CAS Action - Fitness and Ping pong

I’ve been regularly attending to gym from the beginning of November 2017, it’s been 8 months and I went to gym at every Saturday and Sunday except some exceptions. Going to gym developed my understanding of how life is integrated with sports, because before this year, I don’t have an understanding of going regularly to gym. I play ping pong at the gym and I can observe that my skills, my technique has improved. Besides ping pong, I do fitness within the framework of my personal program, which means my personal trainer prepared a program which only suits my needs. Therefore, it is focused to develop me.

I start to train myself regularly after I started to do sports. Thus, I wasn’t so familiar with some machines and exercises. I used to use dumbbells and treadmill, so my skills of using them developed more than the others. I learned how to use new fitness machines and how they train our muscles. For instance, 2 machines which train leg muscles completely have different roles. One of them allows us to strengthen upper leg muscles, whereas the other one allows to train our lower leg muscles.

I can see a small change on my body due to exercising regularly, especially on my arm muscles. In addition to body development, I become familiar with the names of the muscles. Some of them which I learned are biceps, triceps (lower and upper arm), deltoids (upper body), gluteus (bottom), erector spinae (lower bottom under vertebrae), abdominals (belly muscles) and gastro kinemicus (calf muscles).

As you would appreciate, getting used to do fitness isn’t easy to handle. Because body needs to adjust itself to carry additional weight. Some challenges that I’ve handling are getting up early and going to sports even at the busiest time of school. It caused lots of pains on my body while doing that exercise, so continuing with these pains makes me tired. I get used to a new life style with sports beside its challenges.

I used to play ping pong at the primary school, age of 11, which means long time no see ping pong. This year I felt like starting from the very beginning to learn every movement. Forehand, backhand, topspin, leg movements while playing forced me. But I can see a clear change when I compare my self with the beginning of the year. My technique takes a lot of time to develop.

With my personal trainer, we build up a yearly plan to develop my body step by step. This allows me to invite my friends to sport in order to collaborate with them. For instance, playing ping pong requires at least 2 people, while training on some machines, another person to carry the weight or help is required. Thus, working collaboratively is a part of doing sports.

I fully showed commitment by going to sports regularly and composing another fitness program for me after 18 trainings. I showed perseverance by not giving up after several trainings. This progress requires many regular trainings in order to see the development. I believe that I attend to fitness more than everything.

Some consequences challenged me to continue. For example, fitness requires lots of time, in one training at least 2 hours in order to finish the daily program. Other than that, as I said it needs attendance to develop yourself. But, I was patient and I can say that fitness developed me a lot both physically by doing various kinds of activities and by mentally by adapting to a new lifestyle.