Conditioning

              Today September 28, 2012 marks the beginning of varsity basketball conditioning at Bluegrass Baptist School.  This conditioning is not an easy thing to accomplish, but in the long run if we stick with it and are persistent, our team will be more conditioned than any other in the KCAA.  Our coach Sherman Parker likes to make us run, and if we mess up or dont run fast enough, we have to run more.  There are many different exercises and drills we do during our conditioning that will also help tone our bodies to be prepared for the upcoming season.  Many of the players on our team were busy this past summer, so we may have an even more rough time with it this year then we did last year.  I consider our varsity basketball conditioning to be one of the most strenuous things I have encountered in my life.  Several exercises require you to give every bit of energy you can muster at the time.  We do planks for two minutes at a time.  A plank is where you lay down on your stomach and prop yourself up on your elbows and on your tiptoes and hold yourself parallel off of the ground for the whole two minutes.  We also did wall-sits for two minutes at a time.  Wall sits are where you sit up against a wall where it looks like your sitting in a chair with your legs at a 90 degree angle and flexing your abs at the same time.  Another exercise we do is jumping across a line for about a minute and a half.  You put your feet together and jump back and forth over a line for the whole time, think its not hard?  Go try it sometime yourself!  This exercise absolutely strains your calves and quads to the max!