Hope you all are having a great start to the spring semester of 2011. I'll be blogging this semester, which will be my last here at Montana Tech. The goal of my blog will be to give you a glimpse into not only my life here on campus, but to promote positive health and wellness choices for all of you students out there and to offer advice on staying fit, making educated choices, and being informed about current topics in today's ever changing world of fitness.
First, I would like to start off with a blog introducing myself to you all. I am a senior in the Applied Health Science option of the OSH degree here on campus. I will be graduating in May and have been applying to Physical Therapy schools in the hopes of joining next fall and starting my journey in earning my Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. I am currently certified by the American College of Sports Medicine (www.acsm.org.) as a Personal Trainer and have had some on the job experience in that aspect as well. I plan on taking the exam to earn my CSCS (Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach) certification and use both of those tools to help with performance enhancement and injury rehabilitation in the sports medicine world.
Athletics have always been something close to my heart and I love the feeling of working hard towards a goal and being competitive. This fire lead me to my current "hobby" of Amateur Mixed Martial Arts (MMA.) For those of you who are unfamiliar, MMA is a style of fighting where many different forms of martial arts are combined into one sport. The variables include wrestling, boxing, jui jitsu, judo, kickboxing, etc and is a very diverse sport, demanding you to be efficient in each discipline to be able to succeed. I love it because it keeps me fit, entertained, and helps me relieve stress. I'll share a few pictures with you:
We have a great program going here and my team mates are the best around. We may not be the biggest club or have the most experience but we push each other to our limits and are like a family, which is one of the best feelings you can ever experience in sports.
On to my family, I have two younger brothers, Cody (17) and Trevor (13), who are good kids as well. They each have their own paths they are starting to discover in life and I'm glad that they trust me and look up to me for advice, its a very good feeling! My mother is also one of the strongest people I know and has done a pretty good job of raising us boys! Here are some pictures:
The whole Family at my mother's house about two years ago.
My beautiful Mother!
Cody and I wish Bishop Thomas at Cody's Confirmation.
All three of use boys. Trevor is in the middle and Cody is far right. Taken on the pier near Pikes Place Market when the family came to visit me in Seattle this summer.
My family is amazing and they support me in all my endeavors, which i'm very blessed to have!
So that's my life in a nut shell! I want this blog to be a very open forum type of a situation. I would love to hear questions from the reader's so I can address issues and topics that YOU want to hear about, not just what I want to talk about! So please, feel free to email me at JCBasler@mtech.edu with any thought, questions, ideas, ANYTHING that you want to hear about or gain more information on. If it is an appropriate suggestion, it will be covered!
Also, look for me for the Student Health 101 video interviews and get your voice heard! They take about 30 seconds, are very low stress, and it gives all of your peers a chance to hear your position on the topic of the month. Please check out Student Health 101 at http://readsh101.com/mtech.html
Thank you all for reading and keep checking back!
