A description of what each member of THUSC Mercury has worked on outside of practice each week. Players are to post each Friday what they have worked on during the summer of 2010.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
This week I went to SAC and did an upper body work out. I started on an arm bike for like 30 minutes.. Then I did some weight training on my arms and some of my core. I also did side ways sit ups (hard to explain) with 3 sets of 10 on each side which is 90 situps. I also stared to run again,I ran 1 mile with little pain on tuesday (plus practice) and on wednesday i ran .7 of a mile because my knee give in. (I have hyperextensive knees apparently...)
Today I did 20 minutes of juggling and footwork then I did 10 yard sprints 20 yard sprints and 50 yard sprints. I also did spend and agility workouts foe about 20 more minutes and finally I did 200 crunches and 40 pushups! And I dont no if this counts but I walked my dog and through his ball haha:))))! Well see you guys in Calii::))!!
Crazy day
Ok so I wentup to rock creek elementary school, which is right infront of my house. I took my soccer ball and kicked it against the wall using different parts of my foot. I kicked my ball on the roof so i had to go home. I ran home to get a little exercise. Later I raced my sister on scooters to my grandmas house and back (about 3 blocks). The final thing I did was chase after a lost dog, but I guess it didnt like me because it kept running away. I had a very weird one day....... Cops coming, chasing my sister, chasing a dog, and kicking my ball on the school roof. I got my purple ball back don't worry. :)
CAMP!
ahhhh camp waas amazing!!! and i also got to do some soccer related stuff. in one game i ran/sprinted probably 3/4 of a mile and army crawled the length of 1 1/2 soccer feilds. also i played a pickup soccer game for maybe half an hour and we did some shooting. also i played soccer while tied to another person...i scored. i went swimming atleast an hour a day maybe more.i got up and hiked a hill for 30 mins and it was really steep and tiring(maybe cuz it was elevation or something) then hiked down. also i rock climbed.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
this week i had camp so i did lots of swimming like maybe 3 or 4 hours every day i also hiked up a really tall hill and had a soccer game that lasted for a half hour and i played some basketball and walked around the camp a lot and it was a really big camp and i did a game that involved running away from ninjas with lasers so i did lots of sprinting and jogging and i did lots of activities that you had to run around in and i played frisbeee with people who werent very good so i chased the frisbee a lot
Work en out a sweat
Today i worked out for an 1 hour an 45 minutes and 40.8 seconds. heheh! Firsted i did 4 sets of 15 of leg extensions with 25 pounds. I also did 4 sets of 15 of hamstring extensions with 15 pounds. Then i did 4 set of 10 of military press with 25 pounds and then i did 4 sets of 10 of beach presses. I also did 2 sets of 10 dumbell curls 10 pounds and singles curls 5 pounds. Then i did 50 toe raises and 350 jump ropes. After i was done with all that i stretched and did some yoga. Then i juggled for 10 minutes, work on some moves that Mj tot me, and then worked on my headers and chested.
Today i worked out for an 1 hour an 45 minutes and 40.8 seconds. heheh! Firsted i did 4 sets of 15 of leg extensions with 25 pounds. I also did 4 sets of 15 of hamstring extensions with 15 pounds. Then i did 4 set of 10 of military press with 25 pounds and then i did 4 sets of 10 of beach presses. I also did 2 sets of 10 dumbell curls 10 pounds and singles curls 5 pounds. Then i did 50 toe raises and 350 jump ropes. After i was done with all that i stretched and did some yoga. Then i juggled for 10 minutes, work on some moves that Mj tot me, and then worked on my headers and chested.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
9
This week i had 9 games. 6 with Aloha High school, and 3 with Mercury. With Aloha we played all Washington teams except 1 Oregon team. I played right mid, and right D. It was good to come back to playing with Mercury. But we got 2nd place. I think that i did good, except in the 1st game.
Monday, July 26, 2010
this past weekend, i thought we could've scored more goals, and that i could've saved more shots. We did good, but when we played fc in the first half i thought we're done, we arent playing our game and we r just done. but in the second half we picked up our game and did soo much better. lastly i have to say i think we did our best in the semi final game, and the final game needed the most attention.
oh ya today i rode my bike for 30 mins
Hopes post about bend and lo cup
ok so i'm posting for Hope, this first section is of her thoughts about the bend tournament, she says that we did good passing, talking/communication, and first touch. What she thinks we need to work on is talking more and giving better information like turn and man on, and that we need to check to balls.
this is still hopes post, but about the LO cup: she says that we did good talking and having our heads up looking for options. what we need to work on is making more runs, checking to the ball, talking more, passing and taking shots. And the last thing she says is next time we play LO we have to kick their butts!!
today i went swimming for 3 hours. also i walked to the store with jamie a couple times a few days ago. and 2 or 3 days ago i went to this soccer field near my house and practiced shooting for an hour and a half with my mom and then these adult guys were playing soccer there so they like came over and helped me practice taking people on and shooting for about an hour:)
Sorry i forgot to post on friday but last week on Tuesday i went on a 2 mile run and a 3 mile walk. Then on Wednesday i played a game with my high school soccer team.
Now for my injury i talked to the doctor today and they said it could be a pulled hamstring but it may not be too severe so i will be icing lots and taking ibuprofen for the next few days. Hoping that it will feel better by Thursday. For practice on Tuesday i will not be able to play but i will be there and the doctors said its good for me to walk so my muscles dont get too stiff.
Now for my injury i talked to the doctor today and they said it could be a pulled hamstring but it may not be too severe so i will be icing lots and taking ibuprofen for the next few days. Hoping that it will feel better by Thursday. For practice on Tuesday i will not be able to play but i will be there and the doctors said its good for me to walk so my muscles dont get too stiff.
