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blog 3: student athlete interviews

 As we waited for responses back from studios instructors to interview, we focused on people we could talk to within our community. Student-athlete interviews ultimately jump-started our entire process. On the first day, we were able to conduct 5 interviews. Our goal was to get as many perspectives as possible in order to broaden our scope of the healthy balance between health and fitness. We found that the best way to record the answers to people's questions was through audio recordings. This method helps us go back to recall what people said and gives us the ability to use exact wording and prevents miss interpretation. The first thing we ask the interviewees is "are you comfortable with us recording?" We found that this is important because it makes people feel comfortable answering in the way they please. We follow up the first question with, "Are you okay with this information being shared with your identity or would you like to be anonymous?" This question further builds that connection between us and the interviewee. Most of our interviewees were current student-athletes, but we emphasized the goal to talk to those who also played sports in the past. Narrowing down our selection helps with the overall organization of our project since we are focusing on such a broad topic in the first place. There was an interesting difference between the different takes people took when answering our questions. For example, when we asked, "How would you define fitness?" some people gave dictionary definitions and talked about exercise while others described the feeling of being healthy and being your best. The interviews lasted around 15-30min each. This depended on how extensively the interviewees answered the questions. Though some of our questions are similar, we continue to ask them because force the interviewee to look at their entire experience. Overall, we want to implement the interviews in our final product posters to help motivate others. (we will not attach the audio recordings until we finish going through them all) 

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