Final Post

My favorite memory this year was when we all went rafting. I enjoyed it so much because it was the first time we all got to hang out together as Lifetime Rec. It was also a great way to get to know everyone and after that day on the river, I knew something new about everyone.

I chose this picture because what I learned while being here is that I have to trust everyone around me. No matter who you are with, who you are living with, or anything else, you have to trust that person.

Bike Ride

The place I rode my bike to was WinCo and it was enjoyable. The advantages of going by bike was that it was shorter because I could cut through the park by going over the bridge and I could avoid all of  the traffic on the streets. The trip was more enjoyable than taking the car because I got to ride passed the zoo and got to see the zebras and giraffes. I do every trip I take by bike because it I don't have a car to take instead.

Challenges

There isn't any challenge in particular I want to write about right now but I can relate any challenge to what we faced when we went to the rock wall. When you are faced with a challenge you shouldn't give up. Like when climbing a rock wall you might have to look for an alternate root or just reach to the next rock and pull yourself over that first hurdle. You have to keep climbing until you get to the top of the wall and by doing that, you grab ahold of each rock or each new challenge in your path and take it head on until you get passed it. Once you get to the top, it's like a feeling of accomplishment because your got passed all of the little obstacles in your way.

Tuesday's Class

I thought that Tuesdays class was more along the lines of what most of us thought we were going to be doing when we signed up for it. I for one didn't think that we would be learning about stress, nutrition, and any of the other subjects we went over in the entire LLC group events. I thought that this class would be like what we did on Tuesday, working out, mainly doing athletic activities. It was definitely fun to do and I would love to do something like that again.

Spring Break

My Spring break started out pretty exciting. I first went to Sun Valley with my dad for a few days and had a great time. The snow might not have been very good, but the skiing was still awesome. We both got to use a smart phone app that tracked where we've been, speed, and other cool stats about your day. After 3 days of skiing, we had over 120,000 vertical feet skied and my top speed was over 51 mph.













After I got back from break I was expecting to have a nice relaxing couple of days before I had to come back to Boise. Instead, my friend texted me saying that he got a pass from his uncle to get into the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. He didn't want to go by himself so he decided to use some of his money and got some money from his parents to get me into the expo because I didn't have any money to spend myself. I didn't really know what to expect going into it because I'm not a game developer but all of that is interesting to me. I ended up having a great time at GDC, getting to go around to hundreds of booths learning about all of the new techniques and software that are being implemented to the video games of tomorrow. This year at GDC, the main focus was on smart phone and tablet games and apps and virtual reality. The apps weren't very interesting or fun but the different forms of virtual reality they had at GDC were pretty cool to see in motion, even though the lines to use the machines were about 4 hours long each.

Re-connecting

I don't really think that there is that much we can do to re-connect mainly because I don't think our group has been disconnected. If we were more unconnected then what we could do would be to just schedule times to get together and do something as a group or, if not the entire group, smaller groups because a lot of people don't have much time to do extra circular activities because of work and classes.

Stretching and Warm-Ups

To be honest, and I am not trying to be smug or anything like that, I already do just about everything we covered in Tuesday’s class. I may not do every single stretch that we covered, but I do do most of them. I always stretch before I work out, run, or do anything that could be strenuous to my muscles. I usually stretch for about 15 minutes before I do any of these activities. Whenever I go to soccer practice, when I went to football practice in high school, or whenever I have a game of any sort, I generally stretch when I get there before the practice or game even starts even when we are going to warm up and stretch as a team anyways. Instead of rolling with the foam roller, I have something called The Stick, which is pretty much just a hand held version of it. And because I can’t think of anything I can add to my stretching or warm up or anything else to add to this blog response from what we learned about in class on Tuesday and I also need to get this to 200 words, I’m just going to keep…

SMART Goals

I’m going to start off by saying that I did not make any SMART goals. The reason I did this is because I don’t really like making goals like that. I find that when you make a goal, there are times that you can get too overwhelmed in trying to achieve what you already set out to do, which is pretty much setting yourself up for failure. You may not fail the goal by doing this, but there will be something else that you will forget about because you are too focused on your goal. The main reason I do not set goals, is just for that reason. I don’t want to fail. My soccer coach from 3 years ago made us make goals before every game. One game when we were playing our rivals from Danville, I made a crazy goal, which was to get 25 jukes in the game. I ended up actually accomplishing this goal and finishing it by juking out a guy 5 times in a row in the last 5 minutes. If the team was any better, my goal could have affected the rest of the team because maybe I would have lost the ball a lot more than I did and we could have lost. The next season, we stopped making goals because a few of us realized that we didn’t need to make goals to do well in our games.  

My Diet

To me, my diet is very important not only because I want to be healthy and live a healthy life, but because I am also an athlete. If I want to perform my best, then I have to eat healthy, or at least mostly healthy. I do not perceive my diet as something that would help me work harder or study harder. I think of all food as some sort of fuel and as long as I’m getting fuel, I will be able to work and study as I normally do every day. I do see my diet as something that helps me with other activities though, like I mentioned earlier, I am an athlete and I need food, and good, healthy food to help me perform at the best of my abilities. It is also important when I’m doing just about any other physical activity like running, lifting weights, or skiing. Without a good diet, I would probably not be able to do these activities to my full capabilities. One dietary change I would make would be to have more healthy food in my room. It is kind of hard to have that much healthy food in a dorm room because there are not really many places to store it all. Most of the foods that can be stored outside of a fridge are unhealthy or on-the-go food. I also don’t have a car to be able to go shopping whenever I need to, to be able to stock up on healthy food. Because of this, I have to deal with what the BRC has in store for me. Even when I’m there I try to eat healthy but not eating a lot of the deserts and always having fruit every time I go. The change that I would have to make, and that I will make next year, to be able to have the diet that I want and need would be to live off campus and have a car. Living off campus would allow me to make and store my own food a lot easier and having a car would allow me to get to the store and buy food and ingredients a lot easier.

My Part of the Bike

I feel like I would be the pedals. From what I got from watching the video is that the pedals are like a manager or someone who sets the pace and keeps everything going. They also relay information to the rest of the bike to get things going. The pedal also seems like one of the first steps in the drive train to get things going, obviously the teacher being the one riding the bike and the one that actually gets the bike moving. If I were the pedals, that would mean that I would be listening to the teacher's directions and trying to set the pace and get everyone going in the right direction. Because I am the pedals on this bike, I would have to give 100% of my effort just to keep the bike moving. If I give any less, the bike will start to slow down and it might even fall over. This semester, what I will try to do is to make sure everything rides smooth for the rest of the year. In class, once we get our instructions I will try to be the one that puts them to action and also gets everyone else in the class up and ready to do whatever we have to do. The pedals on my bike will never stop moving because I will always be trying to do the best I can with what I have. If someone is down and out, I will try and help them back to where they need to be. Because I am the pedals on this bike, I need to get everyone to not only listen to me, but to listen to everyone else. If something goes wrong in the some other part of the drive train, I can’t just keep going at full speed, I need to stop or slow down and try and fix the problem. If one part of the bike is broken, then none of it will work.