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27.Speak about a hobby you have or you would like to have.
"A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living !" ( Anonymous )
Introduction :
- hobbies are practiced for interest and enjoyment, rather than for financial reward;
- engaging in a hobby can lead to acquiring substantial skill, knowledge and experience;
- the aim of any hobby is personal fulfillment;
Development :
JOGGING - One of My Most Delightful Hobbies
A. Jogging - My Means of Active Recovery
- jogging is a form of trotting or running at a slow or leisurely pace;
- the main intention is to increase fitness with less stress than actually running, instead of competition;
- sometimes I take up "lower impact" exercises, such as stair climbing, swimming, cycling or walking, instead of jogging;
- but I like jogging just because it is a "high impact" exercise;
- I am an athlete and I use jogging as a means of active recovery during interval training;
- I like all types of aerobic exercises, but jogging is my favourite one, because it improves my cardiovascular health, my bone density, and my physical fitness;
B. Jogging - My Choice for a Positive Addiction
- there is this fear with a lot of people that jogging can be addictive;
- I am in agreement with those who consider jogging an "addictive" hobby;
- but which hobby is not addictive ?
- anyway, jogging, my most delightful hobby, is a positive addiction;
- when I jog I like to feel the joy of propelling my body through space;
- when I jog I like to feel the ponding on the ground that sends sensation up my bones all the way to the pleasure centres in my brain;
- when I jog I like to feel the sheer satisfaction that I do something good for myself;
- when I jog I am in the "flow', a state of my mind in which I am fully immersed in what I am doing;
- when I jog I am caught in that positive addiction where I perform a repetitive activity without self-criticism or judgment, and this has a very beneficial effect on my mind and my body;
C. Jogging - My Means to Be Fit for Life
- physical exercise - and jogging, to its utmost - helps improve my health;
- in the past I was a sedentary person, but through jogging I succeeded in getting rid of my sedentary state and came to like and practice sports;
- jogging helped me get involved in sport programs of higher intensities and greater frequency / durations which provided additional benefits;
- I came to cover at least 60-80 km a week, and this increased my HDL cholesterol ( the good fat in my body ), and significantly decreased my bad cholesterol and triglyceride level;
- my jogging helps me to acquire a substantial reduction in high blood pressure and in the use of medication;
- jogging improved my cardiorespiratory fitness ( the ability of my heart to pomp stronger and more efficiently and my muscles to use oxygen more efficiently );
- as I get more aerobically fit, my heart pomps more blood and oxygen with each of its beats;
- and as I jog my muscles are able to extract or consume more oxygen;
- more than this, I am aware of the fact that runners and joggers ( and I am one of them ) can be as much as three times more efficient at consuming oxygen than sedentary individuals;
- jogging and running improve my aerobic fitness by increasing the activity of enzymes and hormones that stimulate my muscles and my heart to work more efficiently;
- I have many hobbies, but I like jogging most because it makes me fit for life;
Conclusion :
- what are hobbies for some people are professions for others;
- an important determinant of what is considered a hobby, as distinct from a profession, besides the lack of remuneration, is probably how easy it is to make a living at the activity;
- some hobbies strike many people as being considered trivial or boring;
- but hobbyists have found something compelling and entertaining about them;
- DE GUSTIBUS NON DISCUTANDUM ! is greatly applied in hobbies;
- much early scientific research was, in effect, a hobby of the wealthy;
- jogging is probably the most convenient hobby ( indeed at anyone's reach ) to help him or her to become fit for life;