SEC-s20w1: Fitness Training - Cardio

Just as the objective of this week one fitness training, I'm determined to improve on my cardio and I'm joining from week one so as to maintain the F.I.T.T principles.

As learned from the theory,to achieve physical fitness, one need to carry out exercise programs such as sleeping, weight training, aerobics, dancing etc.

It interest me to also know the different body type so as to know areas of programs I will concentrate on. I think I'm large and round because I'm not masculine in nature neither I'm I lean.

Age: 28
Weight: 90
Height: 160
Sex: female
BMI: 35
Waist :40 (yet to find out most recent figure)

So to benefit from this training, I wrote down my questionnaire which will help me see the results of my exercise during this program. I just noticed that my B.M.I has dropped from 37.5 to 35 due to some meal plans I engaged with some weeks ago. I know it is still very poor and I'm working on it to reduce it to atleast normal. But I guess since I'm still breastfeeding, my lactating hormones are still playing seriously with my weight but then we are weaning soon. This challenge serves as inspiration for me to be consistent, I really wish to improve in fitness training so as to yield a better result in 6weeks time.

How I calculated my BMI

BMI =weight kg/height (m²)

Weight 90
Height 160cm

Change height from cm to m

160/100 = 1.6m*

Therefore according to the formula

BMI = 90/(1.6)²

Remove the bracket, in square of heights

1.6×1.6= 2.56

BMI = 90/2.56

BMI = 35

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Do you suffer from illness?

I do not have any underlying illness, I'm physically, mentally and emotionally sound.

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Do you do exercise? How many days per week? How many minutes per day?

Yes I do exercise but to be truthful, not regular but atleast I don't fail to exercise once in a week. Most times 2 hours some times 1 hour. But I don't fail to exercise once each week. The least minutes I do exercise most times is 30 minutes due to some necessary distractions. I selected Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays for my exercise days but with this training will be a motivation to keep to this days, I want to challenge myself with this to atleast achieve some weight goals.

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What time does it suit you to exercise?

I prefer morning hours when I wake up energetic to exercise my body, It is also the time when I'm mostly free to exercise. Aside from this, morning hours helps me stay focus as I don't have anything that bothers me yet.

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This week programs

For this week, I workout just two days because weather over the week was bad and some activities I was busy with but I hope to improve in subsequent days, because my determination has been activated.

I took part in activities below in this two days

Programs	Day 1	Day2
Running	30 mins	NIL
Jumping Jack	30mins	30mins
Skipping	200 steps	250 steps
Mountain climbing	15mins	15mins

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I didn't have staircase to complete this program, so I opt for skipping and because of the weather I couldn't do running that's the reason I increased my skipping steps.

I found it so challenging to do mountain climbing but hopefully I'll improve and it's by next week.

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https://youtube.com/shorts/ZLU2VYZL1v4?si=jjTVqkIMLu4g20ij

Watch my warm up 👆 before I started my exercise, it was really raining and ofcourse I exercise indoors, so my choice of programs were limited because I couldn't go outside.

https://youtube.com/shorts/OnMNREBZFI8?si=_VzafR9N_xu5Hjit

Mountain climbing for 15mins, it was challenging though but I challenge myself to do it for 15 minutes two times, I did for 5 minutes then rest and do again for 10minutes.

https://youtube.com/shorts/L8gq1GGnm_Q?si=oeu4UiQUn5rNdI3n

I did some jumping Jack for 30mins, you can watch a short video of me doing jumping Jack 👆

Finally, I stretched after exercising, video link below 👇

https://youtube.com/shorts/nDC5GZXoJsk?si=H202zJmUTJYmK2oS

I stretched more than seen in the video, before I noticed my camera was not on so I decided to try it again so I can capture it. Hopefully next week I will improve in my activities and I also hope to have a good weather climate.

But I was so happy in this 2 days I was able to work out for almost 2 hours, 1 hour 45 minutes and despite the rain on a rainy day I sweat so much, I took a photo of my sweat face.

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What do you plan to achieve through this training?

I plan to achieve some reasonable percentage of weight loss, reduction of my tummy weight and body building, frequency and ofcourse a motivation to achieve my weight goals even after the challenge through this training.

Balancing is very good and I noticed that while trying to take part in some programs I have difficulty in balancing I also want to achieve this during this training. I think at this point in life what I really need is a challenge and this contest comes at the very right time for me to challenge myself so before the end of this program I will learn to use the F.I.T.T principles at all times.

I will like to invite @ninapenda @udyliciouz and @goodybest to take part in this contest.