Sunday 14 June 2015

My Goals - May Update

Welcome to 5.14 fitness,

Hi guys, I apologise for the long absence but both Jack and I have had two weeks of exams so have not had the time to post. 
However, these exams are now over and we are reading to get back to business, and I am starting by updating on my goals and routines. 

It has been a while since I last updated on this, and I have changed my schedule quite a bit. As you might tell, I am not a hard-core fitness fanatic that will push to extremes to get results. Instead, I workout 6 days a week and eat healthily. My workouts are all usually an hour long but may be less or more depending on the time I have. 

I mix together weight training, high intensity interval training and circuit training to formulate my workouts, and I base them around my day to day life,  I often have limited time, and so my free time is taken up by these workouts which makes them a lot less enjoyable! I only have a small amount of space ( my bedroom ) and so all my workouts can be done anywhere - trust me when I say that, my room is tiny.  
Last time I updated, I told you about my new weights plan and my full schedule. I have now changed that slightly, as I now have access to a gym once a week. This means that on a Wednesday I now do weight lifting and can work on areas I could not before. I have also introduced an extra abdominal workout so that I do it four times a week now. 

Here is my full schedule:
Monday- 40 mins Insanity followed by 20 mins Weightlifting
Tuesday- 25 mins cardio followed by 20 mins Abdominal workout followed by 10 mins chest workout
Wednesday 45 mins weight lifting followed by 20 mins Abdominal workout
Thursday- 40 mins Insanity followed by 20 mins Weightlifting  
Friday- 25 mins Abdominal workout 
Saturday- 45 mins weight lifting, 20 mins Abdominal workout
Sunday- Rest

As you can see, I still do Insanity twice a week which is incredibly effective and is very intense. It burns a lot more than regular cardio and trains all aspects of your body also. I hope this update tells you a little more about what I do- next time I will talk about the results of it. 

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Saturday 13 June 2015

Back and Back to Basics #1

Welcome to 5.14 Fitness,




 I have to apologise for the absence of posts recently, I think it has been over two weeks since the last one, however I am sure you can appreciate that both myself and Will have both just finished our exams for the year so we have been busy revising. So we apologise but we will try to get things back to routinely fashion as soon as possible.

This post will be the first in what is going to start as a four part series that will recap the basics of fitness and physical activity.

Definitions:

Heath is the complete state of physical, mental and social wellbeing not merely the absence of sickness or infirmity 

Fitness is the ability to meet the demands of your environment 

Exercise is a form of physical activity that maintains or improves fitness 

Performance is how well an activity is completed 


Categories of benefits of exercise:

Physical, eg increased health
Mental, eg relieves stress 
Social, eg new friends are found 


Purposes of iniatiatives: 

Get people involved 
Keep people involved 
Provide a path to the elite level 


3 sporting agencies:

Sport England 
Youth Sport Trust
Governing Bodies ( eg FIFA, NBA, PGA, RFU, ECB)


Roles for people to remain involved in sport:

Performer who needs to be fit, motovated and have knowledge of the sport

Coach who needs to have good knowledge of the sport, the ability to analyse and to be a good motivator

Official who needs to be calm, have good knowledge of the sport and be confident 

Volunteer who needs to be enthusiastic, organised and committed 

To be continued.....

Thanks for reading, please come back against well as plus one the blog and the post, comment, follow the blog and follow me- work hard and peace!

Jason