My Goals For My Fitness

Looking at my post test scores from the past two years, my results have fluctuated. In 9th grade, my push-up baseline score was 30 and my post test score was 40. This year, I started out with only 20 push-ups for my baseline score, but I ended with 40. In both my 9th grade and 10th grade baseline tests for the 12-minute run, I ran 2200 meters, and improved to 2500 meters at the end. My baseline score in 9th grade for the 12-minute swim was 38 lengths and I achieved 41 lengths for my post test. This year, I started out by swimming 40 lengths and eventually completed 41 lengths for my post test score. My front plank was only 2:00 for my 9th grade baseline test, but I was able to get 5:00 at the end of the quarter. This year, I started with 2:15

As I look at my results for my fitness scores from 9th grade baseline tests to 10th grade posttest results I see a continuous improvement. I started with 1700 meters in my 12-minute run and continually increased my score to 2100 meters in the 10th grade posttest. For the 12-minute swim, I started with 17 wall touches, and I improved to 24 walls for my 9th grade posttest, and than went back down to 23 walls for my 10th grade pretest, and moved back up to 25 walls for my posttest. The front plank test I got a time of 1 minute 30 seconds for my 9th grade pretest, and increased to 2 minutes 45 seconds for my 9th grade posttest. I then decreased to 2 minutes for my 10th grade pretest, and back up to 2 minutes 30 seconds for my 10th grade posttest.

The school day ends, and while most students go home, swimmers still have one final practice to complete before heading home. In the time before practice starts, those who are participating in conference take a look at the psych sheet with all their times and competitors’ times with mixed emotions.

The sets given to us during the two hours made me feel as if my arms and legs had fallen off, but you know the saying, “What is impossible now will one day be your warm-up,*” and that is exactly what happened. I started by simply trying harder and putting more effort in the program which provided minimal benefits. After realizing that this would not be enough, I started dry-land training at home. Dry-land training is basically specific exercises that help tone and make the muscles you use to swim stronger. It also includes agility and speed training. After doing this for quite a while, I realized an enormous increase in my swimming level. I also started being accepted into more teams and had more practice time because of it. I was now almost always the first person in my lane (first person is the fastest out of the lane)during practice. I also noticed that my swim times were profoundly improving by the week. Even though all of these great things were occurring, I would wake up some days, with sore legs, arms, neck, back, and almost every other part of my body. It was strenuous for me to push

In general, my junior year track season was arguably one of my best running season in my career for running. But, the city meet 800m race that season shined the brightest out of everything. In Livonia, Michigan, we have three different public high schools. So, once a year we get all the schools together and run a big meet against one another. During this season, I started to get confident in my running ability and ran my race instead of running

Throughout physical education class, there were numerous factors that led to the changes in my fitness test scores. Regarding exercise, I would consider myself to be an active person throughout the year, which probably led to some improvement in my results. In school, I participated in physical education class in my 9th and 10th-grade year, which allowed me to apply the principles of specificity and progression. Physical education allowed me to get more exercise through workouts and games, which would definitely lead to an improvement in my fitness testing. With school sports, I participated in cross country in the fall, basketball in the winter, and track and field in the spring. These sports helped me improve my cardiovascular endurance,

All season, we practiced and ran this event at track meets. We broke the school record in the middle of the season. After breaking the record, we continued to better our overall time. I wanted to lower my personal time. I’m still working on getting my time lower,

When I was in 9th grade ran 2400 meters on the 12 min run but at the end of the 9th grade year ran 2600 meters on the 12 min run. So as you can see I made some very big improvements on my 12 min run. I also got a 14 laps my 9th grade baseline and I got 17 for the post test and in 10th grad I got 17 for my baseline and 18 on the post test. I got a 35 on the pushup test for my baseline in 9th grade and for the posttest I got a 40. I got a 120 on the bench press in 9th grade and a 130 for my post rest in 9th and 10th grade. I got a 30 in 9th grade for my 1 min sit up and a 32 for my post test and I only got only a 25 for my post test in 10th grade.

