5/10 and 5/11

Tuesday started with a difficult lower body workout. We started off the lift with some agility work and hip activation, which really made sure my muscles were ready for the quite difficult workout. The toughest part of my workout on Tuesday was the dead lifts. Not only are dead lifts difficult to begin with, if your form is not perfect, there is a high chance that you are going to hurt your back. I would always start of the right way, with my back not rounded out, but when I would get to my 5th or 6th rep, I would round my back out again. I think that the reason why was because you get more and more tired after each rep, which makes it tough to focus on the small details when you are that tired, and I definitely feel that I got better at focusing on the small details when dead lifting. When I finished my lift, it was on to helping out the adult group. Again there was one younger client in the group and I certainly did my best at helping him with little details, such as driving through his heels when doing squats. Additionally, I had to make sure that all the equipment was set up, which mean't that I was constantly running around making sure bands were tied to the squat rack for band exercises, moving the boxes around for people to do box jumps, moving sleds onto the turf for conditioning, and many other small tasks to make sure they had everything ready to go. Tuesday was a very training specific day, as both an athlete's perspective and a working perspective.

Yesterday, however, was really a work day. A large chunk of the day was painting the foundation of the building white because it had not been painted in a long time. Another intern and I had to basically paint all around the building, which took a while. However, it was a 75 degrees and sunny outside so I had no complaints being out there. Also, I had never really painted a building before and it was definitely a good life skill to learn. When we finished, we had to do some work around the building like throwing out some broken hoses and moving some things down the basement. When I finished, I had to make a run to Staples for Joe. I needed to make 20 copies of his nutrition packet for his clients, which needed to be specifically done (clear cover, colored front page, every other page black and white, blue back and blue spirals). After making sure the Staples guy (real nice guy, his name was Daniel) had the layout down, I had finished my final task of the day.

Here is a picture of the adult group getting after a day 2 lift!