Blog 20: Interview 4 Preparation

Due Date:Friday April 15, 2016

1)Who do you plan to interview? What is the person's area of expertise?
-I plan to interview Mr. John Lugo, who is a freelance trainer.
2)Post 20 open ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.
*Interview itself is not due until Friday, April 14 to turnitin.com
*Verification sheet is due as well as the audio excerpt

20 Questions
1.)What is the best way to help an individual create and execute an effective workout/ diet plan?
2.)How should the personal trainer approach an individual that is not following the program?
3.)How do you keep people motivated?
4.)What should I be aware of when training people?
5.)How important is the relationship with the individual?
6.)How do you start helping out other individuals? What steps do you take?
7.)How do you approach an individual that lacks motivation?
8.)How do you create an effective diet plan?
9.)Is there a program you would recommend for helping an individual keep track of their diet and workout plan ?
10.)As a personal trainer what questions should you be asking your client to be able to properly help them?
11.)How do you spend your time staying fit?
12.)What must you consider when creating the individuals workout/diet plan?
13.)Is there ways to make the workout/ diet plan easier to follow?
14.)Do/did you have a mentor if yes, how did they influence you? If no, have you been a mentor to other people, how did that go?
15.)Whats your favorite part of being an instructor?
16.)What was your biggest challenge starting out?
17.)What do you consider when helping an individual with their fitness goals?
18.)Motivation.What can you tell me about it?
19.)From your perspective, what could I teach that would be significant to people wanting to be fit?
20.)What other materials should I read in this field regarding personal training.

Blog 10-Interview 2 Reflection

Interview 2
1.)Please explain how you are spending your mentorship time (is it a workplace or somewhere else? Are you shadowing?Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic? If so, what? Are there other people who are experts in the location?
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2.)How did you find your mentor? How did you convince this person to help you?
-My mentor is Justin Arceo and he is actually a friend of my sisters' so I simply asked him if he would be willing to mentor me and he said yes.

3.)How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship? How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentorship with this person?
-I am very comfortable with my mentor especially after the second interview where we asked questions to get to know them

4.)What went well in this interview? Why do you think so? What do you still need to improve? How do you know? How will you go about it?
-What went well was that I actually got to know my mentor and I got more comfortable with him. I think this was a very good thing because it means that we will be able to work out together more comfortably. I still need to set up a workout schedule with my mentor to make sure I get my hours done as well as learn in an effective manner. I will go about this by talking to him and finding days that work for both of us, but currently only weekends work for him.

Blog 5-Interview 1 Reflection

Please copy these questions and answer them in your blog. Attach a link to your video or sound file. As usual you'll want an appropriate image to lead this.

Audio:
Interview 1
Interview 1 Extra Stuff

1.)What is the most important thing I learned from the interview? Is there anything I would do differently for other interviews?
-I learned several things from this interview, one of them was that I should  try to find the workout/diet that best works for me. This was helpful because I was extremely nervous about having to lift crazy amounts of weight but my mentor told me that I would do workouts that best suited my person so as to not overwhelm myself.  Justin also explained to me about supplements that are taken to help an individual reach their fitness goal. He said that I wouldn't need any right now because I'm just doing exercises to prepare my body for the P90x and gym. But nonetheless he explained about the different types of supplements and the best time to take them.
-I realized later on that running through a practice interview would have been better so that he could  relax and prep a bit. He provided amazing information but he seemed more comfortable after we talked about the project without audio recording anything, the conversation had a more natural flow. Talking about the project without audio recording also allowed us to get more familiarized with each other which also made things run a bit smoother.

2.)Did I get additional resources and contacts? What is the most useful? Why?
-Justin didn't provide contacts, but he did give me several websites to look into, such as bodybuilding.com, darebee.com, and he also provided a couple of apps such as Freeletics and Loseit.
-All of the sources  he provided have been extremely helpful in helping me find workouts, good eating habits, and helping calculate macros and such.

3.)What makes my interviewee qualified to help me?
-Justin has been a certified fitness instructor for about 2 years now and in that time has helped several people reach their fitness goals.

Blog 3- First Interview Preparation

1.) Who do you plan to interview? Why?
-I plan to interview my mentor, Justin Arceo, because I believe that he has the proper experience to help me better understand how to properly start working out, what types of healthy foods to eat, when to rest, etc.

2.) Five questions will be assigned to all seniors to ask. What additional questions do you plan to ask?
Ask-open ended questions.

Assigned Questions
1.)I'm interested in studying Fitness. What can you tell me about it?
2.)From your perspective, what could I study that would be significant to other people?
3.)Who else would you recommend I talk to?
4.)What kinds of places or activities do you recommend for the mentorship component?
5.)What materials should I read in this field? Who else can I interview?

Additional Questions:
1.)How did you become interested in becoming a fitness instructor?
2.)Whats your favorite part of being an instructor?
3.)What was your biggest challenge starting out?
4.)How do you recommend I start my training? (Exercises, healthy eating habits, protein shakes?)