Welcome to Day 2!
Welcome to Day 2!
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Getting Started
Getting Started
Ninja Highlight - Trinnie Bush
Ninja Highlight - Trinnie Bush
Checkout American Ninja Warrior, Trinnie Bush's video on how she overcame her fears to setup up to the podium winning numerous ninja competitions, competing on American Ninja Warrior all while working as a PreKindergarten teacher.
Why do we get dehydrated?
Why do we get dehydrated?
What Is Dehydration?
What Is Dehydration?
When it's hot outside and you've been sweating, you get thirsty. Why? Thirst can be a sign of dehydration (say: dee-hye-DRAY-shun). Dehydration means that your body doesn't have enough water in it to keep it working right.
A person gets water by drinking and eating. You lose water when you sweat, urinate (pee), have diarrhea, or throw up. You even lose a little water when you breathe.
Our bodies need water to work properly. Usually, you can make up for the water you lose — like when you come in from outside and have a long, cool drink of water. If you don't replace the water your body has lost, you might start feeling sick. And if you go too long without the water you need, you can become very ill and might need to go to the hospital.
How much water should I drink?
How much water should I drink?
Source: KIDS HEALTH: https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/water.html?WT.ac=k-ra#catfit
What do you, the trees, and a hamster have in common? Give up? You all need water. All living things must have water to survive, whether they get it from a water fountain, a rain cloud, or a little bottle attached to the side of a hamster cage.
Without water, your body would stop working properly. Water makes up more than half of your body weight, and a person can't survive for more than a few days without it. Why? Your body has lots of important jobs and it needs water to do many of them. For instance, your blood, which contains a lot of water, carries oxygen to all the cells of your body. Without oxygen, those tiny cells would die and your body would stop working.
Water is also in lymph (say: limf), a fluid that is part of your immune system, which helps you fight off illness. Water helps keep your temperature normal. You need water to digest your food and get rid of waste. Water is needed for digestive juices, urine (pee), and poop. And you can bet that water is the main ingredient in perspiration, also called sweat.
Besides being an important part of the fluids in your body, water is needed by each cell to work.
Your body doesn't get water only from drinking water. Any fluid you drink will contain water, but water and milk are the best choices. Lots of foods contain water too. Fruit contains quite a bit of water, which you could probably tell if you've ever bitten into a peach or plum and felt the juices dripping down your chin. Vegetables also contain a lot of water — think of slicing into a fat tomato or crunching into a crisp stalk of celery.
Dehydration Experiment
Activity adapted from http://www.sciencefairadventure.com/ProjectDetail.aspx?ProjectID=230Dehydration Experiment
Materials
Materials
1 potato (small or medium size)
2 dishes or saucers (deep enough to hold about a half-inch of water)
Cutting board
Knife
Salt (about 2 tablespoons)
Water
Piece of paper
Pen, pencil, or marker
Adult supervision
Procedure
Procedure
Take your paper and label it with the word "salted" and place it on a table or other flat surface.
Place one dish on the paper and the other dish next to it on the table.
Fill each dish with an equal amount of water (the water level should be high enough to fill the dish, but not so high that it overflows).
Stir two tablespoons of salt into the dish marked "salted'.
Using your knife and cutting board, cut the potato in half to make two equal size pieces. (This step should be completed by an adult)
Place one-half of the potato, flat side down, into the dish marked "salted".
Place the other half of the potato, flat side down, into the dish with plain water.
Let the potatoes sit in the dishes undisturbed for about an hour. Once the hour is up, allow students to observe the results.
Discussion
Discussion
What differences do you notice about the pieces of potato?
What conclusions can you draw from this experiment in relation to dehydration?
Training and Conditioning
Training and Conditioning
Meet Dr. Volberding
Meet Dr. Volberding
What is athletic training?
What is athletic training?
Athletic training encompasses the prevention, examination, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of emergent, acute or chronic injuries and medical conditions. Athletic training is recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA), Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as an allied health care profession.
