Hello! King Kalshiba here! Or whatever I go by on here, it's been so long since I've done a blog post.
Someone might ask, "Why has it been so long?" My answer would be, "I think it's completely stupid that I should have to do a blog, or anything on the computer for that matter, during PHYSICAL education. Yes, let me exercise my fingers. Ooo, ahhh. Because it's not like I don't that enough at the house."
Either way, to get a semi-decent grade, I need to do a blog. So blog I will.
We had to do a blog about the dance week that we did waaaaaaay back in...April? March? Well, whenever we did dance week, we were supposed to do a blog. I Really enjoyed the Bhangra day. And the line dancing day now that I think about it. Jazz and Hip hop were okay, but I didn't enjoy that as much. In my opinion, they're too complicated. Bhangra is simple and entertaining, as well as a good workout if you actually try.
We also needed a post for our fitness days. Specifically a post for the days when we tested all of our physical attributes, such as the vertical, beep test, T-test and so forth. I'll do a post on that when I actually have the scores in front of me. Because I don't have access to them right now, they are on my skype.
We also were supposed to talk about how the goals that we set for ourselves are coming along. My goal was upper body strength and a higher endurance. If I were to evaluate myself, I'd say that my upper body strength really has not gone up much since the beginning of the semester, and my endurance... well, we could debate on that. Over the course of the semester I haven't learned really so much to endure rather than I've learned how to keep going to my REAL limit rather than when my brain tells me 'Hey...HEY! Ya, your body is tired, stop running.' So, I guess my goal for a higher endurance hasn't been achieved (Not yet anyway, we'll see if that actually comes to fruition.) but I've inadvertently increased my tolerance level when working. I guess what this comes down to is really can I prove it or not. The answer? No. I've had no device to do any sort of progress tracking up until yesterday morning when I finally found my CamCorder. So once I get a bit more video I'll have some clips of me working on here. Hopefully... I said the same thing last year and I think I still have the video of a fitness day from last year. Maybe I should post that too... eh, we'll see.
Let's look at the four pillars to see how I'm doing so far. The first pillar is stuff in the actual class, in my opinion what we SHOULD ACTUALLY BE MARKED ON RATHER THAN OUR BLOG. I say that with all honesty. I can also say with all honesty that during whatever we do during PE, I more often than not give the most that I feel I'm to that day. I'm not feeling to good, I give it 75%. I'm feeling pretty good that day, let's go all the way. And if it's a fitness day I 95% of the time try as hard as I can to at the least be a good example to the others. I'm usually at the front of the class pushing myself as hard as I can. Personally, I really haven't seen this actually help anyone, but eh, I tried.
Second pillar, if I remember correctly, is something like the teamwork, or the leadership pillar. This one, if you couldn't tell, focuses mainly on, whoda thunk it, teamwork and leadership. In my own opinion, I think I do pretty good in this category. I help out with setup and teardown, I try to encourage others when I get the chance, and when Mr.Neuf leaves us to our own buisness, if Jag and Kabir aren't in charge, I try to be. Though, all things said and done, I understand why teachers are the most prone to headaches. Teens, myself included I imagine, I'm not free of guilt, don't listen very much. So it's VERY hard to get anything done. But when I can get them to listen, I do try.
The third pillar is something like lifestyle, which is about life outside of school. I'm going to be blunt, I rarely do anything outside of school to promote a healthy lifestyle. The most I can be said to do is that I ride my bike to and from school. I'll have some videos of that later. Other than that, I eat whatever is put on my plate for dinner, I don't go out of my way to see if it's 'nutritious' or 'what I need to be eating to accomplish my goals'. I take the dog out when he needs to go out, which is literally a 25 foot walk to where the dog usually takes a crap. And then back to the house. My main workout in the house is usually going up and down the stairs. Maybe if I'm waiting for a game to load I'll sit on the weight lifting machine to do a few of each of the things on there. If you haven't already figured it out, I'll have videos of that later.
The last pillar is the blog. We're supposed to have 30 blog posts by the end of the year. I'm not even going to get into that.
If I were to look at everything I've just listed above, I'd say my mark is probably around the low C- area. Anywhere from, say... 50-57%. Really the only thing I need to do more of to get a higher mark would be to get more proof and get it on here. So I'll see to doing something about that.
Either way, so there we have it, a makeup post for everything I've missed. I don't really think I have anything I need to say, so I'll be done for now.
~Roman Plante/Fang DeShadow
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Thursday, 12 February 2015
Gym 10 semester start!
What's up guys, I'm back and ready for some more action! This year we're coming back to a fit lifestyle starting in the weight room, and if you remember anything about me last year, you might remember that I specifically said I wanted to work on upper body strength. That didn't work out too well last year, so this year we're retracing our steps and getting right back to it. But this time I'm also looking to increase my endurance, so that I can run for longer, or at the very least be able to bike from the school to home without being completely out of breath.
