March 4 - 8: Weight Room

This week showed the benefits of having another Grade 10 PE class in a facility that is right beside my class. We spent a lot of time this week sharing the facilities which were the Small Gym and the Weight Room and merging the classes together. Typically, it was a division of girls and boys and who wanted competitive games to those who don't. We also took class time to finish our blogs because it interim reports were going home this week and most people were probably neglecting posting information on their blogs.

I like the idea of taking advantage of sharing facilities as we are not limited to that single area for an entire week because I know that repetitive things can make things extremely boring.

March 8 - Fitness (Community Run)

I enjoy the Community Run a lot and it is one of my favourite Fitness activities. I like the path that we normally take and I like running around outside with different scenery compared to being indoors. The weather was also quite lovely as well, but it would have been better without the construction and the swarm of little four-year-olds coming to Cambridge. However that just helped with my dodging abilities and they were all so adorable :). I ran with Janey and with Dominique partly for this because I knew I need someone to force me to keep running even if my legs were screaming at me. Janey and I ran the entire time at a continuous pace, but we had to leave Dominique because she was not used to endurance running as it was her first doing the Community Run :(.

I managed to coomplete the Community Run in 20 minutes and 24 seconds this time and I will try to aim for a better time the next time we do this Fitness. Amazingly, the hill which normally kills me and forces me to walk wasn't as bad as it usually was and I managed to conquer it pretty fast in my opinion.

March 5 - Fitness (Modified Beep Test)

I actually prefer the normal Beep Test in comparison to the Modified Beep Test because I really dislike the fact that there are breaks. I like pushing myself to the limit without any rest intervals as I think that my body has adapted to do and the sudden stops really hurt. I understand why the breaks are neccessary as they force my body to recover enough for a quick sprint and teaches my body how to recover faster, but in the process of learning how to do this, it is just so painful.

I participated in this Fitness activity completely like always and I am proud to say that I could not feel my legs for five days afterwards.

Interim Report - G

My contribution to the class is definitely positive because of my personality. I always bring a smile to class and participate fully in any activity as well as encourage others. My attitude towards PE is always the same and I greatly enjoy this class. I am we'll aware that not everyone is like this and I think that I hope I can be able to change some people's attitude with my own.

Outside of PE class I try to maintain a daily physical activity which as of the moment I have decided to join the badminton team at school and continue to do my runs around my neighborhood if I have the time. I do not need someone to tell me to do my physical activity since I know the importance of it and how it can influence my daily life if I don't keep exercising.

I am always prepared for class as I always have gym strip. I am prepared to participate fully everyday and I would consider myself as a leader of the class and quite the outspoken one. I can also take a step down and allow others to show their leadership skills and become a listener and follow instructions from my peers.

Overall, I think I deserve a G for my work habit.

 

February 25 - March 1: Field

The weather for this week was constant rain so we had to share the large gym with Mr. Vaughn's class. In the large gym, I participated in table tennis and modified it to play without paddles and just used our hands. It was actually a lot of fun! The ping pong ball was literally everywhere so we had to chase it around when it flew off the table which happened frequently.

For the day that we did go outside, we played a game of tag as a warm-up then cone soccer. My body was not used to the cold temperature and then the sudden change so I felt a little bit sick. I needed to take a little break before I continued, but I felt fine afterwards. I like to play cone soccer because it involves everybody, however, the field was wet in the morning so I fell five times while playing.

March 1: Fitness (Insanity)

Insanity is one of the most difficult Fitness for me because of how the instructor in the video always says to tries to force us to go faster. I put 100% of my effort into this activity and I ended up sweating, red faced, and, literally, I just died after the workout. I decided to stand in the front row because I knew that everybody was going to get lazy so in order to ignore this, I avoided being able to see the majority. I do not really care how others view me, I just care that I was motivated and will be taking care of myself in the future mentally and physically.

I was definately exhausted after this workout like any other and I feel like I participated fully, like always. Mr. Vaughn and Mr. Davis also needed to talk to the students in the group about our lack of participation, but I do not believe that this really considers me since I was trying really hard.

February 26: Fitness (Locomotion)

I honestly do not know the official name of this Fitness activity, but it was pretty fun to do. Of course, I say this after doing this for only ten minutes... I was participating in the Michael Smith Science Challenge during this day so I had to miss a majority of it. I was enjoying this Fitness when I was there and I definately want to try this again before the end of the semester. I think I participated fully and actively during the ten minutes I was doing this though.

I really wished to have finished this activity because at the end, the exercise we were going to do was leapfrog and I wanted to see how that would work.