Final Video Story

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Becoming an athlete at a young age it seemed to me that sports was all fun and games, especially at a pee wee level. Until I got into high school. That’s where my fitness journey began. Coming into high school and playing at the high school level my freshman year I was not the biggest or strongest, not close to being one. Once our coach started our winter workouts, I remember the uncomfortable feeling of not knowing much on how to do properly weight lift. I was criticized for how my form was during lifts and sometimes criticized for not pushing myself harder past my limits to lift more weight. Once I eventually got the hang of all that, I never wanted to see someone in my shoes. That’s where I got inspired to create this video.

Every day I see new faces in the gym day in and day out. Some of those new faces are beginners with fitness and have the motivation to transform their bodies but they just don’t know where to begin or what things that can do. I created this video story of one of my leg day routines for those beginners to follow. This video is to give them an idea and guide of what exercises they can work out for their legs and core. Sometimes when first starting off weight lifting people usually prefer to be on their own so that they aren’t judge by a trainer or their lifting partner. That’s where the video will come in handy for those who choose to be independent and work alone. This is just a stepping stone for the people that don’t know where to being and don’t know what workouts to do.

Throughout this unit, it has made it easier to demonstrate my topic of fitness through clips and videos because visually seeing a lifestyle can really put someone in a different perspective. After recording the initial video and editing it, I specially wanted to put in an order and routine that the workout should be done. That way it was easy to follow. My peers liked the way the video transitioned from clip to clip showing each workout and how the ending faded into a stop. Some feedback I received was maybe adding music into the background, which I thought about, but I thought it would be more beneficial to have gym background noise to fit the subject. Without some of the feedback I couldn’t have make this project any better. I hope you enjoy being part of my fitness journey and continue to work hard towards whatever goals are set for yourself.

Video Draft

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When it is your first time getting in the routine of fitness and weight lifting, it’s difficult to find that starting point to get that motivation and follow a strict workout routine. I designed this video post to allow some of my peers who are looking to get started in the fitness lifestyle a template to follow in order for them to get started. When working out, especially for beginners, most don’t know what exercises to do and what the lift benefits to the body. Instead of spending monthly payments on trainers to walk you through the same repetitive motions, this video allows those who want to be independent and workout alone to see the demonstrations and begin to copy the workout for that day. I believe that this benefits those who are just getting familiar with the fitness lifestyle because they are able to go at their own pace. These video demonstrations also become helpful to those working out because they are capable to do a variety of different workouts that they have never done or tried before. Being around NFL and division 1 athletes for an extended period of time, seeing them post their workout videos to the public so that the public is able to do workouts like the pros and D1 athletes do inspired me to post my videos so that my peers are inspired by me and want to follow my workout routines. Throughout the video I broke down every individual workout to demonstrate how it is properly performed. I made sure that each clip transitioned to the order of what the workout is in from start to finish. Using adobe premium pro was very useful throughout the video making process because it made everything run more smoothly and made it feel like a professional video. I hope you all enjoy the workout video and continue to follow my fitness journey!

Raw Footage & Storyboard

We see many people in the gym constantly day in and day out, some of those people are experts at what they do with weight lifting and training because of the fact they have been doing it for an extent amount of time. Others being beginners, picking up and pushing weights for the first time can be a challenge especially if they don’t have a solid workout routine that they can follow. Here in this video I have a provided a legs and abs workout routine that not only can beginners follow but for anyone who would like to try new exercises that they have yet to try.

Starting off with the “foam roller” roll out your whole body starting from your back all the way down to your calves. This is to help loosen up the muscles and break down bad blood to get the blood flowing. Now after stretching out and getting our body loosened up first exercise that we start off with is the “back squat”. This targets your glutes, hamstrings, and quads. What some people don’t know is that it also activates your core muscles (abs) so that you are able to hold whatever weight you have upright. After squat the next muscle group we want to target is our calves. Our calves are just as important as any other muscle group. Calves help with this like speed and circulation of our blood in our legs.

Now that we have done isolating squats and calf raises, it is time to do a collaboration of both workouts as we seen with single leg presses superset with more calf raises. This is just to continue working those muscle groups, building the muscular endurance and volume. After 4-6 sets of each leg workout we want to go ahead and target our mid-section by doing a variety of ab workouts.

First, we start off with straight leg raises, these will target your lower abdomen building a stronger core. Abs should be about 4 sets of failure (as many as you can do). Then we go into weighted knee tucks. This exercise targets the lower core muscles mostly but at the same time actives the entire core section by having to stay in one place and not swinging back and forth.

Finally, for abs we want to make sure to hit the top half of the abdominal section. For that we want to take an exercise ball and simply do crunches for as many reps until you cannot do anymore, getting a far range of moving back and forth building the tension and squeezing the muscle. A stronger core will help develop better balance and a stronger body.

To finish off the workout we want to get our cardio in as well as draining out the lactic acid that is built up in our body. To do so we can do any type of cardio machine, but for this I choose the stair climber to release the lactic acid from my legs but at the same time help with my endurance.

Continue to push your body past its limits and results will show for themselves.