Link Anticipation
At the beginning of this process I had no real idea what I wanted to do with my internship so I was really nervous that I wasn't going to find something that I would like.
After thinking about it my two types of careers or fields of interests would be physics and personal training. I asked my personal trainer if he would be willing to take an intern and he said yes I am going to email the college and the the physics department.
After A few weeks I haven't gotten any reply from the physics department also I was talking to my mom and we both realized that during my link there school year would be over and there might not be anything for me to do.
A few more weeks and still no response I am going to re ask my personal trainer if he would take me as an intern to make sure that it's still ok. After asking him he said yes and I am going to go take him the paperwork so I can get my internship confirmed.
I really think that personal training will be fun I really like fitness and working out and maybe hopefully learning more about this world I might want to do this as a career. I believe that I could bring a kind of young energy to my internship being able to energize and and be positive. I want to leave my mentor with an impression that I am a hard worker and a good fit for the gym so I might be able to a job after my internship.
At the beginning of this process I had no real idea what I wanted to do with my internship so I was really nervous that I wasn't going to find something that I would like.
After thinking about it my two types of careers or fields of interests would be physics and personal training. I asked my personal trainer if he would be willing to take an intern and he said yes I am going to email the college and the the physics department.
After A few weeks I haven't gotten any reply from the physics department also I was talking to my mom and we both realized that during my link there school year would be over and there might not be anything for me to do.
A few more weeks and still no response I am going to re ask my personal trainer if he would take me as an intern to make sure that it's still ok. After asking him he said yes and I am going to go take him the paperwork so I can get my internship confirmed.
I really think that personal training will be fun I really like fitness and working out and maybe hopefully learning more about this world I might want to do this as a career. I believe that I could bring a kind of young energy to my internship being able to energize and and be positive. I want to leave my mentor with an impression that I am a hard worker and a good fit for the gym so I might be able to a job after my internship.
What is link?
Link is a three week internship that all juniors at Animas high school go on at the end of the year. Before the three weeks we start to reach out to people, places, and business we are interested with interning at this can take students all over the world you can go see some of the cool places students have gone on our link coordinators DP https://ahsinternships.weebly.com/previous-internship-placements.html. We send out professional emails and call people to start to try confirming internships. Once you have an internship confirmed you can start to talk with your mentor who you will be following for the next three weeks on what your project will look like. Once your three weeks start all classes at AHS are excused and you work full time at your internship. I interned at Anytime fitness gym here in Durango my mentor was Nick Becker the owner of the anytime fitness in town also the man I am holding to the right. Anytime fitness is a global chain of gyms around the world and especially in the US that are open 24/7 Getting my internship was really easy for me I had been doing personal training with the owner of anytime Nick Becker and I told him about link one day while working out and asked if he would take me as an intern and he said yes. I did send an email to the head of the physics department up at the fort asking for an internship there but I realized that when link starts that they are in summer and I wouldn’t have anything to do, but also I never got an email back Link Project What I did for my project I built a workout routine for a high school student who wants to get faster, and be more agile. So I went onto the anytime fitness app and built this workout I gave descriptions of the routine videos of how to do the exercises well and laying the workout in order from start to finish.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18eaERlMRvO6lR-lPDACSkXGfzlfTfo1-5Gb_O-nBd_I/edit
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Link Reflection Some skills that I came into the internship having was a willingness to learn I understand that I don’t know everything and that I am doing this to learn and see if I want to do this as a career. Other skills are I have some experience in training and working out so coming into this I understand basic movements and why they work the areas they do. The most important skill I learned during link is the people skills of dealing with clients. When you have a client and you are working out they are super pumped and ready before you begin which is great but as you get into the workout they begin to be less happy, and it's not that they hate or despise you its that working out hurts, and you are the closest person they can take that out on. So I had to learn to deal with that and be encouraging at the same time. Throughout the internship I shadowed my mentor as he worked with clients, and for the first two weeks I really just watched and learned, but the first day of week three we were training a client and nick my mentor turned to me and said I want three leg exercises that focus on the quads and glutes. With only maybe a minute to think I came up with three leg exercises for this client and a transition exercise some sort of core work for the rest of the week he would do this to me with each client of his we worked with. Another way my mentor challenged me was randomly he would ask me while we were working with a client what muscle groups were working during the workout we had laid out, and why they were working. Sometimes I got it and other times I didn't and that was OK cause each time I didn’t know I would learn more. Whenever I was at the internship I was always able to do something if something needed to be cleaned I could do that if my mentor needed to work on the business side of the gym and had a client I could work with them while he went off for a bit to do whatever he needed, and on many occasions I heard him say that he loves having interns for those very reasons. So accepting other high school interns seems like a great idea for him he can get multiple things done at a time with extra help. |