What does it take to get us off the couch?

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Reference

Lindell R. (2011, January 26). What does it take to get us off the couch? Retrieved
February 13, 2011, form http://www.vancouversun.com/

Vocabulary

• establish- to start a company or organization that will continue for a long time
• associate- to connect someone or something in your mind with someone or something else
• dramatic- very sudden or noticeable, or full of action and excitement
• elicited- to get or produce something, especially information or a reaction
• inactivity- doing nothing
• osteoporosis- a disease which causes the bones to become weaker and easily broken
• aspiration- something that you hope to achieve
• harsh- unpleasant, unkind, cruel or unnecessarily severe
• external- of, on, for or coming from the outside
• hinder- to limit the ability of someone to do something, or to limit the development of something
• chore- a job or piece of work which is often boring or unpleasant but needs to be done regularly
• barrier- a long pole, fence, wall or natural feature, such as a mountain or sea, that stops people from going somewhere
• interruption- when someone or something stops something from happening for a short period
• expunge- to rub off or remove information from a piece of writing

Summary

According to Rebecca Lindell, in her article, “What does it take to get us off the couch”, the author mentions the point of getting people off couch to exercise is to connect daily lives and values to their physical activity. According the article, some people don’t know what exercise is. They think they are not sportsmen and they don’t like to go to gym, so they don’t exercise. But there are many kinds of exercise people can do, even daily activities like walking to work. The writer thinks that the main cause of people doing exercise is motivation; consequently, finding a motivating aspiration relative to exercise in which people are really passionate makes exercise become one part of people’s daily life activity. For example, a divorced man might reach his goal- finding new friends by exercise. In short, the writer advises readers to find a motivation on exercise. This way, it is easier for them to work out regularly.

Reaction

First of all, I agree with the author who states that finding a motivation to exercise is easier for people to exercise regularly. I have a fundamental reason to support my opinion. People can keep working out regularly with great passion, because they are interested about it. For instance, I really like to dance salsa, so I go to gym to take salsa class every Wednesday. Though I have a lot of homework due on Thursday, I always finish earlier in order to go to salsa class on time. When I dance salsa, I feel interested and never tired. In summary, I think that people find a motivation about which they are passionate is easier to work out regularly because they enjoy it.

When I finish reading the article, I feel confused about this article. I have one reason to support my feeling. The writer mentioned many kinds of exercise, but she didn’t show the specific definition of exercise. For example, in the seventh paragraph of the article, it shows that researchers said about people don’t understand what exercise is, but it doesn’t tell readers what the correct meaning of exercise is. The field of exercise is so wide which needs to be defined specifically. Without clear definition readers might not get a standard of exercise to understand the article. In this article, she showed reader many researches relative to exercise, but she didn’t give reader the definition of exercise clearly. That might makes readers confused.

In summary, finding a motivation is every important for people who want to work out regularly, because they can enjoy exercising. In this article, it mentions many kinds of exercise that we can to we daily life. If the writer could talk more detail about field of exercise well make this article more clearly. Studying this article not only makes me more understand the benefits of exercise, but also makes me learn the skill how to write a good article.