Reflection
This week in my hour allotted to working on my Genius
Hour project I did the background research for my question. While I am very
interested in getting more people involved in physical activity and living a
healthy lifestyle I first decided to research if Canadians were having problems
with being active. It surprised me that through my research I discovered that
Canadians were being less active as they aged. I thought that as people aged
they would see the benefits of being physically active and live this lifestyle.
Learning that as you age you become more physically inactive concerned me as it
can lead to greater health risks in the future.
The information that I researched provided me with more enthusiasm and
motivation to find out ways to increase the physical activity levels in the
community. While I may not be able to develop a plan to increase the activeness
of all participants my research has led me to hope that I will be able to offer
suggestions on how individuals can increase physical activity in their daily
lives.
Questions from my
research
The research that I conducted was surprising to me but it
did not raise a lot of questions. The two main questions that I had while
researching physical activity levels were what was the cause of the decline in
activity as one ages and what was the parental role in physical activity? While
these questions both came up I will be focusing more on the decline in activity
as a person ages and hopefully creating suggestions to reverse the trend.
What is to come!
After my preliminary findings on the physical activity
levels in Canada I decided that I should research the ways to increase the
levels and what is already being done. I hope to discover suggestions that can
be made to alter the decline of physical activity in adolescence. I plan on
doing more research into what is being done to increase the physical activity
levels in schools and other tips on how to live a physically active life. I
also intend to research on what the benefits of being physically active may
have on a person. Researching these benefits and providing facts to people may
cause them to want to be more active in order to increase their health. While I
hope on being able to complete this research I am aware of the time constraints
and do not want to take on too much. I will keep the main focus on providing
suggestions to increase physical activity levels throughout the research.
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