Eight Week Fitness Plan

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My Eight-Week Fitness Plan Over the next 8 weeks, I plan to swim laps, lift weights, jog, do yoga, play volleyball, kayak and skateboard. Once a week, I will kayak and play volleyball. Twice a week, I will swim laps at the Forest Lake community pool and jog at the gym where I have a membership. I will do yoga one, maybe two days a week. The class I like is only offered once a week but I do have some good yoga videos so I could do it at home. Three days a activity. I plan to go to the fitness rientation and talk to the trainer at my gym before I start. My fitness goals are to increase my hamstring and shoulder flexibility, improve my swimming endurance and speed, and be able to run 3.1 miles (5K) in less than 25 minutes. The yoga and weight training will help improve my flexibility. Some people think that weight training makes you less flexible but the opposite is true: it increases your range of motion because of the resistance of the weights, therefore making your body stretch farther and increasing flexibility. Swimming regularly will increase my endurance as long as I push myself to progress each week. I will start out swimming shorter distances and work myself up to a mile or so (72 lengths or 36 laps). To increase my speed, I will also do sprints at the end of my long swim since being tired will make me work harder to meet my usual times. I will also sprint using only my upper body or work on kicking. Jogging only twice a week is probably not the best way to reach my goal to jog a 5K in less than 25 minutes. But I am cross-training (doing different activities to prepare for a different activity) which is healthier for my body so that I don’t get overuse injuries or develop my fitness in only one area. Hopefully, the combination of swimming and jogging will accomplish my goal but I will have to see to find out! I have been jogging

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