Build Your Body

   Today, the girls basketball team members meet at UMC for the first practice. Rather than practicing basketball, we focus on body building this time. Mr. Li introduces to us all kinds of fitness equipment in the gym, and he plans a lesson for us. Most of the girls are afraid of having big muscles, but Mr. Li says we don’t have to worry about that as long as we control our diet. Moreover, fitness training can help to shape our body and we can have better physical strength while on the court. For every basketball game we play against other schools, we lose because our physical strength is not good enough. Thus, both boys and girls basketball teams are going to start work out in order to play better on the court.

    Mr. Li plans for us what we have to do over winter break: there are two sets of programs, and they will cover training of different parts of muscle. The most important thing to remember is “one front one back,” which means if you train the front muscle for the first facility, then you have to train the back muscle for the next facility. Mr. Li says we have to rest for 48 to 72 hours between two training days. Also, he says that the muscle will be sore after first few times of training because it’s trying to get used to the new condition. After today, I learn lots of usages for different fitness machines, and which part of muscles they train. From now on, I have to go to the gym more often and start doing the assignment to be stronger.