Follow along throughout the school year for invigorating workouts to keep you energized, positive, and in shape! (As well as out of trouble.) Workouts are designed for those without gym equipment, or the money for a gym membership, to still practice a healthy lifestyle. Hard work! Determination!
Post your time. In what ways could you alter each exercise to make it more challenging? Could you alter them for people who may not be physically capable of performing the exercises? During which exercise did you feel the most confident?
1 Sprint (down the length of the basketball court)
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Post your time. What could you have done better? How do you know? Are any of the exercises easier to complete now than 4 weeks ago? How so? What are a number of changes you could make to this workout to make it even more challenging?
Catch up on any comments dating back to WOD 090612. Make sure your comments are matching up with the score you would like according to the P.E. rubric.
Post your time. How does running long distance feel now compared to the beginning of the school year? Compare and contrast running long distance versus running sprints.
Welcome back! I hope you had a nice weekend with the beautiful weather. Let's have a great week!
WORKOUT
6-8 Rounds of...
1 Sprint
3 Burpees
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
What muscles did the most work for you? How can you tell? In what way would rearranging the order of the exercises affect you? How were your times compared to the last day we sprinted? What are your goals for the next Sprint day? What is "integrity" to you?
Pay close attention to the form shown in the video. Many of you are now engaging your hips which puts your weight in you knees rather than in the leg muscles. A couple of you are now keeping a strong core. To fix that, start raising your arms as you lower your body in order to keep the chest open and up rather than hunched and down.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
As you complete this workout, try different paces and be fully cognizant of your form at each pace. For example, what do you notice about your body when you do a regular squat? Now, instead of doing a squat at a normal pace, slow it down and take 3 to 4 seconds to lower your body into the squat and then explode back up. Did you notice any change in your body during the slower motion? Try numerous squats as fast as you can. What did your form do this time? After observing your body and form in each of these settings, which pace do you think is best for you at this time? Why is that?
You have each worked well, but I know you can do better. Each of you continues to push the physical aspect of this course, but few are taking the educational side as seriously. Today is your chance to go over your past posts with the checklist located on yesterday's WOD and fix the posts from WOD 083012, WOD 090412, and WOD 090512. Most of you are fulfilling the 4s in the Participation/Assignments category, but few in any of the others. Sit down and take your time to focus your best efforts on your posts.
Good morning! Before you continue, make sure you go back and comment on yesterday's post. Remember, you are being graded according to the rubric I handed out last week so be sure to
Answer each question thoroughly.
Respond in complete sentences.
Check your capitalization, grammar, and punctuation.
Read a classmate's post.
Positively respond to a classmate's post.
Now that you've done that, here is today's
WORKOUT
100 Burpees for time. WATCH THE BURPEE VIDEO! It will help you get through these with greater ease.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Post your time. At what point did you start to feel your form give way? What did you have to do to ensure you kept good technique? This is going to be a measurement workout we use for the future. What is your goal for the next time we do this workout? What was going through your mind as you performed today's workout? Why were you thinking that?
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a fun Hog Days. Pay very close attention to the workouts the next couple of days because Friday you will all have a test. Note in your workout journals what part of your body each individual exercise seems to primarily affect. I will attach a few articles explaining why some of my favorite exercise movements are effective. For example, click on the link below to find out more about burpees.
Post your time. After reading the burpee article, did you try a variation of the burpee? Have you been able to break through your mental block yet? As this will be the third full week of workouts, have you achieved any of your minor goals yet? If so, explain. If not, have you come up with any minor goals for the near future?
WORKOUT
