Its been awhile. But every so often I get some gems. Here's ten specially selected for today. Ill admit not all are words or phrases. Some are my responses to their....'creativity'.
Worms eat each other
Hey, you like mudkips?
I swear Im not in the mood for that shit today.
No, really. Mudkips. Kali Muscles energy drink!
Thats Hyphy Mud!....ass.
Prater! You need to meet my aunt!
Ok, whatever you say.
<3 hours later>
Prater! You never met my Aunt!
Wtf?
I didn't mean to I swear!
You supposed to kick the ball not the other athletes!
Your other right foot. Thats the same foot!
Hey, you should totally meet one of my teachers. She just broke up with her boyfriend. But I guess they got back together.
So.....what was the question again?
Can I blow your whistle....(oh shit face)
There's pathogens in the water. Look!
Dude, worms again.
Prater, let me ride in your bed!
Come on, you got to at least put a little thought into what you say beforehand.
Wait....quarter after is 15 minutes. Right? I dont know...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Dealing with it
"Don't focus and worry about things you have no control over."
That's not exactly what she said but 2 or so years ago the words of an ex of mine still echo. It's a true statement that I try my best to hold onto despite our personal falling out. We had a interesting conversation a few weeks back that resulted in us not speaking again. But I digress.
Let's rewind a bit. This past weekend was ...odd. Saturday went great. My throwers threw excellent and we scored well. A bunch of PR's across the board. Saturday night went very well. Girls Rugby fundraiser was a success and we raised a nice chunk of change despite an almost panicky start. A good evening overall.
Then Sunday hit... I was better off not waking up and sleeping until Monday. Start off I find my roster is not up to date for the girls first game. Only 10 girls listed. An hour later that situation is handled. Then due to some miscommunications we arrived over an hour early for our game. Then the game started. We battled. Ill admit it was a contest for about 10-15minutes. Then they broke. Points started to be scored and then to make matters worse the injuries started hitting. Final result in my coaching debut was a 31-10 loss, a broken foot ending my outside centers season, a sprained elbow, another sprained her wrist, and to add salt into that gaping wound my full back was red carded.
I wasn't sure how that day could've gone worse except it wasn't even 2:30 at this point. So to recap we almost had to forfeit, got beat, got hurt, and Im hungover through all of this. I blame the parents and all those shots they got me. Thats my defense and Im sticking to it.
Thats kind of what I wanted from Sunday that point on. Even Monday I was out of it...or "emo" as my friend so delicately puts it.
Anyways, back to the originally statement. It was tough to push through but it's true. At this point its sometime Sunday evening and Im ready to call it a day. But, I had to remember that at this moment I had to move forward. Wasn't anything I could do about what happened. Adjustments were needed. Positions had to change. A new methodology needed to be put in. End of that.
Realistically this is never just THAT easy but when you break it down that's what it's about. Get it done. Accept what is. Change what you can. Adapt and grow. I can't dwell on past mistakes or failure but sure as hell can learn from them. So if you're stuck in the shitter or just got dealt a bad hand learn and move forward. Adapt and overcome. Otherwise you're just going to be miserable and reliving that GIF above more often than not.
That's not exactly what she said but 2 or so years ago the words of an ex of mine still echo. It's a true statement that I try my best to hold onto despite our personal falling out. We had a interesting conversation a few weeks back that resulted in us not speaking again. But I digress.
Let's rewind a bit. This past weekend was ...odd. Saturday went great. My throwers threw excellent and we scored well. A bunch of PR's across the board. Saturday night went very well. Girls Rugby fundraiser was a success and we raised a nice chunk of change despite an almost panicky start. A good evening overall.
Then Sunday hit... I was better off not waking up and sleeping until Monday. Start off I find my roster is not up to date for the girls first game. Only 10 girls listed. An hour later that situation is handled. Then due to some miscommunications we arrived over an hour early for our game. Then the game started. We battled. Ill admit it was a contest for about 10-15minutes. Then they broke. Points started to be scored and then to make matters worse the injuries started hitting. Final result in my coaching debut was a 31-10 loss, a broken foot ending my outside centers season, a sprained elbow, another sprained her wrist, and to add salt into that gaping wound my full back was red carded.
I wasn't sure how that day could've gone worse except it wasn't even 2:30 at this point. So to recap we almost had to forfeit, got beat, got hurt, and Im hungover through all of this. I blame the parents and all those shots they got me. Thats my defense and Im sticking to it.
Anyways, back to the originally statement. It was tough to push through but it's true. At this point its sometime Sunday evening and Im ready to call it a day. But, I had to remember that at this moment I had to move forward. Wasn't anything I could do about what happened. Adjustments were needed. Positions had to change. A new methodology needed to be put in. End of that.
Realistically this is never just THAT easy but when you break it down that's what it's about. Get it done. Accept what is. Change what you can. Adapt and grow. I can't dwell on past mistakes or failure but sure as hell can learn from them. So if you're stuck in the shitter or just got dealt a bad hand learn and move forward. Adapt and overcome. Otherwise you're just going to be miserable and reliving that GIF above more often than not.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Conditioning - "Fun" with Intervals
It's no real secret to my athletes and clients that I will always prefer intervals over just basic cardio and training. I've really taken to AMRAP style with conditioning workouts and using intervals for time and then limiting rest to improve capacity.
Case in point is my bleacher training I've been doing lately. I have a nifty interval timer on my phone, HIIT Timer, that I have been using to keep track of all this. Staring at watches is for chumps. Give me some headphones any day. Nice thing is theres a beeper on it that lets you know when the interval is coming up.
Anyways, the setup is rather simple. Get as many reps in 10 minutes as possible according to the interval. I started off sprinting bleachers on 2 minutes. Which was rather easy but I had to start somewhere. Then every workout I drop time. So currently Im down to 90 seconds. Yesterday I went 7 rounds. Calves are pretty tight, lemme tell ya. Next time Im looking at 80s. Maybe 85. Thing is now that it's getting less and less there is not as much rest and the workload increases. So it's definitely getting tougher. Plus if I want to work speed then I need to increase rest otherwise the last few sets are pretty damn slow.
Nice thing with this you can do it with practically any exercise. Today Im hitting the sled. Although Im running a TABATA workout with that...God help me.
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