Reflective Narrative On Weight Training

Reflective Narrative 1 Over the summer in 2016, I began practicing bodyweight training (calisthenics). This was about a year after I had begun weight training. The small amount of training (but substantial results) made me want to share my experience with other people who were interested in weight training in order to advance their body awareness, athletic capabilities, and self esteem. Therefore, I began to base my senior project around calisthenics and efficient muscle and strength growth processes.

I knew that in order for my project to be a success I would need people to train. So I made a list of about ten people that I knew were intrigued by weight training and contacted them. I also needed to reserve the school weight room for the training sessions. This led me to talking to my weight training coach, Jacob Schauffler. He’s been training me for about a year and a half now and I knew he would be willing to help. With his help and my own research I studied successful and efficient workout regiments. Especially those based around calisthenics. And began building personalized workouts for my subjects.

From there out it has only been he and I training from 3:30 to about 4:00 P.M. Tuesday through Thursday since the first week of November. We are currently awaiting his departure because he is one of the foreign exchange students and I will continue with another student for the rest of my project. Another setback would be the week of January 2nd through the 7th where all students were excused from school because of inclement weather. But there have been many successes in my project. These include the shattering of personal records of my subject. And devotedness to the plan of making gains using