Monday, June 11, 2007

Summer Training

My parents have ruined any chance I have of going to NUTC. Because of my "medical condition" which is having absolutely no symptoms on me whatever and might just possibly be a huge waste of time and money, I have to get "cleared" by the doctor before my parents agree to make any registration. Little did they know that registration opened in early February, and by now registrations have probably ended or are filled.

Which leaves me to Skylands. Skylands won't really teach you anything, it'll just keep you in shape and in tact with your throws and stuff. I was really looking forward to NUTC. I'm considering going to JEM for summre 2008.

I've started a modified Air Alert. My version increases the variety of excercises, and decreases the number of reps. I must say, it's one of the hardest things I've ever done. Halfway through the excercise, I realized that there was a huge amount of stress on my knees and ankles. I stopped for a while, and started again, this time increasing the number of weights I was using.

Keeping in shape over the summer is hard stuff.

1 comment:

gapoole said...

I strongly discourage doing plyometric exercises with any weight beyond your own body weight, especially in the early stages of any program. You could do other kinds of weight training (squat, leg press, calf raises) but not with the jumping and landing of Air Alert. That's just asking for trouble.