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The Made2Move club experienced  highs and lows throughout the year. With disappointing days when very little or nobody showed up to pod sessions, when our mentees were not as active as we would have liked, when the maths science students were blindsided and scared away from the club to name but a few. However, there was a shift in the club when it was decided to ditch the weekly classes and just count daily steps of the mentee, either our previous mentee or someone we knew already, eliminating social distance. Guest speakers were brought in and it was great to see towards the end of the semester, a large turnout for the 5k run around the Lough.

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Weekly lectures are found in blue, Information on the pod sessions are found in orange, in purple , information about the Made2Move club can be found an in pink, information about my mentee cn be found.

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Jane joined the Made2Move club as she did not know many people and she was eager to make new friends. However, Jane also admitted that was very physically inactive and she wanted to get fit again. Jane hated PE in school back in Germany and so it had a negative, domino effect on her levels of physical activity outside of school too.
After making Jane a physical activity programme I was unhappy with her commitment to it in the first two weeks so I decided to tweak it. Jane decided to join the mountaineering club which would involve her in full day of hill-walking every Sunday. She attended the Made2Move classes very regularly and after she settled into things, her levels of PA increased enormously. She said she could feel herself getting fitter in the gym each week which was great to hear. I carried on with motivating her and offering her words of encouragement but she rarely needed it as she was so self-motivated.
Jane seemed very happy with the club at the end of semester 1 before she returned to Germany.

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The mentee that was assigned to me was a German erasmus student, studying in UCC for semester one before returning to Germany

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-41% of Irish adults do moderate or vigorous physical activity for at least 20 minutes three or more times a week. (SLAN, 2007)
-1 in 5 people in Ireland are physically inactive. (SLAN, 2007)
-The Health Behaviours in School Children Survey(HBSC, 2006) discovered that more than half of primary school age children in Ireland did not do the recommended level of physical activity and by 15 years of age, almost nine out of 10 girls and seven out of 10 boys don’t reach the recommended level.

It is because of the above figures the Made2Move club exists, trying to make Ireland active and healthy

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"The recommendations in order to improve cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness, bone health, reduce the risk of NCDs and depression are:
1. Adults aged 18–64 should do at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity throughout the week or do at least 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity throughout the week or an equivalent combination of moderate - and vigorous-intensity activity.
2. Aerobic activity should be performed in bouts of at least 10 minutes duration.
3. For additional health benefits, adults should increase their moderate intensity aerobic physical activity to 300 minutes per week, or engage in 150 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity per week, or an equivalent combination of moderate - and vigorous-intensity activity.
4. Muscle-strengthening activities should be done involving major muscle groups on 2 or more days a week." (Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health, 2019)

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"Physical activity is defined as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure." (World Health Organization, 2019)  The World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified that physical inactivity (a lack of physical activity)  is the fourth leading cause of global mortality.

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-Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health. (2019, 03 28). Retrieved from World Health Organization: https://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/physical-activity-recommendations-18-64years.pdf?ua=1
- Made to Move. (2019, 03 28). Retrieved from madetomove.eu: http://madetomove.eu/?fbclid=IwAR0J_eveiiIYCMjm_MwNjfZ547ST1r2XpFXHa8XWPa6dKqOw_IObYsbptRs
-Morgan K, McGee H, Watson D et al 2008. SLAN 2007: Survey of Lifestyle, Attitudes & Nutrition in Ireland. Main Report. Dublin; Department of Health and Children
-Nic Gabhainn S, Kelly C, Molcho M. 2007 The Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study 2006. Health Promotion Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway www.nuigalway.ie/hbsc

-World Health Organization. (2019, 03 28). Retrieved from www.who.int: https://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/pa/en/

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"Made to Move is a Physical Activity initiative designed to enable people to do what they are created to do; MOVE
The programme will result in More People, More Active and More Often.
The initiative provides support, motivation and direction to those who are currently physically inactive to incorporate physical activity into their life." (Made to Move, 2019)

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This week we looked at infographics which we all prepared using various mobile applications to represent the Made2Move training. The app which was used by my group is called Canva. We used mirroring in class to present the individual infographics. We reviewed the club’s progress since it began in September. This lesson was to be phase 4 of our design sprint. We studied the various generations and focused in on which generation would be most curious, generation x. The reason for this as they are the generation who have grown up which technology being a huge part of their everyday lives, reducing their creativity.

