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 :)
