Just a couple days ago after being all positive and stuff my health went way down hill. I knew I was sick because I've been coughing a lot lately, but it wasn't what I was expecting. After test, test, and another test, I need to go through a lot of treatment. It's not too serious, but it's enough that it risks me and my family. After finding out that I was sick and didn't know when I'd be getting better my best friend came along and helped me and it makes me even more grateful for her. I realized that nothing can get in the way of us being friends and that we'll be close forever. I'm glad I have a friend that I can count on and share everything with. I'm just here to tell whoever is reading this that you need to stay positive and look for the right people in your lives.