After third week of working out at the gym, I realized that my belly is smaller this morning. Even my girlfriend said that my double chin seems to be gone. I am very glad that I decided to get back to my old habit as the learning for the course EDCI 335. I am becoming more healthier with exercises and clean foods. Although I still crave for junk foods such as burgers, pizzas, fried chickens, and potato chips, I can control how much I eat now. If I am really craving for certain foods, I would only have one or two small bits.

At the gym, I can gradually add some weight to my current weight lifting routine. For example, when I first started, I can only perform three sets of dumbbell chest press for 10 repetitions with 30 pounds for each dumbbell. I can perform four sets of dumbbell chest press for 10 repetitions with 45 pounds for each dumbbell. Not only did my chest grows, but also my back and other muscle groups. For lat pull down, I could do with weight 70 pounds before, now, I can do with weight 100 pounds. In addition, I can run on treadmill machines a lot easier. When I first started, I can’t even manage to run for 10 minutes without stopping to catch some breath. I can easily run for 30 minutes straight and that I am not tired! I believe that I have made a huge progress and improvements past few weeks.

As related to this weeks’s reading, I believe some technology are great for learning for myself. When I first started to workout, I totally had no clew what to start with. There were so many machines that I have no knowledge of how to perform it and what they are for. In addition, it is really expensive to have a personal trainer to teach me everything. However, with the help of current technology, such as online forum, YouTube , and eBooks, I can learn new things that I am interested to. There are several key building blocks of education media that I employed. For they are text, graphics, video and computing. It is very important to learn every muscle group of my body before first working out. A graphic of major muscle groups of body helped me to recognize each muscle group. Text, video, and computing are important too. I learned how to perform exercise from watching videos from YouTube, slow motion moves breakdown from animation, and reading related knowledge from eBooks.