Weight Lifting
Weight lifting is a key component to leading a healthy life. Weight lifting helps not only your muscles, but your mind, your immune system and your personal life as well. You will be more successful in leading a healthy life if you keep weight lifting as part of your weekly routine. Just by working out three times a week a person can significantly improve the quality of their life, as well as the length of their life.
Directions
Each student is going to create his or her own weight lifting program to be used for their own personal use. This weight lifting program is to be used by the student three days a week for a two week period. Before the two week period starts each student will record their body weight, and personal best on the bench press and squat exercises that I will spot each student myself to prevent any chance of injury. Once the two week period is over we will go over their progress from the past two weeks. If a student is not able to work out on a specific day they will not be docked points, as long as they are able to lift more than half of the days in the two week period. Students need to look at the links provided to help them create their own weight lifting program.
Links to Internet
http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/library/activity/trainbasics.htm
http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/weight-training.htm
http://www.changingshape.com/exercise/
Evaluation
To evaluate each student's individual weight lifting program, the instructor needs to look and see if their program covers most of the major muscle groups of the body. The instructor also needs to look and see if each individual program made by the students fits his or her individual weight lifting goals. The instructor also needs to look at each individual workout program and make sure that the student was keeping good records of each day that they lifted. Once the two weeks is up and everyone has turned in their workout programs, the instructor will take the students weight again. The instructor will also test them again in the bench press and squat exercises to see if they made any improvements over the two weeks. If they made a huge improvement or little to no improvement, that is acceptable as long as they stuck to their workout for the two week period.
