Reflection On My Post Test Score

It was a normal spring night and my baseball game had just started. It was senior night and I was pitching, we had just finish the first half of the first inning. My teammate struck out, it was my turn to hit, I swung for the ball and my leg popped twice. I went down and didn't get back up, My leg was stuck to my chest and I couldn't move it. The visiting team's coach was an EMT he ran over and said ¨this is going to hurt¨ and pulled my leg straight. What had happened was when I swung the bat my leg didn't move and my kneecap dislocated and instead of my ligaments tearing, they stretched and broke my kneecap. This was a challenge for me because this was the first time I had never broken a bone in my life. I went to the doctor and he said nothing was wrong, so my

Athletics had not always been a flauntable aspect of my life as they are now. In grades 1-4, I was uncoordinated and far too lanky to produce and store any muscle. I often ponder about what changed in the fifth grade, for I became very agile and have exercised almost every day since the beginning of that year. I did not pick up the sport of swimming until the seventh grade and I cannot imagine myself not swimming, not only as a source of exercise but as a source of pure pleasure.

Aiming to prepare students for a competitive future, the goal of Athlons is to create a healthy body pillar thru the integration of physical activity, health and nutrition, and culture of wellness. In Athlons Academy, students come to “identify, understand and practice 12 character traits that research links to lifelong achievement.” The integration of these traits

During the spring of 2015, I missed all of the time cuts to make Speedo Sectionals, forcing me to compete in a much slower meet at the end of the season. There are few things I have experienced that are more crushing than trying my hardest and falling short of my goal. Despite the heavy disappointment, I used the opportunity to harden my resolve and use my strengths to my greatest advantage. Along with my coach’s help, I used my ability to think strategically and hone my technique through focus on the smallest details from how I would approach a swim mentally to how I would warm up. My coach had many important and useful suggestions and lessons from his past experience that required me to be an active learner that could apply his information.

How will you adapt your PE plan into college or adulthood, given your fitness level may change?

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.

I already had an extremely busy routine, maintaining a 3,7 GPA in college prep classwork, daily golf practice, volunteering through my school and my church, SAT / ACT prep. Add to that a very full tournament & travel schedule including at least 16 multi-day tournaments nationally. How would I find the time to get fit? After many excuses & false starts, in March 2016 I committed to making a change. I needed to be healthier, and needed to improve my physical fitness and stamina to continue to improve as an athlete. I began eating a low carb, high protein diet and going to the gym as a guest every day with two of my friends. I began to see changes in my body and health and became even more motivated by seeing the results from my hard work. It became easier to manage my studies and all my other activities around my commitment to health and fitness. I earned my own gym membership and began to work out every day, even during my travel to golf tournaments. This summer I traveled throughout Florida, to Alabama, Georgia, Arizona, and Tennessee for tournaments and

First, on a daily basis of my high school years (my Junior year to be exact), I would come home with exhaustion or be overstressed mainly because of my weight training and AP US course. The reason I had chosen weight training course was because I wanted to be in good health and for my AP course I had chose it because I wanted to challenge myself. In my training course is similar to a regular physical education classes, but more intense as you are working out every day some days with weights and only with cardio which I love, but I would also be competitive, especially in running

Over the course of the season, the researchers conducted individual sessions with the swimmers in which the value of performance goals and developed skills were discussed. The swimmers in the GST program learned how to complete exercises in the

As I entered the first day of my junior year in highschool, I walked into my first class, Blended Guided Fitness with Mrs. P and Mrs. Bergo. Although I may have just made that class sound very intimidating, it was far from that, it was a great opportunity to learn about time management and self motivation. On the first day we learned the structure of the class, and how the students in the class must be physically motivated outside of school. Due to my continued commitment to swimming I knew this class would be a great fit. As the year progressed into late September we began to do fitness testing. We also did more fitness testing in December to measure our improvements in muscular endurance, muscular strength, and flexibility. In regards

Okay, let us get you guys up to speed! So for the past few days and the week before that. I began an experiment or a theory if you will about the differences of having a daily routine versus doing absolutely nothing. The experiment that was conducted ultimately lasted for about two weeks. The data that I was able to attain was expected. Over the past couple of days, I had 4 practices and a competition for marching band, unlike the other week where we did only visuals (which wasn't physical at all). It comprises of a lap around the track, lower abdominal and leg workouts to strengthen the core and stretch out the body. The goal was to do as many as we could do during that time period, but for the data to be consistent. On Sundays around six o'clock where the temperature is colder, I repeated the same workout with the equipment I own in order to get data from the time I was lazy and working out daily. However, just counting how many times I can do a pushup or

Next year I am going to be a freshmen at Windsor High School. I have decided that choosing the Exercise Science core was right for me. The reason I have chosen this core is that I felt that I need to learn about the body as I want to take good care of my body and keep it healthy. More recently I have paid attention to ny health and have decided I want to make better choices in my habits. I also want to be able to push myself harder in athletic activities. Joining the WHS basketball team is a dream of mine that I believe joining this class could help with.

An essential part of living a healthy life and managing a healthy body is participating in routine weight training. Many times throughout our lives we find ourselves eating unhealthy and forgetting that being active daily is essential to our health. As individuals go through their lives, they may consider going on a diet but in doing so, they are under the impression that eating healthy is the only essential aspect of staying healthy. This is incorrect due to the fact that routine weight training is what tones up the body, keeps the body in shape, and increases physical fitness overall. Along with these things, routine

By this time I had started to go through puberty and became taller which enabled me to swim faster. The morning group was full of dedicated swimmers who were crazy enough to get up every morning to go jump into a pool and practice. Of course I was no different, but during April of that season I had started to lose my motivation. I began to skip practices and gave my parents excuses, which then they told me to take it easy. After two months of periodic practices, I realized that swimming was an activity that I wanted to do and that I loved, and I decided that I would not allow myself to quit, no matter how hard it became. When the new season started, I started to push myself, trying to keep up to the faster swimmers. I became close with my team mates as people who go through pain together get closer. We started to have more fun together from going out, to having funny conversations in the locker rooms. I also began to do travel meets where we would spend a few days together, eating, sleeping, and swimming. I spent more time out of the pool with my friends and even became romantically involved with one. Now, swimming has become one of the most important things to me, it has been the activity that has the most influence on my life. From my work ethic, sleeping habits, to my choice of friends, all of them are tied to

Throughout high school, I have never rued the day I joined football, because it has pushed me to be the best student I could possibly be. Since I have joined I have been taught the philosophy of a student-athlete. That philosophy is that I need to be passing my classes with flying colors in order to play, because being “a football player” does not mean football is my only priority. Every three weeks my football class wants an average of all my classes I am currently taking, so that if I am failing I can go to that class to pick up my grade. Thankfully that has never been the case for me. Matter of fact for the past two years I have been “1st Team All-District Academic”, which means that I have had an average of a 90% in my classes during football season. In addition to being a student, being an athlete has helped me tremendously when it comes to being in physical shape. Before joining I was believe it or not twenty pounds overweight! However, the past three years I have slowly but assertively dropped all that weight and then some. In the process of doing that I gained a lot of muscle credited to all the football workouts I have done. This will benefit me when I get older, because it will be easier for me to work out since I am already familiarized with