In regards to my second fitness goal, which was to raise my overall level of strength, I believe that my progress has been going well and that I may be close to achieving my goal very soon. I plan on performing many more exercises to do so, and so far it has been working well since I had noticed that my strength is slowly increasing over time. Perhaps I may need to change a few exercises in my exercise routine so that I can achieve this goal much

I began to recall the many years swimming has been a part of my life. When I was eight years old, my mom signed me up for our local summer swimming league, and that summer I realized that I loved to swim. When summer rolled around every year, I was so excited to start swimming again. When I entered into the seventh grade, I started swimming for my middle school’s swim team. At that point in my life, I swam for fun. Even though we competed in meets, I wasn’t a very competitive person until the my eighth grade year. In eighth grade, I began to take competing seriously and tried to focus on improving my times. I even joined Crawfish Aquatics, a swimming program that trains you on the off-season, that year. Then, I was given some devastating news.

Through thorough evaluation of my fitness scores, activity levels, injuries and interests; I have concluded that my level of fitness is average. My fitness scores portrayed that, at certain aspects, for example strength and flexibility, I prospered; explicitly, sit and reach and curl ups, my scores increased at a consistent rate and I have achieved the maximum score. Moreover, my activity levels are immense, in the Fall I had Diving, the Winter I had gymnastics and now soccer in the Spring; furthermore through all those sports and physical education as well, I flourished into a stronger athlete and fortified my skills and my strengths. My attitude and interest towards different activities have also affected my fitness level; I am open

In swimming the athletes are always trying to better their times. Once they achieve one goal it is a short celebration and then it is immediately back to work to try and get their time even lower. A swimmer will spend tireless hours in the pool, working on everything from technique to stamina, in an effort to drop even a hundredth of a second. A swimmer will spend extra time in the pool when they could be doing something much more enjoyable just to fix one little kink in there stroke. They will keep working every day to try and outdo their competition. When the day of the meet arrives their emotions are a mix of nerves and excitement. Their adrenaline is pumping. Finally, their biggest race comes up. This is the moment that they have been preparing for. They dive into the water, giving the race everything their body has to give. They look at the clock to see they have shaved off some time, no matter how small the amount. A wave of relief washes over them but they immediately jump out of the water to ask their coach what could have been better. The swimmer will not stop until they have reached

Sophomore Johnathan Yeh is on the Boys Varsity Swim team, and he understands the determination it takes in order to improve. “Listen to all the advice my coach gives me, and each time I try to break my personal record (PR). I don't skip or slack off at all,” he shared. His training lasts for more than 20 hours a week and what keeps him going is his drive. “It's my desire to get better, and my teammates help a lot. They encourage me and my coach pushes me a lot too. Right now, my main goal is to be the fastest one on my team, at AHS and to just keep dropping times.”

Many of us think about improving our bodies but find ourselves unable to realize those goals. We either find it too hard to follow a workout plan through with consistency, loose interest mid-way or find ourselves unsure of how to reach our aims. The underlying reason behind all these obstacles is the same and that is a lack of preparedness. Even if you deeply want to get leaner or become more muscular and attractive you won't be able to go too far if you don't spend time in understanding how the human mind works. The reason for this is that bringing about a significant change in one's body is a long and tiring process; one that requires constant self-supervision, restraint and dedication.

The first was a practice meet and I participated in 3 heats. I competed in the 100m, 200m, and the 400m dash. I had butterflies in my stomach as I approached my lane for the 100m dash. I went into the starting position and my legs were trembling. Three, two, one, BOOM! I was off; I sprinted as fast as I could, and I noticed that my body felt lighter and my legs were like springs; but I didn’t have that explosive start at the beginning and ended up finishing in last place. After the 100m dash, I was gloomy at first, but I forgot about that heat because I had 2 more heats to see what I excel in. I gained my energy