"SEC-S25W2:Strength and Conditioning"

Greetings esteemed Steemians, it's my honor to be a participant in this week's challenge organized by @ngoenyi. It's another week of fitness as we are involved in different fitness programs. The targeted programs of the week are

• Overhead dumbbell press
• Lunges
• Glute bridge
• Mountain Climbing

Let's get into the details of these programs.

During the warm-up session, I employed dynamic stretches as my exercise. This alerts my body to be active for the session.

During this program, I took 2 dumbbells of equal weights which will be used. While standing, I took these dumbbells to my shoulder level. I raise it upwards together and slowly bring it back to shoulder level. I repeated the process till I was done with the program. Throughout the program, I did 30 reps of overhead dumbbell press.

IMPACTS

As we know, this program is meant to strengthen the shoulder muscle and engage the core. From my experience, I'll say the process got more difficult as more reps were done. It got to a point that I nearly gave up at 27th rep. But, it was countered by my videographer motivations. The overall experience was that my arms were in pain after the program.

This program involves the movement of your lower body (legs). In this program, I step one leg forward and bend both knees. I made sure that my upper body remains upright. In this case, my lower body was in motion while my upper body was at rest. Throughout that program, I did a total of 30 reps.

IMPARTS

The program focused on my lower body muscles such as quadriceps, hamstrings and other muscles affected. The first 15 reps was like a warm-up but the others that followed taught me endurance. It felt like my legs were getting heavier as each rep passed by. After the program, I had to sit back and reconsider my life as I couldn't feel my legs.

When performing this program, you need a yoga mat as you'll be lying down throughout the program. When the yoga mat was laid, I lay down with my back on my yoga mat. My hands were firmly beside me and my knees bent that my legs were glued to the mat. I lift my hip upwards while keeping my feet and shoulders fixed on the mat. Then I returned to the initial position. I repeated this process for a total number of 30 reps.

IMPARTS

Glute bridge is a program whose targeted muscles are the gluteal muscle and the core. While and after the program, I didn't really feel pains as that was the simplest program this week.

This program remains one of the energy demanding programs as it involves the whole body. I utilize the yoga mat again as I use it to place my palms. After that, my body was in a plank mode as I imagine climbing an imaginary mountain. I did mountain climbing for approximately 60 seconds.

IMPARTS

This program involves the whole body which involves different muscles being affected. The major muscle affected is the core. During the program, I felt the pains being distributed to the whole body. Each muscle in my body took their portions as they were enough to go round.

Below is my workout video