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Finding Your Inner Forrest Gump It’s 5:50 in the morning and the alarm goes off. This means the inevitable drive to practice will be underway very soon. When practice is this early, it’s still dark outside. However, by the time the running is done, the sun has already been viewable for at least thirty minutes. A common question that gets asked is “How in the world did that rise and I never even noticed it?” This is the magic of running. You are so focused on the sport and the competition that…

Strength- Strength is defined as the body’s ability to deal with a form of weight, be it lifting a weight, pushing/pulling something or withstanding pressure. Strength is considered to be an anaerobic component in that it usually doesn’t take longer than 2 minutes (if it did it would be pushing into muscular endurance.) This type of resistance training can lead to hypertrophy, resulting in larger, denser muscles as when you create micro-tears in the muscles, the body overcompensates by making…

Leading up to the Tough Guy Tough Gal Challenge we tried to train as specifically as possible to the type of physical challenges we could expect. The idea of sport-specific training refers to “being able to duplicate or imitate a specific skill or aspect of one’s sport or activity”, thus, it is critical when training for a purpose or event such as Tough Guy Tough Gal. For our training programme, each week we completed a 50 minute circuit session, a 1 km run with a 2 min rest (increased dist.…

Egg beater drill: Drill needs at least 5 players, however can be done with more. Players start lined up on the baseline, two basketballs on one side of the key and one basketball on the other side. Player 1 starts the drill by shooting and rebounding their own shot and passing to player opposite. After player 1 has shot the ball player 2 shoots their ball and rebounds and passes to opposite side. Basic rule is that after you shoot the ball you rebound your own shot and pass to the side…

Motivation can be something hard to sustain, especially if you do not have support around you. Within a discourse community you are surrounded by individuals who share similar interest and a who also share a common goal. Thus being part of a discourse community one can find the support that allows for them to maintain their motivation and discipline that would be required to met their goals. I myself have been a part of fairly new and intimate discourse community. Our community is made up of…