Week #2: Badminton

This week, I visited the Dorval Aquatics and Sports Complex with one of my close friends to take a badminton class. My friend has been taking badminton classes at the complex for several years now, and I was extremely interested in trying it out. I went to the fitness class on Thursday, February 7th at 8PM. The schedule of the sports complex can be found online at https://www.ville.dorval.qc.ca/en/leisure-and-culture/page/gymnasium-activities. This sports complex offers badminton classes three times a given week on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 8:00-9:50PM, as well as Tuesdays at 6:00-7:50PM and on Saturdays from 4:30-5:50PM for families with children under fifteen years old.

Before my friend and I began our workout, we both felt exhausted from our days at school, as our classes had ended at around 6PM. However, once we started working out, our adrenaline was pumping and our exhaustion faded completely into an energized state. I had never attended a fitness class where they offer to play a single sport for a large amount of time so I found the experience quite exhilarating. It was fulfilling learning how to play the sport and I feel as if this was a great start to my fitness journey!

I would definitely like to go back to the complex in the near future to participate in this sport again and I would recommend this activity to anyone looking to increase their level of fitness.

Week #2 Questions:

Personally, I feel that my fitness program will help me figure out what kind of exercises I would be interested in being a part of in the near future. I would like to find a sport where I am able to socialize with new people and have fun playing. I would be motivated to participate in and stick to a regular exercise routine if I were to be registered in a weekly fitness class, where I can exercise with a group of people that are positive to be around, that I enjoy being a part of and that I feel that I am maintaining a level of fitness that is highly satisfactory to me. Three specific barriers that would prevent me from sticking to a regular fitness routine would be my stress level about school projects and work, not managing my work out schedule properly and not keeping up to date with my fitness level evaluation.