Journal Entry 8

Physical Education

Journal Entry 8

Tuesday 23rd October, 2018

Theory

The topic highlighted today was about fitness. The students were asked what fitness means to them. Its quite obvious that someone would reply by saying you must exercise to keep the body fit. Therefore, the lecturer send a link for us to watch on Youtube so we can discuss in our groups. I learnt along with my group members that fitness is not about the body alone, it is the ability to meet the demands of the environment. It simply means are you fit enough accomplish the task within that environment. For example, an old man needs to full all seven buckets before the water goes. Is he fit enough to full all seven buckets plus before the water is locked off? 

The next term I learnt the real meaning of is health. Health is a state of complete mental, physical and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. To state it in simple terms, health not about the body alone but also the mind and how an individual communicates out of his or her personal space. For example, an individual can be body can be rated healthy by the doctor but if they can't socialize well with others or are having a mental problem, that individual is not deemed to be healthy. 

The last term learnt was exercise. Exercise is a form of physical activity done to maintain or improve health and/or physical fitness, it is not competitive sport. This means exercise is about improving one's health by walking, jogging and many other motor skill. Playing football or cricket is not exercise. 

Practical

The task for this practical session focuses on choosing four different exercise activities to present. Before this occur, each pair checked the pulse of their partner before practicing their pair activity. The lecturer asked everyone to check their partner's pulse for 30 seconds before presenting began. Once the presentation finished, each pair checked their partner pulse again for thirty seconds. The amount of beats moving in the pulse felt, you multiply it by two to get the correct answer. For example, I felt twenty-four beats moving, resulting forty-eight beats per minute. I multiplied my first answer by two hence the reason for my results. After that activity, class session concluded.