Get to know Wellbeats teacher Alejandro G., a 15-year veteran of the health business and a licensed scientific psychotherapist who’s at the moment ending his Doctorate in Schooling on the College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When Alejandro shouldn’t be busy with these pursuits, his hobbies embody enjoying tennis, horology (watches), portray, enjoying the violin, watching motion pictures, and spending time along with his associate and his canine.
For Wellbeats teacher Alejandro G., well being and wellbeing are holistic by nature.
“Well being and wellbeing embody many elements of the human situation—how we expect, really feel, and behave,” Alejandro mentioned. “It’s additionally based mostly on a number of dimensions of wellness with a view to interconnect completely different elements of our lives.”
He acknowledges that the advantages of health go far past the bodily physique and appreciates the emotional and religious uplifting, together with the sense of neighborhood, that health can present. Accordingly, Alejandro values the connection between health and psychological well being.
“These two issues, together with our intestine well being, are all the time on this triangle relationship,” Alejandro defined. “One or some can have an excellent influence on the opposite(s). Train has nice hormone and neuromuscular elements to it that assist one’s emotional and psychological states. And it’s all about discovering methods to be lively relatively than pondering train means operating 10 miles a day.”
From a younger age, Alejandro discovered to incorporate psychological well being in prioritizing his well being and wellbeing.
“My mom was an old-school social employee, and I fell in love working with and serving to individuals at a younger age from tagging alongside a few of her migrant work in the neighborhood,” he mentioned. “Psychological well being is such an necessary factor for individuals, and I all the time was fascinated by the psychology of the human thoughts.”
Whereas that childhood fascination paved the way in which for his work as a psychotherapist, Alejandro’s love of sports activities and health blossomed with an curiosity in tennis.
“I began enjoying tennis alone from a younger age (age 8) and hitting towards any wall I may discover on the town,” Alejandro mentioned. “I discovered a number of buddies that cherished enjoying, and we’d play for hours virtually day-after-day. I ended up enjoying competitively not solely in highschool but additionally on the beginner stage in low-tier skilled tournaments.”
Tennis has remained one in every of his favourite exercises for one easy cause—it’s enjoyable!
“I like enjoying tennis and love the truth that it’s exercising on the similar time! That may all the time be my favourite exercise as a result of I can do it for hours a day,” Alejandro mentioned.
As a younger grownup, Alejandro discovered a love of lifting weights and operating as a result of each benefited his tennis sport. He nonetheless enjoys instructing others to elevate weights in sync to music, and he ended up operating marathons for a number of years with a objective of qualifying for and operating the Boston Marathon—which he did in 2011. Freestyle biking is one other one in every of his favourite exercises to do and train.
“There’s nothing higher than discovering an excellent track and choreographing an excellent biking monitor to it,” Alejandro mentioned.
Finally, Alejandro’s health journey led him to group health courses. He cherished taking the courses and shortly started his profession as an teacher by main physique pump courses.
“Fifteen years later I’m nonetheless instructing these codecs!” Alejandro mentioned. “Attending group health courses was a straightforward means for me to carry myself accountable whereas listening to superior music. I related effectively with music and exercising to it. I advised myself at some point at school that I feel I can do what that teacher is doing.”
Alongside along with his work as a gaggle health teacher, Alejandro is a licensed scientific psychotherapist and works within the counseling heart on the College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the place he’s ending up his doctorate in training.
Alejandro’s work informs his teaching philosophy as a health teacher, and it’s additionally woven by how he approaches his life and his personal wellbeing.
“I strategy life holistically and really train about it to school college students in my present work on the College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus,” Alejandro defined. “It’s all about prioritizing time for issues that carry you a way of success. Some issues we do truly give us power relatively than simply taking away power.”
With its mission that wellbeing isn’t only for some—it’s for all, Wellbeats was a pure match for Alejandro.
“My teaching philosophy is developmental and person-centered,” Alejandro mentioned. “I wish to work with individuals to empower them and assist develop autonomy and company of their exercises whereas having an excellent time. My strategy is that it’s not simply bodily train; it’s about constructing neighborhood and a way of belonging for individuals within the group health room.”
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About Wellbeats, a LifeSpeak firm
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