Personal Narrative: A Career As A College Athlete

The NCAA consist of forty-two hundred thousand athletes. Many of these athletes have been training for most of their lives to be able to play in college. Athletes dedicate their life to the sport have no time for anything else. I have trained with the most advanced volleyball clubs and volleyball specific personal training. Coming into college I would expect the same or more intensity then I was trained with, but I was surprised by a lot of things that were done wrong. I was one out of fifteen players on Concordia College volleyball team. My coach was Francisco Casado, this being his second year that Concordia College. Being new to the program he has been in the mist of making the team his own. Prior to Concordia College he was retired after
I have a low lung capacity due to a dip in my chest wall, called Pectus excavatum. The dip was removed four years ago with surgery. Now my lung capacity is about fifty to sixty percent. By being a middle blocker I need to be quick and have a high vertical. The workout I have personalized for myself will increase my endurance by having short breaks and fast moments. I set the workouts up by having legs one day, and core and arms the next. By setting it up this way I will be able to have a proper resting period. The ladders will increase my speed and foot work. Jumping rope and the leg workouts will increase my vertical. I kept the same workouts the same but increase the amount a little each day. By having small increases to the workouts will help you build up strength without harming your body. When I use weights in my workout it is usually lite due to the game of volleyball. The reason I would work out on my own would help the player not to feel rushed or get sloppy. It is better to be proper when working out, so no harm is done to the body. Having the personalized workouts, it would help make time to focus more on the team and not individual needs. All the players get what they need in their own