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Week five of getting fit while social distancing
In week five of my journey to get fit while social distancing, I went back to the Google App store so my phone could tell me what to do again.
I was recommended the Nike Training Club app by the same co-worker who had recommended Sworkit, the first app I tried.
While I liked Sworkit for all of the customization options, Nike Training Club I found was pretty limited in comparison for what I wanted to accomplish.
In case you are new here, after turning 30 in January it has been 12 years since I have regularly worked out.
Being a football player at Midlothian High School, every week not in season was spent getting our bodies and minds stronger for the next season. That was all the motivation I needed back then, but with no season to prepare for after the final whistle, that motivation has waned to zero since then.
Needing content, I have committed to working out five times a week since I know it is generally good for me. I am not looking to lose weight or get super jacked, but being able to not feel out of breath or get incredibly sore when life requires me to run short distances and lift things for the ladies in my office would be nice.
In week five, I think I might have finally started to notice some progress, though it is hard to tell with workout routines changing every week.
The NTC app has probably been my least favorite week so far. I cannot say it is a bad workout app, but after Sworkit let me customize everything about the workout, NTC’s just felt limited.
Let me explain. With my modest goals, I am not willing to workout for very long or hard. I have mostly been able to find 10-minute workouts that have run the gamut from too easy to unexpectedly leaving me pretty breathless.
Still, I know there are harder short workouts available that I am still looking to avoid.
NTC groups its workouts various ways. Besides the time for the workout, you can see the intensity and if the workout will require certain equipment.
What I liked about Sworkit was the ability to skip certain exercises if I did not like them or could not do them without sacrificing anything. Most workouts seemed to have an endless amount of exercises that I would not get to otherwise if I had not skipped some. I would still be working out for however long I set the length of my workout for.
NTC workouts seemed to have a limited supply of exercises for each workout. Length usually seemed determined by how many times you would have to repeat a group of three to four exercises. Skipping any meant shortening the already short workout, making me feel even lazier than I already felt by not wanting to do a third squat variation.
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Bowie had six players play in the Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl football all-star game. For pictures from not just the football game, but the basketball and volleyball games as well that feature athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6875584&T=1
Nocona is welcoming back Coach Sandy Langford, former coach and alumnus for the Lady Indians, as its new volleyball head coach.
Langford comes back to Nocona after spending the past 11 years leading the Glen Rose volleyball program.
Her circumstances with her family allowed her to jump at the opportunity once she became aware the position at Nocona was available.
“My youngest graduated and is playing football at Midwestern (State University),” Langford said. “All of our family is here and I knew that Coach Kara (Lucherk) was leaving. We were eventually going to retire here. Our oldest son plays college football at West Texas A&M and we’ll be two hours closer to him as well.”
She again will lead the Lady Indians volleyball program, one that she led all the way to the state title game in 2011, which is the farthest the volleyball program has ever gone in its prestigious history.
Langford kept up that level of success during her 11 years at the bigger 4A Glen Rose. She won less than 20 games only twice during her time, winning her 500th career game back in 2023. Her teams were ranked among the top 10 in the state five times and Langford led Glen Rose to the state tournament in 2017, the best finish in program history.
With the Lady Indians also having its own string of success, appearing in back-to-back regional finals while finishing atop the district standings both years, Langford is excited to not just keep the success going, but shoot for the stars.
“We are not expecting anything less than a state championship,” Langford said.
She has stacked the non-district schedule with strong, state-ranked 3A and 4A teams as well as big tournaments that will test Nocona’s mettle early next season in the hopes it will prepare them for a long playoff run.
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The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
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