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Jun. 22nd, 2024 05:25 amI completed my online training for the Y a while ago, which included six hours of online basic life support training which was surprisingly well produced. I actually missed the people acting out the various scenarios once I made my way through all the modules. Though I do have one critique: sometimes they showed people pretending to do chest compressions on their fellow actors. Since you can't safely do that, they had to mime those compressions, and I think it'd be better to swap in the dummy for those sequences rather than show improper form.
Last night it was finally time to try out my form with the in-person session that followed that online training. It was at the Everett Y yesterday at 5pm which wasn't ideal at all. I mean, the location was great for me, but the facility is full and very loud at that time of day. We were in the Nutrition Center, which is a kitchen and dining area, and lots of people who normally use that room or cut through it kept appearing at the door. And we could hear kids screeching and running around the whole time. Luckily we were just there for practical stuff, having already done the conceptual learning.
Seriously, going there was like stepping into the Bizarro version of the Y for me. There are plenty of people when I go, but almost never any kids. I'd say maybe five times as many people were around last night, the majority were kids, and the only person I recognized the entire time was the instructor, who I'd only ever encountered once before.
And the session once again threw into focus how much women run the Y. There were four other students in the session, all women. I've only ever seen one other traditionally male name on the water fitness schedules around the county. Most of the other group ex trainers are women, and you usually find mostly women working the front desk. I think the only place there's any parity is with lifeguards, that group seems about evenly split.
Anyway, back to the form. CPR is absolutely exhausting and I really hope that I never have to do it, or if I do, that there are several qualified people so we can take turns with the chest compressions.
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I subbed for Connie yesterday which was a lot of fun because people in that class really like me even though it's not necessarily enough to convince them to switch days or do extra days to come to my class. Super friendly and fun group. Though it's funny how many people asked me where she was. Like, if someone's got the day off work, it's not really anyone's business why. If she felt like telling people, she would have announced it, and if it was emergency coverage, that's definitely not a situation where we'd be telling everyone about it.
The best part of class was when I played "Elvira" by The Oak Ridge Boys, which was a family favorite when I was a kid. Unfortunately the recording on YouTube wasn't super loud, and people were asking for more volume but it was all the way up. The crowd started singing along instead.
Last night it was finally time to try out my form with the in-person session that followed that online training. It was at the Everett Y yesterday at 5pm which wasn't ideal at all. I mean, the location was great for me, but the facility is full and very loud at that time of day. We were in the Nutrition Center, which is a kitchen and dining area, and lots of people who normally use that room or cut through it kept appearing at the door. And we could hear kids screeching and running around the whole time. Luckily we were just there for practical stuff, having already done the conceptual learning.
Seriously, going there was like stepping into the Bizarro version of the Y for me. There are plenty of people when I go, but almost never any kids. I'd say maybe five times as many people were around last night, the majority were kids, and the only person I recognized the entire time was the instructor, who I'd only ever encountered once before.
And the session once again threw into focus how much women run the Y. There were four other students in the session, all women. I've only ever seen one other traditionally male name on the water fitness schedules around the county. Most of the other group ex trainers are women, and you usually find mostly women working the front desk. I think the only place there's any parity is with lifeguards, that group seems about evenly split.
Anyway, back to the form. CPR is absolutely exhausting and I really hope that I never have to do it, or if I do, that there are several qualified people so we can take turns with the chest compressions.
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I subbed for Connie yesterday which was a lot of fun because people in that class really like me even though it's not necessarily enough to convince them to switch days or do extra days to come to my class. Super friendly and fun group. Though it's funny how many people asked me where she was. Like, if someone's got the day off work, it's not really anyone's business why. If she felt like telling people, she would have announced it, and if it was emergency coverage, that's definitely not a situation where we'd be telling everyone about it.
The best part of class was when I played "Elvira" by The Oak Ridge Boys, which was a family favorite when I was a kid. Unfortunately the recording on YouTube wasn't super loud, and people were asking for more volume but it was all the way up. The crowd started singing along instead.
