Describe your group dynamics. How has working as a group helped or hindered your project?: My group project has 3 group members. Going into the project, we all had the goal to tackle a specific part of our project. In the very beginning, that is what we did. My job was to tackle fitness, but we soon realized that separating the project into 3 different parts and addressing them individually would not provide us with the best understanding. Since the first few days consisted of us addressing the three different parts individually, we allowed ourselves to do most of the planning and baseline research individually. We eventually transitioned to all decisions being made together. We also conducted all the interviews together (except for a couple of nutrition interviews that happened in the first 2 days of the project). One aspect that helped my project, was my friendship with the other group members. We all got along very well, which made communication very simple. This also made us all feel more comfortable expressing past experiences with unhealthy habits that we wanted to break. Our project thrived as a group of three. We were able to gain even more perspective from each other from past experiences. Our connections with other people in fitness helped our project progress. For example, in the past, I have worked with Coach Devin and Coach Lew, so I was able to get into contact with them fairly quickly. Lucy is another example, she boxes for fun and talked with her instructor to allow us to join a class and conduct an interview. Zoe was in touch with the yoga instructor at roots yoga, which allowed us to conduct an interview with the instructor. Overall there were many benefits to having a group of three. Our group dynamic, once figured out, introduce many helpful opportunities.
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...
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