Due Date: Wednesday, November 5th
We are currently in our basketball unit. Please tell me 2 strengths of your team. Also, tell me 2 weaknesses that you and your teammates need to work on to be successful. Please remember to put your name on your Blog.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Period 2 -Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, November 5th
We are currently in our basketball unit. Please tell me 2 strengths of your team. Also, tell me 2 weaknesses that you and your teammates need to work on to be successful. Please remember to put your name on your Blog.
We are currently in our basketball unit. Please tell me 2 strengths of your team. Also, tell me 2 weaknesses that you and your teammates need to work on to be successful. Please remember to put your name on your Blog.
Period 4- Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, November 5th
We are currently in our basketball unit. Please tell me 2 strengths of your team. Also, tell me 2 weaknesses that you and your teammates need to work on to be successful. Please remember to put your name on your Blog.
We are currently in our basketball unit. Please tell me 2 strengths of your team. Also, tell me 2 weaknesses that you and your teammates need to work on to be successful. Please remember to put your name on your Blog.
Period 6 - Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, November 5th
We are currently in our basketball unit. Please tell me 2 strengths of your team. Also, tell me 2 weaknesses that you and your teammates need to work on to be successful. Please remember to put your name on your Blog.
We are currently in our basketball unit. Please tell me 2 strengths of your team. Also, tell me 2 weaknesses that you and your teammates need to work on to be successful. Please remember to put your name on your Blog.
Period 7 - Team Games
Due Date: Wednesday, November 5th
You will have two weeks to complete this blog and turn it in to me. Below are the ten general skills of physical fitness. The body is a dynamic machine and all of these skills help to make that machine run. It is my contention that you are only as good as your average across the range of these ten skills and to get better you need to raise that average. The best way to do that is to find what you are deficient in and make that better.
For this weeks’ blog I want you to rate yourself 1 - 10 in each of the skill categories. One being the worst ten the best. Once you have rated yourself, choose 3 general skills of fitness and explain 2 ways you can improve on these areas. Be honest in your rankings, and if you need a second opinion ask me.
1. Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance – The ability of body systems to gather, process, and deliver oxygen.
2. Stamina – The ability of body systems to process, deliver, store and utilize energy.
3. Strength – The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply force.
4. Flexibility – The ability to maximize the range of motion at a given joint.
5. Power – The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units to apply maximum force in minimum time.
6. Speed – The ability to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement.
7. Co-ordination – The ability to combine several distinct movement patterns into a singular distinct movement.
8. Agility – The ability to minimize transition time from one movement pattern to another.
9. Balance The ability to control the placement of the bodies center of gravity in relation to its support base.
10. Accuracy – The ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity
You will have two weeks to complete this blog and turn it in to me. Below are the ten general skills of physical fitness. The body is a dynamic machine and all of these skills help to make that machine run. It is my contention that you are only as good as your average across the range of these ten skills and to get better you need to raise that average. The best way to do that is to find what you are deficient in and make that better.
For this weeks’ blog I want you to rate yourself 1 - 10 in each of the skill categories. One being the worst ten the best. Once you have rated yourself, choose 3 general skills of fitness and explain 2 ways you can improve on these areas. Be honest in your rankings, and if you need a second opinion ask me.
1. Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance – The ability of body systems to gather, process, and deliver oxygen.
2. Stamina – The ability of body systems to process, deliver, store and utilize energy.
3. Strength – The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply force.
4. Flexibility – The ability to maximize the range of motion at a given joint.
5. Power – The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units to apply maximum force in minimum time.
6. Speed – The ability to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement.
7. Co-ordination – The ability to combine several distinct movement patterns into a singular distinct movement.
8. Agility – The ability to minimize transition time from one movement pattern to another.
9. Balance The ability to control the placement of the bodies center of gravity in relation to its support base.
10. Accuracy – The ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Period 1 -Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, Ocotober 15th
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does position for possession mean?
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does position for possession mean?
Period 2- Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, Ocotober 15th
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does position for possession mean?
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does position for possession mean?
Period 4 - Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, Ocotober 15th
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does position for possession mean?
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does position for possession mean?
Period 6 - Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, Ocotober 15th
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
1. Why is it important to anticipate the pass?
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does position for possession mean?
We are currently in our 2 on 2 unit, watch the video clip below and answer the following questions about post offense and sealing your man. Please make sure to write your name on your blog.
