A Look at Nutrition

You have been working hard all semester in weight training, learning how to move correctly and you have now developed your own program that you will be following for the next several weeks. If you remember back to the beginning of the semester I said there are three things that have to be addressed if you are going to be successful in being as healthy as you can be. Those three things are exercise, lifestyle and nutrition. We have covered the exercise portion and started to address the lifestyle factors by talking about stress and relaxation, we will talk more about sleep in the near future, but for the next few weeks we want to talk about Nutrition.

The quality of your health is directly proportional to the quality of nutrients you provide yourself in the way of food. Garbage in = garbage out. Good quality food in = Good quality health.

We will start by taking a look at what you are currently eating. For this weeks blog, I want you to list for me everything you ate yesterday, including drinks. Be detailed and give me everything including quantities and be sure to include what you drank. 

A Look At Your Progress

This second half of the semester we are going to hand over some of the control of programing your workouts to you and you will begin to set up your program based on your individual goals. For this weeks blog I want you to take a close look at your measurement sheet and analyze your midpoint results. 

Answer the following questions:
1. Are they headed in the direction you expect and want? 
2. Is there anything that surprised you about your results?
3. Is there anything that disappointed you about your results?

Use the information from your midpoint measurements to set realistic goals for each measurement for the second quarter.

I will give you time in class this week to complete this assignment, but expect your measurement sheet to be completed with goals by the end of the week.