"SEC-S25W3: Building Strength (Increased Intensity)"

Me with my sweaty face after performing all exercises!

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My experiences with each exercise

Dumbbell Deadlifts

I performed this exercise while holding dumbbells,by bending my knees and hips and then lifting to standing position and at last lowering my back down again.

Exercise	Reps
Dumbbell deadlifts	3 sets of 10 reps each

• Areas where I feel most of pain while performing this exercise are lower back region,in my hamstrings mostly.
• Most difficult activity in this exercise for me was to lift weights while maintaining my posture and keeping my body in balance.

Incline push ups

• I performed this exercise while keeping my hands elevated at a tough surface and tough surface I choosed was a chair and then my lower body was facing to ground and my last movement of mine was to push my back up.

Exercise	Reps
Incline push ups	3 sets of 10 reps each

• Areas where I feel most of pain was shoulders,chest and tricep areas.
• Most difficult movement in this exercise for me was to control my balance and bearing weight at shoulders.

Dumbbell Shoulder Flys

I performed this exercise by holding dumbbells, lifting my arms out to sides so that may seems to be parallel to floor pr ground my lower back should be down.

Exercise	Reps
Dumbbell shoulder flys	3 sets of 10 reps each

• Areas where I feel pain most were my shoulders and especially deltoid muscles.
• Most difficult thing for me in this exercise was abduction movement in which I was lifting weight and moving it upward in flying direction.

Side Plank

• While performing this exercise I lie on side at ground surface which was carpeted,and I lift my hips off ground and hold my position.

Exercise	Reps
Side planks	2 sets of 15 second hold each

• Areas where I feel pain most while performing side planks were my core muscles and my hips as well bearing weight at shoulders and forearm was really quite challenging.

• Obviously to hold that particular position and to maintain that side posture and balance was quite difficult for me.

Most difficult exercise for me

Most difficult exercise among all that I have performed was to carry out Side planks because it require balance, strengthening of core muscles as well as endurance but definitely from individual to individual difficulty level may change according to each person body strength and weakness.