Lets Get Active!

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February 11, 2020

Hey, readers! Recently I’ve been thinking about health, and how important it is for a community to embrace opportunities to promote healthy lifestyles. According to the American Heart Association, it is recommended that all adults (were all adults, here) get at least “150 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic exercise” per week(American Heart Association). Are you fulfilling those recommended requirements? Maybe you don’t know how to exercise properly, or maybe you don’t have a social circle that you’re comfortable going to the gym with. If that’s you, it’s not your fault.

While the UAB Recreation Center is available to all students, there are a lack of outreach programs and social groups that work to engage members of the campus in physical activity. Think about that! A large majority of UAB students don’t take advantage of the rec at all! What’s the use of having the 18th highest rated recreation center in the country (more information) if it is only in use by around 15% of students? The purpose of this blog is to highlight the issue of the lack of physical engagement with fitness on campus, and to come up with strategies to increase the amount of students who use the recreation center on a weekly basis.LET’S GET HEALTHY!

Sources:American Heart Association, UAB Recreation Center

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

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This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

  • Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
  • Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

  • Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
  • What topics do you think you’ll write about?
  • Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
  • If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.