Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Final Evaluation PE10

As semester two comes to an end I can say that it has been a challenge and a very demanding course. However I believe that in the area of participation I have been successful. There hasn't been a day where I have forgotten my PE strip and I am proud of my self for doing that. My attendance has been pretty good but I may have missed a week or two because I was sick. This was unavoidable but then those days I think that my attendance has been fairly good. Physically and mentally I try prepare myself the best to my abilities by still excersicsing outside of class and telling myself not to give up. I am motivated to do activities that I am comfortable with and that isn't necessarily a bad thing I believe by doing so I can really improve my skill level on certain games and at the same time fun. Now its not that I don't like trying new things this course has caused me to step out of my comfort zone and I have done activities such as pickle ball and atomic volleyball. These are things that sounded very odd to me and things I probabally would have never tried however I always motivte myself to try my best so I gave the activity a shot. These two activites ended up being some of the highlights of this class as well as being my two new favourite activities! Leadership is one of the key aspects to our class and I beleive that there are many examples of good leaders in this class. A good leader isn't someone who constantly has a positive attitude because that is unrealistic everybody has bad days so if you don't feel like giving your 100% thats perfectly fine. A leader is rather someone who never makes another person feel bad about them self and always encourages other people or classmates to try new things and not be afraid to fail. Doing so makes everybody have a positive PE experience. Leaders don't always have to be loud and participate in class discussions but a leader is also someone who stays back and helps clean up the equipment or someone who doesn't lie about their fitness scores. My fitness goals have improved since the beginning of the year I remember the first time we did the beep test and I got a 4! I was really disappointed in myself but I am now proud that I am scoring in the 5's. One of my barriers in my fitness is the fact that I have an iron deficiency this is something I have been struggling with for a year now and it really holds me back from reaching my full potential. I find myself feeling worn out 10 minutes into fitness days but I still try and push myself. Something that I have done to help myself is starting to eat healthier and greener my first step was to make a pint rest board full of healthy recipes. Doing this really motivated me to actually make these foods/drinks. An example of this would be my smoothie blog post. I made an healthy smoothie which consisted of 1/2 cup of milk,1 ripe banana, 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, dash of nutmeg, 3 ice cubes. I would have to admit that my blog was lacking in digital evidence this was due to the fact I wasn't able to bring a device to every class. However I believe I have done a pretty good job of maintaining my blog at 17 posts I have a fair amount of information. I understand that I haven't gone above and beyond of the class expectations but I believe that I am at a good middle level. The days when I have provided digital evidence I believe that I did a good job of showcasing the activity that we did and what I learned. In my opinion my summaries have gone in depth and each of my posts shows my effort to showcase my learning and growth that I have undergone in this semester. My future goals would be to try and maintain my fitness level in the summer as well as into next year when I am not going to be taking a PE class. I will do this by joining my family on their afternoon walks around the pond. My family likes to go for a walk after dinner and I believe this is a nice way to enjoy the fresh air and bond with my family. One of the activities we did in class was comment on our peers blogs I commented on Ashley Dosanjh's blog. She had an outstanding blog and I was shocked to learn how in depth she went with her posts. Overall my PE 10 experience has been very positive I have learnt leadership skills, new games and learnt more about my fitness level and how to maintain and improve it. I believe i deserve a G f because I always bring my gym strip and attend every class unless I am sick and this is unavoidable so besides being sick my attendance I fairly good. Grade wise I think I am sitting at a B and around 83%.

Friday, 30 May 2014

Fitness May 30

Today was a very busy day since many people were away so we decided to do a different fitness activity it was similar to the AB workout but there were no partners. I enjoyed this activity because it gave you a pretty good workout in just twenty minutes. My goal was to try and go for the full 20 minutes and improvise on activities which I struggled in. For example I find pushups difficult so when the group was doing pushups I tried to hold a plank for as long as I could. However my favourite part of fitness was the extra time we had afterwards to have choice I chose basketball. Usually the girls don't get to play basketball because the guys always take it but today was just girls basketball. I really enjoyed this game we had a fun 5 on 5 match and we were more sweaty and tired from playing basketball then we were from doing the fitness activity. Overall this was one of my favourite fitness activities.

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Community Run

Today was a flex day so we did a modified community run. I was exhausted before this run however I tried my best to at least jog the fastest I could if I wasn't running most of the time. My goal for today was to not give up and to try and get back to class before the bell rang. I didn't achieve this goal due to a lack of motivation and time. I was disappointed in myself when I was only a few minutes short of my goal time 25-28 minutes. I found myself thinking if I had sped up while I was going up the hill I could have made my goal. But I still think I learned a lot from this run I hope looking back at this I can find motivation to do better. I hope that I see better results next fitness day.

Saturday, 17 May 2014

Healthy Smoothie

Following up on my recent post I decided to look up some recipes on my Pinterest board and decided to make this delicious banana smoothie! The recipe was 1/2 cup of milk,1 ripe banana, 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, dash of nutmeg and 3 ice cubes. This smoothie was very good and I hope to make more healthy food in the future!

Saturday, 10 May 2014

Independent Fitness

Today we did independent fitness. We had to go to a web site and find a workout. I really enjoyed this exercise because you didn't have much room to slack off since you were in a group and your group expected you to participate. I modified activities if I thought an activity was to difficult like doing planks or sit ups. Halfway through this activity I found myself being really sweaty and tired. I was not expecting this because I thought it was a simple activity that would have you maybe sweating by the end of the activity. I was surprised to find that from the very first exercise that this workout was very demanding but I tried my best to keep up. Through this activity I learned how to have a fitness day without a teacher guiding you I learned to take charge of my own fitness. Here is the link to the workout video my group used:

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Today in PE we had the beep test...

Beep Test 5
Sit and reach 2
Push-ups 1
Max vertical 245-225= 20
T test  14 secs
Body Bridge 45
Board touches 11

I have improved in areas like sit and reach and I am very proud of myself because I have never been very flexible. Also doing a body bridge for forty five seconds is a record for me so I am really proud of myself. Something I did different was do the exercise at the same time as a friend this motivated me to try my best and I hope to use this trick next time. However my beep test wasn't that great and I think it was due to the fact that I wasn't feeling that good today. So the next time we do a beep test I want to try and get a 6.