Research Sources: Becoming More Healthy Through The Use of Exercise

I will be doing project number two on the Student Recreational Center (SRC).  I intend to focus mostly about the health around Arizona State University and how the SRC can help students to gain or maintain a more fit and healthy body.  I would like to evaluate the weight room and the different types of machines that the SRC provides on its upper levels.  Also, I plan to spend a good amount of time evaluating the pool and how it can be one of the most effective ways of burning calories.   Many people do not look at swimming as a way to burn calories or become fit; nonetheless it uses a large array of muscles throughout the body and is very effective when it comes to becoming healthier.   

I would like to explore this subject in this assignment because going to college is a very big change for most students coming out of high school.  College is a different way of life for those that leave home and live on campus.  Almost everyone has heard the saying “freshman fifteen” at one time or another.  This can be the result of “food deserts” which commonly appear around colleges.  This, more times than not, results in unhealthy eating along with the slowing down of the metabolism and ultimately weight gain.  Using the SRC may not cut down on unhealthy eating or help students to find a better source of food, but it will help to boost the metabolism and slow or eliminate weight gain.

I plan to evaluate the weight room, the pool, the exercise machines, and the different courts assorted throughout the building.  I would like to focus on the weight room a lot because this is where the most muscle is built and many people know that while muscle is being built fat is also being blasted.  The pool, as I mentioned earlier, is a great way to burn calories effectively, but many people refrain from using it because they do not want to be engulfed in water.  There are machines on both levels of the SRC, which are used for a more cardio related exercise.  Cardio is needed for many people, along with weight training, with slower metabolisms.

I believe that the SRC is the best place on campus to help obtain a healthier lifestyle throughout college.  Exercise may not be the only thing needed to become the physically healthiest you could be but I believe it is the first step while in college.  It is said that an hour of exercise a day is all that is needed to build muscle, lose weight, and obtain a healthier body.  In my research of this assignment I found a book and two scholarly articles that may be of much use to me.

Leighton, James. Fitness, Body Development, & Sports Conditioning Through Weight Training. Illinois: Thomas, 1983. Print.

Christina, Robert. An Introduction. Enhancing Human Performance in Sport 25 (1991): 1-2. Print.

Buggel, Edelfrid. Mass-Sport Activities and Top Class Athletics. Sports and Politics 7 (1984): 43-49. Print.

In each these sources the main subject is exercise.  These sources helped give me a better understanding of how the body functions and what it needs to build muscle and burn fat.  This was my main interest because the SRC is a place where exercise goes on constantly. These sources helped me obtain a better understanding of how to become more fit with exercise.

Evaluation: Shooter

The movie Shooter is an action/adventure thriller that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.  People have been intrigued by action/adventure movies for a long time due to the height of excitement.  Action/adventure movies that we see making large revenue generally have a well known actor or actress that has a good reputation for their lead roles.  The speed of these types of movies is also very fast paced getting the viewers into the excitement very quickly. These movies produce situations that can range from being very fictional to even some that are very possible in almost everyone’s life.  This genre of movie normally has something to do with an underdog overcoming the impossible and having the audience cheering them on the whole time.  

Mark Wahlberg is one of the most famous actors in the United States now.  He has been seen in many different types of movies and has been applauded for his great acting.  Mark Wahlberg is the main character in the movie Shooter.  He adds a lot to the film with his style of acting and serious believable attitude throughout.  The action begins in the first ten minutes of the film’s start.  This movie has a very fast pace with a lot of action and little rest between exciting scenes.  The director followed the action/adventure theme in which so many others have by the addition of a strong leading actor with a fast paced and action filled plot.  The proof shows in the near one-hundred million dollar box office showing.

In shooter, the main conflict is that the main character is framed in a conspiracy to kill the president of the United States.  Mark fights for his freedom and ultimately wins it.  However, he does not feel that justice has been served and he decides to serve out the justice himself leading to more excitement and more action packed scenes.  Shooter is a great movie, in my perspective, that entertains the viewer throughout the two hour run time.  The film chose a very complete actor for their budget and succeeded.  The level of action that Mark Wahlberg produced in the film was explosive and showed with the money that was made on the film.  The effort put into the special effects of the movie were also very extensive.  The effects included napalm, a very flammable explosive, which looked as if it was true to what was being shown on the film.  Shooter was not a low budget film in which the special effects and actors are cheesy.  Everyone has experienced a terrible low budget film at one time or another.  Viewers can tell a difference between a small time film and a high rate film like Shooter.