So yesterday we started in the weight room, and Fisher (my bestest buddy, I don't care about the grammar behind that.) and I both worked from a website that told us we would be working on general strength and toning. I'm OK with that, so we started our workout, working hard until we had to go.
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20306785_2,00.html
We were able to do full reps (8-13 sets) and stopped our workout after the "alternating dumbbell fly", which I will say was not easy, haha.
Since we went through almost the entire workout, I'm think that we may have to find a different workout, as doing the same workout day after day may get tedious. But maybe not. I mean, doing the same thing over and over and over again may help because it will constantly focus the same areas.
One more thing that I forgot to mention, after the workout yesterday, my shoulders and biceps were quite sore, which I think means that I''m hitting the right areas with this workout, since those are basically what I want to work on.
All right, that's all from me guys, thanks for taking the time out of your day to read and I hope you have a spectacular weekend. PEACE!
~Roman Plante, the one with Sore shoulders
So yesterday we started in the weight room, and Fisher (my bestest buddy, I don't care about the grammar behind that.) and I both worked from a website that told us we would be working on general strength and toning. I'm OK with that, so we started our workout, working hard until we had to go.
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20306785_2,00.html
We were able to do full reps (8-13 sets) and stopped our workout after the "alternating dumbbell fly", which I will say was not easy, haha.
Since we went through almost the entire workout, I'm think that we may have to find a different workout, as doing the same workout day after day may get tedious. But maybe not. I mean, doing the same thing over and over and over again may help because it will constantly focus the same areas.
One more thing that I forgot to mention, after the workout yesterday, my shoulders and biceps were quite sore, which I think means that I''m hitting the right areas with this workout, since those are basically what I want to work on.
All right, that's all from me guys, thanks for taking the time out of your day to read and I hope you have a spectacular weekend. PEACE!
~Roman Plante, the one with Sore shoulders
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
End of the year final post... :D or :( ?
This is the end of the year post, meaning that this is what the entire year comes down to; Did I pass or NOT???
This post, and every other post, is based on what I think, and if I am wrong in what my opinion is, then I pretty much fail XD.
Also, if I failed in any of the four mandatory pillars...Fail. So let's get to it.
The first of the four pillars is participation. Participation for P.E is defined as being a team leader, helping during games, wearing P.E strip, etc... My thoughts on this? I feel that I was a team leader, I helped with game set up and tear down, I was on time for the classes, I put effort into Fitness days as best as I could, although there were a few fitness days where I probably could have tried harder... In most of the games we played, I did well. "Missing “sometimes” or having “no strip” more than once or twice should result in a failing mark here."~ Quote from Mr.Neuf's blog.
By the above standard, I would fail this pillar. I don't remember forgetting my strip more than twice, but on the chance that i have forgotten my strip three times, I am just going to say that I failed. Makes it easier than sitting down and trying to remember each individual day. I feel that it is more likely that I have forgotten my strip at least three times than not. In fact, I'm certain that I have forgotten my strip maybe four times.
The next pillar is " Social Responsibility and Contribution to the Class". This pillar includes; examples of leadership (organizing others, encouraging peers), examples of initiative (helping with equipment, helping with other classes WITHOUT being asked to), positive energy and social dynamic during activities, honesty during competition and on fitness scores, and connections with the community/volunteering. If this is what I had to do, I might have passed this section, but we'll see as we get deeper into this. I (as stated in the paragraph above) have helped organize choice day games, I try to encourage others during these games, whether they are on my team or not, I also encouraged others during fitness days to "keep going" or "You're doing great, just a bit farther". With Travis, a student from Mr.Pederson's class, if I passed him I would yell "Axious!!!" which if I remember correctly, is latin from "Halo 4: Forward unto dawn", which meant "I am worthy". me and Travis were weird like that, but this did motivate both of us to keep running around the pond one particular fitness day.
Back on track, I tried to have a positive energy during activities, but I do recall one fitness day around the pond again where I was in a bad mood. Wasn't positive then. I am honest with my fitness day scores, but I have never blogged them, because I have/had no way to record them.
I also cleaned up after outside days, so mark that down too :D.
"Needing reminders from a teacher to do the above items negates their impact… thus resulting in a failing grade here. If you need to talked to, you didn’t do well."~ Quote from Mr.Neuf's blog.
Throughout the course of the year, Mr.Neuf, or any other teachers, did not need to talk to me about my attitude, or anything else. I might have on occasion been asked to help set up a class, but that shouldn't mean that I fail. By the above pillar standards, I feel that I passed this pillar.
