Personal Narrative: Improving Muscular Strength

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I made this workout plan to improve my muscular strength and endurance. I don’t work out ever, unless it’s in gym. So I tend to be the weakest person in the FITT Center. I wish to work on improving my muscular strength and endurance so I’m no longer on the bottom of the scale. I can’t lift much, so having a workout plan that keeps me going and gradually increases the pounds for the weights will be a game changer. I also want to do a 5K Color Run sometime in the future, I can’t run long distances. Being on the treadmill every day will help my long distance running.

This workout plan is best for me because it slowly helps me improve my strength, and also helps me with running long distances. Training each section (legs, arms, etc) on a different day is more effective to me versus training everything one day for five days a week. Also I won’t be sore on none section and try to exercise that section again. This workout plan give my body time to rest. I chose to give myself weekends off because I’m too busy to even take the time to workout. This workout plan is also best for me because it will give me something to do after school instead of sitting in my room on my phone.
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I’m not in sports, I don’t do body building stuff, I just wanna be fit and because I’m currently weak someone else’s plan would be too much for me. I don’t want to be big and buff, just healthy and fit. My workout plan is exactly that, it's meant to keep me healthy and fit. If I were to use someone else's workout plan the weights could be way too much or too little, the reps and sets could be to less or too much for me, or the exercises could be too hard or easy for

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