Life of an Athlete
Posted by officerincivvies on March 8, 2009
While I have been rowing at SFU for the last two and a half years now this semester has been the first time we have been training the same amount of every other varsity athlete. It definitely takes a lot of time management.
The weekdays are the same to me. I get up and go to practise at 7 am. I row around 13 km, depending on the pieces that I am doing and then get back to school by 10 am. From there I go to class and do my homework till the evening where I do my second workout of the day. Monday/Wednesday/Friday is weights in the gym, Tuesday/Thursday is cardio.
Weekends are much lighter, Saturday mornings I row, usually with another club so I am up at 530 to get to to the UFV boathouse by 630 or the UBC boathouse. Sundays we do a group workout in the gym, usually it is stations or core and abs.
While this itself is not necessarily hard, combining this amount of working out with six classes, two DSU exec positions and my leadership project it definitely takes a lot out of me.
This summer I will be only doing four classes, my lightest load ever, and I will drop all extracurricular so I can row the same amount. It definitely takes a lot of planning, organizing but I wouldn’t not row because of it.
Students who complain about four classes, when that is all they do, I am quite apathetic toward them.
