{"id":30477,"date":"2017-01-20T10:26:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=30477"},"modified":"2017-01-27T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:40:27","slug":"learn-to-train-a-kpe-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2017\/01\/20\/learn-to-train-a-kpe-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn to train: a KPE seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"Am I the only one who\u2019s ever been jealous of the kinesiology students? As someone so interested and engaged in fitness and physical activity I would love to be able to sit in on those lectures. While that may not be possible, the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education does host seminars throughout the year which are open to all students. I stumbled upon one of these online and decided I\u2019d check it out last Tuesday.\r\n\r\n
\"Anne<\/a>
Source: reactiongifs.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nThe seminar was titled \u201cLearn to Train\u201d and was concentrated on exercise design. It was held in the multipurpose room in the Goldring Centre \u2013 as such I was able to discover yet another corner of this beautiful facility \u2013 and I was impressed by the 12-or-so person turnout. Leading the seminar were two Goldring trainers. Before the end of the seminar, I spotted two friends in the room \u2013 what are the odds?\r\n\r\n
\"A<\/a>
Source: tenor.co<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nTo start off, we talked about how much exercise we should be getting. We went over the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines which recommend adults 18-64 years old do 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per week in order to see health benefits. What I liked was that we were reminded that \u201cmoderate to vigorous\u201d looks different for everyone. Everyone has their own unique starting point and \u201cmoderate to vigorous\u201d reflects their personal experience not any standard of what should be difficult or not. We also learned that the recommendation to incorporate muscle and bone strengthening activities at least twice a week was only recently added to the guidelines, as more and more research came out in support of this habit.\r\n\r\nNext we talked about goals and how important it is to have a specific, measurable, action-related, realistic and timely (S.M.A.R.T) goal in mind when designing your exercise regime \u2013 in order to make progress toward your goals most efficiently. The trainers also emphasized the importance of having that goal in mind during exercise. If you\u2019re looking to build lower body strength but you\u2019re doing squats and your shoulders can\u2019t take another set, it should be an indication to you that something is wrong.\r\n\r\n
\"A<\/a>
Listen to your body, please don't punish it.
Source: murphy-law.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nWhich brings us to what exercise means to each individual. We reflected on what is considered \u201cexercise\u201d and how an individual identifies a good workout. For some people, they have to be toppled over exhausted at the end of the workout, for others exercise can be a fun Zumba class or a slow, therapeutic, not-too-difficult lifting session. The trainers reflected on how critical their clients can often be of themselves for not meeting some minimum indication of \u201cexercise.\u201d I\u2019ll be keeping this in mind as I continue to train \u2013 feeling sore and being drenched in sweat aren\u2019t necessarily indications of good exercise.\r\n\r\n
\"Annette<\/a>
I\u2019ve learned that the best indication of a good workout for me personally is a SMILE \u2013as clich\u00e9 as that may sound.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nFor the remainder of the seminar we talked more specifically about program design for strength, power and endurance goals and I won\u2019t attempt to relay that in a simple blog post, but I do want to mention what was said about \u201cworkouts of the day\u201d\/\u201dWOD\u201d which are increasingly popular online these days. The problem with these is that everyone has a unique set of limitations, a unique starting point and unique goals, which are probably not going to align perfectly with any universal workout of the day. Training according to these may cause injury, frustration and\/or a lack of progress toward one\u2019s individual goals.\r\n\r\nStay tuned for more seminars and events like this one by looking out for flyers within the athletic centres but also checking the calendar<\/a> online! Maybe I\u2019ll see you there next time!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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