Music plays an important role on an athlete. At least every time I have a meet everyone put their headphones on when they are about to warm up. Same on practice, almost everybody on the team use their iPods, phones or whatever they want to use to listen to music. In my experience, I always play music when I warm up as well as in a meet because it gets me excited. So, that's the first thing I did this week because I wanna be motivated to achieve my goal! Play some music, motivate myself and ROCK IT.
This week I practice three times. I always practice after my "real practice" is done. Doing this, I prevent any kind of injury or negative effects in my long jumping. I have to make sure I keep healthy for outdoor season.
Thursday 5th was the first practice of the week. Then, I practiced on Saturday 7th and the last one was on Monday 9th. I did the same kind of practice for all these days. For everyday I warm up in the same way. In competition and on practice. Doing this I can have the same feeling always and I can know what is wrong and how can I change it. This is an example of a warm up:
- Jogging 6 minutes
- Stretch in movement and stretch sitting on the floor during 10 minutes.
- Drills for 25 minutes. Everything really active. Here I include high knees, " buttkicks" , exercises with hurdles and all kind of aerobic stuff.
- Technique exercises. That means really specific exercises by doing so many repetitions of a exercise and looking for mistakes. I use cones and small hurdles to do these kind of exercises.
After the warm up, I put my spikes on. Actually spikes are really important to jump. Is like the key you need to open the door of your house. Every event in track is different. Really different. It is actually the reason of my passion. It is one sport that combine different events: throws, jumps, distance and sprints. All right so every event need a special shoes. You cannot use the same kind of shoes for jumping triple jump than long jump or high jump. You don't use heels to go to the pool or you don't use flip flops to go to a wedding. It is the same! I need good shoes to jump well! So I am changing my long jump spikes for high jump spikes! The main difference is that in the high jump spikes there are 4 spikes on the hill and the sole is thicker vs just spikes on the front and a thin sole.
<-------HIGH JUMP SPIKES
LONG JUMP SPIKES ---->
Once I put my spikes on, I counted the steps of my approach and I left a mark on the track. Doing this I know where I have to start jumping all the time. If I make mistakes, I would have to move the mark.
I took a few jumps just to try how I was doing.
The first day I use to arch my back very well but I always kicked the bar with my feet. There was no way to fix it! The first and second day, I was able to jump 1,25 meters already and I didn't kick the bar with my feet. This was thanks to Claudia's advices and because of the videos she showed me. I record myself and then we compared the videos with her videos jumping. It was really fun!
I spent around 10 hours this week practicing. It sounds a lot but watching videos and talking about my mistakes and how can I improve is practice too. I am proud of all the work and now I just have to keep working so I can FLY HIGH!
NEVER STOP GETTING BETTER
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