Unit 2 Summary
Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Kaplan University
EF310-01
Current Trends in Exercise and Fitness: Aging Well Across the Lifespan
Prof: Kerrie Berends
October 30, 2012

This week assignment was to complete 6 different questionnaires about you on topics related to the reading. After completion of the unit reading and rating of the questionnaires I will give a summary of what I came to realize and my scores on the questionnaires. This will allow you to get an idea of what I have learned about fitness and how it relates to everyone differently and how it related to me. It will be a brief summary but it is what I feel is the most important part of this assignment.
Upon completion of these questionnaires and the weekly reading I learned a lot about myself and where I am physically. One thing that caught my eye was how the book talked about the different stages of motivational readiness for change and how we move through them. After reading about this and doing the questionnaires I realize that I was in stage 3 “Doing some physical activity” (Marcus & Forsyth, 2009 p. 15). That meant a lot to me because recently I start going to the gym again and also the fact that I was making progress in a healthier direction. I knew I was making the right choice by going to the gym but would get frustrated because I was not going 5 days a week and was not seeing the results I wanted but this showed me I was making progress in the cognitive section of the stages. So it lifted my spirits a bit more and gave me more motivation to keep going. Questionnaire 4.1 and processes of change and this was 40 questions about my level of physical activity over the last month or so. I realize that I do stay active for some part of my life but I do not go above and beyond in ensuring that I stay active. I do not set up reminders or make my work out time appointments like some