Culminating Blog Reflection

             From doing this Capstone Project with my mentor it helped me to see the different things you could do. Such as my mentor help me through my injuries he helped me go through rehab nd to get better. My thinking through this process makes me want to become a trainer because all the things you know about different types of bodies how you could help a person to get through there pain or even when they are injured. Other things are like when you are working out you shouldn't be working out more than 3 hours there is time limit to workout. Something you could learn by this is that communication skills you could communicate a lot with your partners while you are trainer your partner you could talk to them ask them how the pain is or what you are trying to accomplish through the end. It made me think to become a trainer you will have to go through a lot of school work and think about what you could do because you could just make someone more hurt if you don't know what you are doing. It may look like its a lot of work but then its going to pay off later on when you accomplish all the things to become one.

              From this Project I gain a lot of experience working out with my mentor because he showen me through process how to get to your one goal or like to know what to do or what not to do while you are working out. Some experience I've been through is that you shouldn't push yourself through every obstacle because it may cause an injury to your body. Another thing I would tell you is that a trainer will always work you out the hardest but then they will know how long you could handle it and when you could not because it will seem like you are tired but then really you are just giving up on yourself. Some social things I did with my mentor was asking him a lot of question if something happened to me what would I do? or even if anything crazy he ever did or to rehab that one injury he did with another patient. Some intellectually stuff we had was when I kept getting injured the thing about that is that when I was kept getting injured because I wasn't use to the things we were doing such as basketball I wasn't practicing because of my injury but then every time I tried to get back on the court I end up getting hurt again because my body wasn't use to the things they were doing.

         Some challenges I face was maybe the first week training with him because I didn't know what we were going to do or the things he was going to do to me. Such as what if the first day he just push me to the limit where I began to throw up or something. Maybe something I already know that he is already doing. The things he challenge me with was running on the treadmill for a long period of time and another thing is when I was lifting weights because I wouldn't know how to carry it a certain way or how many pound I could lift for a certain amount of time. Some stuff I overcame was when I was running on treadmill it may took me probably a week to start getting the hang of running in a good amount of pace without stopping for at least 30 mins or so. Then at the end of the session I learn how to carry most of the weights in a certain place and to see how much weights I could lift at the same time.

11th Workout Session May 7, 2014

May 7, 2014 This was my 11th workout session with my mentor. It may be my last workout session with him too. Today he wanted to do every circuit in this gym from the main floor to the 2nd floor. The first thing we went on was the bicycle it took us around 15-20 mins. Next thing was step masters everything we did was atleast 15-20 mins because we did not want to push ourselfs so much since we are doing everything in this gym. Then we went on the treadmill we ran on it for 30 mins. After that we went on the bicycles. Then we went on the abs workout session. That took us an hour to finish all of the abs workout session. The next thing we did was to do our upper body spot where we could do our upper shoulder and our arms. Then to finish everything off we went to the 2nd floor and did a yoga session in this little room. Today my goal was to see if I remember everything in this was in here and how if I accomplish anything from this pass few weeks then my next goal is to keep up my good work and never give up on what im doing.

Time logged for this session: 3 hours

Total time logged: 26 hours

10th Workout Session May 6, 2014

May 6, 2014 Today was my 10th workout session with my mentor. So today we worked on our upper body again we went off to go to the dumbells facing the mirrors we did that for at least 4-5 reps. Then we went off to the bench instead of doing 25lbs I did 30 lbs on each side and I did 5 reps with 20-25 times. We went back with the dumbells my mentor he taught me something new so the thing he did with me was doing lunges with 20lbs dumbells so I was doing it from one end of the room to the other end so I did that for 2 times. Then the next thing we did was our squats so instead of my mentor doing it with me he just end up watching me do it. I was doing 3-4 reps and I was doing 20 times per reps. Of course to finish everything off we went to the treadmills and ran on it for 1 hour. My goal today was to see if I did better then my last workout yesterday then my next goal is get a little bolder on my arms.

