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Physical Education Interview Report

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Interview 1 For this assignment, I was required to interview three individuals and ask them about their past and present physical activity, sport, and physical education experiences. While conducting these interviews, I gained a great deal of insight into the lives of several family members. The first interview I conducted was with my younger brother. He is sixteen years of age and is a sophomore at Elizabethton High School. During the interview he spoke with me about his past and present physical activity, sport, and physical education experiences. He explained to me how during elementary and middle school, some of his physical activities included riding bikes, throwing baseball with friends, and swimming. All of these activities occurred …show more content…

He explained to me how in elementary school, middle school, and high school; his class would normally participate in some sort of game or sport. The difficulty of these activities would increase based on the grade level of the students participating. By middle school, his gym class was required to complete a physical fitness test which included pushups, pullups, sit-ups, and a mile run. For high school, my brother was only required to complete physical education class for half of his freshmen year. Since then, he has chosen to enroll in and optional strength and conditioning class at his high …show more content…

He is seventy-three years of age and has managed to maintain an active lifestyle. I also asked him about his past and present physical activity, sports, and physical education. He explained to me how upon graduating high school, he joined the United Sates Navy and served as an election making repairs on ships and equipment. After serving in the Navy, he then began working for NASA. While at NASA he continued to use his skills as an electrician and also became certified as a firefighter. He explained to me how the training he underwent to become a firefighter was very specialized which made it even more physically demanding and difficult. After working for NASA, he and his family moved to Tennessee, where he continued to serve as a volunteer firefighter. Although he hired contractors for certain jobs, he was able to built most of his home himself form skills he had gained while growing up. Today, my wife’s grandfather consistently walks a mile every day in order to maintain cardiovascular health, preforms yard work, and home

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