Goals For Winter Quater

I've had a lot of time to think this Winter break. Hmm how cliche' of a beginning post. Alright! first goal is to be cliche' free. We're onto a good start.

Seriously though, I've got my goals for Winter break. The first thing I've decided is that I want to get a job and keep it a secret from my parents for as long as possible. Not for the reason that I can get money from both parents and employment, but for the reason that I think would take a lot of pressure off of me to get a job. Then once I get a steady (no matter how small) income, I'll be able to live off my own instead of my parents.

The second thing I want to concur is my school work. The classes I feel will be some what of a challenge for me, and I want to have as little stress as possible. That's why I'm first off setting the bar at at least a 3.25 GPA. That takes off some stress. I also want to study for classes in my free time, or get good nights rest so I can show up to all my lectures. My biggest problem fall quarter wasn't the school work, but my poor attendance to class which resulted in my stressing about not knowing what material I needed to make up. The schedule I picked this winter quarter should be more accommodating for me to show up to class more often.

Thirdly, I've got a good thing going with these varied Crossfit workouts at tracks or in the weight room. Heck, Lisa said I had a 4.75 out of 5 body on new years when I wasn't wearing a shirt or pants. Then I got the two hottest girls in high school to lick my belly button. Of course I'm going to continue Crossfit. I see improvements in my body, but more importantly I notice a difference of how great the workouts make me feel compared to simple lifting.

Lastly are my dreams to become an amazing ultimate player. A lot of players on the Davis team like to imagine themselves going to nationals, and that's what motivates them. I on the other hand am not even thinking about the game-to-go final game against whomever. I'm trying to get into the mindset of understanding how to beat individual teams. Winning tournaments are important, but I think it's more important to know how to beat each team on your way to the top. I've played a few games agianst Davis's highest competitors such as UCSC, LPC, or UGMO and I feel like it's more important to focus on beating individual teams instead of focusing on winning tournaments. If you only focus on the tournament, then you commit yourself to a single offense and defense strategy, but a fluid mindset that gives you advantages at certain points is what I'm aiming to learn this quarter.

Overall I want to simplify my life. No time can be wasted.
I want to 98% focus on Schoolwork, Working, Working out, and Frisbee.
The other 2% will come from reading the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.

Crossfit at Foothill

Sorry to get your hopes up. Crossfit did not actually visit foothill, but some of their ideas did. Ryan Colemen, Stephen Hubbard, Karan Sharma, and I did some workouts at the football field today that were "constantly varied and high intensity". I was planning on just doing sprints and throwing with Ryan, but then my older brother came and had some really good crossfit-ish workouts. It ended up taking about 4 hours, but was all good fun. So here are the workouts so I don't forget. I also hope to repeat them later. After each work-out we tried to throw when we were tired. Each paragraph is each workout.

3x rounds of
Sprint 200m
Three-man marking drill
10 push-ups
Sprint 200m
Three-man marking drill
1 stair run

3x rounds of
Sprint 100m
5 burpees
Sprint 100m
5 burpees
20 second rest inbetween

For 12 minutes time
70 yard sprints holding 5 pound weights in each hand. (Rotating so that only one person was running at a time. Then the next person goes when the latter person finishes).

For 7 minutes time (lucky number 7's)
7 pull-ups
7 squats
7 burpees

6x rounds of
2 stair runs
sprint 50 yards
10 squats
sprint 50 yards
10 explosive jumps with 5 pound weights in each hand. (Hands touching the ground to hands in the air).

Physical Therapy

I finally am going to see a physical therapist today. How long has it been since my injury? Uhhh the day after Halloween. Dam. What I'm actually hoping will happen is for me to somehow acquire super human abilities because of my quadricep. Just like that one movie where the kid breaks his arm and when it heals he can throw baseballs over 100 Mph. He ends up becoming a professional pitcher for some baseball team (Cubs?). Moral of the story: will my body heal past it potential? Will I jump a 40 inch vertical with my abnormal quad defect/mutation? Hopefully.

Does He Like Me For Me?

I can't stand it when bitches say, "I don't know if he likes me, or if he likes the idea of me". It pisses me off because it turns an innocent guy into a scapegoat.

