Midterm #3

This year I think that Iv'e reached both of my goals that I set at the start of the year. Iv'e gotten much stronger because Iv'e started lifting weights almost everyday and doing things like push ups or sit ups. Also doing yoga has also (Surprisingly) had an effect on my strength. The endurance goal may not be as achieved as the strength one because I only just learnt how to pace, but I still think that through pacing I will be able to get better and better at running long distances without stopping. I still think I deserve a low A because my level of fitness has increased a little, I still am trying as hard as I was in September and I think I'm getting better at team sports. Fitness still remains the thing that I try hardest in. The only change that has occuered since the start of the year is that fitness has become my favourite  activity that we do in gym. Mainly because after it's over I feel like Iv'e actually done something instead of stand and wait for someone to pass the ball to me. One activity that I wasn't so great at was football. I had never played before and I'd wanted to try something new that day. I was ignored by my teammates , perhaps it's because they could tell that I had no idea what to do. One goal that I did not reach is the goal of getting back to the gym. Even though I haven't gone to an actual gym I have been working out on my own, in my room. There are a few reasons why I haven't gone, the two major ones being a busy schedule and not being confident enough but I won't get too far into a sea of excuses. To get better by June my only goal is to try to get back into the gym, it's been way too long and if I want to gain more muscle and work on my endurance even more the gym is where I'll be able to work on these goals.

(After our last community run)

One thing that I was proud of was my time on the last community run. I got around 25:42 and my goal was to get 25. Although I didn't get to my goal I think that I was very close. This is my fastest time and I think during the run I too only four brief breaks.I think that this shows that Iv'e made an effort to better my running endurance and succeeded in this. Outside of school iv'e tried getting more active. I do weekly yoga. walk everywhere and do weights at home. As Iv'e said in previous posts I try to eat as healthily as I can, which isn't hard when your diet is completely plant based. So in conclusion I don't think Iv'e changed a lot, I still think I deserve a low A and I'm steadily trying to improve my level of fitness and overall health.

Learning to pace

 (A very unflattering picture after I had finished running)

Last Friday when Ms.Miles was talking about pacing I realized something I didn't know how to or what pacing was and by extension I couldn't run efficiently. I'm used to running as fast as I can and running well for a little bit but I'd soon get too tired and stop for a breather. By the end of (For example) the community run I usually take anywhere between 4-9 breaks and I didn't like that because it made my time on the run longer. Before we did the 30 minute run on Friday I was told that to get to my goal of 6 I had to run 5 minute laps. My first lap ended up being a four minute and thirty second one and after that I had to stop. Once I slowed down to 5 minute long laps I didn't take nearly as many stops as I had on previous 30 minute runs and I reached my goal. I think that if I learn how to properly pace I can reach one of the goals that I had at the beginning of the year which was to be able to run for longer without any breaks.

Partner day

Today we were assigned partners from the senior class. I think that  the point of this day was to give both classes the chance to exhibit leadership in P.E. class. My partner was Meghan today and at first it was a little awkward because I'm not very good around new people and also most of the seniors were rather intimidating. In the small gym I learnt a new game. I think it was called bench ball, it didn't make much sense and was ruled by the senior boys. The weight room was my favourite part of today's class because it gave me a chance to talk to Megan about different techniques for building muscle. She taught me how to build muscle in my back with dumbbells. What I had to do for this was to bend over and keep my back straight, then I had to lift the dumbbells up and pull our shoulders together. Another thing that I never knew was that to do a successful pull up when you're jumping right when your hands meet the bars you have to pull immediately, hanging there for a moment won't help. I still can't do a successful pull up so I  guess I'll have to do a little more wight lifting. I also taught her a couple of my favourite arm work-outs. The first one is in a video below.

The second one is what I call 15 of 15 and basically it's 15 (Or more if you'd like) sets of five jumping jacks, five push ups and then five sit ups with no break in between the sets. Usually by the 10th one it gets tiring. We spent the remainder of the weight room time talking about different activities to do and lifting weights.