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. whether it was the setup of the room or the interactions between the fitness instructor and their students, the community played a part in all of them. after participating in all these group classes I found myself wanting to sustain that sense of community I thought while participating. after all the classes everybody felt accomplished and complemented each other, this encouraged people to continue to do it. I relieved this back to my experience playing soccer. Playing on a team has very similar results in an away is my sense of community that stays my healthy lifestyle within fitness. we encourage each other to keep going always and that is exactly what I saw in these group classes. even when people felt like giving up on the instructors and motivated everyone to continue to fight through the pain. after finishing this project I realize that Community is essential to overall health. After listening to all the recordings from student-athletes, fitness instructors, nutritionists and more my group and I came to the realization that methods for optimal health depend on the person. Though wags to gain optimal health varies from person to person, goals and health status and outside influences have the greatest impact on the path someone should take to reach optimal health. my path is to continue playing soccer in all four years of college and to follow and healthy balanced diet and go into all concepts regarding my health positively. I am so glad that I was able to experience this project and I hope that everything I learned continues to be implemented in my life.
What has been a challenge for you? How did you overcome that challenge or how do you think you will overcome it?: One of the most challenging parts of this project is figuring out our schedule. As we visit so many different fitness places and studios we need to take into consideration giving our bodies time for rest. As I have my fitness schedule I need to follow for my college soccer packet, I needed to know when to just sit out and watch our workout classes. The worst thing for my body as we are trying to learn about them is to not overwork it. In our first week, we schedule around 3 classes and I have summer workouts 4/5 days a workweek. I immediately was met with lots of fatigue and determined I needed to talk to our mentor to go over the best ways to complete my project while keeping my body well-rested. She told me that I need a better sleep schedule along with a better understanding of when my body needs a break. I change my late nights from 4-5 hours of sleep to a steady 8 hour...
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