Progress Report for Week 1

Here is a progress report for the required FitDay entries from Week 1:

• 9/5/07

• Diet - not accurate, needs corrections
• Workout - good to go
• 9/6/07
• Diet - nothing entered
• Workout - good to go
• 9/7/07
• Diet - I entered it all myself as an example for students to use
  
• Workout - I entered it all myself as an example for students to use
• 9/8/07
• Diet - nothing entered
• Workout - good to go
• 9/9/07
• Diet - nothing entered
• Workout - recovery day, so there is nothing to be entered
• 9/10/07
• Diet - not accurate, needs corrections
• Workout - good to go
• 9/11/07
• Diet - not accurate, needs corrections
• Workout - good to go

The only presentation that has been mailed to me has been the one from Renee and Stef. The other two are still missing in action as of noon on Wednesday. Kinda late now, you might say.

It really looks like the students working on the diet have a long, long, long way to go to meet the expectations of the class that the students working on the fitness are readily addressing. This is disappointing. Too much about the diet is being left to chance. I don't agree with that strategy, but maybe it'll work for them. I do feel as though I have wasted my time spent on documenting my dietary intake, in the hopes that it would be entered each day into FitDay as required. If it's not going to be used, then why do we bother taking the time to write it?

So it naturally leaves me worried about my students' grades. Of course, participating in the class requirements only counts for 50% of the total grade, which means 50% of the grade is based on analysis papers and the ending physical measurements (weight, blood test results, bp, resting hr, mile time, 100-yard time, etc.) but as all of the readers already know: diet makes up a huge portion of how fit an individual is. Thus, leaving the diet up to random chance affects the grades of those other students working on fitness. For instance, if I'm just eating and drinking whatever I please, and no one on the diet team monitors or cares (beyond a presentation given once a week, but not sent as repeatedly requested), then obviously I won't be able to run as fast as I could under more strict dietary conditions. If I was a student working hard on fitness, and I realized how other people who weren't pulling their weight could affect my grade, I know exactly how I'd feel.

Of course, if a student is an outstanding writer and has absolute perfection with all the analysis papers, and blows off the rest of the course, they'll make a .... 25. Hmmm...probably not the wisest approach for anyone interested in a good GPA in their first term.

Am I mad? Nah. Life is all about choices. I value that highly. Am I disappointed? Yeah.

Who wants some double-cheese sausage pizza and an ice-cold beer or three? Anyone? Anyone?