Working Out In Mclane High School

College students like myself often put off sleep for other activities like studying, doing homework or even just staying up all night with a friend. Our body follows the twenty-four hour cycle of each day and night through a biological clock called the Circadian rhythm. On the weekdays, staying up all night and skipping meals makes it difficult to focus in class. After lunchtime, I become sleepy and have difficulty focusing on my other classes. In the afternoon, this affects my body because it does not give me energy, but instead it makes me crash earlier in the day.

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

They’d lose an extra hour where a practice or meeting could have been held. But, this is a solvable problem. In the extra hour that would be provided before school, practices and meetings could be held then. Mitzi Dulan from Huffington Post stated that exercising in the morning increases productivity and even leads to better sleep. By getting brain hormones called endorphins running, you will be more awake and ready for the day with an extra boost of energy. As for sleep, studies have shown that people who wake up early for routine exercise sleep better than those who do it later in the day or at night, since exercise at night makes it hard to relax and fall

Students that do not sleep well at night will struggle to maintain grades and a healthy lifestyle. Students who sleep less usually have lower grades than a student that gets enough rest. Student will feel pressured to sacrifice sleep to be in top shape for their team so they can earn the money given to them. Students who do this will wrestle with lowering grades and the inability to think as efficiently. According to ncaa.org, their blog states that colleges graduate 18 percent fewer college athletes than regular students. The main cause of this is being overworked to the point of exhaustion or to where they have to pick academics to focus on or their sport. Also according to ncaa.org In 2004 only 73 percent of college athletes graduated

“Most students are involved with doing homework or integrating themselves in social media and only get physical activity through their gym class,” Wescott

The amount of sleep a person gets each night affects the mental and emotional sides of the human body as well. Lack of sleep will increase the risk of depression and other serious mental problems. Most of these problems could be solved with just a few extra hours of sleep. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that a good amount of sleep for an active student is between 9-10 hours. (Walker 1) Mary Carskadon, PhD, listed just a few out of the many benefits to gaining more sleep, them being reduced likelihood of absenteeism and tardiness, receiving better grades, and having less of a risk of metabolic and nutritional deficits like obesity. Carskadon is the director of the Chronobiology and Sleep Research Laboratory at the Bradley Hospital in Rhode Island, and she is also a Professor for the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University School of Medicine. (National Sleep Foundation 2) A couple times out of the year, I will be tardy to my first hour class for accidentally sleeping through my alarm because my body naturally doesn’t wake up for two or more hours. It is a common problem for other students at my school as well. The University of Minnesota’s Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement collected data that states that “more than 9,000 students at eight high schools in Minnesota, Colorado, and Wyoming and found that shifting the school day later in the morning resulted in a boost in attendance, test scores, and grades in math, English, science, and social studies.” (Richmond

All of us are aware about the importance of sleep in our lives. In fact, people that don’t get enough sleep at night may experience a variety of health issues in the long run. Unfortunately, students find it as a hard task to sleep about 8-9 hours a day because they have to wake up early and go to school. This creates a tremendous impact on their physical and mental health.

Most non-athletic students, wonder how athletes do it, partake in sports and maintain good grades. Also, most Athletes dream of being a regular student, just working out to maintain a good health or not being demanded to at all. But looking at things from the regular students perspective, you can tell that working out when they’re in school is a task. Mainly because, they have so much going on, academically that working out seems to be a burden both mentally and physically. Although it is hard to get involve with physical activities, studies has shown, that once you become fully active in it and socialize among a group of people who are hold the same values and want to live a healthier lifestyle, you are more likely to continue it throughout college and your long term career. Unfortunately, only a small percentage of college students are currently active in regular exercise according to Jeon, Kim, and Heo.

But this event, and our Let’s Move! initiative, isn’t just about eating well today. This is about setting kids like all of you up for a lifetime of healthy choices. Because here’s what we know: Eating healthy foods can affect how well you do in school. That’s right. I can't say this enough -- the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly. You just feel better in general all throughout the day, every day.

Studies have shown that even with going to bed at ten (a reasonable time when some teenagers get sleepy) will still not perform at their best and are still risking their health. Teens require at least nine

High schools today need to realize that the impact the faculty makes at schools impacts their life at home. This is why learning key skills to being healthy should be more prominent. The United States has an extreme obesity problems, which leads to nutritional deficiencies, diabetes, and heart disease. All these issues can be helped and sometimes solved by healthy eating and exercising. School systems spend thousands of dollars on making sure kids eat nutritional meals while they’re at school. This however, does no good in helping students to continue eating healthy once they go home if they’re not taught what is beneficial for their bodies at school. Many schools do not even teach basic cooking skills. Most people would agree that one necessity to life would be food and its pretty important to be able to cook it. Doing this will teach students how to cook something other than Ramen Noodles, and something much healthier. Exercise is something many in the United States have let take a back burner. Everyone should be getting an hour of physical activity a day, which does not occur as often as it should.

More sleep could help the student athletes as well to get rest after their practices and games. Most students athletes have long night practices and don't get home until late at night, and then have to also get up early to go to school. Coach Jordan, a head football coach, says “I have noticed that athletes who are striving to build muscle, but are not getting results, often are not getting enough sleep (1).” This quote shows that most student athletes have trouble doing what they need to do for their sport, because of not getting the sleep that they need. More sleep for student athletes show a better outcome and the physical growth occurs and your tissues recover with daily activity, with less sleep a student wants to do less and not do

Unfortunately for Professor Hogan, who has great ideas of how to make himself go to sleep earlier, he is going about the wrong way. Running around the block is a great way to tire someone out; however it should not be done right before bed. The problem of exercising in such a short interval before sleep is that the heart, brain, and muscles are all stimulated (cite), which would make it difficult to relax and drift into the first stage of sleep. Professor Hogan must exercise at least four hours before the desired bed time, if he wants to accomplish a state of drowsiness (cite again maybe?). Another issue is what he is consuming at night. Foods that are high in fat (such as pizza) should be avoided because they can upset the stomach and

I am not a night time person. My schedule would not allow me to be a night time person. Even in the summer I fall asleep around the same time I would as if I were still in school. This summer is a little different though. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I get up at 5:15 a.m. to go to cross-country practice which starts at 6 a.m. and ends at 8 a.m. Since I started summer school I leave practice 20 minutes early to get ready for school. The run and work out I had that morning wakes me up for the day.

“Physical education hopes to accomplish, to engage all students, not just the athlete elite, in fun activities that will instill a lifelong commitment to fitness.” (Johnson, 264). Physical education in the classroom can be a vital steeping stone to the way that teenagers think about fitness. Lifelong fitness is something that everyone should be guaranteed, it mainly depends on the experience that a teenager has. Like many other subjects in school, the