Writing requires research, and through research, we grow!

AS I'M TYPING THIS, I JUST WANNA LET YA'LL KNOW THAT I MISS INTERNING!

So anyways....

Go International Group is a company which is also growing towards a fitness website called Asia Fitness Today. The website (www.asiafitnesstoday.com) is currently still being developed by their current software technicians. As I came in on the 7th December 2015, my PR task was to write articles anything regarding health and fitness that's to be published on their website. I was given categories of articles that needs to be completed within the time given.

                                        

The articles I wrote we about things such as :

• Healthy food
• Balance meals daily
• Healthy breakfast
• Top 10 healthy food in Malaysia
• The best exercise for pregnant women
• The importance of fitness
• Fitness apparels
• Ways to a healthier lifestyle
• Quick workouts at the office
• The benefits of running
• Warm up & cool down stretches

When I was in the process of writing these articles, I realized that I was actually trying to live a healthier lifestyle at home, and started sharing health and fitness information with my family. LOL! Nikki (my employer), is a fitness enthusiast and an athlete, she is a runner. I am a person who just hates running, but working with Nikki has actually motivated and inspired me to start running. I may not run like an athlete, or as good as my employer, but I do run once in a while in a week! 

What I enjoyed the most when writing these articles is when I'm looking for sources, of course, yes I will go through google to get some ideas and such. But I'll also tend to break the silence in the office by asking my colleagues on their preference of healthy living lifestyle, workouts and what ever that's related to health and fitness. To me, I find that moment fun and meaningful even if it was just 10 minutes. Well, I appreciate moments in general!  

Other than writing articles for Asia Fitness Today, I've also written articles for Running Malaysia Magazine regarding the benefits of running particularly for women. I remembered, when Nikki (my employer), was asking me a favour to draft out an article for six different topics and it was all related to the benefits of women running. 

One of the topics were about the physiological differences between men and women. For this, the research I found was simply amazing, the information I found out about the differences between men and women's body truly brought me back to high school, in science class, just more in depth. It made me understand that the physiological differences between men and women actually affects the running performance and it is a disadvantage for women due to their menstrual cycle that they have to go through every month. I've understood better that throughout our (us women) menstrual cycle, there is a certain phase that is more suitable to run. Since we have at least four different phases which includes phases of menstrual, follicular, ovulation and luteal. The best phase to begin train and running is during our follicular phase! Okay that's enough, won't want this post to suddenly be a science topic! LOL

The other topic that I want to highlight on is about Pregnancy & Running and also Menopause & Running. When I did the research on Pregnancy & Running, it totally changes my perspective if I ever see a pregnant women running. I never thought running would actually be beneficial for pregnant women. It has always been in my head that it would be dangerous for pregnant women to be running! It brings lots of benefit to women who're pregnant actually, it improves their sleep quality, lessen their back pain and a lot more. But of course, it's only advisable to run at a certain period during their pregnancy. Whereas for Menopause & Running, is also another fact that interest me when writing the article. It implies that it's always good to run even though you've gone through menopausal stages. I never though running could bring such benefit! And now I know! 

Running Malaysia approved the idea of publishing the benefits for women to run in their magazine. Although there are six topics, I didn't manage to complete all of them, as there was not enough time, though I have done research for the topics. 

Besides that, I've also written executive summaries for a proposal which involves Borneo Innovation and Campus Party. Not to forget that I have also written an application letter to Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) to extend the time of the Street Fighter 5's launching.

Besides writing all the above, when I came in to work with Go International Group, keep each of my colleagues updated by writing the minutes of meeting every week. Sometimes, I feel like I'm the secretary of the company! LOL

All in all, writing requires research, and through research, we grow! Learn, grow, inspire. Till the next post! x

Cheers

Noor Alina Hazeman

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Curtin University Sarawak