Wednesday, August 23, 2006

rigorous training...Dragon boat team, is it for me?

Yesterday, sarah, as in 04s12 sarah, asked me to go NUS dragon boat training wif her...actually, I'm quite interested in it after I watched dragon boat competition on tv last holiday...it really looked damn cool everything is so coordinated...
yup, so I went to meet the ppl there... Oh gosh, the gals are super muscular lah...as in the senior...I felt inferior...haha
so i agreed to have training with them, it started with warming up n stretching n jumping jack..the normal stuff lah u noe. Even from this simple exercise, I can see that these ppl are super committed n discipline. they like did everything whole-heartedly...so i just follow oso since i dun mind doing exercise.
after warm up, we RAN to the gym...yes, we really ran, like mad bull...haha..
okay, reach gym....honestly, I never go gym before...okay, maybe got go...but never tried all the machines n stations....except for the treadmills...
luckily, we were divided into grps n I'm in a grp with another cindy...haha...cindy is such a common name...but i still like it...haha
yup the ppl in my grp are very nice, cindy, charmaine n amanda...n they taught me how to use each of the machines n taught me the breathing technique...
n I was damn amazed to see them do the heavy weights...crazy lah, i cant even do half of their weight...haha
after gym was medicine ball...It's an orange ball made of rubber n dunno wad else...coz from the look of it, it looks damn light n it seems to be very easy to pass the ball....
I got the shock of my life when I did the first pass, It was damn damn heavy lah. and it was hard to pass accurately...but after awhile i could get the hang of it n did okay lah...
but that was not all. Of course must do running rite...but yep, the fact is, NUS area is never flat....it's always uphill, downhill....can u imagine running up the slope...xiao lah!...but the team is super encouraging n very supportive. they kept shouting jiayou all the way when we ran. my badminton training last holiday have done me some good. I noe that my stamina is still there even though not as fit as the rest. I managed to complete the run n return to SRC feeling satisfied with myself.
the best part was, soya milk! they said that it's good for muscle recovery...after all the gymming n running, my muscles are damaged for sure...so soya milk is good!
yup, got to noe a few year ones there too...they are friendly bunch of ppl but the rest have known each other since they went for training for 2 weeks aledy...
they sure grew stronger after the training. can see that some of them are not the sport type but see how they can do a bit of pull-ups (still with help of course)...
went fong seng for supper (or dinner exactly)....i ate maggie mie chicken coz i suddenly got craving for it...but I promise next time I go there I'm gonna eat roti john, it looks super nice. n dun wanna order the ice blended anymore coz it's always too sweet. bleak!
yup, come back my room n can aledy feel that my hands were trembling. I think i strained my muscle too much aledy. so I bathed with hot water n applied so muscle rub before it gets worse.
luckily today I can still lift my hand n go lecture...haha but still quite pain lah.
see..this is my first training n they say that it was still slack. I dunno how tough it's going to get. I dunno whether this is the rite thing for me. I'm not very used to training hard 3 times a week. but I'm going to see how first coz this saturday is the really water training. someone, help me decide pls...I hate making decisions....
i hope my bone wont crack with this kind of intensive exercise....
i enjoyed it somehow. but the post-effect is really torturing...how??

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