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This class was a phase of our design sprint. We were shown a website which conveyed the words we submitted as our answers to last week’s questions, the most recurring words, the positive and the negative ones. We revisited the ideas presented in last week’s design thinking workshop. A variety of mobile apps were shown to us in order for us to get more information and knowledge. To follow this, we were asked a number of questions on the subject of our mentee, what traits the ideal mentee would possess and what an ideal training program would look like.

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This lesson was based around a concept called design thinking. This workshop aimed to make improvements on any aspect of the club that was not working so well and no further improve the features that are aiding the positive progress of the club. A number of questions were asked of us relating to the club. The answers were all stuck up on the board and the answers which appeared most frequently were discussed and used to figure out the problem areas and positive areas and what to do to solve the problem areas.

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This session took place in the Mardyke. We were instructed on using the cardio gym with a member of Mardyke Arena staff. I found this particularly useful as I felt more confident on how to use the various machines afterwards. I had hoped to put this into practice with my mentee. Following this gym induction, we went to the outdoor running track to do the mile challenge. Having completed this, we joined Gillian in the hall for a lesson on resistance training using bodyweight exercises.

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My pod met at the electrical engineering building at 16:45 and we set up the room. We organised the music we would use, and we set out the stations for a circuit. After 9 mentees had arrived we began the class with a fun warm-up which involved mentees getting into pairs to perform stretches and pulse raising activities.

We then began the circuit. For the first round we did 30seconds activity 30 seconds rest and then move onto the next activity. For the second round, we increased the activity time and reduced the resting time as we felt it appropriate to increase the intensity. To finish the class we did a short cool down. The mentees seemed content with the session and seemed enjoy the activities.

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At the first Made2Move session, we assembled in the Electrical Engineering building. This was a screening session. I received my mentee, Jane (pseudonym). Jane is an Erasmus student from Germany. She wanted to join the club to be active and to meet other people. After greeting her I sat down with her to fill out several forms and questionnaires. When all forms were completed we then did the physical assessment. This made Jane somewhat uncomfortable, but she agreed to it nevertheless.

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Myself, Donncha, Tom, Oran and Colm are Pod 1 so we were taking the first week of Made2Move sessions. Because day 1 was a screening session, we only had to lead one session.

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This week, we had a practical class with Wesley. This session involved an introduction to resistance training and incorporating it into a training program. Wesley went through progressions and regressions of every exercise and he focused on exercising the 8 main muscle groups of the body. These exercises involved bodyweight movements and movements using light weights. He was showing us these exercises with the intention of us using them with our mentees, progressing or regressing the exercises based on the mentee’s ability and previous experience. To finish the session, we discussed the Made2Move club, how it was going, its strengths and weaknesses and where we could improve.

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In this mornings class we met in the west wing to meet 63 math science students. These were to be the new mentees for anyone that had not received a mentee previously. I helped with the screening as there were some absentees from our class. The mentee I helped screen was Rory Craig who is very active. We were informed at the end of class that the Made2Move classes have been moved to the Mardyke which is a better venue with more space for activities.

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This lecture was led by Wesley and took place in the Mardyke Arena. He taught us creative ways to interact with our mentees. He asked us to think about the individual themselves and ways to encourage them and keep them interested and happy. He said that positive affirmations are incredibly important throughout the sessions. He told us that warm-ups should be done dynamically not exceeding a moderate intensity. He told us that we should always incorporate an object of some sort such as a beanbag to add a challenge. The end of a class should always include feedback and encouragement.

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In this lecture we were given the club’s social media links on twitter and facebook in order to promote the club on our own profiles. We discussed where improvements could be made to the questionnaires the mentees had to fill out and to the organisation of the screening in general. As a class it was decided that there may have been too many questonnaires and that they needed to be condensed.

Roles were divided amongst our pod group. My role for our pod session(tonight) was to take attendance. We discussed what activities we could do for our session and made a session plan.

Gillian gave us fitness programme suggestions for our mentees and different ideas to promote physical activity we discussed.

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In this lecture we were introduced to the idea of the Made2Move club. This is a club that aims to promote physical activity in a non-competitive on-campus to begin with, with hopes of the club expanding further. We were split into our pod groups, in my group was Oran, Tom, Donncha and Colm. The club officers were introduced to us. They are Ciara, Pádraig, Alex and Cian. Gillian and Fiona then prepared us for the first Made2Move session. We were shown how to operate the screening system. We will be required to take the mentees weight, height, and waist and him measurements, along with a sit and reach test and push-up and sit-up progressions.