2. How should you make contact?
3. What does pivot to inhibit mean?
4. Why is it important to chin the ball in the post?
5. What does position for possession mean?
Period 7 - Team Games
Due Date: Wednesday, October 15th
For this weeks post I want to get more philosophical. Read the essay below, it was written by a guy named Blair Morrison and touches on the question of; are you pushing yourself or just getting by? You can find more of his essays here.
For this weeks blog. First, tell me what the essay means to you. Do you agree or disagree? You can include where you think you fall in his 90% to 10% example and/or examples of what you do that place you in that category. PLEASE REMEMBER TO PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR POST.
Fitness Is...
Potential.
Everybody has it. Few reach it.
It’s easy to assume that people despise mediocrity because the world is littered with evidence of humanity’s desire to excel—our obsession with talent, our reverence for heroes, even our love of money. It’s easy to assume that everyone wants to be his or her physical best because everywhere there are those wishing for a better body type or a better lifestyle. They fill our virgin ears with a symphony of sincerity and aspiration, but listen closer. They clamor with empty voices.
The truth is that 90% of people just want to get by. We pretend our ultimate goal is to be the best version of ourselves, reading the right literature, quoting the right sources, joining the right gyms; but the reality is far less compelling. If we are truly honest we will admit that the level to which we might possibly rise is rarely our chief concern. More important is reaching the level where we can merely survive or, at the very least, mock survival. Getting there is much easier. Getting there requires less time, less pain, and less effort. Getting there is too often there enough.
I was speaking with my father the other day about a friend of ours whose son wanted to be a college football player. He had good size and natural talent, but he was a little slow and lacked the explosive quality most big programs look for in an athlete. One evening while having dinner with this family my dad suggested that the kid hang a bell at the top of the hill abutting their property and ring it every morning before going to school. Not only would sprinting up the hill begin to build the explosive power needed for speed and acceleration but the sound of the bell would become a symbol of his dedication to the goal. I wish I could say the kid went out and rang that bell every day, or committed himself to some other program in its place, but this isn’t that kind of story. He, like many others like him, chose instead to remain a card-carrying member of that mediocre 90%.
Why? Because greatness is HARD. Our bodies don’t care about potential. They were built to survive, not to excel, and survival has gotten pretty easy as of late. Our bodies don’t know that by being stronger and faster and leaner the likelihood of illness, disease, and injury drop dramatically. Our bodies only know that it hurts like hell getting there. It takes supreme physical and mental fortitude and an unflinching, genuine ambition to overcome these hurdles. Most of us lack this and it shows.
In this story his ability wasn’t being measured against theirs or any others, only against his own potential as an individual. He claimed that he wanted to be the best that he could be, to give himself the best chance to be a college football player. But when faced with the reality of what it would take to reach that goal he balked, exposing his ambitions as half-hearted and insincere, and his athletic future to be one ridden along the tired road to the middle. This is an all too common tragedy.
After hearing this story, I sat for a minute and observed my father. He was visibly disappointed by the kid’s inability to commit himself to his goal. Yet I knew for a fact that my dad had wanted to lose weight for years and failed to commit himself to doing so in much the same way. This struck me as a prevailing irony, not just in this conversation but in our culture in general, so I decided to ask him when was the last time he “rang the bell.” He was lost for a second, then smiled wryly as he got my meaning. “Too long,” he replied.
Sadly, it seems that our praise of greatness and our distaste for mediocrity is an appreciation and expectation reserved for others. We expect Jordan or Tiger or Ronaldo to reach their potential every time they compete and we shake our heads when they fall short. But we shrug off our love handles and that occasional chocolate cake as acceptable losses. We cry for the children growing up without physical opportunities, yet lie on the couch and amicably waste ours away. We claim we’re too old, too fat, too injured, or too tired. The truth is we’re too obsessed with getting by.
The good news is that physical potential does not expire. It has no shelf life. Whatever state you’re in at whatever moment, you can always be better. SO BE BETTER. Too often people try to do this by setting a number to hit, a person to beat, or a mirror to impress, implicitly attaching a finite quality to the process. This focus is flawed. As you change and improve, so too should your potential grow and your ambition swell. Remember that fitness is a goal inadvertently attained through the systematic overestimation of yourself in all fields. It’s a byproduct of setting the bar too high, of striving for perfection and falling just short. It’s knowing that you’ll never get there but trying your damndest nonetheless. It’s constantly pushing your limits in every direction regardless of your skill. It’s finding a way to keep ringing the bell.
