I was overweight throughout my middle school and my early high school life, thereby been fit become an important goal of my life. I want to have a healthy lifestyle and body, and that is the reason I started to work out and jogging. In the future post, I will talk about how my favorite 8 YouTuber/Ig influencer taught me in my path of fitness. They help me a lot on my way to improve myself and learn a lot of new knowledge.

The first one is probably the most famous fitness YouTuber in the world, and that is Jeff Cavaliere from ATHLEAN-X. He is the first one giving me clear information about working out and proper form, instead of just doing lots of hard exercises and showing their body like others. Jeff is the one that taught me the foundation of the field. The part I like the most in his video is how he uses colorful markers to draw on the muscle part he is demonstrating. This really helps the noob like me, in the beginning, to understand which part of my body I should be using. In addition, I had learned how to make a workout schedule because of Jeff, he not only teaches people how to do a certain exercise but also gives out a schedule that allows us to adjust by ourselves. He will share with people the pros and cons of a routine and giving out advice according to it.

More importantly, is that Jeff is also a professional sports physical therapist and strength coach. His content is mostly about how to train like an athlete instead of just getting big and buff. This was an important factor for me because I like to play basketball and do sports, he provided ways to enhance our sports performance and still be lean. By learning with him I became fitter and start to really build out a workout routine rather than just do push-ups or sit-ups the whole day.

So this is the man who helped me a lot at the beginning of my workout process, for my next PAS post I will talk about another Jeff, Jeff Nippard, the one who gave me knowledge about diet and training.

Ever since the covid happened I notice on the news that lots of people in America started to be really criticized Asians in general, such as the Asian(Chinese) virus, leave the country, and not to mention the attack on the subway this March. The racism on Asians suddenly rises at the highest the past year to now. I think this is serious for society now, lots of people tend to just blame others while they might have nothing to do with it. To be honest, I was really nervous about come to the U.S due to this issue. Luckily the hate and not understanding I received are way less than I expected.

Speaking on the not understanding, I think it is quite reasonable, lots of people only know the virus came from Asia and just make an assumption on Asian people are carriers. This creates fear and makes people start acting aggressively. However, these are pretty wrong, Asians are the victim of this disaster as well. I once heard a saying during the Black Lives Matter event, and that is “How can you like rap, our cuisine, and culture but hate us ” I think it can be used on Asian hate as well. For example, people like boba (btw Taiwan is the place that invented boba tea 🙂 ), sushi, and Kpop in the U.S as well. How can they treat us like a threat at the same time?

It is really important to understand other cultures before acting disrespectful. Even if you don’t like it at all you shouldn’t harm any other people. We should all think before our act, a lot of time the media and news are not giving 100% truth to the people. We must process the information ourselves in order to have our own perceptive of the world. I think the Asian hate behavior is also a sign of lots of people lack the ability to independent thinking. Of course, taking the information straight from news and Instagram is easy, but when we do that more often we are losing our own point of view and let others decide what we think. Think more, do research about the topic you see, and come up with your own idea is an important way for us not to be manipulated by people.

At last,  I want to say that PSU is really an amazing place,  people here are super friendly and treat me as one of them. I am grateful for everyone to provide a safe environment.