StayFit Club: Highlights of My fitness activities for the Week Ending 29th June, 2024. Arm and shoulder training . 🆕A little comment chat by the Steemian members

It gives so much joy to plan something and achieve it. Results achieved motivates. I am truly motivated at what we, at StayFit fitness club achieved this past week.

It was the last week of June and as such, we planned to have a health talk plus body checks. And the program for the week focused on building the upper body muscles. The details will come soon. Let me first of all appreciate those who were able to respond to my call for a comment chat.

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I want to sincerely appreciate @fifapresido @okere-blessing, @kidi40 and @saintkelvin17 for commenting meaningfully and interacting with others at the comment section. This is what engagement is all about. I will like to see you all and if possible, try to invite your friends to take part. Your little appreciation rewards have been sent to you and the evidence is below 👇 👇

Thank you all! Let's see how it goes with this week's update.

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I announced that we will focus on building the arms and shoulders muscles this past week. That was where we focused on. But it is a good thing that while building that region, other parts of the body benefits as well. Some of the programs that helps build the upper body also helps the lower body and abs as well.

Why is strengthening the muscles in the arms and shoulders very important?

Our day to day activities involves lifting things from places to place, holding things here and there and defending ourselves too. Strong arms and shoulders make it easier for us to carry out these daily activities without much stress.

Do you know that our muscles burn calories faster? When we succeed in building our arms and shoulder muscles, then burning calories will be faster than ever

Our arms are also used for staring and balancing, so when properly toned can give us an incredible movement and posture.

The effectiveness of exercising other body parts is improved with stronger arm and shoulders.

It also improves metabolism

In addition to the above, it also helps to build strong heart and core

The programs that are targeted towards stronger arms and shoulders

There are a lot of programs that target the shoulder and arms muscles. They include but not limited to the following

Bicep curls

This is requires a moderate size of dumbbells. You will have to hold the dumbbells on each of your hands, then your hands should face upwards, then curl your arms by bringing the dumbbells to meet your shoulders or heard region. Do so repeated for several reps.

Dumbbell shoulder press

This is done by holding a sizable dumbbell on both of your hands, then raise them upwards and bring them to an angle or 90° above your head and do so repeatedly for several reps. Note that you will be standing to do this.

Tricep pushups

It is a normal pushups when you will have to face downwards in a full plank position and then bending your elbows to press your body up and down in repeated successions.

Apart from the above, we also have Lateral raises, farmers walk, forearm pulls, finger tips push up, plank with shoulder tap just to mention but a few.

Within the week, we were able to apply most of the above and more as you can see below

Monday training

It was the beginning of the week and as such, the training was intense. We started with worm up, then the different exercises. The pictures below will tell more

Wednesday training/Football game

We continued with the exercise programs, adding new ones to the ones we had on Monday

After the workout out, we switched to football. But the thing is that we weren't much due to rain. But we played as we were. 4 in each team.

It wasn't as interesting as when we used to be much but we had fun.

Friday training

On this day, we also continued our programs as we had more people that couldn't make it other days

Saturday health talk/body checks including training

It was this day that we planned having a free health talk and body checks. I had designed this image below to advertise it

On the night before this day, I reminded everyone about it and told them to please advertise it.

I had already contacted our health practitioners of which @steemnurse01 was one of them but they are all our members. They came with all the materials and machines that are needed for the body checks.

The things we checked were
Body weight, pulse, oxygen circulation, HIV, blood sugar and BP. Thank goodness that I was ok and healthy. Of course, the results were private as it should be but I don't think anyone present had any serious issues.

In the morning, I went there and swept the vanue, arranged for the chairs and others who came early also assisted me with the arrangement

The chairs are arranged
	the place I washed and swept clean

Then the body check commenced in earnest. It was done turn by turn.

Then the health talk began as well where in we were told the importance of staying fit and eating healthy diet

At the end of the body check and health talk, we jogged round the field 5 times, then did a little workout and had our end of the month meeting before dismissing.

Our t-shirt

Our StayFit fitness club t-shirt started since last week..for this week, more members paid for theirs and I tried my best to get it ready for them. We wore it on this Friday and it looked awesome as you can see on the pictures below

You can see how stunning we looked! The printing of the t-shirt is still ongoing. And members who haven't paid for theirs are making efforts to do so as they were motivated by those that wore theirs.

Soon, we will proceed to print other colours like white and peach background. They will look great 😃😃😃.

A little comment contest

This past week, we only had @alli001 @chichigirl @fifapresido @steemnurse01 as steemians. @kidi40 couldn't make it due to work and @boddj23 couldn't make it also. I didn't see @mesola as well and @okere-blessing that had been promising to join us didn't show up.

We also had the presence of @auntev1 and @happyluv though just on Saturday but their presence were felt.

Well, it is another week and of chat mini contest. I will like anyone who is a fitness lover to share in this discussion. I will like to know your opinion on this past week's training, health tips and body checks, football game and t-shirt. Let's see what you have to say

Questions to answer

1. How many days were you in attendance?

2. Which of the programs was the toughest?

3. Did you complete all your programs holistically?

4. The benefits you derived from the programs

5. Your overall thoughts about the week's training

5 sp to be shared to all who interacted most from the steemians that worked out with me this past week.

It is a new month and my program will change. I am coming up with a set of programs and events that will spice up the month.

I didn't tell you all that I had one of my friends who saw my posts on Facebook and decided to attain the health talk. She was amazed at her experience and promised to join us. I can't wait!

Thank you all for going through. Hope you are inspired?

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