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.

Blog 12: Holiday Project Update

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?

In regards to doing project work, before I fractured my fibula, I was practicing striking a punching bag in my backyard, that would be the exact same thing I'd be doing at a professional location.

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

 

 From what I learned is to be prepared fitness-wise for any possible injury that would prevent me for continuing exercise. Since I cannot properly exercise I will be working on dieting to try and maintain a steady weight. I have collected some sources in my working bibliography regarding dieting.

3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why?

 

 For my interview I will be interviewing my uncle, he has had experience with dieting being employed at Bally's Fitness for several years. 

Blog 1 - Senior Final Lesson/Interview Reflection

1.  What three lessons were most helpful for you to see, and why?

• What makes or breaks a presentation. For several presentations I saw several became rather too word heavy so learning to keep people's attention and interest is important.
• The activity matters just as much as the actual presentation so good activities help in a presentation.
• It is also important to keep track of time in order to keep a steady tempo. 

2. List one thing that you learned about the senior project in interviews that will help you get off to a good start?

• One thing that I feel would help me get off to a good start for the senior project is that I can should find easy yet accessible lessons for my mentorship and/or individual component.

3. What topic(s) are you considering, and why?

• I am considering child care for my senior project. The reason for this is even though I don't want children of my own I would like to help the children of others who may not be able to have the support they need/want.

4. What EQ do you think might be interesting to consider in guiding a project like this? (Please don't worry about any sort of formula...we want this question to come from your genuine interest).

• What is the best way to assist someone with caring for a while?
• How can someone help care for a child while maintaining a calm and parental authority? 

5. What are some ideas you have about finding summer mentorship?

• I've been able to assist a neighbor with watching for her child while she goes to work through the day till the evening. Other places I've been hoping to assist is at an elementary school as I know some offer after-school care, or at day-cares.