Classmate Recommendations For The Win [Part 2]

First Workout Of The Week

For my first workout this week I decided to try Laura Fiddler’s recommendation of Sydney Cummings YouTube channel. When I was looking through the channel there were so many videos that I thought I would like and that would apply to my learning project. I ended up doing the 50 Minute Total Body Strength Workout, which I didn’t realize at the time was part of some program. Thankfully, I don’t really think it mattered too much that I just in at day 19 of the challenge.

I actually really liked this workout! I don’t think I have followed a longer workout video yet in this project, so it was a nice change (I usually do 30 minute videos and this one was 50 minutes). I generally lean towards the shorter videos because I always seem to be in a time crunch but I definitely see myself doing some more longer videos in the future (if I have enough time that is).

Workout #2

For my second workout of the week I decided to finally try out the fitness channel that the university made at the start of winter semester. The channel is called URFIT On Demand and you have to log in with your university sign-in to be able to access the videos.

This is what it should look like once you are logged in and then you can pick from a bunch of different types of workouts such a yoga, boot camps, body sculpts, zumba, and even pound classes (if you haven’t heard of pound classes before you should check them out they are pretty fun)! I previewed a couple different body sculpt and boot camp videos on the channel trying to find one that didn’t look too boring or repetitive and I ended up finding one titled “Build It Up Bootcamp: Feb. 11, 2021” that looked promising!

Once again this was a longer video than I had been doing previously. I think this one was just about 50 minutes. However, same thing as the last video I actually quiet enjoyed the longer full body type video rather than a couple videos targeting different areas. I also liked that there was actually real people that were doing this boot camp when the video was being recorded so then it felt more like I was also there. It also allowed for the instructor was able to better explain correct positioning and sometimes to people that were working out asked the instructor questions that I was also wondering which you normally wouldn’t be able to get an answered to if there weren’t people working out when it was happening live. I am curious to see if any other university students have tried out any of the URFIT classes?

What are my next steps…

This semester has been FLYING by so fast! I can’t even believe how close we are to the end of the semester. This has me reflecting back to my initial plan about this learning project and how I am nowhere near where I thought I would be in my strength training journey. Technically, I would still be in the first stage of my plan which was starting at-home workouts. But, when I went to my apartment gym to try and follow a video workout I found it a lot harder because a) there wasn’t really a good option to set myself up and be able to see the video on my phone and b) it was more complicated in terms of equipment use (waiting for other people using equipment or you are in someone’s way). So, I figured that it would be best to leave the gym component of my project until I had a better grasp of different strength training workouts and how to properly structure a strength training workout. But then, Regina’s covid cases just been getting worse and worse so I haven’t been overly eager to try and go to an actual gym. So, I have just been continuing with the at-home workouts, which I don’t think is a bad thing. However, I am starting to feel a little stuck where I am in this project now. I have been spending some time thinking about how I can switch things up or take my learning to the next level in this project.

As of right now I am thinking that I am going to continue with the at-home workouts but also spend some time learning how to structure my own workouts. Then, one of my friends was saying how she wanted me to make a workout for her. So, I think that could be a cool direction to go as well (once I learn how to structure a workout) and I could sort of instruct a workout for her over zoom. That is kind of what I am thinking the rest of my learning project will look like but I am open to any interesting suggestions about what you think I could include into the end of this project!