"Learning challenge s23w5: "I Love My Body /Sit-up/Reverse Crunch ".

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When I remember how backflips are done, my mind channels to these programmes. The only difference is that you'll be standing to do backflips; while in these programmes, you'll be sitting but won't do a backflip even though your legs and waist go up to your head level.

I love my body, and I want the best for my waist to avoid waist problems when I'm advanced in age. How do these exercises help prevent this health disorder? I'll show you how I did the programmes, how I felt after doing these programmes and my overall experience.

I'm not trying to teach anyone how to do these programmes because the class has been held already. "I'm doing a verbatim assignment" to be scored. So I'll be talking about myself in general and how I was able to carry out reverse crunch exercise. At first, I saw it as something easy as it is, but I then discovered it's not as easy as I thought, but I completed it.

Surface area

This programme required lying down to do this reverse crunch with my legs. So I had to think of surface area. Will I lie bare on the floor, or would I lie on something to avoid being brushed by rough surfaces? I then told myself... I won't lay bare because laying bare may add complications, and you won't love your body anymore.

I want to love my body; that's why I used a yoga mat, which is soft, to carry out this reverse crunch. After considering surface area, I then lay on it and considered positioning.

Positioning

Positioning matters as it is used in grading. Aside from grading, it helps you avoid complications and cases where you can't do the programme well or feel the necessary pain that should be felt. I laid on the yoga mat with my butt on the mat and my shoes outside the mat.

My hands were tightly placed close to my body, and my face was upright. I tucked in my tummy because it would be the physical organ that would propel movement of my lower limbs.

Motion activity

After getting the right position with my legs straight as if I'm dead, I propelled it towards my head level with a curvature on my knee. That's where the reverse comes from. You're reversing back instead of moving forward. My legs were joined to avoid haphazard movement, and I made sure the move was in order.

While taking my legs close to my head level, I brought it down without allowing it to touch the ground. It was suspended in the air. I also made sure my butt left the mat I laid on. That's where the U-turn in my waist level comes from. I did the program using the specifications given and completed it. The video below shows how I did it.

I feel this program was the toughest for me. I was able to complete it because of how I positioned myself and programmed my mind into doing it. When it comes to positioning, I considered surface area too because my backs were involved. I lay on the mat with my knees packed and my legs directly under my knees. My legs were outside the mat while my butt was on the mat. It was a distance far from my legs.

I then kept my hands above my head, as keeping them beside my body was a death sentence. 🤣🤣. I won't be able to move if it did so. I would struggle so much to move my body upwards. As shown in the video, my body or chest region is to meet my knees, and it can only meet my knees when I move up with my legs moving.