Blog 20: Fourth Interview Questions

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

I don't know who I want to interview for my fourth interview, I was thinking of interviewing someone at 24 Hour Fitness, but I do not have someone in mind at this time.

2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.

1. How can someone make exercise enjoyable?
2. What does exercise mean to you?
3. Have you ever had to make a decision between exercise and another activity?
4. As a trainer, how do you motivate clients?
5. How do you motivate yourself to exercise?
6. How often do you exercise and why?
7. (follow up to #6) For that reason how did you find that balance between exercise and other activities?
8. Do you feel dieting is of equal or greater importance to exercise?
9. What are the benefits of exercise that are not directly related to body changes that you can think of?
10. I assume that you work with very physically active people, but how would you recommend someone who has had a physically weakening accident to exercise for the best results?
11. Do you think that it is easy to make physical activity a habit?
12. How often do you work with adolescents?
13. (follow up to #12) What do you recommend for adolescents who are busy with school and other activities?
14. Do you believe that there are alternatives to exercise?
15. What exercise activities can a person do that is not directly exercising in a gym?
16. Is a person is unable to exercise frequently or at all what would you recommend them to do?
17. Mental health is just as important as physical health, how would can one incorporate exercise for aiding in mental health recovery/treatment?
18. Do you believe that group exercise can make exercise more enjoyable?
19. How easy is it to spark a passion to exercise?
20. If I were to ask you "How can an adolescent maximize personal fitness?" and your choice of answers were: Enjoyment, determination, and achieving a balance between works and exercise; what would you say is the best answer and why?

Blog 19: Third Answer

• EQ: How can an adolescent maximize personal fitness?
• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
  To achieve a maximized personal fitness, an adolescent must achieve balance.
• 3 details to support the answer 

1. Each individual has to have a tailored exercise routine to balance any situation they experience,
2. It is important for a person to balance their emotional life, one way that a person can achieve that balance is by using exercise to help manage their emotions.
3. As adolescents, our lives are usually busy and we need exercise to stay healthy. Therefore we try to balance every aspect of our lives as much as we physically and mentally can.

• The research source(s) to support your details and answer

Brown, Nancy. "Emotion & Life." Sutter Health. Sutter Health, October 2013. Web. 29 February 2016. http://www.pamf.org/teen/life/stress/lifebalance.html
 
Abeles, Vicki. "Students lack school-life balance: Column." USA Today. USA Today, 25 September 2014. Web. 29 February 2016.http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/09/25/vicki-abeles-stressed-students-balance-column/16110085/
 
Jeanne Goodes. "Tips for Helping Teens Balance School and Sport." breakingmuscle. breakingmuscle, n.d. Web. 29 February 2016.http://breakingmuscle.com/family-kids/tips-for-helping-teens-balance-school-and-sport

• Concluding Sentence: Everything in life requires balance, and when it comes to life we need to have exercise, but life can be so busy. Many people, not just adolescents tend to write off their physical fitness to make time of other things. Having balance is very important to maximizing personal fitness.