Analysis of Physical Skills 2

 Analysis of Physical Skills 2

One area I felt that I needed to improve and push myself to work on was my staamina. This is where I would meet the demands of the environment I was in and that I would push through the tiredness. I have worked on my stamina this last term by focusing on using the high knees exercise and slowly increasing the intensity and duration of this. This exercise has helped my cardio respitory sytem, meaning that it has improved how well my body circulates and utilises oxygen, which in return means that I am able to push myself further because I have trained my cardiorespitory system to withstand higher levels of intensity. This exersise has also helped me reconstruct my inner discipline, by creating this discipline for myself, I have managed to push through and motivate myself during the hardest of days.

An area I would like to improve on is my flexibility. This is the range of movement in a joint. Flexibility is a key skill in dance and I feel like I need to improve how flexible I am, so I can effectively achieve different moves when dancing. One exercise I think will help improve my flexibility in dance is by practising Rob’s jazz warm up [that focuses on our legs] four times a week. This includes a seated forward fold with both legs parallel, a seated forward fold with one knee bent outwards with our foot touching our knee [then repeated on the other side], a seated forward fold over one leg when the other is in back attitude [which is then repeated on the other side]. By repeating these exercises regularly, this will allow my body to become desensitised to the stretch as the sensation in my muscle is not providing new or useful information. By consistently stretching four times a week, my brain will start to minimise the things my body has to react to. This decreases the pain felt which means I am able to stretch further and further.