Jaden Edwards' Senior Project

  #2 Week two was interesting, to say the least. Due to our different schedules, we ended up doing a decent amount of our workouts on our own instead of working out together. I will say there are both pros and cons to working out in a group. A pro about working with someone else is the level of intensity. When you have a partner in the gym, just like a trainer, they can help push you to muscle failure or even beyond failure by adding cheat reps to the end of a workout set (shortened range of motion on an exercise and the help of other muscles to exert the same amount of force). A con of working out in a group is that you will oftentimes get distracted and take longer rest periods. When you take a longer rest period, over time, you will be working your muscles less. If you can control how long you rest with a timer, you can make sure you are working your muscles as hard as possible. We also do not have the same gym membership so when we do work out in one of our homes, we have limit...

For my Senior Project, I decided to choose a hobby that I have been very passionate about since the start of the pandemic, which is Fitness and Nutrition.  For the last 14 months, When I was not in class, I could usually be found at the gym working out or on my computer researching ways to improve my diet. When I found out that two of my friends had a similar idea for their senior project, we decided to group together and work as a cohort. What separates my cohort’s senior project from a lot of the rest is that our project is dealing with a complete lifestyle change. We are trying to do everything we can to optimize our diet, workouts, and sleep. Coming into the project with a lot of prior fitness knowledge definitely helped get the planning done quite early. Being athletes, we all knew the intensity we would be working out with.  To create our project, we did a good amount of research about how to optimally diet and work out. Starting with the diet, we use an app called Myfit...