The Diary Game || 30-10-2024 || Last Wednesday in October - Preparing for a Football Match Challenge.

It's no surprise that the picture above has explained the purpose of writing this post. It's an invitation though on the football match between my fitness team and another. It was a Wednesday, the last Wednesday of the month, and we members of the Stayfit team [Both Steemians and non-steemians] were expected to be at the fitness center to train against the upcoming football match we have with another fitness team called HFC-Nation. Our presence that day was for 11 players to be selected; that would represent us.

That morning, I left the house after ensuring the basics were kept in place. My father lives in the house to be kept neat and tidy before anything else. Having done my basic chores, I left with my brother, who was on midterm break, to the fitness center. We arrived there by 7 a.m., which was already behind time; we were expected to show up.

When I got there, the magnitude of people seen shocked my bones. This was the first time seeing such crowd. Even on holidays, the turnout is not always as massive as this. I joined the existing program instead of jogging round the field. The program I met was High Knee Lift. This program aims at strengthening the legs and body, helps in belly fat reduction, and the like. Other exercises did help in cardiac improvement before moving to the football field to train

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This is a program done by placing your two legs on the ground in front of a step board. When you do this, you start my moving one leg after the other on top of the step board and then raise your high but backwards, and your hands tend to curve it before you go down for the next leg to do same. I'd say it was more like a lift where you'll go high and then go low. The body parts actively involved are:

• legs

• Thigh

• Knee

• Chest

• Feet

These body parts were actively involved and felt the pain that arose as a result of doing such. After this form of exercise, I moved to doing Moving Lunges. I'll not call it stationary lunges because we were moving while standing in a particular position.

This program name may sound absurd though, but that's what we did. How? When I said stationary, we took a particular position and didn't move to another position while our legs did the work. Then when I said moving, it meant part of our body did move but our whole body didn't—mmore like movement and locomotion. The program was done by lifting your leg on a step board and then going down to attain a position where your knee would almost touch the ground and your hands stretched out in the air.

The body parts that felt the program since it was a combination of butt, hands, and legs exercise are;

• Legs

• Butt

• Thigh

• Hands etc

These were the body parts that were actively involved, and they felt most of the pain as a result of the exercise done. The next program I did before switching to football was jumping jacks. This is a cardiac arrest program that helps improve your breathing rate and blood circulation internally.

It involves jumping, but you're not just jumping; your hands must meet each other as if you're clapping, and your legs must be stretched once you jump and must close in once you're down the air. The movement of the hands up and down, sideways and inward, made the program a strengthening aid program. My coach told us to go a hundred times; two jumps are counted as one. It was attainable, and from the video, you'll see I completed the program.