On with the next pillar; Healthy living. "This category includes all aspects of your past, current, and future data and goals on your health and fitness." Truthfully, I don't overly care about my fitness outside of school. Some of the teachers (actually, if I think on this, ALL the teachers) care more about my life outside of school and the choices I make about what I eat than I do. It's kinda annoying, really. My fitness scores tell me that I'm not eating enough food (True story, I eat next to nothing), and that I should be drinking more water if I'm getting an unbearable cramp at 5.6 on the beep test. My barriers in participating? None, aside from the ones my mind sets on myself because I dislike one activity or another. Since I have no posts from ANYTHING outside of school, nothing about what mountains have you climbed lately (I climbed mt.Si last Saturday, but I didn't make a post on it, so who cares?) or what did you eat for breakfast during the entire year??? OK, seriously, what kind of a question is that? That's...stalker-ish. I don't care about what I ate for breakfast, I eat cereal. Because I'm hungry. Not because it's healthy.
So, because I have no posts on my life outside of fitness, I fail this section.
Digital Portfolio and Reflective skills: this category includes all aspects of your blog posts. I had practically NO posts whatsoever throughout the course of the year. I don't even need to go through what "requirements" there are for me to have passed this pillar (But if you really care, find them here > http://teacherneufs.blogspot.ca/ )
So, I have a big announcement, you ready...? I DON'T HAVE A PHONE, OR ANY OTHER SORT OF RECORDING DEVICE! I don't know anyone else in the class well enough to ask them to take pictures of me, or to record me, I'm not "friends" in the class with anyone. What was I supposed to do for this? I don't have evidence of exercising outside of the school. I shouldn't have to have evidence. Is my bike in the bike stall not enough? So, ya, I failed this pillar too.
So, overall, since I'm failing in 3 of the pillars, I'm going to say C-. Just because I don't think that i should be graded on my ability to type. I pass. That's what I think. I'm entitled to my opinion, but the real grade comes on the report card. So, I guess I'll find out when the mailman drops it of, or I have to pick it up. Either way, we (I) find out then.
Thanks for reading my rant guys, Hope ya'll enjoyed it, lol. "Please remember to like comment and subscribe and I'll see you guys next time, ba bye" ~ King Kalshiba's ending quote from his Minecraft videos.
This post, and every other post, is based on what I think, and if I am wrong in what my opinion is, then I pretty much fail XD.
Also, if I failed in any of the four mandatory pillars...Fail. So let's get to it.
The first of the four pillars is participation. Participation for P.E is defined as being a team leader, helping during games, wearing P.E strip, etc... My thoughts on this? I feel that I was a team leader, I helped with game set up and tear down, I was on time for the classes, I put effort into Fitness days as best as I could, although there were a few fitness days where I probably could have tried harder... In most of the games we played, I did well. "Missing “sometimes” or having “no strip” more than once or twice should result in a failing mark here."~ Quote from Mr.Neuf's blog.
By the above standard, I would fail this pillar. I don't remember forgetting my strip more than twice, but on the chance that i have forgotten my strip three times, I am just going to say that I failed. Makes it easier than sitting down and trying to remember each individual day. I feel that it is more likely that I have forgotten my strip at least three times than not. In fact, I'm certain that I have forgotten my strip maybe four times.
The next pillar is " Social Responsibility and Contribution to the Class". This pillar includes; examples of leadership (organizing others, encouraging peers), examples of initiative (helping with equipment, helping with other classes WITHOUT being asked to), positive energy and social dynamic during activities, honesty during competition and on fitness scores, and connections with the community/volunteering. If this is what I had to do, I might have passed this section, but we'll see as we get deeper into this. I (as stated in the paragraph above) have helped organize choice day games, I try to encourage others during these games, whether they are on my team or not, I also encouraged others during fitness days to "keep going" or "You're doing great, just a bit farther". With Travis, a student from Mr.Pederson's class, if I passed him I would yell "Axious!!!" which if I remember correctly, is latin from "Halo 4: Forward unto dawn", which meant "I am worthy". me and Travis were weird like that, but this did motivate both of us to keep running around the pond one particular fitness day.
Back on track, I tried to have a positive energy during activities, but I do recall one fitness day around the pond again where I was in a bad mood. Wasn't positive then. I am honest with my fitness day scores, but I have never blogged them, because I have/had no way to record them.
I also cleaned up after outside days, so mark that down too :D.
"Needing reminders from a teacher to do the above items negates their impact… thus resulting in a failing grade here. If you need to talked to, you didn’t do well."~ Quote from Mr.Neuf's blog.
Throughout the course of the year, Mr.Neuf, or any other teachers, did not need to talk to me about my attitude, or anything else. I might have on occasion been asked to help set up a class, but that shouldn't mean that I fail. By the above pillar standards, I feel that I passed this pillar.
