White Man CAN Jump!?
I hope through my rigorous training that I made Woody Harrelson proud! For my learning project, I researched how to increase my vertical jump. My goal was to increase my vertical roughly 10% within the 6 weeks I gave myself to do so and while I did hit that mark, I also decreased those gains…
Contribution to the Learning of Others
My contribution to the learning of others was probably less than most. I wanted to only really give valuable and/or usable advice/resources that would actually help people. My contributions: …
Mandatory Use of ChatGPT in English 100!?
Wait…so when AI and ChatGPT can get you kicked out of University… we were told to use it for an assignment? Not only that but we were told to teach the AI to write the essay for us?! Believe it or not, that was one of the main assignments in my previous ENGL 100 class.…
Riptide in Space!
The Hour of Code project I decided to do was the “NASA Space Jam” in which you make a song (or honestly any noise) out of orbiting planets! I immediately thought of trying to recreate the song Riptide by Vance Joy since I have been learning some Ukulele songs. Initially the website walks you through…
Week 6: Lets Talk Science
I hate to say it folks…my old friend injury has come back to haunt me. While battling machinery at work that was roughly twice my weight, my back lost the battle. This week I was able to partake in a 3 hour Volleyball practice in which my movements were slower and certain jumping/swinging motions were…
1 in 3 people will click on this blog…
Are you one of the lucky 1 in 3 people to have clicked on this blog? How do you even know 1 in every 3 people will click on this blog… because I sure don’t. Look how easy it was to come up with a statistic that is reasonably believable. Despite having done zero research…
“Would your Grandma be fine seeing that post?”
2 of the 9 Elements of Digital Citizenship really stood out to me and those include… Digital Etiquette The way I learned digital etiquette was “If you wouldn’t be okay with your grandma seeing that post, don’t post it”. Just like how we are usually taught to think before we speak, we should also be…
Week 5: Deloading. Is rest…good?
June 3rd: In the same way that drained batteries need to recharge, so do our muscles. After rigorous activity, the muscles need adequate nutrients and rest in order to recover and comeback stronger. Lark.com (among many other sites) even says that rest could help break plateaus; a core struggle faced earlier in the program.…
Week 4: Single vs Double Leg Movements
This week I decided to see which was better, single or double leg movements in terms of increasing my vertical. What I found really shocked me but unfortunately, I wish I had knew some of this information ahead of time. According to this study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, single leg plyometric…