Time logged for this session: 3 hours

Total time logged: 23 hours

9th Workout Session May 5, 2014

May 5, 2014 Today was my 9th workout session. So today we went to go workout with our upper body. This was our accomplishment before starting it was like our agenda of the day just to work with our upper body. So the first thing we did today was lifting weights as in dumbells, squats with weights, and to bench. That is all we did today. For the dumbells that is something we did something easy with because it only goes up to at least 25lbs and we were using 2 of them while we are doing it theres 2 dumbells while we are lifting it. Next thing we did was squats we grab a plate 15,20, or 25 lbs. We carried close to our chest then start to did squats with it we did it for at least 3-4 reps and we did 15-20 times each reps. Then we went off to the bench as in while we layed on our backs we had a bar over our heads and I had 25lbs on each side and I did 20 times and 4 times. Then to finish everything off we ran on the treadmills for at least 30-45 mins. My goal today was to do some upper body workouts then my next goal is to get my upper body stronger.

Time logged for this session: 3 hours 

Total time logged: 20 hours

8th Workout Session April 19, 2014

April 19, 2014 My 8th workout session with my mentor. So today is the day to run Lake Merced in Sunset. So I met up with my mentor at the gym to get my blood flowing so I ran on the treadmill for an hour I was just jogging it for awhile. I wasn't doing it in a fast pace or anything. Then I got off of it and my mentor told me to come with him then we went off to go to Lake Merced with him. When we got there it seemed like this big lap is going to take me at least 3 hours. So pretty much the first thing we did was to stretch off to the side and to make sure we won't pull any muscle or anything because if you pull anything in your body that means you didn't stretch out enough. Then after stretching we went off to go run it we were jogging it for a while we had to hold our own water bottles while were running. It was pretty sunny when we were running but then it was getting windy because  it was kind of near the beach (ocean beach). Anyways we were jogging it for at least a good 20 mins then I started to get tired and I kind of stop but then I had to push my self to keep going. We ran a quarter of it then we took a break to get some water. So pretty much we stopped 4 times and we ran it in like 2-3 hours because we ran around it 2 times. If we ran it 1 time it be a waste of time so we just ran it 2 times. It was pretty tiring to run it but it was pretty good I started to get my pace going. So my goal today was to see if I could of ran this lake merced if my workout in the gym help me with anything. My next goal is to see if I could accomplished anything from lifting weights.

Time logged for this session: 3 hours

Total time logged: 17 hours

7th Workout Session April 18, 2014

April 18, 2014 This was my 7th workout session. My mentor and I was just talking about if I could run the Lake Merced or not and just to tell me to keep my pace and to take my time. To start off everything today we went to stretch only our legs. The usual thing we did was to go on the treadmill for an hour then we went to do some leg press. I lift more weight with my legs then my arms so I put at least 50-60 lbs weights on both side. I was doing that for at least 5-6 reps. The only thing we did with arms was to squat with some weights with a bar on my shoulder and have 15lb on each side to squat with that 20 times. I was doing that for 4 to 5 times. Then I went off to my self and I did the treadmill for the next 20-30 mins or so on my own and ran it in a fast pace without stopping or anything. My goal was for today to see if I am ready for tomrorow or not and to see if I accomplish anything from yesterday. Then my goal for tommorrow is to see if I could keep pace on Lake merced it is at least 4.5 miles to run it.

Time logged for this session: 2 hours

Total time logged: 14 hours

6th Workout Session April 17, 2014

Thursday April 17, 2013 I had my 6th workout session with my mentor. I have two more days until I will have to run that Lake Merced. So today I met up with my mentor at the gym to work out. The first thing I did was to stretch out our legs and arms. Then we went to the treadmill we went on that for at least an hour. Next thing we did was work on our arms so we went to do bench press. I had 35lbs on each side I did at least 3-5 reps and we were lifting it for at least 15-20 times per reps. Then we went off to the side to do our sits up, push ups, and our bicycle. We did that for 5 reps each one. Then we went back on the treadmill to finish it off we did it in a fast pace not jogging it was more than a jog. So today my goal was to accomplish what I did yesterday. My next goal was to push myself until I coud really do run it without stopping.

Time logged for this session: 2 hours

Total time logged: 12 hours