Year End Reflection!

    It's sad to see this semester is coming to an end. This class is honestly the best class ever and I'm actually happy when I'm here. In Get Fit there is no rights or wrongs. As long as you show up and try your best you are doing good unlike other classes when your best is sometimes not good enough. The feeling of still being seen as doing good and trying my best even if it's not up to standards makes me feel powerful. It makes me feel like I'm in conrol and I am good enough. This feeling makes me want to push myself outside of my comfirt zone and try new things fitness wise. When I try new things or just work out in general it makes me feel good about myself so it makes me a little bit more confident in day to day life. I'm so grateful that this class allowed me to discover things I enjoy doing and how to make myself feel good.
   
    In regards to my fitness levels I have seen improvements throughout the semester. I have gotten over the mental aspect of the beep test and realized that I can actually do better than I thought I could. I started off with getting a 4.3 and over the semester I improved to a 6.1. I think that if I did the beep test more I would eventually be able to get up to at least a 7.5. I have also noticed that my body is getting stronger from all the strenght exercises that we have done. One of my favourite fitness activites was the loco- motion even though I really had to push myself to keep going and not stop before the time ends. I also really liked the extended beep test and circuit that we did when half the people were in the middle doing a strength activity while the other people ran along the outside and then switch. I also really enjoyed when we did yoga because it was nice to be able to relax and kind of escape from all the stress from other classes for a while.

    The fieldtrips that we went on this semester were really fun. The dance fieldtrip was fun because although some of us weren't the best dancers we just laughed about it and tried to make the best of it. Tae Kwon Doe was a pretty good fieldtrip. It wasn't something that I was really fond of but I tried to make the best of it and tried to have fun. The fieldtrip that I enjoyed the most was hot yoga. I think that it is something that I would like to do again.

    After this semester is over I think that the hardest part about staying active is going to be finding enough time. I tend to have so much going on with school and homework that I kind of put exercise on the back burner. As of now my plan is to try and go to the gym before school a couple times a week because I don't have a block 1 class and it opens early and on the weekends. I'm also going to try and do workout videos off of youtube or the nike fitness app when I can't make it there. I think the biggest thing that i can take from this class is that exercise makes me feel better about myself and gives me more confidence.

    I don't really think that marks for P.E. are important or necessarily fair because people shouldn't get graded on how hard the teacher thinks they are trying because it is different for everyone and only you could know how well you are doing and if you think it's your best than that deserves a 100%. I feel like the things that I learned in this class are far more important than a mark can reflect because they are worth more than that but since marks are a required thing I think that I should get a 93%.

I don't know if I will be able to take this class again next year but it I can honestly say this is one of the most important and beneficial class that I've ever taken and I'll never forget the lessons it has taught me :)

recap of the last month or so :)

Today I wasn't feeling very well and I felt like participating would only make it worse so I made the decision to sit out today. I thought I would take the time to do a blog post so I would at least have accomplished something. So here it goes......

I can honestly say that l have come so far this semester.  I have really been pushing myself and I can't really think of a time recently when I didnt give it my all. The last couple of months we've done so many great things. Hot yoga was such a great experience. I really enjoyed it but noticed that I had to focus to push past the discomfort of being so hot and keep holding the poses. I also got a 6.1 on the last beep test - an improvement from last time. I can feel that I'm more fit and healthier now. I am proud of how far I've come since last year and I want to keep moving in the right direction. Im currently trying to think of ways to keep active after the semester ends. Im sad that its almost over.

Is the media really changing the view on women??

This morning I came across a video ( on the jacksgap website) that has a whole bunch of clips showing how women were missrepresented in the media throughout 2013. It made me think of the missrepresentation documentry we watched last year in Get Fit. I thought I would post it on here for everyone else to take a look at it. Here's the link.... http://jacksgap.com/media-fail-women-2013/
It really made me think because some of the clips that were in it were things that I've seen throughout the year and I didn't think much of them. The thing that suprised me the most was it showing Miley Cyrus because she chooses to act that way and probably doesn't realize she is missrepresenting women.

Fencing !

 Last week we had a lady come to the school and teach our class how to fence. It was a cool experience but I don't think its a thing for me. I didn't really feel very comfortable hitting other people with the blade. I knew that it didn't hurt them but I still felt bad doing it. I don't think its something that I'd want to do again because I didn't feel comfortable so I couldn't really try my best.

Midterm Reflection

This semester in Get Fit has been really fun so far! It has really made me realize that I can actually do alot more than I give myself credit for. My biggest achievment so far this semester is I really pushed myself on the beep test and realized that it isn't actually as bad as I think it is. In the past I have always just stopped around level 4.5 because thats when I would start geting tired and hot and I would think that was all I was capable of. On the last beep test that we did I went up to level 5.5 and after I stopped I felt like I could have kept going and  I don't know why I stopped. I think this was a good experience though because now I know that I can keep going and I'm actually capable. I Think it was just a mental thing that I had to push past and now that I have my goal for next time is at least 6.5. Thanuji is my biggest motivator in this class. When we do fitness I always try to keep up with her and in the process I feel really tired hot, and sweaty and sometimes my legs even feel like jelly but in the end I'm always proud of myself and feel like I've really accomplished something. I also always try to motivate my other friends in the class and sometimes even kids that I know that are in younger grades when we do fitness. I also realized that it is really important to take pe. I've noticed that by getting excercise I'm less tired then some of my friends that didn't take it this year. I have some friends that are tired after climbing the stairs and it makes me a little bit proud that I'm not like that. The thing that I'm most proud of this semester though is the extended beep test we did up to level 20. Of all the days we have done fitness that is the day that I can say I actually pushed myself to my limits and did the best I possibly could. The most beeps I would miss were 3 and although I was tempted to miss more I didn't allow myself to. I was so tired at the end of it and even sore the next day. The thing that I'm still looking really forward to in the rest of the semester is the hot yoga field trip and continuing to push myself in fitness. I think that because of all my efforts so far I deserve a really low A (86%)  because I still have a lot of room for improvement.

INSIRATION!!!! :)

First month and a bit of get fit #2

 The past couple weeks of Get Fit has been really fun! We went to the Panorama School of Dance on a field trip. We learned a dance to the song "Slow Down" by Selena Gomez. It was a little bit challenging to learn the steps and the warmups were a little tiring but overall it was very fun.
 In class I have been trying to try my best every class. In fitness I have really been pushing myself And am usually sore the next day. One of my goals for this year is I want to improve my beep test score by at least two levels. I find that if we aren't doing the same activity the whole class (ex. running the whole period) and have variety I try harder. Some of the things we've done for fitness that I've liked the most are the activity that we did last week when we worked in groups of three and the stations. I als o liked the locomotive but it got really hared after a while and I had to push myself to not give up. I'm looking forward to the fieldtrips that we have coming up like tae kwon do, fencing and hot yoga!! :)