Fitness Summary

Name: Cory Brown   Activity Area:  Fitness

Q. Explain what you enjoyed most about this activity area and why? 

I enjoyed being able to push and test myself to my physical limit. I enjoyed being able to see where my fitness was at at what I can improve on in order to improve my  fitness and keep at a good level so that I can be happy with myself. Being fatigued and some points made me realise I need to improve in my fitness and do some more exercise. This made my active participation increase as I made it my goal to keep my fitness up by pushing myself. I did enjoy trying to improve my fitness and test my capabilities. Because I want to know where I am at and how I can get my fitness up. 
The only prior fitness I have had was during training for sports teams and personal training. I have a gym in my garage that I use weekly in order to keep my fitness up for my sport. I used to do rugby training and football training twice a week. During school Physical Education classes I would work on fitness in previous years of the lesson involved fitness. I have had training with professionally trainers before and know techniques for working out.    Q. Explain any experiences and/or prior knowledge of the activity that you had before you participated?
I improved my fitness slightly during the fitness sessions. The first lesson I improved my running fitness after doing the training. Starting this topic in school made me do more fitness outside of school so that I could be in a fit condition for myself. The next lesson I had already done running practice so I was prepared to do more and run 3 or 5ks runs. I felt better during the run cause I had been physically prepared to do my personal best and be able to run and complete the run with a time that I can be happy with. I was a belt to do better in it than if I didn’t prepare before I had the run. Q. Did you improve over the 3 weeks?  How and Why?  If not, why? 
Q. State what factors affected your participation in this activity area?  Highlight them

* Fun and enjoyment  * Social Factors

* Challenge  * Ability to go at own pace

* Sense of achievement  * Environmental appreciation

* Sense of pushing the body to physical/mental limits

Q.  Explain why two of the factors above affected your participation in this activity area;

Factor 1 – Sense of Achievment

Sense of achievement was a big factor that affected me because if I didn’t get to have the sense of achievement after each fitness session I would definitely not want to participate. Having the sense of achievement makes me strive to do my best and achieve my small goals that I make for myself for anything I do. When completing a fitness session well and doing it properly makes me fell better than if I didn’t do it well or properly. It makes me do better at my task and complete at my highest possible best. Without it I would not get anything as near as standard I’m at at the moment.   
Factor 2 – Pushing myself to the limit

Being able to push myself to the limit is a factor that affects my participation. When I am at my limit it makes me strive to try get even better and keep pushing myself. When I am doing interval running training I am pushing myself each time to do my best effort and sprint to my top speed and keep thriving to try go over my best and improve my personal results. If I wasn’t able to push myself to the limit fitness wouldn’t be worth it and your improvement would take much longer and be a lot slower. I want to get my results as best and as fast as possible, when I am pushing myself to the limit I am doing this.    

Q. In terms of your active participation, what grade overall were you working at in this activity according to your active participation matrix?

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Q. What is the likelihood of you participating in this activity area in the future?

Highlight Low Middle High

Fitness 2

Thursday – 3 April – Merit

On Thursday we went into the weights room to do our fitness training session. We would just keep using and sharing the equipment with each other during the period. I used the cycling bikes, rowing machines, weights, and body workouts that you can do with our equipment. This is good training in order to increase your body strength and fitness. There were only a few factors that affected my active participation.

The main factors that affected my active participation were self motivation and goals. Self motivation affected my active participation as I wanted to try the workouts ro really see where I am at with my fitness. I wanted to be able to do certain amounts of weights and certain amounts on cycling and all the rest so that my body is in a good physical condition. Goals was a factor that affected me as I wanted to be at a certain standard with my fitness so I really wanted to persevere and test my physicl condition.  

Working out in the gym can really tire you out. You need to have goals so that you can compete everything you want to and have self motivation to continue to work towards your goals each workout session. The cycling I felt fairly simple and I made my set time fairly easy at a hard training bike level. The weights that match my size and strength. I found that up they were difficult to d a lot but I manged to get my goal. I did a lot of core excersizes and push ups and sit ups. I can achieve the amount I want with these as I do them regularly.

Self motivation pushed me to keep pushing myself through the workouts so that I could feel god amount meeting my phyisical goal during the session. I want myself do to my best and excersizes as best I can in order to get the best results and have a good training session. As I got tired I had to keep pushing myself so that I could keep working towards my goal and achieve it. I wanted to be able to know my limits cause that makes me be able to perform to my best standard and get the results I want from my workout sessions and training sessions. I did achieve the goals that I wanted for the session but I might have been able to push myself a bit further.

Goals was the really big factor affecting my active participation as I was constantly achieve the goals i made for myself. I wanted to be able to do 10-15 minutes on the bike at a high level that makes it harder on your legs. I was able to get this goal within the first 15 minutes of the session so I was happy that I had achieved my goal. If I hadn’t made the goal I would have stopped before I was even satisfied with my training performance.  I did this for all the machines and workouts that I did so that I could be happy and proud with my excersizes and bodies physical condition. I was able to achieve all the goals I made for the lesson but I want to make it harder next time.

For future I would push myself harder and make my goals harder to get so that it is more difficult to participate in my fitness training and push myself to get the results I want. I would use different equipment to work different parts of my body so that I can get different fitness levels and keep my body up to a physical condition that I can be happy with. I gave myself merit as I did what I could and achieved the goals that I set myself to complete.

Fitness 1

Thursday – 26 March – Merit

On Thursday we did some fitness training. It involved interval running. We would run certain distances and certain spaces and continuously change the distance and pace. This is training that is good for any sportsman because in majority of sports you have to move constantly at different speeds. We ran 100m a couple times. Then sprinted 20m a couple  times and finally about 8m a couple times.

