My First Blog Experience

Ironically, for the first time in my life, I found a blog that was profitable. Usually finding links to blogs about non sense opinions and ideas, today held a different impact. As an athlete competing for my school, I have responsibilities and obligations to better myself, in performance, and for my team in general. Competing in track and field, I specialize in the middle distance events. Over this past summer however, I've been out of commission due to shin splints. So for the last few months I've been looking for all sorts of ways to strengthen that area of my leg.

Now, after 3 months of rehabilitation, I turn to swimming. Apparently swimming is like running without the constant pounding on your legs, which now makes swimming my new best friend. See, shin splints is due to running on hard surfaces (the streets of Brooklyn), which makes for consistent pounding on the ground, thus causing muscles in the shin to wear and tear. Well being that I have no idea what to do for pool workouts, I turned to Google.

After searching for a few minutes I found a link to Track Shark, a blog site that athletes in track and field use to post there workouts for their specific discipline/event. The link that I found was by an athlete who competed in the distance events and cross country, but didn't talk about himself and what he thinks about the sport. However, he talks about cross training, and different ways to better oneself as an athlete, swimming being the number one way to maintain or even better your fitness level. In conclusion, I now have a set workout for the week to start my pre season training.