Ball is Life

Recently my schedule has been crazy, I have had practice 4-5 days a week with workout sessions on the weekends. So I have been really busy and loving all of it, I am doing something that I love and enjoy very much. I have been pushing through the pain, and many other obstacles like for our game against Pano I played with the stomach flu because I never want to let my team down. If I can still run I can play basketball. The only bad thing about this is my knee, now I have been trying to push through it and keep going and I haven't given my knee a chance to rest. I prefer not to tell people or make a big deal about it, as an athlete I one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone complains or makes excuses athletic or not. I still would never want to let my team down and rest out of practices or anything like that since I have made a commitment to them, so honestly the only time that I will be able to rest is August and even then once club season is over I still continue my workouts, so my knee is a major set back. Yet I know that I cannot keep putting my body through this, the pain has intensified, most nights and even some mornings I can barely put pressure or weight on it, the swelling has increased immensely. This is really disappointing as I was heading in the right direction with my recovery and I got the go ahead to play but be cautious. I haven't really told my parents much about this [sorry mom] because of the fact that after a previous discussion, if my knee worsens I am going to have to stop playing basketball :( So like anyone in my situation would I try to deal with it on my own, but even some of my physio is starting to hurt. I wanted to end this blog post on a positive note, so tonight we played Semi, so here is a recap. The first quarter in I'd say the first minute our score was 4-0 for us. Now in the first half I had some really good assists as well as a basket, and alot of jump balls. Now the second half was fun we entered it with a 14 point lead and we got to run through alot of our plays, again I got lots of assists, the last basket and rebounds, and our final score was 43-19 for us.

Blogs

So I have read a lot of blogs so for looking at other blogs I have realized I can put more creativity in my blog as well as being more consistent and addin more detail other than that I feel my blogs are pretty good and a lot of fun!

Update November 19

So I haven't been able to blog as much as I would have liked, things have been really crazy with basketball and other commitments. So today we had an expedition game against EMS and we won. I got a couple of baskets an ended up messing up my knees yet again, this time I messed up both. So now they are incredibly swollen (see pic bellow) and hurt a lot but it's all good I'm still going to play, I am going I really focus on my upper body strength to take some of the pressure off of my knees. Like anything though I am going to rest my knees when I can and hope that the pain killer will continue to do their work. My new goal is to get an average of 10points

per game  or more.

No Equipment Upper Body Workout for Great Arms, Shoulders and Upper Back

So here is a new workout I am really excited to try and make it apart of my fitness routine. Being a post on the more slimmer side isn't really something I can control nor do I want to change my diet so increasing muscle mass is very important to me and is something I am enjoying working on

2013 Arizona Women's Basketball Post Workout 8-30-13

So here is a post workout for on the court that I am excited to try modifications of this

Basketball

So today we had a great basketball practice with a surprise guest a girl from my club team also joined us! We did alot of drills and I did very well, I made all of my lay ups and got the most rebounds in the 3 on 2 continuous drill (though I probably shouldn't have eaten that taco... at least it was healthy) I now have a beautiful jammed pinky finger that's just gorgeous! And it was a sad practice as well, we found out that the team jerseys only go up to 15 :( Since my number is 20.... As well my Air Jordan 28se that I bought in Chicago are now too small for me :( But I will be getting new ones soon to come. Now I am eating a chicken garden salad that I made and just watching TV overall today was a good day...

G,S,N Interim Grade

I think that I deserve a G, I am always at class on time and I come prepared (gym strip, water.) As much fun as it is to be the one to get the points for my team I try to get everyone involved whether its passing the ball to someone or cheering them on. I am always trying to stay positive and support my peers. Now outside of class is where I have my most fun, especially now that the school season is starting up and even in general. So I am constantly trying to record my progress as well as my activities that I do outside of school, now I am really busy so I have been working on updating my blog.

Wednesday October 15,2014

So today I am feeling sore, as I had expected. Exciting news I found out today that basketball tryouts are this Friday! I cannot wait for this season to start! So after school today I decided to play some basketball focusing on ball handling and shooting. I practiced for about 2 hours and 30 minutes and I feel pretty good about what I can do.

Tuesday October 14 2014

Today we did loco-locomotion for fitness. I felt I did a decent job, I definitely am out of shape due to being injured but that is still not any excuse for not exercising. I know I can do better and I will do everything I can to do better.

October 5-11

Unfortunately I have had the flu for the past week and have not been able to go to school or do any physical education

Goals for the Year

My Goals for this year in PE are to 1.) Strengthen my knee for Basketball  2.)Increase my strength

Sunday October 5, 2014

Today I had a little bit of some flu like symptoms but I decided not to let that bother me me and my dad went for another jog around Sullivan park,I ended up getting my heart rate to 176 . Then I played basketball for a good 2 hours.

Saturday October 4, 2014

Today I spent the day with my dad we went for a 1 hour jog all around Sullivan Park, we then came home played a little one on one. My dad then left for work and I continued to play for a good 1 hour 30 minutes

Friday October 3,2014 Pt 2.

After fitness testing today I decided to stick with my normal after school routine and played basketball for 2 hours mainly focusing on shooting and ball handling

Friday October 3,2014 Pt 1

Today we did fitness testing, I didn't do my personal best or come close to what I normally am at. After my knee injury its going to take a while to get back into shape as well as getting used to running in my knee stabilizer.
Here is how I did

Beep Test: 7.5               I normally get 10 -11
T-test: 12.8 s                   I normally got 10 or under
Sit and Reach: 4            I normally got 4
Vertical: 240 standing 300 jumping    I normally got 65 or more for my vertical
Plank: 30 s                      I normally got 60s or more
Push ups: 5                     I normally got 15 minimal
Balance board: 7            I normally got 5 or less

So as you can tell my fitness has gone down, especially since my knee injury. I don't make excuses so I plan to have a better improved fitness level by next testing. I have been getting back into training not as intensive and my goal for the end of the year is that I have a better fitness level than last year.
                            

Thursday October 2,2014

On every Tuesday and Thursday my brother and I have two paper routes of just over 300 houses, so as my warm up I delivered our papers which take about an hour. After alot of hard work I finally got my basketball hoop so today I played for a good 3 hours, I even schooled Naman in a game of Horse!

Wednesday October 1, 2014

Today we worked out in the Weight room I followed my physio workouts, so here is what I did
3 sets of 15 seated leg presses on 75lbs
2 sets of 15 leg stretches
2 sets of 15 10 lb butterflies
2 sets of 15 60 lb leg curls

Workout Pt 2

 Here is a video of some of Indiana Womens Basketball team pre season training, not only does this video give ideas of some things I can incorporate in my workouts, it also inspires me and gives me insight to the hard work and dedication it takes to reach my goal.

Workouts for the Year Pt 1

Here are my workouts, for achieving my goals: