I think my knee knows tomorrow is a training day. It started giving out on me and really aching about 15-20 minutes ago, as if to say, "No! No! We can't do that! Can't we just stay inside and watch movies?!"
Either that or it's just going to rain tomorrow.
Anyway, I've been using this app called
C25k to get myself in some sort of good shape. It takes you from "couch potato" level to being able to run a 5k in a course of 9 weeks, working out just 3 days a week. Tomorrow is Week 2 Day 2 for me and I'm feeling pretty good about it! Wish I could say the same for my stupid knee...
You see, I've been living under this facade that I am a musician so I don't need to be in any sort of good shape because I need to dedicate all my time to practicing.
I'd like to know the same thing Christina.
Well obviously that's just a bunch of garbage. If anything I need to be keeping myself in excellent shape because I'm a musician! How the heck do I expect myself to hold up my trumpet, with good posture, and have enough endurance/energy to play for long periods of time if I keep up these AWFUL living habits?! I have already noticed a difference (for the better!) in my playing and energy levels in general since I started running last week.
I think this is a common misconception amongst many young musicians. Starting in grade school, the band kids are kind of separated from the athletic kids. Many TV Shows (GLEE being a great exception) always seem to portray band kids as dorky, asthmatic, and anti-social.
What I got when I searched "Band Kid" on google images
In reality, musicians actually make AMAZING athletes. In fact, most of the professional musicians I know could kick any athletes butt in an ultimate frisbee tournament any day of the week. Even in 100 degree weather. Ultimate Frisbee is a favorite event at the music camp I have attended most of my life,
Csehy Summer School of Music. When I was in my final years as a camper, we took our free time frisbee playing to the next level and turned it into a huge tournament called the CUPPA Cup (Csehy Ultimate Professional Players Association Cup) that involves a pretty serious drafting process. The music faculty all get very into it, and the captains of the teams are usually made up of that week of camp's conductors or teachers (and the occasional chapel speaker). This tradition still holds strong today, as I've gone on to be a counselor!
My team, Pure Muscle, was one of the original CUPPA Cup champions!
I'm the one dressed in all black.
(Team Captain was the infamous Benjamin Harding)
So here I find myself, struggling to break myself out of these bad habits I've let myself fall into. I used to be in such good shape when I was younger. When that picture was taken I was in some of the best shape of my life. Unfortunately it was also very shortly after that picture was taken that I feel ill for a year (eventually diagnosed with
Celiac Disease) and just have never been very active since. But I'm not going to let that be the case any longer!!!!! I will be able to run a 5k* in 7 more weeks!!!
I'm gonna see if my roommate will dress up as Robin so we
can run a 5k together like this
Now I just gotta start working on my eating habits...
- Erin
"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."
- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
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* - I just need to find a 5k to run!
