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Sarah Armstrong - Hurst Gymnastics Team and USA Gymnastics
This is my second journal entry from March 20 to April 13th 2006.
I am really seeing the benefits of Master Amino Acid Pattern (MAP) during my conditioning stages.
Conditioning is usually tough because it’s at the end of the practice and you are pretty worn out. I am able to get through my conditioning much easier and most times finish before anyone else.
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March 20, 2006
On Monday I went to gym and my coach said that we were doing Beam and about 30 minutes of Floor. We started out on floor and did front handsprings and front tucks. Then we went to beam and then stayed there the rest of the time. We had to do 10 routines in a row. If you fell on any of the routines you had to go all the way back to one and then had to finish them. I got finished so I got to work on back walkovers. Finally it was time for conditioning. We had 25 arounds and 500 crunches then 3 minutes in each of our splits.
March 21, 2006
That day we went to Beam and Bars. First we went to bars and had 8 routines to do. The trick was you have to finish every routine. If you fell of you had to get back up and finish it. Then it was time for Beam. We had 10 routines there and we had to do them in a row. Then it was time for conditioning we had 25 arounds and then 100 rollup jumps. That day I had got everything done.
March 23, 2006On Thursday we did Floor, Bars and, Vault. First we went to floor and did front tucks. Then we did 3 of each pass. Next we went to bars. We started with 5 straight armed Kips. Then we had to do 5 routines. Now it was time to go to vault. We did 6 vaults then it was time for conditioning. First we had to just have to run around the floor for 15 minutes. Last we had 100 rollup jumps.
March 24, 2006
On Friday we did Beam and vault. First we did 5 routines on Beam. Next we had to do Vault. We had 6 vaults that were fun. Fridays we don’t do much because we only have 2 hours to practice so I haven’t written much. That day was a good day.
March 27, 2006
On Monday I went to Floor, Bars and, Beam. First I went to floor. We did 3 sets of each pass for our floor routines. Next we went to bars. This time we had 8 routines and had to show her our last 2 routines. Last we went to beam. We had to do 4 routines in a row. I got done so I got to work on back walkovers. Then it was time for conditioning. We had to run 20 arounds. Then we had 500 crunches.
March 28, 2006
On Tuesday I went to Vault and Bars. First I went to bars and had to do 5 straight arm kips. Next I had to do 8 full routines. Afterwards I had to do some vault. We had 3 run-throughs. Next we had 6 vaults to do. I got done with all of those so I was happy. Finally it was time for conditioning so we had 20 arounds/beam jumps. And the last thing we had was 500 crunches.
March 30, 2006
Thursday I went to Bars beam and Vault. First I went to Bars and had to do 5 straight arm kips and then did 8 routines as always. Then we went to vault. We had to do 6 of them. Last we went to beam and had to do 5 routines in a row. I got them all done. Next it was time for conditioning. We had to do 25 beam jumps, then 400 crunches and last were 50 chin ups.
March 31, 2006
On Friday all we did was Floor. We did 2 routines. Then after we did floor we stayed in each split for 3 minutes. Afterwards we did anything we wanted for about 6 minutes.
April 4, 2006
On Tuesday we went to Bars, Beam and, Floor. First we went to Bars and had 8 routines. In between the 8 routines we went to Floor. We had to do 3 routines. Then we went back to Bars. After bars we went to Beam. There we had to do 6 routines but, in a row. Then it was time for conditioning. For that we had we had 25 arounds, 30 push-ups on the low beams. Last we had 500 crunches.
April 10, 2006
On Monday we went to vault and floor. First we went to Floor. On floor we did Front handsprings and front tucks. Then we had to do vault. We just did a whole bunch of vaults I couldn’t even count. After I had to leave early so I don’t know what happened the rest of the day.
April 11, 2006
On Tuesday we had to do Beam and Vault. First we went to vault. When at vault we had to do 10. Next we had to go to beam. At beam we had to do 10 routines. Afterwards it was time for conditioning. First we had 25 arounds 100 push-ups and last we had 25 chin ups.
April 13, 2006
On Thursday we did floor, vault, and beam. On beam we had 5 routines in a row. Next we had to go to floor. At floor we had to do 3 routines. Last we went to vault. At vault we had a lot of vaults I couldn’t even count. It was now time for conditioning. For conditioning we had to jump over the beam 50 times. Then we had to do 8 rounds of lunges around the floor. The next day we had off for Easter.
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