I got it!!

Well I've figured it all out pretty much. I am going to take online courses to do the upgrading that I need. I am going to take math 12 and chem 11 this spring semester, along with my university classes, and then I am going to take my chem 12 this summer and then I'll be all set up to really start my degree. In the last post I was upset because I had to take courses I didn't even want but I kind of need them anyways because Lethbridge has GLER's they're called, it stands for General Liberal Education Reguirement and you need to have 4 arts and humanities, 4 social sciences, and 4 sciences and two of the classes I'm taking are going to work towards that. Everything is falling into place now. I just emailed the Alberta Dintance Learning place today to get all the info and then I'm going to start right away.

Starting week 2 of my training schedule and it's going great. Right now I'm doing an upper/lower split and in about a month I am going into isolation days and then hopefully start putting on some lean muscle. Pictures of my before shots are going to be up by tomorrow, check them out.

A wee bit of a pickle!

I have been drowning in homework and papers and what not for the last 2 weeks, it's ridiculous. I actually had to tell my girlfriend that we couldn't hang out for a while so I could get some work done. It's mostly my writing class, I'm not the biggest fan of it. I wrote a test last week, a test today, and then today I looked online at my marks for an assignment from last week and I got a 0 because I didn't attend the lab but it was the day after we got back from Victoria and I had my concussion and I didn't leave my house for 2 days. Apparently there are rules for when you're absent. Luckily I can go get a note from the athletic trainer and get the marks.

The way Lethbridge works is you register for your first semester before the summer and then you register for your second semester in November; my day to register is tomorrow at 5 am. I can't wait to be up that early for it, and hopefully I can get all the classes that I want. I'm still not even sure what I am going to take yet. I just got an email telling me about some courses I want to take and really they are upgrading courses because I screwed myself in high school so I have to upgrade. Now I don't even have the grade 11 courses to be able to get into the classes I want so what I have to do is go and register in the college for a semester and upgrade my high school courses and then apply to the university again and start back where I left off. It is going to suck so much but I've got to do it. I will do it too. I've got to get my head back into the school aspect of things, I'm letting myself slip and it's starting to piss me off. I have to get on here more and start letting people know what's going on. I have to make my mind as solid as my body is going to become.

Now that my concussion is over I am back at it. Got cleared last Thursday and started going again on Friday. Haven't taken a day off yet and my body is so sore, I love it. I've started my program too which is unreal; I have to do my 1RM's next week though so I can know all my weights for my exercises. I've started eating more, still staying healthy too. I need to remember to keep tracking it though and make sure I stay up at 4500 calories. I can't wait to start putting on some muscle. My before pictures will be coming up on here in the next couple days and then you get to wait for my after pictures which will blow your mind. Seriously. I have to stay focused and let my mind start controlling me and push myself to the limits. It's not about just being physically strong; if you are mentally strong then your physical abilities are unstoppable.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
-Michael Jordan

I'm Back!!

Sorry that you haven't been able to read about my awesomeness in a little while, 11 days by my count. There hasn't been much going on the last two weeks due to my concussion, so I have basically been resting and doing homework. All my classes are flowing pretty smoothly right now. I just wrote my Kines 1000 mid-term last week and it was all on nutrition and muscular fitness; I killed it. The only class that gives me any trouble at the moment is Writing 1000. I have a critique paper due in two weeks and a research paper due in three and it's just tough nuggies. There are so many rules to writing and it is quite frustrating. One thing I always look into is contractions because sometimes when you have to write "do not" it just doesn't sound as good as "don't". Whatever, I'll pull my socks up and rock both papers.

Now to my concussion; I wasn't allowed to do anything for 2 weeks. No gym, no running, nothing; That is basically my life and I wasn't able to do it for two weeks. On Friday though I scored all zero's on a concussion questionnaire that I have to do and then today I got to ride the bike for 20 minutes! I had to go at a low intensity but just doing something was awesome. Tomorrow I get to go for a 20 minute run and I am so excited. After tomorrow it's a light practice, but since I'm not practicing yet I am going to go for a run again. Thursday is back to full practices, but again, since I'm not practicing I'm going to for a run. I am going to run everyday until Monday and then that's when I start in the gym (personal choice). I am so pumped to get back into it and to start putting on some size.

Season's Over, Time to Hit the Books

I haven't been doing as well as I could have been doing with my schooling but I will change it, I need to or else I won't be working for Kinesiologists.ca which is what I want more than anything in the world. I have decided I am doing 5 years here in Lethbridge so I can play soccer for all 5 and do the best I can in my classes. That's 5 years to put everything I have into every class, every study session, every practice, every workout, and every game I have. Every day that goes by I'm not getting back and I want to finish school with no regrets. It's time to wake up and start acting like I want to be here. Debt, it will happen anyways; injuries, they only happen if you play soft; a flabby body, that's what happens when you don't push yourself to exhaustion every damn day. Once I get over this concussion I am hitting the gym as much as I can to get my body where I want it to be, and that is a 6'2", 205 lbs machine that can't and won't be stopped. I have decided that I am done drinking at least until I reach my goals, maybe even longer. I'm only going to eat foods that give my body what it needs, no more artificial sugars like candy and all that crap. I am going to train as hard as I can every time I step into the gym.

In regards to my classes right now, they are all going fairly well. Except I had a concussion that I never told anyone about when I wrote a mid-term last week and got a D+ on it but besides that I'm doing well. In Lethbridge we pick each semester separately so my registration for my spring semester is coming up in a couple weeks so I've been trying to figure out what to take. I have figured out next semester but there are some things I have to do to set up my fall semester next year. The big thing is enrolling into the college here and upgrading my chemistry. I have to do this so I can take chemistry either in the fall or spring next year, and also it is a prerequisite for my biology course I need and biology is a prerequisite for a lot of my Kines courses. It's going to really suck to do but I need to do it so I'm going to bite the bullet and rock it every step of the way. I think once I have my chemistry upgraded and take a math course upgrade at the university this up and coming semester I will be where I should be, just a little bit behind. It's a good thing I'm taking 5 years instead of 4.

November 1, 2010

Well my first season playing CIS is over. We finished 1-11-2 and were last place with 5 points, not exactly the way I wanted things to go. WE are going to have to step it up for next year for sure. The work we do in the off season has to improve. In our game against U of A last week I got a concussion and didn't say anything so I could play the last weekend. Probably not the smartest decision but I had to do it. Now I have to wait for my brain to heal and then I get to train my ass of to be ready for next year. I'm going to be bigger, stronger, and faster than ever before and I am going to kill some people next year, I can't wait. So that's pretty much it for soccer in my blog so from now on it will mostly be about my off-season training and school.