On with the next pillar; Healthy living. "This category includes all aspects of your past, current, and future data and goals on your health and fitness." Truthfully, I don't overly care about my fitness outside of school. Some of the teachers (actually, if I think on this, ALL the teachers) care more about my life outside of school and the choices I make about what I eat than I do. It's kinda annoying, really. My fitness scores tell me that I'm not eating enough food (True story, I eat next to nothing), and that I should be drinking more water if I'm getting an unbearable cramp at 5.6 on the beep test. My barriers in participating? None, aside from the ones my mind sets on myself because I dislike one activity or another. Since I have no posts from ANYTHING outside of school, nothing about what mountains have you climbed lately (I climbed mt.Si last Saturday, but I didn't make a post on it, so who cares?) or what did you eat for breakfast during the entire year??? OK, seriously, what kind of a question is that? That's...stalker-ish. I don't care about what I ate for breakfast, I eat cereal. Because I'm hungry. Not because it's healthy.
So, because I have no posts on my life outside of fitness, I fail this section.
Digital Portfolio and Reflective skills: this category includes all aspects of your blog posts. I had practically NO posts whatsoever throughout the course of the year. I don't even need to go through what "requirements" there are for me to have passed this pillar (But if you really care, find them here > http://teacherneufs.blogspot.ca/ )
So, I have a big announcement, you ready...? I DON'T HAVE A PHONE, OR ANY OTHER SORT OF RECORDING DEVICE! I don't know anyone else in the class well enough to ask them to take pictures of me, or to record me, I'm not "friends" in the class with anyone. What was I supposed to do for this? I don't have evidence of exercising outside of the school. I shouldn't have to have evidence. Is my bike in the bike stall not enough? So, ya, I failed this pillar too.
So, overall, since I'm failing in 3 of the pillars, I'm going to say C-. Just because I don't think that i should be graded on my ability to type. I pass. That's what I think. I'm entitled to my opinion, but the real grade comes on the report card. So, I guess I'll find out when the mailman drops it of, or I have to pick it up. Either way, we (I) find out then.
Thanks for reading my rant guys, Hope ya'll enjoyed it, lol. "Please remember to like comment and subscribe and I'll see you guys next time, ba bye" ~ King Kalshiba's ending quote from his Minecraft videos.
Monday, 5 May 2014
WAZZZZZZZZZUP!!!!
lol, okay that was for the fun of it, i needed to get that out. That's actually from an old budweiser commercial, found here >
While i was on youtube, i saw this, so i added it. it will only make sence if you watch the first video.
Sooooooo.... Ya. My blog really could be better, i don't have as many posts as i should. I have 2 videos that i edited for this blog, i just haven't gotten around to posting them here yet... Eventually i will though... Maybe. XD
My family just moved into a new house, so i haven't been able to ride my bike for the last week (@Yulia from Day 1 band, i think i live in the same complex as you, but i could be tottaly wrong...)
but i think that my step-dad and i are going to clean out the garage today, so hopefully tomorrow i will be riding my bike to and from school again.
soooo... hmmm
that's all i can think of... lol, watch those videos, and when ever you see me, ya'llz gotta "WAZZZZZZZZUP!!!!" me like a pro, alright?
good.
~Roman, the bud guy
Sooooooo.... Ya. My blog really could be better, i don't have as many posts as i should. I have 2 videos that i edited for this blog, i just haven't gotten around to posting them here yet... Eventually i will though... Maybe. XD
My family just moved into a new house, so i haven't been able to ride my bike for the last week (@Yulia from Day 1 band, i think i live in the same complex as you, but i could be tottaly wrong...)
but i think that my step-dad and i are going to clean out the garage today, so hopefully tomorrow i will be riding my bike to and from school again.
soooo... hmmm
that's all i can think of... lol, watch those videos, and when ever you see me, ya'llz gotta "WAZZZZZZZZUP!!!!" me like a pro, alright?
good.
~Roman, the bud guy
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Semester end, new blog start
Over the course of the first semester, i feel that i tried really hard, but couldve tried harder. My goal to be stronger by the end of the year, i feel, hasn't had any steps taken toward it. I heard a quote from some video or another, and it really inspired me. The quote was a journalist talking to a marshal artist, and the journalist asked "how many push-ups do you do?" The marshal artist replied "I don't count how many push-ups i do. I start counting when it starts hurting." This inspired me because it says that improvment only comes when you go beyond your limit(i'll have the video link below.).
If i had to grade myself, and i do, i would have to say that probably got about a B.
~Roman, The inspired
If i had to grade myself, and i do, i would have to say that probably got about a B.
~Roman, The inspired
Old blog gone new
Okay, so here it is, my blog from before. My old blog is having technical difficulties, so i am going to move it all to this blog.
~Roman the guy who sucks with computers
(I don't know how well this will work, but i tried.)
~Roman the guy who sucks with computers
(I don't know how well this will work, but i tried.)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)