The main factors that affected my active participation were self motivation and mindset. Self motivation affected my active participation as I pushed myself and persevered through the tough and exhausting running. Mindset was a big factor as when you get tired your mindset is what stops you to keep pushing yourself.

Interval running is a very tough type of training. The class has to run the length of a rugby field at about 70-80%. After we had reached the end we had a certain time to walk back and go again. We did this 2 or 3 times. Then we did the same thing at 20m but we went 100% and repeated it about 5 times. After that we then shortened the distance to around 8m and did that about 10 times. This was that first fitness lesson we had. It wasn’t too hard for us but tired us about quite a bit. I felt ok by the end but was tired out and needed a little rest and to catch my breathe.

Self motivation pushed me to keep encourage g myself do to my best and perform to my peak in order to get a good training session. I was committed to keep trying and keep running to better my current fitness. This affected my active participation as I wanted to do more and push myself for self pride and the knowledge that I can push myself and do my best physically. Being able to know my limits of physicality makes me perform to a standard that I can be happy with myself. 

Mindset was a key factor affecting my active participation as I was constantly having to make myself say that I can do it and it’s not that hard. This is a key factor that I always use to make sure I am pushing myself and doing what I can. It really wasn’t that hard but I wasn’t properly hydrated so I had to push myself and think that I do this I can then go drink a lot of water. After the 20m sprints I was able to get a drink before we had do the 8m sprints. It was pretty easy after that but still made me puff and breathe heavily.

For future active participation in fitness I would make sure I have all the energy that I need do that I don’t make it harder on myself more than it already is. I would push myself more without over doing it so that I don’t get any injuries but I am doing the best I can in order to get the best training that I need in order to keep fit and actively participate. I gave myself a Merit grade due to all of this.

Athletics Summary

Name: Cory      Activity Area: Athletics

Q. Explain what you enjoyed most about this activity area and why? 

Being able to challenge myself at the athletic events and try to get the best out of myself in order to get a result that I could pride myself on. I enjoyed the fact that it was about betting your best and not competing against others, while athletics is a competitive sport the goal is to beat your own record and do the best that you can. It makes each lesson more enjoyable and less judgemental towards you and your classmates while being able to have a god time doing athletic events.

I have participated in athletics in previous school years. I knew the basic technique for majority of the events that required techniques in order to succeed with your best possible. I have completed in inter school athletics multiple times at the millennium institute and went to the event this year just after starting the athletics topic for physical education. I have a strong point in running events as my body is physically capable of short distance sprints and long distance runs. I know how to run the best possible and breath correctly in order for my muscles to receive oxygenated blood so that they perform better. Q. Explain any experiences and/or prior knowledge of the activity that you had before you participated?

I improved in some events but not all. Some days during the pre test my mindset was ready and prepared. We also did a lot of warmups before doing events during the pre test events so that my body and muscles were ready and warmed up for each athletic event. During the post test events we just did it without warming up and it was a lot harder. My best event is the 100m sprint. In the pre test I got 12:50 and I got 12:49 in the post test so I improved my record by a lot. I also do well in the jumping events. Long jump and triple jump mainly. I improved my pre test scores in the post test for both of these events. Other events like the 200m I was a second slower and did not improve my score. Q. Did you improve over the 3 weeks?  How and Why?  If not, why? 

Q. State what factors affected your participation in this activity area?  Highlight them

* Fun and enjoyment  * Social Factors

* Challenge  * Ability to go at own pace

* Sense of achievement  * Environmental appreciation

* Sense of pushing the body to physical/mental limits

Q.  Explain why two of the factors above affected your participation in this activity area;

Factor 1 – Sense of Achievement

During the athletics for physical education, a major factor that affected my performance was the sense of achievement. The factor of achieving my personal best and improving my own record made my active participation a lot better than it would be if I wants able to compete against myself and win. I was able to beat myself in almost every event and do the best that I could do. I tried to get the results that I made it a goal to get. The feeling after achieving my personal athletic goals helped my active participation  

Factor 2 – Ability to go at own pace

Having the ability to go at my own pace made the events a lot more enjoyable and easier to focus on betting my best record and improving my scores.  Was able to beat and improve my score as I could participate at my own pace and go as hard as I needed to without having to beat or competent against any else. It made life easier and I felt more confident about competing against myself in order to get the result that I want. 

Q. In terms of your active participation, what grade overall were you working at in this activity according to your active participation matrix?

Highlight NA A M E

Q. What is the likelihood of you participating in this activity area in the future?

Highlight Low Middle High

First Economics Term

–Results:

My results were ok. I almost over did the first test and I write too much in the time given. I had got almost full marks for the first three questions. I got a Merit. I could have got a Excellence if I had managed my assesment time and answered the last question as best I could. I had run out of time by the timei had started the final question and wants able to get the better grade.

The second test I didn’t concentrate on answering the questions as well as I should have. I waffled a bit but still answered the basis of the question. I didn’t get the marks I needed to get the same result as last time. I probably didn’t do as much I should have during the test. I got an achieved and I’m happy that I did pass and it is now learning point for my future tests.

–Behaviour

My behaviour has been fairly good I haven’t been a bad boy or done anything that I shouldn’t be doing in class. I complete my work as best I can and do what I am told. I mostly have a positive attitude and understand the work as best I can. I always try and use my mañaaki orewa spirit and do the right thing. I show respect to myself, others and the enviorment. 

–Improvement

I need to improve my comprehension skill. I need to read the question fully and try to understand exactly how to answer the question correctly without wetting in thing is don’t need. I can improve my time management skills as well so that during the tests I can complete each and every question to the best and fullest in order to get the best marks possible to me.