Training safely
Training safely
As we get more intense with training and start ninja it's important to understand how to be safe when training. Ninja can involve significant injuries and to be a successful athlete, you must learn to be safe when training and competing.
Important Guidelines
Always warm-up and cool-down
If it hurts, listen and get checked
Training is a process! It takes time and patience. Frequency is important to continue progress but rest days are important for recovery.
Day 2 Training
Day 2 Training
You can do this! Let's go, Day 2!
You can do this! Let's go, Day 2!
Jump rope or jump in place for 1 minute
Lateral deltoid raises: Repeat 6 times
10 pushups, you are welcome to start on your knees. Be sure to keep your back straight!
Bridge Leg Lifts
Lay on your back with your hands by your sides, your knees bent and feet flat on the floor. Make sure your feet are under your knees.
Tighten your abdominal and buttock muscles.
Raise your hips up to create a straight line from your knees to shoulders.
Squeeze your core and try to pull your belly button back toward your spine.
Slowly raise and extend one leg while keeping your pelvis raised and level.
Hold for 6 seconds
Return to the starting position with knees bent.
Perform the lift with the other leg.
Repeat 6-8 times
15 jumping Jacks
Repeat each step 3 times!
Easy stretch to cool down
Bonus Workout!
Bonus Workout!
Still have some energy? Check out American Ninja Warrior and Primate Zookeeper, CJ's pullup workout. No pull-up bar? That's okay, try using a low tree branch or bar at the playground.
OCR@HOME: The Crawl
OCR@HOME: The Crawl
Let's see if you can create your own bear crawl obstacle at home! Find some things to line up and crawl under! Chairs...tables...string between trees...get creative with what you have! Let’s see how you do crawling on the ground under this obstacle.
What muscles do you notice you use the most? What do you find to be the best technique to get through it the fastest? Rolling? Elbows and knees?
Obstacle Design 101
Obstacle Design 101
It was almost built in a day...
It was almost built in a day...
The group that designs and builds courses for American Ninja Warrior is called The ATS Team. They are a group of engineers, designers, athletes, welders and carpenters who creatively plan and execute the obstacles you see on the show. In preparation for you to design your own obstacle for Tulsa's Conquer Youth Obstacle Course, keep these things in mind...
No, they are not trying to make an impossible course.
Every obstacle can be accomplished and is designed to be accomplished. A. Smith and Co work closely with The ATS Team, studying each obstacle. They make the course challenging, but not impossible. ATS uses both professional obstacle testers and “general” testers to make sure as they’ve observed as many different people on the obstacle as they can.
A full metal shop
Brian Fowler heads up the The ATS Team metal shop. His domain is loud and full of sharp objects. He’s responsible for building the skeletons and foundations of the obstacles.
A full wood working shop
After the metal shop, the obstacles head over to Erik Petko, who leads the wood working fabrication. His domain is also very loud and full of sharp tools. When you see the course on TV, you wouldn’t expect wood to be a key ingredient of the obstacles, but it is.
Obstacle Challenge
Obstacle Challenge
Assignment:
Assignment:
By the end of this camp you will design a new obstacle to add to the Conquer Youth Obstacle Race rotation! You can upload sketches, drawings, blueprints and models of your design. All designs will be submitted to the race owners to be considered for future obstacle designs once races resume. Let's start with Step 1: learning about the engineering design process and prototyping.
By the end of this camp you will design a new obstacle to add to the Conquer Youth Obstacle Race rotation! You can upload sketches, drawings, blueprints and models of your design. All designs will be submitted to the race owners to be considered for future obstacle designs once races resume. Let's start with Step 1: learning about the engineering design process and prototyping.
Design Process for Obstacles
Design Process for Obstacles
In order to start your design, let's practice the engineering design process through prototyping. This process can be used for products, obstacles and buildings! Try this chair prototype challenge!
Daily Reflection
Daily Reflection
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