Weekly summary 30-2

This week was bitter sweet. I was my last full week of my internship at TM fitness. I wanted to leave with a bang so one thing i really want to talk about this week is the conditioning class and the their mini cross fit circuit. most of the people who participated in it really liked it and thought it was tough, stimulating, and new. the exercises they use in cross fit are mostly, if not all, full body based. This makes for a truly unique and difficult training session because you have all of these muscles groups demanding oxygen and the transport of blood filled with oxygen that its hard to compliment and disperse it evenly. Thus making your body work that much hard and burn than much more in the caloric sense. It;s becoming really popular because for once they can come to the gym, participate in something new, and burn more calories than their normal everyday routine. It was definitely the highlight of the week for me to watch them push themselves through the workout. Some of the participants however were not all too thrilled with the work they had to do and for people like that i only have one thing to say. GET MOTIVATED! It cannot always be the trainers job to motivate people into leading a healthy lifestyle. and frankly it shouldn't be. People need to learn how to be self motivated and push themselves in order to reach their goals, and when I saw that particular person in the class who really did not want to try, and kept giving excuses I really had no choice but to say take your time and do what you can. I know she is capable of doing more because I have seen her do it but she just has those days where nothing she does physically is worth it. You can't push those people when they clearly do not want to be pushed because they will not accept it and push back in a negative way. I believe the best you can do is wait for them to come around and give them positive encouragement along the way.

August 2nd

• today was the final day of class so we went through a mini cross fit session
• push ups, pull ups, squat high pulls. lung jumps, weighted jog, squat throws, and rows
• most of the class was in attendance as well as a couple people who just wanted to jump in. Since it was the last session I really didn't mind

August 1st

• Worked with my heptathalete. we did some up tempo criss crosses on the turf field at swisher where we ran corner to corner with a sideline jog. We did a total of 7 cross field runs 3 of which were cut runs. Where you start at a base and then cut the time down to one that is about 80 percent for the athlete and maintain for 4 reps. we finished with 3 builds ups of about 50 yards, when she hit the 50 yards line she would be at 95 percent for two good steps and then coast off.