reflection action

Reflection action

For the past two years I have done tennis as my main activity. I had played tennis before and I enjoyed so much that I decided that I would continue to play tennis. I was not very good at the beginning so my goals were to improve my technique and get a better feeling of the sport. It was not always easy to practice the technique, for example the forehand technique was harder for me than the backhand technique. But after some more practice I managed to improve my forehand technique and that really helped in playing games. I really enjoyed the practice and the experience and I will definitely continue to play tennis in the future.

I also went swimming for half a year. Swimming was mostly an activity that I did in the holidays or on the weekends. So I wanted to improve the amount of time that I went swimming because I like it a lot. Together with a friend, I went swimming almost every Wednesday. I really enjoyed to swim together with my friend because we could motivate each other. The goal was to swim 50 lanes in an hour. The first time we went swimming we were not able to reach the goal but after a while we were able to reach the goal and we really saw that our condition had improved. I also really enjoyed this activity and I might want to schedule swimming back into my week. 

Another activity I did was running. I ran about once a week for three months. The final goal was to join the Frauenlauf in Mannheim. This is a run for women and you run for a charity the organization picked that year. I ran the Frauenlauf the year before and I did not really train for it so I decided that I would train for it that year. The run is about six kilometres long. So my goal was to train myself so that I could run six kilometres without stopping too much. In the beginning this was very hard and I was very tired after the first four kilometres but along as I trained I could see that my condition became better and that I was able to run for a longer amount of time. Unfortunately, I was not able to run the Frauenlauf because something came in between. But I am planning on running it another time because the one time I ran the Frauenlauf I really liked the atmosphere and the experience in total.

Every now and then I went hiking as well. I live in an area where there are hills and small mountains. Sometimes in the weekend I would go up on the hills together with my mom and we would hike for about one and a half hour. I mainly did this for relaxation and to clear my mind. I was surprised how good hiking can help you by calming yourself. I will definitely continue hiking since it is good for the mind and improves your condition. 

I also completed a 30 day ab challenge. I was curious for this challenge and I decided that I would want to try it out. The goal was to complete the whole challenge. The challenge was not extremely hard and I did not mind doing it. I managed to complete the whole challenge and the result was better than I thought it would be and it surprised me. But to keep the result you have to keep up with the exercises otherwise your condition will drop again. I think I will do more challenges in the future. 

 

Overall, I really enjoyed my activity as part of CAS and I found out that sport can be more enjoyable as you think. 

I achieved the learning outcomes: increased awareness of strengths and areas of growth and undertaking new challenges. I really feel that I increased my tennis skills a lot and the hiking was a fairly new experience for me and I feel that it helped me balance myself more.