Why I choose to exercise as my behavioral change's goal

  When Mr. James explains about this assignment which asked us to think about a behavior that we wish to change, the first thing that comes to my mind is exercise! However, I feel it is a very common topic so I rejected to make it as my goal and trying to think about the other possible behavior that I am able to change. Thus, I plan to sleep before 12am everyday.

   Nevertheless, after I tried consecutively for a few days, I found it is quite impossible for me to achieve the goal especially when I needed to burn midnight oil to complete my assignments or works before the deadline. You may think it is an excuse for me but it is extremely difficult for a student to sleep before 12am unless he or she is a superman or superwoman which can finish the works within a whole daytime without any entertainment. To be honest, I am a "slow" learner and my pace is quite slow than the others. Therefore, I actually needed more time to complete a work compared to most of my friends. Thus, it is really IMPOSSIBLE for me to sleep before 12am because most of the time I am still doing the work that need to be completed by the day at that moment. Hence, I have shifted back to my original decision.

Actually, exercise is considered more beneficial to me. This is because I have some health problem with my backbone. My spine is curved abnormally as a S shape behind the chest area which caused me prohibited to participate in excessive exercises and carry heavy things. This condition is known as scoliosis (Ullrich, 2013). I was "trained" since I was small to become weak at the sense that I'm not allowed to carry any "heavy" things although sometimes the things is not heavy to me. After some period of time, I really unable to carry "heavy" things although most of the time my friends felt they were not heavy at all. Sometimes, I will feel very uncomfortable such as heart pain, breathless and dizzy for a very long period of time and it can be extended until more than a few hours after I carried a little bit heavy things such as carrying laptop from angkasa condo to my University. By the way, my "main" doctors from Pantai Hospital in Melacca and also Changi General Hospital at Singapore also prohibited me to do excessive exercise. I faced the same problem as carry heavy things after I make some short distant sprint. I believed that I was "trained" to be slow because I cannot even walk fast or actively use my mind as I will become very headache and feeling not well after that. 

      In between, I need to do some physiotherapy which sets by the physiotherapist for my whole life in order to make my spine stronger. However, I never follow her advice even though my parents always nag me to do the physiotherapy myself. My condition became worse as I needed to wear a brace for my abdominal part last time. The brace was made from the special plastic and I need to wear it all the time except bath time. Although the brace does not restrict me to do normal activity however I felt extremely hot with it and a bit painful sometimes when its position on my body was not right. Thus, it restricted me to do any exercise and my health condition had become worse.

                                     The braces I wore, I have 2 actually =D

          Thus, I wish to use this chance to strengthen my body as well as my bone. According to Schwader (2010), exercise can actually strengthen the back, shoulders and upper back as well as the bone. Besides, the physiotherapy that set by my physiotherapist can actually prevent my condition to become worse and help to reduce curve angles in my spine while adding strength and flexibility to it as what she said. Other than doing the physiotherapy, I also plan to jog frequently. This is because I felt the physiotherapy is very boring and I was not even getting sweat after doing that. Thus, I had always given up in the middle of the section. I hope I can carry on the physiotherapy by combining with jogging. Good Luck to me. =D