Work Experience :)

Well.., I went to West grove leisure club in Clane, it was soo much fun the only day I had alot of fun was with Niall, he was only fresh out of collage and he showed me the proper insight of working at a gym ( and he let me off early :) ) He like showed me how to measure the body fat on someone, also the PH and Chlorine in the pool, and also the different machines and how they properly used in the pool, like the Jacuzzi ( how they get the bubbles going and the temp in the pool) and in the pool (bubbles, temp etc etc) Interesting fact: ( prob not but anyway) A jacuzzi needs 6 chlorine pellets to be the right PH. The pool needs 3/4 of a cup. The temp also needs to be 38 Degrees Celsius and the pool around the body temperature. When working out you need to have a warm up and a warm down. If not warmed up properly you will cause an injury to yourself and if you don't warm down you'll get a build up a lactic acid in the muscle and it can be very uncomfortable to have. Also the measurement of body fat, they have a machine to measure its called the BIA body fat analyzer *don't eat at least an hour before getting fat measured with this machine. Also the other machine: Body fat measurement calipers. This usually give the exact amount of body fat on your body. Niall the guy that I was with that day, he should me how to use them but doing it on himself. It was kinda cool the way it worked out the BIA machine, you had to give: Age, gender, weight and then it'd measure your fat, then on the wall a poster showed the fat on the body for heights, age and weight. I had this girl Orla for Monday and Tuesday and some part of Thursday. She was really nice and chatty (not comparing to Niall though he talked sooo much). She showed me how to clean machines properly and where each piece of equipment go. I had to help out setting up the rooms for each class, except for the aqua fit classes. :) The days the manger wasn't in the place was more relaxed and easy going. When he was in, he was really busy but also cranky as one of the girls said. He was really nice though. Although I started at 9 and finished at 1 (Most days I was finished at 12:30) it was still tiring, but I didn't know how some of the workers there were in from 6am and worked till about 2pm. It seemed to go really slow when I wasn't doing classes, cause I was always in the gym doing the same thing over and over again. On Friday Dermot (the manger) he said i didn't have to go in on that day, but my mum working at a gym I was told I can work down there. It was alot of fun, I know the Boss very well and as it's a small gym there was no point of me going in there for a week cause it'd be very repetitive. I worked from 5pm-7pm ( I didn't mind those hours cause i got a line in the morning). I helped count money, recorded who came into the gym and was helping my mum clean up after everyone left. Even though it was very basic stuff the boss didn't mind me staying there with my mum as they were her working hours. While working in the gym I learned alot about myself, I've definitely grown alot of confidence as I was left to do alot of things by myself and in area's on my own. Even though I wasn't working there people did assume I did as they asked a few questions but only basic and definitely ones I can answer with my mum working at a gym I've heard most of the questions before. That's all i can think of atm..Ttyl.. :)