Track Starts

Track Start Improvements

As I worked on my track start and started taking tips from the book I noticed that my form wasn't correct to the way it should be. instead of having both feet behind me I moved my dominant foot forward so I could have the most momentum when coming out of the blocks.

Tips

Have knees inside elbows but not to close

Have lean forward as if you were going to fall on your face

Stride out of the blocks with your head down

Don’t stand straight up when coming out of the blocks

Have a slow incline with your body as you push out of the blocks

Proper Form and Guide Lines

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In this picture you can see this man exploding from the blocks putting all of his momentum forward to get a push off from his dominant leg and propelling his body in an rising action. The back leg is driven forward at the sound of the gun as the front leg extends, pushing off the block pedal. The arms are aggressively extended, forward and back. If the rear leg is the right leg, the left arm is driven forward as the right arm is driven back. You keep this going throughout the race with the opposite leg hitting the ground and the opposite arm slicing through the air. The head stays neutral on the start, looking down the track slightly.

Questions

Do you have a different way to come out of the blocks?

How do you have your feet set up when you are pushing out of the blocks?

Cited

Pictures cited: Track & Field By Gabrielle Vanderhoof

How To Stay Healthy By Exercising

Do you physically exercise on a regular basis? Maybe once a month? Or maybe once a week? Or maybe even more than once a week? Or maybe even not at all?

Well, it’s a fact that if you do not produce physical activity daily you will become unhealthy physically, internally, and in many more ways.

What I do to develop myself to produce physical activity is motivate myself by strengthening my brain to develop health strength. For example, I create procedures for my daily routines. Or I produce brain power by learning New ways to work out and exercise.

From the book “Change Your Brain Change Your Body” Daniel Amen states, “ physical activity is A natural part of daily life. Physical activity is the single most important thing you can do to enhance brain function and keep your body looking young. Physical exercise acts like a natural wonder drug for the brain. It improves the hearts ability to pump blood through the body, which increases blood flow to the brain. That supplies more oxygen, Glucose and nutrients to the brain, which enhances overall brain function.” (Amen 109).

I believe that I can relate six main exercises for your body and brain. The six exercises would be, exercise encourages the growth of new brain cells, physical activity enhances cognitive abilities at all ages, exercise enhances your mood, exercise calms worries and anxiety, exercise helps alleviate depression, and people who exercise regularly sleep perpetually better. The six brain exercises are truly facts due to my experience of exercising. I’ve noticed that all these six exercises can relate to making you intelligently smarter, gain higher abilities in strength, calms your mood, makes you happier about yourself and relax happier.

Exercising can be as easy as going to the mountains and snowboarding, playing sports, stretching/acrobatic apprentices, going to the gym, walking your dog, jumping jacks, and even sleeping. If you take the time to add exercise into your busy schedule it will definitely be a success and act leading to happiness for your life. 

One major concept that I’ve noticed you my experience of working out and exercising is The fact that it plays a major role on your health benefits. When I work out what I’m trying to do is gain strength and make myself stronger physically. I do this not only because it makes me feel better about myself but also physically is healthy for me.

If you develop the correct mindset to stay healthy it will indeed be progressed by your brain/minds motivation and dedication towards keeping yourself healthy. To do this I have realized that you have to have a lot of dedication. Dedication in a way of strength in your brain. It can be driven by motivation and just straight up thinking.

I will leave you with a comment/motivational question, it is, if you desire to stay healthy you will join me and develop a correct mindset to stay healthy by asking yourself, who do you really want to be strength wise, what will you do to make it there, when will it happen, where will happen, and why will you do it?

Amen, Daniel G. The Brain-Body Solution. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get the Body You Have Always Wanted, Piatkus, 2012.

Working out

Eating healthy is hard but something I have trouble with is working out. I’m a lazy teenager who doesn’t like working out so I never have the pull to go to the gym or go on a walk and etc. but then once I’m ready, I never seem to know what exactly to do or how to work out properly.

When you work out, there are so many benefits including, “improved energy levels, increased ability to handle stress, improved mood, reduced risk of many chronic diseases, enhanced self-esteem, more positive outlook on life in general” (Stollman 33). I personally know I should start working out more to receive some if not all of these great benefits.

Now onto what to actually do to work out, the book detailed some ways to work out including: Walking, Using a Work out DVD, Cardio, Strength training, and flexablitity training (Stollman 33-39). I’m going to try to start committing and doing these different exercises often to obtain some of these benefits as noted before.

The last section Lisa Stollman added about Exercising was 10 tips to make exercise part of your routine which includes trying to walk a lot each day, sign up for activities, and make sure to move at least 60 minutes a day. These are just some of the tips for daily exercise!

Do you like working out? What do you do to exercise?

MLA: Stollman, Lisa, MA, RD, CDE, CDN. The Teen Eating Manifesto: The Ten Essential Steps to Losing Weight, Looking Great and Getting Healthy. Northport, NY: Nirvana, 2012. Print.