When I came into college I had no experience in the weight room. In high school I was not pushed to lift weights by any teachers, a few times by my wrestling coach but overall never really made it into the weight room. Now that I have worked my way into the college environment I find myself in the weight room all the time and I have learned and achieved many new things. I have learned many new lifts and how to focus on certain parts of the body. I pursued taking weight training to even better my education in the weight room and coach Ochsner has helped me find my way from hang loading to researching why maximal strength will benefit me in the weight room. I was never used to looking at myself and seeing gains but lately I have finally been …show more content…
Balance in training was the first lesson that we had been taught. This first lessons are very important to the weight room when you’re training your body to have balance in your lifts and workouts. This is important because without balance in your gym life you can throw off your physique. Proper balance comes into play when tying your shoes, getting up from a chair and even walking. Hypertrophy came next in the journals, hypertrophy is a science that is the belief if you push your muscles to failure that you will notices gains faster. This is useful to me when it comes to the day I am going to max out I know that it is helpful because I learned what hypertrophy was in this class. Power = Force (F) X Velocity (V), this is the equation that I found when researching explosive power. I am a collegiate athlete and explosive power is one of the most important factors when determining athlete success so learning how to exert explosive power is going to help me in the weight room and on the mat. “Maximal strength is the greatest amount of force a muscle or muscle group can voluntarily produce, regardless of time.” Maximal strength is important because when doing this it will help me find out where I am when I am exerting maximal muscle strength in the weight room. Simple planning and periodization is very important when heading to the weight room because if you go in without …show more content…
So, when I see how easy it is to go train on the mat or lift some weights it makes me think how easily I can also sacrifice my time to the Lord. I have already accepted God into my life and set some time aside to read his word and reach out to him but I know that I can definitely find more time to do that and this class has opened my eyes that since it is so easy to dive into these things and makes me want to give more time my savior. This class has made me want to dive into the weight room, this is weird because I have never felt this in my life before. I want to thank coach Ox for the opportunity to take part in this class, It was a great
But to be great I have to endure. All this suffering to better myself has benefited me into finding my passion in life. I soon realized that working out gave me joy. It blew my mind how fascinating the atmosphere of fitness was. Fitness stuck out to me more than anything else due to the fact that I found myself researching and helping others achieve their own fitness and strengthening goals. I felt honored that I was able to give advice to friends who wanted to immerse themselves into lifting. With all the research I do and from all the knowledge I have gained through experience, I want to pursue this exact lifestyle when I head off to college. I want to further my education and major fitness related courses such as Athletic Training or Exercise
The use of the six principles of training by a 100m sprinter would greatly improve the athlete’s performance. This is because the progressive overload, specificity, reversibility, variety, training thresholds and warm up/cool down principles all greatly affect the performance of any athlete. The principles of training can be employed in order to improve all aspects of fitness, from flexibility to strength and aerobic endurance.
II. I first became interested in weight training when I was in high school. After poor gains from weight training alone I stumbled upon the keys to success, proper nutrition and supplementation. Creatine is a supplement I have used for awhile and strongly believe it has accelerated my strength and size gains. In three and a half years amount of time I have gained 62 pounds from 153 at the beginning of my senior year in high school to currently 215 pounds.
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Little did I know my whole C-Squad season would come to this. School had finally let out, and we began to play summer ball for the VFW team, I was playing with older kids and the varsity coach, which both really intimidated me. Out of my element, I had lost all of the confidence I had in me, and possibly played my worst baseball ever that summer. I was so shaken and angry with myself, I truly began to contemplate the pros and cons of even playing ball anymore. After many days of thinking, I told myself, I will work harder and play harder than any other person on my team. After that season I had began something very new to me, which was lifting weights. Afterall I thought how easy can it be, it’s picking up weight and putting it back down, and i’ll be jacked in no time. Quicker than a flash reality hit me, and lifting was way more difficult than I had first thought. There was all the form and different types of lifts such as: Clean, Deadlift, Squat, Bench Press, all of the basics. My sophomore year began, and I was still far behind on my new goal, and that’s when I went to one of my best friends, John who is very stocky and strong, practically a pro
Physiologically there are many benefits to consistent weight training. This includes muscle size, tone, and overall strength. Not only this but lifting weights has also been shown to improve psychological health as well. This is done by increasing self-esteem, conf...
