Senior Project Goals:

•  Figure out what is the optimal diet and exercise routine for my goals as a person.
• Create a cookbook that will benefit me and help me get over my picky eating habits, but also help others get into eating healthy and enjoy good food.
•  Learn what it takes to become involved in fitness and nutrition.
•  Learn what it takes to make a cookbook and create a platform to share my knowledge.

 

Schedule:

Week 1 and 2: April 12 – April 23 → 

Diet: High Protein / High Fat Weightlifting Diet

Meet with a dietitian/nutritionist.

Book: Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Mathews

 

Week 3 and 4: April 26 – May 7 → 

Diet: Mediterranean Diet

Talk with Coaches and fitness advocates about their fitness and nutrition.

Book: The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer

 

Week 5 and 6: May 10 – May 21 → 

Diet: Whole30 Diet

Talk with fit people in my life about their fitness and nutrition.

 

 

These are just the main structures of each section of my project, but on the athletic side, I will be weightlifting daily, going on a run every morning, playing basketball almost every day. I will also be cooking at least one new meal a day and will be spending a lot of time preparing the food I am eating. Also, I will be conducting 1-2 interviews and meetings in every 2 week section with the fitness advocates and professionals I mentioned above and reading a new book every 2 weeks. This will be followed with weekly blog/journal posts, documenting my project so I can remind myself how each week went, and actual work itself on design and construction of my cookbook. All this work will definitely meet the 30 hour a week requirement.

 

Documentation Plan: For the documentation part of my project, I want to create an informational cookbook. I want to make a cookbook from all the new foods that I have been eating throughout the project and make it into a cookbook for others to use. I would pick my favorite dishes but would also incorporate information for every dish on the standards that I based my spreadsheet on. How did this make me feel, how did this impact my performance, etc. I will also have sections for each 2-week period and the diet I went on, describing my experience with the diet. I will look at how the diet impacted my muscle growth, keeping me full and energized and the effect it had on my body; describing how it impacted my own body, and how it could impact others. I will measure certain standards at the beginning of each new diet and at the end, to look at how the diet itself impacted my body and which diet was most effective. For example, recording my 2-mile time before and after, and seeing how much it went down, or my bench press, or my squat. In addition, I would include my daily spreadsheets and notes from each diet in my cookbook to show what my day looked like and how I felt throughout the day.