Melissa Smith
10/28/2014 4:14:32 AM
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For Scouts interested in Personal Fitness Merit Badge: We will be meeting Tues., Oct 28th at 6:45pm for the initial assessment (Running 1 mile, pushups, pullups, situps, flexibility test) and an explanation of the merit badge. Wear comfortable clothing for exercise and plan your dinner wisely (fast food and running often dont mix well.) This is an eagle required merit badge that requires a commitment to developing a weekly fitness routine that you are able to carry out over a 12 week period. Remember that the fitness plan needs to be approved by your counselor (aka me - Mrs Smith) and your parents PRIOR to starting your 12 weeks of training. Once you begin your training, you will record your daily activities for your log each day that you exercise. The goal is for you to better understand the components of a fitness plan, learn the discipline and endurance needed, and hopefully experience the satisfaction of an improved personal fitness level. Fitness Plans are due to Mrs Smith by Nov 11th. Once your plan has been turned in and approved, you may begin your workouts. You may return them to me or my husband at the scout meetings, or better yet, email them to smith_1@mac.com. We will have a couple of meetings to discuss fitness, nutrition and the written requirements for this merit badge. If you are unable to completed your initial fitness tests and run on Oct. 28th and are interested in completing this MB, contact me immediately! Lastly, if you have started this merit badge previously and havent completed it, Im assuming you may want a fresh start to begin again; please attend. Thanks, Mrs Smith 817-996-7797 cell |
Melissa Smith
6/23/2013 12:18:18 PM
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For those Personal Fitness MB scouts in town, we will be meeting this Tuesday evening (June 25th) at 6:30 pm at the scout lodge for our revisit to pushups, situps, chin ups and the beloved run. Please bring appropriate clothing for exercise and your H20 bottle. Most of you should have completed your 12 weeks of fitness training by now. I expect to see completed written reports and exercise logs turned into me by the end of this month! If you are not finished with your 12 weeks of exercise, out of town or are part of a Philmont trek and needing more time for completion, please contact me immediately so that we can discuss your progress and intentions. Communication is the key. If I do not hear from you, Im assuming that you want to retry this merit badge at a latter time. Looking forward to seeing your progress! |
Melissa Smith
5/27/2013 11:14:49 AM
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All Scouts working on personal fitness merit badge, I will be at the Scout house on Tuesday, May 28th at 6:30 for a class over the health and nutrition information portion of this MB. There will be a second followup class on June 11th at 6:30. Attendance is not mandatory but will greatly benefit you in completing the written sections of the MB!! I expect detailed, accurate answers. Please bring your MB pamphlet,worksheet,paper and a writing utensil; you will want to take notes. |
Melissa Smith
3/19/2013 5:07:19 AM
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Its Spring and time to get in shape with the Personal Fitness MB! For completion of the requirements, one must complete a log over the 12 weeks, recording the activities completed. Remember that the fitness plan needs to be approved by your counselor (aka me - Mrs Smith) and your parents prior to starting your 12 weeks of training. Once you begin your training, you will record your daily activities for your log each day that you exercise. The goal is for you to better understand the components of a fitness plan, learn the discipline and endurance needed, and hopefully experience the satisfaction of an improved personal fitness level. Fitness Plans are due to Mrs Smith by March 26th. Once your plan has been turned in and approved, you may begin your workouts. You may return them to me or my husband at the scout meetings on March 19th or 26th, or better yet, email them to smith_1@mac.com. If you have not completed your initial fitness tests and run and are interested in completing this MB, contact me immediately! Thanks, Mrs Smith 817-996-7797 cell |
Melissa Smith
4/23/2012 1:12:44 PM
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Reminder-Personal Fitness MB will meet at the scout lodge at 6:45 Tues April 24th to retest 1 mile run, situps, pushups, pullups. Come dressed to run. |
Melissa Smith
4/16/2012 9:23:58 AM
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Scouts- remember that we will have our first personal fitness MB classes this week, April 17th at 6:45pm at the Scout house. Please come prepared with your MB pamphlet, worksheet or paper, and a pen. We will be going over much of the information in the first 3 chapters. How are your fitness logs coming? Hope youre enjoying your workouts and seeing improvements in your fitness levels. See ya Tuesday! |
Melissa Smith
3/21/2012 10:10:47 AM
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If you have not submitted your fitness plan to Mrs. Smith, please do so quickly!! Email works nicely: smith_1@mac.com. Remember that it takes 12 weeks of workouts to complete part of this merit badge. Our completion date goal is no later than June 17th (first day of Worth Ranch)!!
