While thinking of a project, I focused on what I remembered from my experiences. As a teenager, expectations to stay healthy and constantly stay fit becomes overwhelming. This expectation motivated me to explore other people's experiences and transform them into a better mindset when approaching health and fitness. As a soccer player, my fitness level and health were always a part of my life, so going into this area of study broadens my perspective. I am Savannah Pruitt, a senior at Hawken School, and my group and I will be discovering a healthy relationship between health and fitness among teens and young adults. Our goal is to take what we have learned from our experiences and create a demonstration of how to implement fitness in our lives in a healthy way. Throughout this project, we plan to speak with student-athletes, fitness instructors, and people who just started their fitness journey. We also plan to speak with nutrients, to gain a better understanding of how food could possibly play a role in someone's relationship with fitness. We will spend most of our time at Rise Nation Cleveland where we will help our mentor with classes, participate in the exercises, and speak to the people who attend her class. We hope to end our project by presenting posters to put up around the school, locker rooms, and lunchrooms to further promote a healthy balance between health and fitness within our lifestyles.
As a reflection on my time during this project, I think about the various opinions and perspectives I’ve absorbed. from people who believed fitness was the most important part of health to people who believed nutrition was the most important part of health. I gained a better understanding of how important our experiences are to the shaping of our perspective of health. after interviewing so many professionals in the field I’ve decided that I think all three pillars, nutrition, fitness, and mindset are all important components to overall health. within my life, I’ve noticed my health was lowest when I left out one part of the three pillars. but I also realize that it’s very difficult to focus on all three pillars because outside influences heavily focus on only one. this is why one of my biggest takeaways was the importance of community. even though all instructors had different goals within Health a common theme that I saw was community. Group classes all were based on encouragement. w...
Great post, Savannah! I am so happy to see how your project has developed, and it seems like you will learn great things during the next few weeks. I look forward to following your blog!
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