Essay On Bodybuilding
I am a female bodybuilder. To me, bodybuilding means realizing the beauty and strength the body is capable of achieving. What for many is a solely an aesthetic venture has become my daily tribute to the human body as a functional unit. Muscles are beautiful because each microscopic filament forms slowly and deliberately through systematic contractions in training. I get stronger. I lift heavier. As a critical care nurse, I spend a great deal of time with very sick people. Their illnesses are rarely singular, and treatment is as multifaceted as the disease process itself. Spending such a significant amount of time with the critically ill is not without consequence. My job is to seek out and alleviate the disease process in my patients. The hard part of working in healthcare is not allowing the sickness to be the only thing you see. Waiting in line in the grocery store, I see the dry,
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As the mind tires before the body, mental strength precedes physical strength. Just as sculpting my anatomy has improved my physiology, strengthening my body has strengthened my mind. This is the type of person, and nurse, I am. These values of dedication, motivation, and patience I have learned from bodybuilding transfer to all other areas of my life. Just as in bodybuilding, I am adamant to build and grow as a nurse. One of the most rewarding parts of nursing lies in the fact that every patient is different and provides me with problems to solve. It was my early years of nursing school that I found myself attracted to anesthesia— a profession that combines both science and patient care. It was fascinating to me that the nurse anesthetists were able to utilize only a slew of numbers to determine administration of potentially lethal medications. As the surgical team works on the patients’ anatomy, the anesthetist assumes control of the patients’
As the mind tires before the body, mental strength precedes physical strength. Just as sculpting my anatomy has improved my physiology, strengthening my body has strengthened my mind. This is the type of person, and nurse, I am. These values of dedication, motivation, and patience I have learned from bodybuilding transfer to all other areas of my life. Just as in bodybuilding, I am adamant to build and grow as a nurse. One of the most rewarding parts of nursing lies in the fact that every patient is different and provides me with problems to solve. It was my early years of nursing school that I found myself attracted to anesthesia— a profession that combines both science and patient care. It was fascinating to me that the nurse anesthetists were able to utilize only a slew of numbers to determine administration of potentially lethal medications. As the surgical team works on the patients’ anatomy, the anesthetist assumes control of the patients’