I am going to discontinue this blog on blogger and move over to tumblr. I am able to have it directly as an app on my phone and it will make things easier and allow me to get more posts out. I will have a link to my new blog from my twitter account (@connerbrady) and I will make sure the link off of www.kinesiologists.ca is changed as well. I will still have this one so if I don't like tumblr then I will com back on here but we'll see how it goes and have some fun with it. Ciao for now. New blog should be going soon.

Well I always forget to come on and write something on here because I don't go on my computer that often but now I realized that I have an iPhone and can do it from my phone so will try my hardest to get more posts on here.

So, I am done at Gold's Gym and I am going to be doing some landscaping for the rest of the summer. I love training and I love my clients but it is just not something I can do for a summer job when I only have 4 months to make as much money as I can before I go back to school. I'll get back to it once I am done school and I'm a bit more settled and only have to worry about work and can stay somewhere where I don't have to leave my clients a few months later. Until that time I'm going to just keep doing jobs to make money and just worry about school and soccer.

School is a major focal point for the next little while because I need to do as well as I can and not be a failure with it. As well as university I need to get my couple upgrading courses out of the way so I can be on track. My goal was to be done by June but that didn't happen so now it is the end of the summer but it's going to be tough. I have a full year from when I started them to finish so if I get them done by January then I can be on track with my university courses for the spring semester next year.

I am on my way to becoming a bigger, faster, and stronger player but my ability with the ball is where I'm lacking. Along with training in the gym I need to make sure I do ball work on my own and at training I'm doing everything I can to improve. There's no point to it if I'm not giving myself goals and working to be getting better. Sure I could just go with what I've got and be comfortable butwhat the fuck is the point? It's reasons like this why I train as hard as I do. Something that has been pissing me off lately is my lack of intensity in training and games. I get in my head and worry about getting hurt and crap like that an I don't play to my full potential. I know that when I wa preparing for university I kind of toned thing down because I wanted to be ready to go when I got here but I honestly just think that made me soft. I need to start playin like I have a pair and it starts right now. I'm done with playing half assed. This is my time to make big improvements and become a way better player. Be a top CIS player and try and turn some things around at lethbridge.

"I've always believed that if you put in the work, results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly, because I know if I do, then I can expect a half-hearted results" -Micheal Jordan

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING

I went to that concrete place the other day to drop off a resume and when I looked at my iPod I realized it took me just under an hour to ride there. I decided not to apply because I can't be riding for 2 hours everyday and not expect to be burnt out fast. So now my plan is to just giver at the gym and get as many active clients as I can and make a bit of coin. I have a chance to do some landscaping starting in July too which will be good because it will be steady cash flow.

This last week I have crashed twice on my bike riding to work. The first time I was going pretty slow so that didn't hurt that bad but yesterday I was probably going about 35km/h and the pin on my breaks dropped out so I had no breaks and had to jump off my bike basically; that one hurt a lot.

I'm now at 205 lbs and I'm feeling stronger than I have before. I haven't lost any speed with my size but I haven't gained any either. That is the next phase of my training; speed, acceleration and vertical. I can't wait to see where I am in a couple years with my training and playing. All that takes care of the off field training so I need to work at my on field abilities as well. I feel like I am constantly improving though and always moving forward.

Last weekend our games got cancelled due to the rain here in Alberta, apparently everyone is made of sugar here and can't play in the rain, what a joke. But, we have our first games this weekend in Edmonton and I couldn't be any more stoked. Apparently one of the teams we're playing has a wicked striker that runs there team so I cannot wait to be challenging him tomorrow afternoon. This first game here is what I fucking live for! Through all the tragedies throughout time there has always been an understanding for sports. Tomorrow when that first whistle blows we forget everything else and play the game that we love.

"the greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you'll make one"


FYI posts are going to be more frequent and I'll be finishing everyone off with some inspiration.

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING

I have a few more clients now but with starting out in a gym takes time and since I'll only be here for the summer I just can't do it financially so I am going to apply at a concrete place tomorrow and hopefully I'll get it so I can have some steady income. If it works out I'll be good to go. Steady work and steady money; that way I can work all day, train in the night and have a social life.

My first games were supposed to be this weekend but because of a few days of rain they were canceled so the first games will be this weekend in Edmonton..I am so pumped to finally get playing outdoor again. Can't wait to destroy some people.

Well I am getting more clients but after training what I have as much as I could really and seeing what I get paid after that I'm not making nearly enough money. I love to train and never having to worry about a membership is nice too but I think I'm going to find something that has some steady cash flow. I found a place on kijiji and it's concrete work but the add says "labourer wanted: heavy lifting," so I should be a shooin. It will still be a long ride to work and it will be early mornings but if it's decent pay and I can work full days, five days a week then I'm good with that. I just hope that they haven't found someone already because they aren't open today so I can't bring my resume in until Monday so I'll just have to see what happens.

Alberta....well I'm still having mixed feelings on this place. If it's not -30 then it's +30 and it is never not windy, there are no trees over 30 feet and there is no ocean. I've said this to people and even anyone reading this might tell me to stop bitching but when you come from a province that is gorgeous all year round and there's only snow for 3 weeks out of the year then this place isn't ideal. I know it rains all the time and it's damp and cold but I grew up in that and that's what I love. And not being able to see the ocean every single day is the worst part about it. I've decided that from now on, every time I go back I'm going to jump in the ocean. I don't care if there's snow on the ground and it's -5 (cause that's really as cold as it gets) I am going to jump in the water. And that's all I have to say about that.

That last post was written a little while ago but it dent go up for some reason but now it's up. Now, I am up to 9 clients and I have sold 48 sessions and things are finally getting a bit busier. Not as busy as I'd like to be though. I want to have at least 15 by the end of May.

I'm starting to see more gains on myself as far as my weight training goes; I am getting thicker and filling out more up top which is what I want to happen. Once I get bigger and thicker I need to worry more about the athletic part of my training and then not only will I be bigger but stronger and faster and a way better athlete and I'll continue to work on my skill with the ball and become the best player that I can be and try an go somewhere with it.

I've been able to be at the gym a lot more now and I'm up to 5 clients but I had my final exams and I'm in the process of moving to a new place so it's been hard to be at the gym all the time but I have been going as much as I can. I just had a meeting with PT manager yesterday and we went over last month and getting adjusted and then did some goal setting for the month of May. So now I know where I need to be at atthe end of the month and it gives me an idea of how much time I need to put in. No surprise that this is coming up again but I need to be more outgoing when I'm at the gym and just in general. I have already stepped out of my shell quite a bit since I first became a trainer but I need to get it even further. I have trouble just talking to random people and I hate that I do. It will come though, the more times I try it the more it will happen and the better I will get at it.

As far as my own training goes, I have recently joined the 200 club. I hit 202 on Wednesday and it feels great. I want to get a bit bigger still and then once my season comes around I want to shed any excess fat and be at about 205. I don't feel like I've lost any speed which is great. I just have to work on improving my speed, acceleration and vertical. I am a long way off from the athlete that I want to be but I am working my ass off to get there.

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING