Partner day

Today we were assigned partners from the senior class. I think that  the point of this day was to give both classes the chance to exhibit leadership in P.E. class. My partner was Meghan today and at first it was a little awkward because I'm not very good around new people and also most of the seniors were rather intimidating. In the small gym I learnt a new game. I think it was called bench ball, it didn't make much sense and was ruled by the senior boys. The weight room was my favourite part of today's class because it gave me a chance to talk to Megan about different techniques for building muscle. She taught me how to build muscle in my back with dumbbells. What I had to do for this was to bend over and keep my back straight, then I had to lift the dumbbells up and pull our shoulders together. Another thing that I never knew was that to do a successful pull up when you're jumping right when your hands meet the bars you have to pull immediately, hanging there for a moment won't help. I still can't do a successful pull up so I  guess I'll have to do a little more wight lifting. I also taught her a couple of my favourite arm work-outs. The first one is in a video below.

The second one is what I call 15 of 15 and basically it's 15 (Or more if you'd like) sets of five jumping jacks, five push ups and then five sit ups with no break in between the sets. Usually by the 10th one it gets tiring. We spent the remainder of the weight room time talking about different activities to do and lifting weights.