HOW TO GET IN SHAPE WITHOUT BEING BORED TO DEATH

"I hate running. it's so boring." "I joined a gym but i never go because...." "I play tennis a lot -and I also ski. You would think that i would be in great shape, but i am not. Whats the problem?"

There isn't a person alive who wouldn't like to be in a great shape. In fact, most people, at sometimes on their lives, have made an attempt to achieve that goal. But after a stretch of frustrated effort, they quit. Why?

Ussually people stop working out for 2 reasons. First they are bored to death with their routine and the second reason is because they dont see the results. How could they, when their routine is usually lopsided or one-sided? If they are doing aerobics, they run, cycle, jump or swim until they are burned out. and all they have to show for is a little less fat on their bodies (and perhaps a stronger lungs and heart). Their outer body remains out of shape. If they are doing a sport, they schedule time for it, wheter they feel like doing it or not, hoping to burn calories and get shape in the same time. This continues until the sport becomes a burden, and then what they often get from their of their efforts is a body out of balance, shape according to the demands of the sport. If they work out properly in a gym they often have a shapely exterior but their heart and lungs remain unfit-and they quickly hyperventilate-even when is just climbing stairs. In addition, they resent the necessity of spending to much time in the gym-at the expense of other sports they might prefer doing.

What is the needed, then, is a program that isn't boring, doesn't take up a lot of time, allows the individual the option of picking physical activities she/he really loves to do and at the same time results in total fitness: a lean, shapely body, and a healthy strong cardiovascular system--along with strong bones, ligaments and tendons, and vibrant young looking skin. The ideal fitness program not just includes weight training, not just aerobics activities, not just spot reducing, not just sport and not just dieting. It includes them all, incorporating all aspects of fitness for the development of a complete and balanced body. 

PSYCHOLOGICAL DAILY #1: HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

Here we discuss human behaviour and how it effects the learning process. Learning is the acquisition of knowledge or understanding of a subject or skill through education, experience, practice or study. To succesfully bring about learning, we have to know why people act they way do and how people learn ant then use this understanding to teach others or to encourage oneself in the process of learning.

DEFINITIONS

Thera are many definitions of Human behaviour because its a complex topic, human behaviour is a product both innate human nature and of individual experience and enviroment. Here are 3 definitions:
1. Human Behaviour is an attempt to explain how and why human function the way they do.
2. It is also defined as the result of attempts to satisfy certain needs, such as food and water or more complex needs such as respect and acceptance.
3. The third definition of human behaviour is focuses on the typical life course of humans. This approach emphasize human development or the succesive passive of growth in which human behaviour is charaterized by a distinct set of physical, physiological and behavioral features.
By observing human behaviour, people can gain knowledge to better understand others.

HUMAN NEEDS THAT MUST BE MET TO ENCOURAGE LEARNING 

Physiological


These are biological needs. They consist of the need for air, food, water and maintenance of the human body. If an individual is unwell, then little else matters. Unless the biological needs are met, a person cannot concentrate fully of learning, self expression or any other task. A hungry or tired individual may not be able to perform as expected.

Security


Once the Physiological needs are met, the needs for security becomes active. All humans have a need to feel safe. Security needs are about keeping oneself from harm.

Belonging


When individuals are physically comfortable and do not feel threatened, they seek to satisfy their social needs of belonging.


Esteem


When the first three of needs are satisfied, the need for esteem can be dominant. Human has a need for a stable, firmly based, high level of self respect and respect from others. Esteem is about feeling good about one's self. Human gets self esteem in 2 ways internally and externally. Internally, a person judges him/her self worthy by personally defined standard. High self esteem results self-confidence, independence, achievment, competence, and knowledge. Most people, however, seek external esteem thorugh social approval and esteem from other people, judging themselves by what others think of them. External self-esteem relates to one's reputation such as status, recognition, appreciation, and respect of associates.

Cognitive and Aesthetic


Cognitive is the needs to know and understand and aesthetic is the emotional need if the artist. Maslow understand that human have a deep need to understand what is going on arround them so that they can control the situation or make informed choices about what steps might be taken next. the brain even reinforce this need by giving human a rush of dopamine whenever something is learned, which accounts for that satisfying "eureka" moment.

Aesthetic needs connect directly with human emotions, which makes it a subtle factor in the domain of persuasion.

Self-Actualization 


When all the foregoing needs are satisfied, then and only then for self-actualization activated. Maslow describes self-actualization as a person's need to be and do that which the person was "born to do". To paraphrase an old Army recruiting slogan, self actualization is "to be all u can be".
Self-actualized people are characterized by:

• being problem-focused
• incorporating an ongoing freshness of appreciation of life.
• a concern about personal growth.
• the ability to have peak experiences.

By knowing all of the above elements on how human behaving, we can help others or ourself to be a better person for changing our life style to be more healthy or to encourage others to learn it. To achieve what we have learned and what are meant to achieved and to see and understand ouself also others as our student, our loves one or just another strangers.