Tony Martins - Gyming it up No.4

Today on the 7th of March we had started our gym time at period 4. Everyone thought it would be good because we were allowed to stay during lunch but the problem lied with the time as well. What I mean by this is that everyone was all ready tired before we had even went there so no one felt at all motivated just like me. I had done the 5min rowing machine test but I was tiring quickly and was struggling to get past the 1000 m mark, in the end though I passed it with a close margin.

For my participation, I would put myself at achieved level because I had brought the right gear and a towel but not the bottle. I did not try really hard today because I just felt tired. It was really hard to do the cycling machine because I put it on the normal level I usually do, level 7 and ride at 70 km/hr but when I tried today I couldn't get above 50 km/hr. Also the rests between each set of lifting I did slowly grew bigger and bigger up to the point where just sat there. I did the rowing machine though and had achieved the 1000m again by the way.

Several factors influenced my participation. The first and most important was the time. Everyone was already tired and low spirited today because it was near the end of the day and everyone was struggling, others felt bad because they had training right after this so they weren't able to stay and so they couldn't pick up the rhythm.

A way to improve myself would be to try to stay up beat or trying to conserve my energy by not playing basketball at break. Another would be to eat breakfast to have even an extra ounce of energy to use and finally to jog and stretch before the lifting to get the blood pumping an to loosen up the tense muscles from the previous days work.