•Purpose
My motivation for these instructions are simply to portray accurate knowledge for lifting experts to perform a difficult exercise called the Clean and Jerk. The Clean and Jerk is a very hard lift to understand and do correctly even for knowledgeable lifters; therefore, understanding the proper form is the key ingredient, and crucial in succeeding. Improper form with an exercise such as this can lead to injury if not performed accurately. I want to inform, educate, and motivate my audience to become excited about expanding their Olympic lift exercises while feeling secure enough with my instructions to tangibly grasp and perform the Clean and Jerk. My purpose of communication is ultimately to clarify instructions so that my audience may achieve their goal in a safe and effective manner.
•Audience
We learned in Compose, Design, and Advocate that first we must “concretize” our audience. Therefore, with purpose, I should start by finding the foundation of my audience in which I am trying to communicate with. For this particular set of instructions it seems that the accurate age group will range from eighteen to thirty -years -old. Also, due to the difficulty of the exercise it will be targeted to fitness enthusiast in proper shape to adapt thoroughly. It is also designed for motivated and excited lifters with the drive to learn new exercises and better themselves mentally as well as physically.
•Context
The context of this instructions plan will be designed for people that are in a tangible, hands-on gym atmosphere. Reason being, most people do not have the weightlifting equipment they would need to perform this at home, and simply, I do not recommend it either. Therefore, I intend for most to be in a gym and have a partner or at the least a spotter in case of emergency.
•Strategies
I plan to use a sequence of numbered plans to emphasize and clarify each step of the lifting exercise efficiently. Also, visualization is very important to understand all the motions you have to go through to complete such a difficult exercise; I think a video would best capture this so the audience can understand the fluidity of the lift.
•Medium
My first plan for medium will be printable, online, step-by-step instructions with pictures in which the reader is able to take inside the gym and perform. The video will be for the audience to watch beforehand to understand the importance of fluidity within the exercise.
•Arrangement
My arrangement design will be fairly simple in a numerical step-by-step list with pictures to correlate with the instruction. I am seemingly keeping it simple to emphasize each step and the importance of every move, stance, pull, and push so that the audience will have a complete and injury free end result.
•Testing
For testing I would get friends and gym instructors to test my instructions by performing the Clean and Jerk by reading and applying my design plan to see if there are any faults or ways I can communicate better. Also I would ask a stranger at the gym to perform the lift by reading my design plan so that I may get an unbiased opinion of the effectiveness of the instructions.
Feedback
The most in depth section again is purpose. There is a fairly large difference in the purpose of this set of instructions and the one for beginner lifters. I like the idea of broadening the horizons of your lifting audience.
The least in depth section would be arrangement. I would like to know more about how specific the arrangement will be and how it will be used to motivate your audience.
This instruction set connects with what I am doing because I also have an audience that I want to motivate to broaden their horizons, just artistically not physically.
I think the instruction set (the printed out version) could be more effective if it were laminated. Because people in gyms are sweaty and that might rub off on a piece of compromisable paper. :)
Clean and Jerk
I think that the audience section was covered very well because the author specifically addresses the fact that experienced weight lifters will already have some knowledge on the clean and jerk, so this set is more addressed on improving form and preventing injury.
I would like to see if the audience section could be elaborated to go beyond just people working out at the gym to more details. Are you targeting men, women, or both, what age group. my only question I have for this section, is: are you going after people that already know how to clean and jerk and are trying to improve their form or are you going after people who put in weekly hours at the gym and want another exercise to add to their routine?
This topic relates to the topic that I am working on becasue we are both working on sports and thinking about a step by step layout for our instruction sets
If the strategy changed from a step by step piece of paper to a video that people could download onto their ipod, you might be able to draw an audience in that want to work on new exercises without other people knowing it and they do not want to walk into the gym with a piece of paper.