Thursday, 11 December 2014

Personal weight room goals

My personal weight room goals are to work on core and leg strength and also flexibility. Being a dancer you hold a lot of awkward positions and do a lot of isolations! I need to work on this so the technique in dancing shows! 

So for this i would like to focus more on yoga video because they tie in both flexibility and core and leg strength! 
Some video's I found are: 


http://m.youtube.com/watchv=q5nyrD4eM64

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3N86HmOrW2U

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ySafTekJ3Ls

I found an account called yoga with Adriene which is the last link and it focuses on yoga excercises involving core, leg and flexibility. 

the workout we tried was the first one and second one! the first was pretty easy and relaxing, the second was harder! I liked the both! here is a picture of ruth and I doing the second workout

Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Test Tuesdays

So I haven't written on here in a long time which sucks, but I promise I will! Just to get you caught up we have done already done the extended beep test which was a success! I think it went well because a majority of the girls pushed themselves; so congratulations girls!

   Today we did the beep test and fitness testing, the way this worked is they split up the girls and the guys! Which I find to be very helpful, I think the some of the girls aren't distracted or self conscious when the guys leave so they really go for it. (props to our class because a lot of of went past 5)
   So I woke up this morning (yes late, SORRY NEUF) but feeling sick. I still went to school knowing it was fitness and that I should at least try. Well I did do exactly that and it was great. last year I think my highest beep test score was a 7.2  but the highest I have ever ran was an 8. Today Feeling sick but determined we set our personal goals and mine was 8.2 since I haven't ran that far in like a year.
   The Beep test started and I thought "hear we go" I looked only straight a head and steadied my breaths and listened to my feet hit the ground rather than stare at the score board. Before Running Ruth and Neufeld were both aware of my goal and It was a good thing because later on around 7.5 I started to feel it hit me a bit in the calf. Then I hear Neufeld yell "GARCIA 8.2" and also an encouraging "don't stop" from ruth! I look up at the clock and I looked back down and had this moment of "I need to push my self past this comfort zone" so I went past for another 7 shuttles until I hit 8.2.  I reached my goal which is great and gave me a tiring but relieved feeling. So I passed the average for my age group because that was what I normally only went up to. I want to set goals like this each time we do it, because even though you feel uncomfortable its worth knowing you can strive and push through it!
 On the other stuff I got the same on basically everything except the pushups and board touches and body bridge. The pushups went up by 5 and i think it's because everytime we are not listening in dance we have to do pushups so I have gotten a bit better at it! As for board touches and body bridge the difference was only 1 better than the last!
   I want to improve on T:test and Vertical