Week Ten

I also focused on flexibility. This week I spent 90 minutes on flexibility. My muscles were very tight from the rugby trainings this week and the gym sessions as I pushed myself hard at a high intensity. I still did 255 minutes of cardio to keep my fitness levels up, but I didn’t want to overdo it this week as the challenge is set for next week.  

When planning what I was going to do each week, I made sure I participated in at least two flexibility sessions. Flexibility is the range of motion/movement available at a specific joint (Baechle & Earle, 2008). I didn’t really use Flexibility as much as I should have over the ten weeks. When I stretched I only really used static stretching, and dynamic stretching. I made sure I held the stretch for 15-30 seconds to restore the muscle to resting length. I sometimes increased the stretch to flexibility and held it to 90 seconds.