Strength training, one of the most important parts of exercise, is usually overlooked. People don’t understand that something as simple as jumping jacks is considered strength training. Most of the populations everywhere don’t understand the health benefits of it either. Some may try for a few days or weeks and expect drastic changes, but change doesn’t just happen so quickly. You can’t go to a cow and expect a cheeseburger. Change doesn’t occur that fast. Most people look to strength training for losing weight or even to gain muscle mass. These are the reasons why I starting strength training, but I later found out about all the other health benefits that came along with it.
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The background of athletic training started way back in ancient Greece. Back then they believed massage was very important, especially to the people that pla...
This year my long term goal was to focus more on being consistent with my weaknesses. I wanted pullups by the Open had and luckily they came through in the nick of time. Now I would like to get HSPUs by the time I go home to see my family this summer. I want to keep challenging myself to maximize my capabilities; something I wasn’t comfortable doing until I came to CrossFit Ergon. My ultimate goal is to complete my time in the Army and coach Adaptive Athletes and Veterans.Understanding that I will not always perform at 100% and it will be okay helps me remain confident in my training and motivated to meet new goals. I am here to progress in a sport that takes time, lots of technique and patience. Accepting that there are movements I cannot do (at the moment) and enjoying the little wins here and there, help me remain positive. Being surrounded by such an uplifting coaching staff and community of athletes that have come together like CrossFit Ergon has; it is not hard to find the motivation to come and train often. Show up and do work! Accept that most things won’t happen overnight and that every day is another opportunity to better
I was able to gain knowledge about the different parts of the body which are important in the field of bodybuilding. I discover that there are main muscle groups and each of these muscle groups have different parts. For example, the main muscle groups would be the chest, back, arms, shoulders and legs. Now each of these main muscle groups have more that one part, your arms has biceps, triceps and a forearms. Each of these parts are made up or many more segments that can construct a list that can go on for a while. Gaining such a vast understanding of my body was thrilling. I was able to understand all the parts of my body. I am confident that I know almost every muscle group that is in the known human body. After learning about each individual muscle, I was then able to move on to the next step understanding how to train these individual muscle groups. I figured out that there are different routines that you have to follow in order to train each muscle. For example, your legs can be split into different muscles segments such as the quads, calves, and hamstrings. Once I isolated each muscle segment I was able to find workouts for each of them. For the quadriceps you would do workouts known as a barbell squat, lunges and reverse leg curls. Then after finding this out I had to
It was difficult seeing my teammates winning matches and training together during the offseason. I wanted to train alongside them because of the strong bonds we’ve formed over the years and my drive to improve. Although I couldn’t wrestle, I dedicated myself by preparing in other ways. I was able to do pushups and pull-ups to gain strength. I watched youtube videos of moves and practiced them on my
Ever since the previous season I had my standards set high. I had placed fifth, which was all right for the time being, but I knew as time went on I needed to push myself and increase my level of wrestling. I decided that I would do whatever it took, through thick and thin. I traveled to small local tournaments in Colorado, and a couple out-of-state tournaments, I even traveled to Delaware. It didn't really matter how I did at these tournaments because it was just all practice until February. So, I lifted and wrestled just about every chance I got. It was all in preparation for one match, six minutes.
When a young freshman boy walks into the weight room for the first time, he is mind blown. He walks in at a towering five foot four inches, weighing a whopping 120 pounds. He looks around and the first thing he sees is a senior squatting four times his own wight. He looks frail and petite, and doesn’t even know how to do most lifts. This was me
When I first began to exercise, I was primarily trying to add size on to my body. At the time I only weighed about one hundred sixty pounds and I was six foot one inch. I was also eight teen and feeling that my lack of participating in school sporting events, as well as my abuse of alcohol and less than ideal food choices, had stunted my physical potential. With this new found feeling of inadequacy I set off on a journey that would change my life forever. The first thing I noticed when I began searching for ways to change my body, was that I was obviously going to have to buy weights if I wanted to look like the guys in the gym. So I set out and purchased the cheapest bench and set of weights I could find. I began to mimic exercises that I had seen people do on television or while walking past the gym. In a period of about a month I had already noticed a huge difference in the amount of weight that I could lift. Within the first year of unorganized lifting, as well as no change to my eating habits, I h...