The meeting dates for written/information portions will be April 17th and May 1st at 6:45 pm. Bring MB booklet, paper and writing instrument. Mark your calendars now.
Enjoy working out in our great Texas spring weather!
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Melissa Smith
3/21/2012 9:57:21 AM
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For Scouts interested in Personal Fitness Merit Badge:
This is an eagle required merit badge that requires a commitment to developing a weekly fitness routine that you are able to carry out over a 12 week period. For completion of the requirements, one must complete a log over the 12 weeks, recording the activities completed. The fitness plan needs to be approved by your counselor (aka me - Mrs Smith) prior to starting your 12 weeks of training. Once you begin your training, you will record your daily activities for your log each day that you exercise. The goal is for you to better understand the components of a fitness plan, learn the discipline and endurance needed, and hopefully experience the satisfaction of an improved personal fitness level.
Fitness Plans are due to Mrs Smith by March 20th. Once your plan has been turned in and approved, you may begin. You may return them to me at the scout meeting on March 20th, or if you desire to begin your training over spring break,
email them to smith_1@mac.com.
We will take initial fitness parameters on March 6th. (March 20th makeup)
They will be retested on April 24th and May 29th. Put these dates on your calendars.
We will also have two class periods prior to Scouts to review some of the material required for the written components of the merit badge. The dates will be posted on the Personal Fitness blog. Please sign up for the Personal Fitness blog on the troop 17 website to receive notices. This is where I will communicate information.
You may visit http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/4/44/Personal_Fitness.pdf to print off a worksheet. Bring it to class to for note taking. Ideally I would like you to type your answers in a report that follows this worksheet as an outline. Your log can be attached.
The final written report for the merit badge, including your fitness plan and log will be due by June 17th (the first day of Worth Ranch).
I look forward to working with each of you as you obtain better personal fitness on your road to Eagle. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me or email me.
Thanks,
Melissa Smith
817-996-7797 cell
smith_1@mac.com |
Melissa Smith
5/10/2011 11:43:57 AM
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Many of you are on different time tables for completing your fitness logs and subsequently will complete your merit badge at different times. However, I would like all scouts currently working on personal fitness merit badge to complete the rest of the written requirements by June 7th. This gives you 4 weeks to complete your worksheets along with finish up school, take finals, etc... so hopefully you can pull out some good personal management skill. I will be at Scouts at 6:45 on June 7th to take final measurements for the 1 mile run, sit ups, etc.. If you cannot be there on the 7th, please contact me or Mr. Lyles to reschedule at another time. Please call if you have any questions! |
Melissa Smith
4/4/2011 7:30:54 PM
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Please remember that the first page of the worksheet on Requirement 1 (not the 2nd page) and Requirement 2 are due for a meeting at 6:45 pm Tuesday night. We will be recording measurements and running a mile again. If you havent had your fitness plan approved by Mr. Lyles or Mrs. Smith, bring it quickly; it will take you 12 weeks to complete!! This is the last week for fitness plans to be approved and started.
If you are unable to attend the meeting, you are responsible for contacting Mrs. Smith for assignments/possible makeup opportunities.
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Keith Lyles
3/29/2011 8:25:13 AM
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Meeting 29 March at 6:45. We will cover reqs 4 and 5 and pick up the remaining workout routines. If you dont turn workout routine in tonight, you may not be able to finish the merit badge until next year. Remember what Mr. Edmonds taught you in Pers Mgmt about procrastination? |
Keith Lyles
3/21/2011 12:35:26 PM
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Next meeting will be Tuesday, 22 March. Please bring your proposed routine in for review. These need to be turned in by the end of the meeting or additional requirements may be added. Also, you need to complete the running, situp, pushup, and pullup baseline; flexibility and body measurements can be completed at the the meeting. |
Keith Lyles
3/3/2011 7:26:13 AM
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For those in Personal Fitness, Mrs. Smith dicussed the general plan, assgined everyone the task of developing a workout routine and bringing to the meeting on the 8th. Mr. Lyles will be there to review these plans. Also, the baseline strength and flexibility test was completed. A couple had the "go do" to complete this baseline test prior to the 8th. If you are one of these, please bring to the meeting. Also, dont forget to register for e-mails if interested in getting updates directly. |
Keith Lyles
2/28/2011 11:56:30 AM
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Pers Fitness meeting at 6:30. Bring some running shoes and clothes. If you want to run in your uniform, that is up to you. |