First off, usually it's both. I mean, if a guy likes a girl, he's also going to like the idea of the girl. Girls just say that their boyfriend only likes the idea of her because she's too scared to admit that she might have faults in the relationship too. If you want to break up with your boyfriend, you should do it because of how you feel, not of how you think he feels.

Guys are pretty good at hiding their emotions. So never never never try to judge his emotions on your own female scale. Don't think he doesn't love you just because he doesn't show it the way girls show it.

I know that I've made my own mistakes in the past, but I believe now that relationships should be built on trust and communication foremost. Although constant reminders of affection are nice, they can also be tedious, tiring, and frustrating always trying to please your partner.

Don't make your relationship a competition either. If he gives you one cute love letter for every ten you give him, don't make it a big deal. I guess you could talk about it a little bit, but never force him to love you. That's when people start pulling at strings to try and make things work, when they've been working all along.

What I'm trying to say is break up with your boyfriend for your own reasons, not reasons you think he has.

New Room

So Julie and I have been rearranging my room for the past couple hours. We switched my bed and desk and moved the fridge to the other side of Liam's bed. Ultimately, this made the room so much bigger! We now have a huge space when you enter the room. We are thinking about putting a couch there. We'll see. The best part about all this is that Liam has no idea. We switched desks too so it is a complete change. Also, when I get back from winter break I will have forgotten that we did this. So it will be a surprise for me too. We still have a lot of work to do. All of my stuff from my old desk is everywhere and right now I am just putting everything neatly on my new desk.

On a totally different note...Julie is sleeping over in Liam's bed tonight! Yay. I love sleepovers.

Pretend I'm Your Dearest Abby

You say that you wish you could start freshmen year over again. Good news is that freshmen year isn't even hardly over yet. Heal your body by drinking lots of water, the sweating it out at the gym on an elliptical machine or treadmill. Sweating releases a ton of impurities from your body that you don't get rid of otherwise. Don't forget getting lots of sleep. It never hurts to take some vitamins. The first one that comes to mind is Vitamin C. Stay away from alcohol for 2 months. Set goals for yourself that you know you can accomplish.

The ARC

First off, I want to admit to stealing two Christmas decoration candles from the DC the last two days. The reason I said that is not because I'm necessarily feeling apologetic, but because I needed a way to introduce the fact that I now have two candles. In lieu of that, I want to tell you that I starting to feel stressed out about finals. The biggest thing that calms my nerves is to light a candle then turn the lights out in my dorm room. I'm not sure if it's instinctual that watching fire calms me, or if it's just preference, but I do want to say that I've found something that works for me.

Now, onto my week. I've been working out a lot. A week or two before I hurt my quad, I had starting lifting weights and doing sprints. Then once I injured myself, I wasn't able to go to the ARC (our campus gym) for fear of hurting my injury even more. I had seen my improvements from my body after working out for a bit, but then once I got into the groove of regularly working out, I wasn't able to work out. Dam it really pissed me off. Even after I started feeling my quad heal, I still had to be smart about running or lifting. That means mostly working core, hip flexors, and arms.

I've gotten better though. I now feel like I've recovered 95ish%, with the rest of the 5% quickly on the way out. I even felt good enough to try practice last Thursday. It was 45 degrees out, and I didn't drop or throw-away the disc (wait maybe once that I admit could have had more touch) all of practice. My quad didn't hurt at all. Come to think of it, the only thing that hurt were my knees which kinda got bruised from doing burpees with Robby and Will the night before (Deck of Cards).

The point I'm trying to make is that I feel like an athlete again. I've got my full range of motion back and I guess that's why I treated myself to working out every single day this week. Yup I am addicted to working out.

Why do I enjoy working out so much now? Well I've got many reasons that I can think of. The easiest way to get them across is in list form:
- I now have direction in working out. I've been learning different workouts from many people who lead me like Taylor, Ashlin, or Robby. This would be compared to what I would do before that consisted of going to the Gym alone and do whatever machine I thought looked cool.
- People who make working out a sport such as my brother Stephen, or www.crossfit.com
- I made the A team, and I want to be good. I want to be somebodies fantasy pick.
- I realized that I'll probably never live as close to a gym as I do now in my entire life.

I also like what Taylor said last Thursday practice. It was when Roman was leading us in an ab workout, and when things started getting tough, Taylor yelled out, "Do it for her".