Weight Training Experience

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When I came into college I had no experience in the weight room. In high school I was not pushed to lift weights by any teachers, a few times by my wrestling coach but overall never really made it into the weight room. Now that I have worked my way into the college environment I find myself in the weight room all the time and I have learned and achieved many new things. I have learned many new lifts and how to focus on certain parts of the body. I pursued taking weight training to even better my education in the weight room and coach Ochsner has helped me find my way from hang loading to researching why maximal strength will benefit me in the weight room. I was never used to looking at myself and seeing gains but lately I have finally been …show more content…

Balance in training was the first lesson that we had been taught. This first lessons are very important to the weight room when you’re training your body to have balance in your lifts and workouts. This is important because without balance in your gym life you can throw off your physique. Proper balance comes into play when tying your shoes, getting up from a chair and even walking. Hypertrophy came next in the journals, hypertrophy is a science that is the belief if you push your muscles to failure that you will notices gains faster. This is useful to me when it comes to the day I am going to max out I know that it is helpful because I learned what hypertrophy was in this class. Power = Force (F) X Velocity (V), this is the equation that I found when researching explosive power. I am a collegiate athlete and explosive power is one of the most important factors when determining athlete success so learning how to exert explosive power is going to help me in the weight room and on the mat. “Maximal strength is the greatest amount of force a muscle or muscle group can voluntarily produce, regardless of time.” Maximal strength is important because when doing this it will help me find out where I am when I am exerting maximal muscle strength in the weight room. Simple planning and periodization is very important when heading to the weight room because if you go in without …show more content…

So, when I see how easy it is to go train on the mat or lift some weights it makes me think how easily I can also sacrifice my time to the Lord. I have already accepted God into my life and set some time aside to read his word and reach out to him but I know that I can definitely find more time to do that and this class has opened my eyes that since it is so easy to dive into these things and makes me want to give more time my savior. This class has made me want to dive into the weight room, this is weird because I have never felt this in my life before. I want to thank coach Ox for the opportunity to take part in this class, It was a great

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