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.

Blog 18: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

"How can an adolescent best achieve personal fitness?"

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

 Enjoying exercise is how one can maximize personal fitness. 

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

 Using intrinsic motivation, a person can maximize their personal fitness.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

•  If you enjoy something to no longer feels like work, you can enjoy what you're doing.
•  When you exercise you feel better and that can lower negative emotions.
• Once you can enjoy your exercise you can make it a part of your daily activites.
• The first part of getting exercise is done is getting out of the door.
• If nothing else motivates you, you are always something that you can rely on.
• Change is good for the body and you are the one who ultimately chooses to change.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

Deci, Edward L."Effects of Externally Mediated Rewards on Intrensic Motivation." University of Rochester. University of Rochester, 30 June 1970. Web. 22 February 2016.
 http://www.quilageo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/fn103.Deci_.pdf

6.  What other source supports your answer?

"Change for Good." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 18 February 2016.
 http://www.webmd.com/balance/change-for-good-15/default.htm


7.  Tie this together with a concluding thought.

Paraphrasing what my mentor said, if you can turn the workout into playtime you will feel better and its all on you to walk out that door and take.

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

Link to soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-diaz-863495835/interview-3 

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

I learned that you can do what you want/need to do as long as you are willing to take that first step. 
 
2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

 It has changed more from acquiring general knowledge to asking questions that help me further my research as I ask questions that relate to current research and give me answers that I can use for answering or establishing questions regarding my EQ.



My mentor, Edwin, worked at Bally's total fitness for many years and is very driven from exercise, this makes him very qualified to be a mentor and interviewee.

Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

 I'm not entirely sure for what I'd like to do for my IC2. Some ideas I had was doing another 30 hours of doing exercises or trying to get out more while staying active.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

 For both I'd take photos and videos to show that I was doing activity.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

 Well for my first answer it was enjoyment, and then for the second answer I was thinking of being determined to exercise. Going out to do physical activity I'd try to do.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

 Added to the log and here is a link for mobile users:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TK0pZkK_R75psJc1fpVuYo5XoM7IqUJ25CgAlh4Hnro/edit?usp=sharing

Blog 16: Independent Component 1

• LITERAL  

(a) “I, Isaac Diaz, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.” 

(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

I did not use books or articles for my independent component.

(c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours. 

Link is on the sidebar, for mobile users click the link provided:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TK0pZkK_R75psJc1fpVuYo5XoM7IqUJ25CgAlh4Hnro/edit#gid=0

(d) Explain what you completed.    

I completed some exercise and physical activity in the beginning of my IC#1 then when the new year rolled around and I injured my leg I spent the first week of school writing down a food log to observe what I ate and how I can fix it.

• INTERPRETIVE 

  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
  Food Log: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19zyfGdDBwbYXTy8NeicoplRdYCRQtx2n4U28_huZ1hY/edit?usp=sharing
  
   ( I tried to get video of me walking my dogs and the trip from the park on the 30th of January but the files couldn't be transferred as of 8:02PM 4 February 2016. I'm still trying)
  
   
  
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
  
  The component has helped me understand fitness is something more than solely exercising, its about taking care of my body (planning my dietary changes) while still doing physical activity (jogs, walking my dogs, and hoking with family) gave me a new perspective that exercise can be made into something better. And then with my accident it has shown me that there is exercises that I can be doing doing during recovery and afterwards too.

Blog 15: Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

I am proud that I did not choke up (very much) on my presentation because when I practiced I ended up going overtime from stumbling over my words and not knowing what to say when a slide came up

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

NC

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

I didn't make time with the explanation of answer portion, That is an auto-failure...

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

What worked was having a powerpoint to look back to for reference.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

The only thing that didn't go well was me being short 2 minutes. If I could I'd do a recap of what I said to make the whole presentation tie up and add timw.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be? 

 I've been considering something along the lines of "Discipline is necessary for an adolescent to maximize personal fitness."