SEC-s20w5: Fitness Training 👉 Arms/Shoulder Sculpturing Exercises"

This challenge reminds me of those days in primary school when we as children or kids would play the boxing game. It went this way. This game was played mostly by boys and it was about seeing who's the strongest. We'll be told to unfold our arms and then, someone would use his knuckle to punch our arms.

When this is done, there's also a contraction of muscles, forming a ball-like shape. We would call that egg. If it comes out and you withstand the pain and pressure, you're indeed a strong boy we would say. This was our constant practice in school. That was how we tested to see who's strong in class. Sometimes, we would do man power.

This happens when two people place their elbow on a desk, hold their hands together and then both parties try to bring each one's hand down. All these are practices we did unknowingly to strengthen our arms and muscles. Now, we know how this is done other than those practices. We are now aware of fitness practices to increase our arm size and shoulder's broadness.

We called push ups press up then and we do challenge ourselves as to which student would be able to do 20-50 press ups. Here I am with this same Fitness exercise. This program has really helped me achieve this and consistent practice would make it even more visible.

Warm ups relative to this shoulder Sculpturing exercise is what I did to prepare myself in terms of pressure, contractions and pain on my arms. I did jumping jacks to strengthen my arms and then switched to stretching my arms forward and backwards to improve my muscles and make my arms light.

The cardio program I did this week wasn't done when this arms/shoulder Sculpturing exercise. I did the cardio exercise two consecutive days. Last week, I focused on the Russian twist exercise and bend curves. This week, I focused on running from near locations to far distances.

I did run for 5 minutes and couldn't go further because my heart beat increased badly and I started panting as if a lion pursued me. Anyway, it's for the benefit of my heart beat to articulate the flow of blood well and reduce all strong contractions. I did it in minutes not repetition.Last week, I did run though but it wasn't up to 5 minutes. So I've increased it drastically by 3 minutes. Now to the main program

Doing this exercise seemed difficult for me at first because I know how push ups can be difficult especially when you've not done it for a while. I'm this type of person that's not really physically built. I have structure but not as others. Some people do workout sessions to build their physique while others eat good food to build their physique.

I'm in-between this class as I neither grow with food or fitness. I attain strength and agility with the fitness programmes I've been undergoing since April coupled with the engagement challenge that seems to spur me up.

I started by dancing to the tunes of the song I used for motivation before diving into weight lifting which the challenge calls biceps curl. The biceps mentioned here are my upper limbs and the curl done is when I fold it in. In the absence of a dumbbell(s), I used a barbell to do this.

These are the steps I took to ensure that I did the required repetitions. 3×8 for beginners and 4×12 for advanced. A total of 7 sets. This wasn't possible for me as the barbell I used placed more weight on my body that I couldn't really move my arms well. I placed my camera on the floor, energised my body with some moves and then took to lifting it easily, up and down.

It got to a point that I couldn't complete it. I successfully did 3×8 but couldn't do 4×12. It was really difficult for me but not as difficult as the next one I'm about to deliberate on. I didn't focus on the pain because that's the only way to gain. I focused on the result I'll get doing this exercise and even though I wasn't able to complete the program, I did something. My arms and shoulder felt the pain and I demonstrated this in the video.