Hunter Shobe
25 February 2020
English 1-3
Story Rough Draft
Best Accomplishment for Weightlifting for Me (So Far)
This story happened recently. In fact, it happened last week during P.E in the weight room. My group of friends and I were just hanging out, lifting weights, talking smack, making fun of each other, helping each other. You know, stuff that friends do, and we decided to bench press. “1001, 1002,” I said jokingly.
“Shut up, Hunter,” said Alan, trying to keep the weight up and not laugh.
“Oh 2000! Dang! He broke his record,” I said.
Alan put the weight back on the weight holder, and it was my turn to start lifting. The weights we put on the bar were 25 pounds, and we put one on each side of the bar, making it 95 pounds combined. Alan did five, I barely did three, and Angel could barely do one. After a few minutes, I saw Estaban doing deadlifts with 45’s on each side of the bar, making it 135 pounds combined. I did one when he got done. A few minutes later, after more lifting, Estaban put two more 45’s on the bar, making it 225 pounds combined. Angel, Alan, Weston, and Korbin wanted me to deadlift it, but I kept putting it off since I thought that I couldn’t do it.
“C’mon, Hunter! Just do one,” said Weston eagerly.
“Man, I can’t do that! I could barely do one with just one on each side,” I said.
“Why can’t you do it?” he asked.
“I am too weak, and I can’t do it,” I answered.
“Alright, fine,” Weston said reluctantly.
Maybe another ten minutes went by and the end of weight room was getting closer for that day. I decided to try and lift the bar with two 45’s on each side, eventually giving in to my friend’s peer pressure. Angel made me put on that weight lifting belt so I don’t throw out my back or something. I went to lift it up. It was much heavier than I expected, and just barely trying made me see that what I was going to do would be hard to do. So, after some motivation from friends just crying “LIFT IT!” I finally tried and here are the results.
During deadlifts, you must lift with your legs, not your back. This sounds easy, but it isn’t. When I was trying to get it off the ground, I was trying to use my legs. When I tried, my legs started to shake. Once the bar was off the ground, I had to REALLY use my legs to push myself up, and eventually, my entire body was shaking from the struggle to lift the bar. A second after that, I was holding my breath, trying to focus on deadlifting the weight. Then my face started shaking. Once I dropped the weight, blood rushed back into my head and made me lightheaded for a second. I was proud of myself for doing it. Later, Angel tried to deadlift the weight, but he couldn’t do it. He is normally stronger than me, but I guess he’s only stronger than me in certain areas.
What I learned from this is that you are capable of doing things you thought you couldn’t do at all and all you have to do to achieve those goals is to work hard and keep trying. Also, I learned to not put yourself down all the time just because you think you can’t do something. Just try to work hard and eventually that thing you couldn’t do is something you can do.
Personal Narrative Reflection
Please answer all questions in complete, grammatically correct sentences.
1. Explain the process you went through to write this paper. Please be specific.
The process I went through wasn't complicated at all, the only real complicated thing was trying to fit everything on two pages even then all I had to do was to just try to remember everything that I was basing my story on.
2. What qualifies this paper as a narrative? What are the requirements for this genre and how did you meet them?
It qualifies as a narrative because it doesn't have any sources of information like a research paper would have and it has " characters " that were my real life friends and the requirements for the genre are that it needs dialogue, conflict, characters, a protagonist, and a antagonist. I met them by making the main character and creating a problem that the main character had to overcome.
3. What is one part of your story that you think turned out really well? What do you like about that part?
The part that I think turned out really well was the last part of the story where I was going to deadlift the weight. I liked that part because it gives detail on the condition I was in deadlifting the weight and it gives detail on whats going on.
25 February 2020
English 1-3
Story Rough Draft
Best Accomplishment for Weightlifting for Me (So Far)
This story happened recently. In fact, it happened last week during P.E in the weight room. My group of friends and I were just hanging out, lifting weights, talking smack, making fun of each other, helping each other. You know, stuff that friends do, and we decided to bench press. “1001, 1002,” I said jokingly.
“Shut up, Hunter,” said Alan, trying to keep the weight up and not laugh.
“Oh 2000! Dang! He broke his record,” I said.
Alan put the weight back on the weight holder, and it was my turn to start lifting. The weights we put on the bar were 25 pounds, and we put one on each side of the bar, making it 95 pounds combined. Alan did five, I barely did three, and Angel could barely do one. After a few minutes, I saw Estaban doing deadlifts with 45’s on each side of the bar, making it 135 pounds combined. I did one when he got done. A few minutes later, after more lifting, Estaban put two more 45’s on the bar, making it 225 pounds combined. Angel, Alan, Weston, and Korbin wanted me to deadlift it, but I kept putting it off since I thought that I couldn’t do it.
“C’mon, Hunter! Just do one,” said Weston eagerly.
“Man, I can’t do that! I could barely do one with just one on each side,” I said.
“Why can’t you do it?” he asked.
“I am too weak, and I can’t do it,” I answered.
“Alright, fine,” Weston said reluctantly.
Maybe another ten minutes went by and the end of weight room was getting closer for that day. I decided to try and lift the bar with two 45’s on each side, eventually giving in to my friend’s peer pressure. Angel made me put on that weight lifting belt so I don’t throw out my back or something. I went to lift it up. It was much heavier than I expected, and just barely trying made me see that what I was going to do would be hard to do. So, after some motivation from friends just crying “LIFT IT!” I finally tried and here are the results.
During deadlifts, you must lift with your legs, not your back. This sounds easy, but it isn’t. When I was trying to get it off the ground, I was trying to use my legs. When I tried, my legs started to shake. Once the bar was off the ground, I had to REALLY use my legs to push myself up, and eventually, my entire body was shaking from the struggle to lift the bar. A second after that, I was holding my breath, trying to focus on deadlifting the weight. Then my face started shaking. Once I dropped the weight, blood rushed back into my head and made me lightheaded for a second. I was proud of myself for doing it. Later, Angel tried to deadlift the weight, but he couldn’t do it. He is normally stronger than me, but I guess he’s only stronger than me in certain areas.
What I learned from this is that you are capable of doing things you thought you couldn’t do at all and all you have to do to achieve those goals is to work hard and keep trying. Also, I learned to not put yourself down all the time just because you think you can’t do something. Just try to work hard and eventually that thing you couldn’t do is something you can do.
Personal Narrative Reflection
Please answer all questions in complete, grammatically correct sentences.
1. Explain the process you went through to write this paper. Please be specific.
The process I went through wasn't complicated at all, the only real complicated thing was trying to fit everything on two pages even then all I had to do was to just try to remember everything that I was basing my story on.
2. What qualifies this paper as a narrative? What are the requirements for this genre and how did you meet them?
It qualifies as a narrative because it doesn't have any sources of information like a research paper would have and it has " characters " that were my real life friends and the requirements for the genre are that it needs dialogue, conflict, characters, a protagonist, and a antagonist. I met them by making the main character and creating a problem that the main character had to overcome.
3. What is one part of your story that you think turned out really well? What do you like about that part?
The part that I think turned out really well was the last part of the story where I was going to deadlift the weight. I liked that part because it gives detail on the condition I was in deadlifting the weight and it gives detail on whats going on.