Locomotion

Today in P.E we did Locomotion for fitness! I liked this one because I improved from the last time we did this particular activity! I also worked along side each and every single girl in our class and they were such a hardworking and also encouraging bunch of ladies, so keep it up! I remembered from last time i did this, I took water breaks very frequently during each set of activities, and 1 or twice while my own side was going and that i also slacked off at sprints because well, i dislike sprinting. So this time I was determined to improve, out of all sets I only took a water break once during the middle set while i was waiting which allowed me to have some time to leave get water come back and work to my best ability. This time around I also did sprints for the full time and never missed them, pushing myself to go further and further until the buzzer sounded; this made me feel somewhat accomplished I also noticed that some of the activities i was doing, were being done but not completely properly, for instance, the first 30 second set i had no idea how to do the inchworm, and with frog hops, I jumped but never gave it full force or touched the ground. So the 1 minute set and last 30 second set I did the inchworm, and the frog jump properly and really focused on my technique/posture, instead of rushing. Over all I think this was a great experience for me to improve on myself, but also had fun in the process encouraging people from other classes, and our class and working with them too! At the end of class we took a selfie (Nimrit, Valeria and I) so hopefully you can see that we did sweat and were a little red in the face! After the fitness Nimrit and I saw Berry stretching and Nimrit suggested we join him because he was all alone and we had a bit of time left in class! I think this was a great way to top off the workout and end the class!

New Workouts

Calling all ladies! I discovered this new website while roaming instagram, which led me to an app called "Blogilates" ! You can find it both on an android or apple products, and on the app it doesnt just give you workouts, it ranges from various workouts that focus on different areas, a calendar if you want to plan workouts on certain days, and even has recipes for power smoothies and delcious but healthy deserts! The workout videos also include excerises focused around a certain song which make them easy and fun to do! I'll definitely keep you updated on how this goes, and well I've only seen girls try these workouts, but if the guys want to check it out and see what the app is really about feel free! 

Choice

Today in choice, there were the choices of hockey, soccer, and volleyball. Usually Volleyball does get very crowded, and today it did, right away I jumped at the opportunity of having my friends on my team like others did. But soon I realized many things that were wrong with the game; since there was a lot of people, there were multiple subs on most teams including mine. But the difference was that other teams only played with 6 people and my team played with more, I realized it was unfair for the other team, and subbed off spending time sitting around which also made myself come to a conclusion that i could be doing something better. I also noticed that earlier on in the game I tried cheering on everyone but since there were more than 6 people on my side of the court they werent taking the game as seriously as they should have been, and my cheering/encouraging was being drowned out. To change that, I then decided to ask some girls in our class and other classes if i could be apart of the team and was welcomed in! I was happy I switched teams because the team I switched to needed some subs, we all had equal playing time, and because they took the game seriously but also had fun! I encouraged everyone and got people into encouraging our team mates and the opposition team; when they scored or didnt get it over the net because it showed that they tried! I think I took a chance and played against the people I usually played with, rather than playing with them and not quite playing fair also not taking the game as seriously. I hope the girls i played with had fun because I did and got to know more people in general which is good! In the aspects of my strengths and weaknesses I think my weaknesses were not stepping out of my shell for the first time and just staying in the comfort zone oh and also sometimes when the ball comes flying between myself and a peer we both wouldnt call it and accidentily let it drop. For strengths or something im improving on would be that i have stepped out of my comfort zone and that constantly encouraging people is getting better.

April 14th; Badminton

Today's class we played doubles for badminton with just our class in the large gym. I really enjoyed this because not only was this one of the sports that i find both easy and challenging but also had fun. The most important reason i liked this activity was because instead of playing with the same people I usually play with, this gym class was a change in a good way. An example of this is in volleyball; although its a team you usually only interact or talk with the people on your side of the court which might be people who you already know, and are close with. But this time, even though a net seperated my partner and i from my peers, I got to get to know them better and interact. Not only did I get to know my peers as opponents and got to see how active and competetive they were but I sort of bonded with them and learned more about them and who they are. Simran and I mostly played girls which was good because I got to know the girls in my class better, I bonded through small things like laughing and cheering eachother on, and dancing a little bit between serves and just having fun. It made me see that we have a bunch of outgoing and cool girls in our class once you get past their sort of shy shells. As for the guys we played against, i think it was only desmond, nick, chris, carter, and roman. I learned that the guys aren't really as scary or intimidating as they seem and are actually great competitors. So thanks to my peers for making it both an active and fun, over all my experience was awesome and itd be great to do this more often unfortunately i didnt get to take any videos or pictures. 

Insanity and Capture the flag

On Tuesday we did Insanity, and it was actually my first time ever doing this fitness activity. Although it was hard for me to keep a constant pace during some activity like when you held your leg up and did all the exercises, I still liked Insanity, and had fun while participating. Here is a short video on one of the exercises we did during the fitness, these were killing me but i refused to stop. Sorry for the bad quality of it all.

On thursday our class and Mr. Pedersons class played capture the flag, The first game went well and everyone was into the game, but as the second game was happening it seemed that things started to drag on, which sucks. I had a lot of fun during the game, and hopefully most of the others in our did too! I tried something new and instead of tagging people on our side, I spent most of my time running to the other side, so I pushed myself out of the comfort zone because i usually hang around our side waiting for someone to cross. I will admit that at times I stood on our side waiting, but this was because I was waiting for an opportunity to run across, which I succesfully did many times and several times with Nimrit by my side. During the end of the game I noticed that it made it hard to play the game when people stopped trying, and I noticed this when I ran across hoping to bring back a ball, but unfortunately there were only a few footballs to carry across and people were playing around with them. However since this happened i found my energy level going down a notch. I tried encouraging some people, and it sometimes worked but what I could have done differently was encouraging my peers and friends to participate and have fun, more frequently than i did. Also to try my best to be active throughout the game so having a balancing between running to the other side and when I'm not doing anything to tag people, so I can be at my best at all times.