So, last Monday was the seniors’ LAST 6 AM workout EVER and the rest of the team's final 6 AM fall work out. I feel free, liberated, happier sort of, and caught up on sleep ... finally! 6 AM's were great for conditioning and there’s no one the team would rather see in the morning than Coach Miller, but let’s be serious. No one wants to be woken at 5:30 AM up by the piercing, high-pitched buzzing noise of an alarm clock ... it just puts you in an even worse mood, And don’t even get me started on the annoying jazzy cell phone alarms that now exist which try to cover up the fact that they’re interrupting your great REM sleep by being pleasing to the ears. No. There’s really nothing that can cover up the fact that I’m waking up at 5:30 to go run. People aren’t supposed to be awake or functioning at this hour and trust me, no one wants to see me this early in the morning ... that’s for sure.
But there’s something special about waking up at 5:30 AM, walking out the door into air so cold it stuns my lungs and a sky so dark I can’t see in front of me, and heading over to Leverone Fieldhouse where the rest of my teammates await. No one on the team prefers 6 AM work outs (except for Kelsey maybe) but everyone shows up. That’s the beauty of preseason ... all 12 of my teammates and I have the same goal: we want to be prepared for the tough season ahead of us. If that means waking up at 6 AM and doing a million shuttles to the point where we can’t feel our legs for a week straight ... then we’ll do it.
The beauty of 6 AM's is to see that while we’re all just as tired from staying up the night before doing homework (or watching Desperate Housewives ... ahem) we are all just as focused on getting through the workout and getting better collectively. Ten minutes into the workout the concept of time is irrelevant and we are focused on the task ahead of us, cheering each other on every second of every sprint.
6 AM workouts are extremely painful to wake up for, but incredibly important because they bring the team together and constantly remind us that the harder we work the luckier we’ll get.
Hard work breeds champions.
- Michelle Meyer (Covington, Ohio), Senior, Guard
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Has anyone compared the "time factor" to the workouts? Do you get better benefit from a workout at 6am as opposed to 4pm (something later)? I was always under the assumption that the blood needs to circulate at least 2 hours if not 4 hours before you should start an intense workout? If your muscles are tired at the end of the day...do you not benefit by working them then so that they do get stronger?
ReplyDeleteJust curious?