So in one of my exercise science classes I am taking, we are going to have a booth where each of us in the class have to choose an issue with physical activity and nutrition within our campus (why students/faculty don’t stay active or eat healthy) We each have to choose a catchy headline that will sway the students/faculty to come to our booth and here some solutions we have to offer, In my case I think I already know what topics I am choosing for each and the headline I want to use to reel people in, I thought maybe this would be a good blog post for no other reason then even though this is talking about college students and faculty, this really relates to anyone in the world- all their issues are the same issues people outside of the demographic have and I want to capitalize on the fact there are solutions to every excuse. For this blog post, I will give you all a look inside the topics our students came up with as to why people on campus choose to not stay active (gym, exercise..ect) and why they choose to not eat healthy. Here are reasons my class came up with:
Physical activity:
- Time (Don’t have time)
- Convenience (not convenient to their schedule, location, transportation, ect)
- no sweat (some people don’t like to sweat or think that when you workout you have to sweat)
- Support (some people don’t have the support, motivation, friends, family, peers)
- Money (they can’t afford a gym membership)
- confidence (they feel intimidated inside a gym, don’t like how they look so don’t want others to notice, scared, low self esteem, ect)
Nutrition:
- Food labels (don’t pay attention to the food labels)
- taste (don’t like the taste of healthy foods)
- confusion (don’t understand what eating healthy means and lack knowledge about nutrition)
- Money (believe healthier foods are more expensive)
- myths (believe in these myths about what eating healthy entails)
- diets (don’t like dieting because it doesn’t work, think they have to diet in order to eat healthy, ect)
Sleep/stress management:
- Don’t get enough sleep (which makes them more stressed)
- get stressed out (then they don’t want to sleep or eat)
- get stressed out and then eat more
- have sleeping issues they haven’t dealt with
All of these things I have listed are the things my class came up with it, now there may be other answers & by all means please feel free to add whatever you would like because I plan on sharing solutions to each one. I want people to be aware of the excuses they use when they say “I can’t” and I want them to know the solutions so they can make it a “I will”. For my booth, I am going to talk about ways to stay active without having to go to a gym (which will help with time management for students/faculty both), for nutrition I am going to talk about how to eat healthy without dieting by using moderation & instead of restriction,/fad diets. So with this being said, I will make a post for each one of these excuses and give a solution. I want to make sure if anyone is in this situation, that I can help you and teach you and give you more to think about. If you are someone who has something to add to this list, leave it in comments, message me, whatever works so I can make sure that I talk about it.
Sorry for being absent these past 7 plus days, I have been busy with school and clinicals but I promise I will try to make more time for blogging and start back up again on a schedule. Right now it’s a little hard because I am constantly busy but my goal is one blog a week or at least 2 blogs a week just to make sure my followers know I am still around. I appreciate all of you who continue to read my blogs, please feel free to share them, comment, follow, and like. Thank you.
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Your blogger Shay-lon
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