Living the Family Dream...

Hey guys! Sorry for the delay on this post, but as I say to my campers- "You're giving me excuses and I want results." No excuses-here's the post.

I met with the dietician yesterday (Thursday) and did a metabolism test. It consists of me wearing a nose plug, reading a really boring sports nutrition book, and breathing into a tube for 10 minutes. When that was done the machine printed out a bunch of results and we went over them and had a general nutrician discussion. Anyways, I had a really informative discussion with the dietician and learned a lot. It turns out that I do in fact have a high metabolism and if I do no exercise and just chill all day I burn about 2800 calories. With my exercise, I need to take in about 4000 calories a day just to maintain weight. That's right, right now my entire family is supremely jealous of me. That being said, I'm going to be eating healthy and for some reason I have a feeling quarts of pork fried rice and pints of Ben & Jerry's probably won't be allowed in my meal plan. I meet with her again Monday to go over my meal plan and to take measurements so I can see how much I change from now until the tryout.

Today I had another training session at Parisi Speed School. Due to the storm on Wednesday I missed that day's training so I knew today would be tough. Eric didn't disappoint. It was basically a sprint workout the entire time with me working on my starting technique and my first step. That's one of the areas I really need improvement so it's a crucial part of training. He tested me in my 10 meter sprint and I got times of 1.47, 1.51 and 1.45. They are ok times but I need to get down to a 1.39 or below to really improve my 30m time. At the end of the sprinting, which lasted about 50 minutes, Eric had me doing conditioning work and abs. Conditioning was brutal but relatively quick, and the abs were killer. He says next week he's got an even tougher ab workout for me...I can hardly contain my excitement. I was completely exhausted after today's workout and came home and crashed for about two hours. When I finally woke up, I made myself some dinner and then headed to the gym for some upper body weightlifting. Today was shoulders and it's been two weeks since I've done them so I didn't push myself completely and just tried to ease myself back in. The training is tough but after a workout you always feel good about yourself so it's easy to get motivated for it. Tomorrow I'm hopefully doing some swimming and weightlifting. Should be fun since I haven't swam in a long time. I'll let you know how it goes!