WEEK 5

This topic helps us design our own personal training program. As our narrative report
states, by creating a personal training program, we can determine our objectives. If a person
wants to enhance his or her biceps, a person wants to train their cardiovascular endurance, or he
or she wants to enhance their muscular endurance, this lesson taught us that not all exercises are
helpful for us. There are exercises that can accommodate the specific needs of our bodies.
Meaning, an exercise cannot be used by one. This also enlightens us to always track our
progress. Tracking our progress helps us determine if our efforts and actions are aligned with our
objectives. Designing our training program helps us to be more efficient in exercising and more
motivated in exercising. In this stage, we put our plans into action and our objectives and desires
into the present.

WEEK 8
We all have different abilities, skills, and strengths that we use in our daily tasks. Just like our
mobility, we have different styles and limitations. Having a flexible and movable joint not only
prevents many malfunctions but also helps our body maximize its performance on our daily tasks
and increase the range of movements that our body can perform.

In this lesson, we learned the different movement competencies skills. Sending, receiving,
transporting, body control, and coordinated movement. These competencies skills are the
movements that we unconsciously perform. These types of movements help us determine what
type of movement we are executing when dealing with a specific task. The lesson also tackles
the warm-up and cool-down. A cooldown is merely stretching and enhancing our muscles to
stretch in order to aid our body in returning to its normal state after a workout, while a warm-up,
on the other hand, refers to increasing our muscle temperature, blood flow, and metabolism.
However, its main objective is to prepare our body for a certain exercise, whether it be a tough or
uncomplicated one. As I stated earlier, the topic tackles the warm-up and cool-down. With that,
we have been instructed on the importance of the two and how to perform them properly. I
honestly apply these two when I am exercising for our performance and even at home. The
lesson really affects our view and way of exercising. I now include the two in my training
program in order to prevent injuries. Lastly is flexibility. It refers to how our body moves and
maximizes its limited space to reach a specific range. It helps our body prevent stiffness and
discomfort.

The lesson has so much to teach. But the most significant learning, aside from what I stated
earlier, was the warm-up and cool-down. It not only enlightens my mind about their importance
but also affects my exercise routine. The two really help us construct our training program more
efficiently and effectively. In comparison to an exercise with a warm-up and cool-down and an
exercise without a warm-up and cool-down, our body improved its recovery from the tough
exercise, and our body was able to perform the exercise more without getting exhausted.