For this weeks post I want to get more philosophical. Read the essay below, it was written by a guy named Blair Morrison and touches on the question of; are you pushing yourself or just getting by? You can find more of his essays here.
For this weeks blog. First, tell me what the essay means to you. Do you agree or disagree? You can include where you think you fall in his 90% to 10% example and/or examples of what you do that place you in that category. PLEASE REMEMBER TO PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR POST.
Fitness Is...
Potential.
Everybody has it. Few reach it.
It’s easy to assume that people despise mediocrity because the world is littered with evidence of humanity’s desire to excel—our obsession with talent, our reverence for heroes, even our love of money. It’s easy to assume that everyone wants to be his or her physical best because everywhere there are those wishing for a better body type or a better lifestyle. They fill our virgin ears with a symphony of sincerity and aspiration, but listen closer. They clamor with empty voices.
The truth is that 90% of people just want to get by. We pretend our ultimate goal is to be the best version of ourselves, reading the right literature, quoting the right sources, joining the right gyms; but the reality is far less compelling. If we are truly honest we will admit that the level to which we might possibly rise is rarely our chief concern. More important is reaching the level where we can merely survive or, at the very least, mock survival. Getting there is much easier. Getting there requires less time, less pain, and less effort. Getting there is too often there enough.
I was speaking with my father the other day about a friend of ours whose son wanted to be a college football player. He had good size and natural talent, but he was a little slow and lacked the explosive quality most big programs look for in an athlete. One evening while having dinner with this family my dad suggested that the kid hang a bell at the top of the hill abutting their property and ring it every morning before going to school. Not only would sprinting up the hill begin to build the explosive power needed for speed and acceleration but the sound of the bell would become a symbol of his dedication to the goal. I wish I could say the kid went out and rang that bell every day, or committed himself to some other program in its place, but this isn’t that kind of story. He, like many others like him, chose instead to remain a card-carrying member of that mediocre 90%.
Why? Because greatness is HARD. Our bodies don’t care about potential. They were built to survive, not to excel, and survival has gotten pretty easy as of late. Our bodies don’t know that by being stronger and faster and leaner the likelihood of illness, disease, and injury drop dramatically. Our bodies only know that it hurts like hell getting there. It takes supreme physical and mental fortitude and an unflinching, genuine ambition to overcome these hurdles. Most of us lack this and it shows.
In this story his ability wasn’t being measured against theirs or any others, only against his own potential as an individual. He claimed that he wanted to be the best that he could be, to give himself the best chance to be a college football player. But when faced with the reality of what it would take to reach that goal he balked, exposing his ambitions as half-hearted and insincere, and his athletic future to be one ridden along the tired road to the middle. This is an all too common tragedy.
After hearing this story, I sat for a minute and observed my father. He was visibly disappointed by the kid’s inability to commit himself to his goal. Yet I knew for a fact that my dad had wanted to lose weight for years and failed to commit himself to doing so in much the same way. This struck me as a prevailing irony, not just in this conversation but in our culture in general, so I decided to ask him when was the last time he “rang the bell.” He was lost for a second, then smiled wryly as he got my meaning. “Too long,” he replied.
Sadly, it seems that our praise of greatness and our distaste for mediocrity is an appreciation and expectation reserved for others. We expect Jordan or Tiger or Ronaldo to reach their potential every time they compete and we shake our heads when they fall short. But we shrug off our love handles and that occasional chocolate cake as acceptable losses. We cry for the children growing up without physical opportunities, yet lie on the couch and amicably waste ours away. We claim we’re too old, too fat, too injured, or too tired. The truth is we’re too obsessed with getting by.
The good news is that physical potential does not expire. It has no shelf life. Whatever state you’re in at whatever moment, you can always be better. SO BE BETTER. Too often people try to do this by setting a number to hit, a person to beat, or a mirror to impress, implicitly attaching a finite quality to the process. This focus is flawed. As you change and improve, so too should your potential grow and your ambition swell. Remember that fitness is a goal inadvertently attained through the systematic overestimation of yourself in all fields. It’s a byproduct of setting the bar too high, of striving for perfection and falling just short. It’s knowing that you’ll never get there but trying your damndest nonetheless. It’s constantly pushing your limits in every direction regardless of your skill. It’s finding a way to keep ringing the bell.
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