CAA day one here we go

Today is the day, i will start my third CAA meet here at odu and nerves are high. I was just sitting here thinking of all the things i have done, how many times a week i worked out and how many weekends i was gone traveling with my team. I am trying to pump all my teammates up and show them pictures through out the year, and told them to read my blog later but i think these quotes can pump anyone up , even if its just to go for a run to get ready for spring break body !

Some videos that get me siked to go out and not doubt myself..

USA micheal phelps 8th gold medal ! crazy finish !

MIRCLE SPEACH  .. you know this pumps you up !

Tiger Woods..golf is A SPORT !

Sports drinks

 I am at my championship meet for swimming and i noticed every team is drinking something different. From vitamin water, gatorade,ensure,red bull...it got me thinking WHY. So i decided to look up somethings because i could not understand why someone at a swim meet would want to drink ensure, because im aware my grandma drinks that . What ever happend to drinking water ? i got told that you are suppose to drink four to six ounces of water for every fifteen minutes of exercise, seems like a lot i know. So i did my research and found that WATER is the best way to go over any sport drink. The only reason people tend to think sports drinks are better is because it is easier to drink more of it. People only really need sports drinks with electrolytes if they are going to be exercising for three too five hours, but you do not need it for all exercise, since 8oz of it can contain up too 100 calories !

 ALSO last week i had a drug test and they told us that if we were vitamin water drinkers we better watch out. Vitamin water contains NCAA banned substances ! so if you are an athlete in college, id  watch out what flavor you drink..if interested ..look here !

next time you before you go to work out remember :

• Drink about 15-20 fl oz, 2-3 hours before exercise
• Drink 8-10 fl oz 10-15 min before exercise

• Drink 8-10 fl oz every 10-15 min during exercise
• If exercising longer than 90 minutes, drink 8-10 fl oz of a sports drink (with no more than 8 percent carbohydrate) every 15 - 30 minutes.

• Weigh yourself before and after exercise and replace fluid losses.
• Drink 20-24 fl oz water for every 1 lb lost.

HOPE THAT HELPS ! off too the pool....

Carlates -Exercise in your car

So i was sitting at home and my roomate who is a exercise science major was writing a paper on a new exercise program called, carlates.You think im kidding, i wish i was. So i decided to check it out for myself and see what information i could find...
CARLATES at its best

I dont know about you but im thinking spring break is 2 weeks away, and those girls bodies are making me think i should give it a shot...

Focusing on fitness with friends

Over the past few days i decided to find out from other ODU student athletes how they felt about students on ODU campus in general with their health and fitness. When it came to campus food, that was the biggest problem i found. Every single girl i asked said that they had gained the freshman 30 within the first semester. Why? i asked them " have you been into whitehurst dining hall ?" then i actually had to agree. I remember living in whitehurst and they basically told you that there was a huge selection but the greens were always brown and the only thing that looked remotly good was french fries. BINGO there is your thirty pounds fries and pizza.
Then i was curious to see, because since they are required to work out and it is forced, that if they were not on a team, how hard would it be to work out. Half said they would want to go run more and be active , while the other half were pretty honest and said it would be hard to motivate themselves. Seeing as their whole life people have MADE them work out, if they had the freedom not too that they could not make themselves do it for themselves.
Surrounded by girls constantly talking about diets and how they need to lose weights, not on of the girls i interviewed could stick to a strict diet for longer than a week without giving up and eating some fries or ice cream. YES these are college athletes ha. One girl made a good point though " Exercise is like a routine, if you start just waking up and making yourself go for a run for about 2 weeks, you will actually get in the hang of it and it will not be that hard." its never to late to start exercising !
So get out there and start walking..then that turns into running..then before you know it you will not even get sore anymore ! good luck

La herradora ..following blog

When reading another students blog on the restuarant La Herradora, it made laugh because me and my friends talk about that place all the time. I am from houston,texas and know GREAT mexican food but all my friends from here love la herradora, but i think it is just okay. I agree it is a nice and fun atmosphere and it located right on campus, which makes it a great spot to catch up with friends. I think whoever thought of putting la herradora right in the village was a very smart person and is deffinantly doing good now. I have never gone in there and it not been really crowded or run into a friend from class in there. Even though i do not love the food, i have probably been there more than 20 times over the past three years with friends and family.If you want to read more ..http://amani001.blogspot.com/

if you are looking to keep healthy though,i would not suggest eating here. Mexican dishes are high in calories and fat.. you may think you are doing good by ordering a taco salad but that still has up to 900 calories , yikes ! and dont fool yourself your going to eat your body weight in those chips and salsa before with a margarita. dont we all...

Who knew ODU had a pool ?

Since i have been on the swim team for three years i can not tell you how many people do not even know we have a pool on campus. Our old pool that was open till three years ago was in the main athletic building , which has been under construction for three years. Since then we are in a building called Rollins hall. If you are thinking to yourself , where is Rollins hall ? its the building where financial aid is located.When you first enter the pool , you will be in complete shock that a college division one swim team has trained here for three years, and still somehow has an undefeated guys team.
Being on the team, we have named it the dungion. When you look at it you will know why, this three lane pool that they made into four lanes was built in 1937. Yes it is as old as most of your grandparents, and not even that but two people have died in the pool over the years from drowning.So talk about some haunted swimming pool, but then again it is a pool and water is water.
The swim team consist of 18 boys and 24 girls and the coaches have to be at the pool from 11-5 just so everyone can practice. The new pool will not open till march, me being a junior have swam in rollins hall all three years and keeps waiting for the new pool. Knowing ODU i probably wont ever get to experience swimming in it.

Scavenger Hunt

So i thought i knew old dominion pretty well, since i have lived on campus for three years. Apparently i was wrong though and discovered we have a fitness room in webb center, who knew?? When you walk into Webb, the student center here, you would not know but there is a gym that is the size of two classrooms, hidden next to the cafeteria. When I walked in I was not surprised I had not heard of it, seeing as it was about ten in the morning and there were only three people in there. When I first walked in I was greeted by a student whose job is to get people to sign in and make sure they have a towel. He was friendly and gave me information about the gym and said that it really is never that crowded till night time.

When he showed me the rules and things you had to do before working out, I thought to myself, and that’s why students are not here. There were so many rules and things you had to do, just to simply go work out. You have to take a pre exercise course before you can begin to work out there or if you do not do that you have to come to a specific time once a day and do an introduction course for your first workout session. College students are not for doing more than they already have to, especially for something such as working out, which is hard enough to get motivated to do. Not only this but they have the fitness room in Webb in the HEART of the cafeteria, surrounded by food. When I was in the gym all I could smell was pizza hutt ,quiznos, and French fries..yum.Thats exactly what I want to smell when I go work out...