Monday, July 26
First of all sorry I didnt post last week. Well last week I walked ALOT! I went to the store twice with madisyn lane and we also went biking. Also last week I went to bethany village with friends and walked around for two days in a row.
LO-
Ok so these are my thought about the lo cup. So first of all congrats mercury for getting 2nd. We need to keep our heads high and we will get them next time. So somethings that we did really well was our passing. We were dribbling around them instead if wacking the ball and seeing if someone can get a foot on it (most likely not alot). The second thing I think we did good at is communicating. We were telling people man on, turn, take, play to this person, and overall just bonding as a team. I think having all these tournaments have made some memories and are making us close. LETS WIN THE PLEASANTON TOURNAMENT!
LO-
Ok so these are my thought about the lo cup. So first of all congrats mercury for getting 2nd. We need to keep our heads high and we will get them next time. So somethings that we did really well was our passing. We were dribbling around them instead if wacking the ball and seeing if someone can get a foot on it (most likely not alot). The second thing I think we did good at is communicating. We were telling people man on, turn, take, play to this person, and overall just bonding as a team. I think having all these tournaments have made some memories and are making us close. LETS WIN THE PLEASANTON TOURNAMENT!
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Bend
I think that for Bend if we were focused and were settling the ball down and passing, we did a good job. when we played bad the first half for some games, we always did wayy better in the 2nd half. I think that Bend really helped us get used to our new team and helped us improve. And we won!!
Thursday, July 22, 2010
In Bend I thought you guys played very good but there were some times where we could have focused, settled down and played our game. Other then that we played awesome and we won!!
This week I went to SAC 2 times and worked on my upper body. I did 3 sets of 10 on each exercise. I did side ways sit ups and side to side sit ups. Some arm exercises with weights and I worked on my core.
By the way I have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning and that will decide weather i go to Pleasonton or not..
This week I went to SAC 2 times and worked on my upper body. I did 3 sets of 10 on each exercise. I did side ways sit ups and side to side sit ups. Some arm exercises with weights and I worked on my core.
By the way I have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning and that will decide weather i go to Pleasonton or not..
Bend Tournament
This past weekend i thought we did pretty well. I think we could have been more focused on our game and played hard the whole 2 halves.I thought we passed a lot more this tournament which helped our game a lot. A lot of the teams were very aggressive which caused us to be as well. In the end it was nice to have won the whole thing and I think we deserved it in the last game.
My knee
Ok so for today I got this new board to balance on to help my knee become stronger, its called the "INDO BOARD". I also did the many other workouts to help my knee and I did this for about an hour.... I hate having a hurt knee, I am so tired and sore.
Katie
On monday i went and worked out at my workout place twist. Where i lifted some weights, and did other strange exercizes.
On tuesday i juggled for 20 minutes working on feet only, and my head.
On wednsday I went to twist again. And did that bar weight thing, with 20 extra pounds thats 60 pounds! I did a total of 24 squats.
On tuesday i juggled for 20 minutes working on feet only, and my head.
On wednsday I went to twist again. And did that bar weight thing, with 20 extra pounds thats 60 pounds! I did a total of 24 squats.
Bend
I think our team did very well this weekend, but the game against Medford, I thought we were not playing like state champs. I thought our team was fighting to much and blaming each other. I would love to have team take the blame so we dont have to argue a lot. On the day of the finals, I saw the opposite team smiling and Hi-Fiving each other when they heart Michelle and Morgan and many more of our players. I thought our team didn't retaliate that much and thats what kept our team strong. Our team will get better at not fighting, all we need to do is be supportive for our teamates.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Bend Cup
Well...i think we did pretty good in the tournament but we started out not so good but by the end we were pro(:
The one thing i didnt like about the tournament was getting pushed down, i mean what the heck? who does that? i guess it helped me be a lot more agressive tho
The one thing i didnt like about the tournament was getting pushed down, i mean what the heck? who does that? i guess it helped me be a lot more agressive tho
Bend Cup
I think we did pretty good in the bend cup. At time we could have done alot better but overall i think we showed what we could do. I liked when we were calm on the ball and just passed around the other teams. In this tournament it showed how not being focused can really hurt us. The team needs to work on being on our game for 2 halves not just 1 half. All in all Mercury had a great weekend and we accomplished what we wanted to do in the tournament.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
today i went tubing, wake boarding, and swimming with my cousins. We were at Haggs lake from 10:00am to 5:30pm, so we were constantly doing stuff. It might not sound like a lot, but trust me, i'm sore from wake boarding and tubing. And u can tell i did something cuz my legs r bruised and i have a huge sun burn!
US vs Sweden
I watched the US vs Sweden game and I liked Amy Rodregez chip over the goalie for the lead:)
Bend!
I thought that we did really good in the bend tournement! I thought we did a good job with our passings and fallowing our shots! I hope we can win the L.O. tournement! GO MERCURYY!
Monday, July 19, 2010
Bend
i think we all did a great job this weekend, even tho we got on each others nerves a little bit. our effort was great and (when we focused) we passed around and made the other team run. One thing i remember most about the weekend is when mj (the coach, not our mj) told us that champions always find ways to win:) i like to win:)
On July 10 i left for regional camp in Idaho and for those 5 days i learned so much. I would have never thought that in 5 days i could change the way i used to play. I learned that how you pick your self up matters, how to make different runs, and i also learned to be tuff or your going to get push around. Oh i made tons of new friends from all over. Even thown i didn't make nationals i learned so much in which i will put in my game and show the regional couch's why they should have chosen me. For now I'm going to keep on working on what i need to work on and keep getting better.:)
Bend Cup
I thought that we all played great this weekend!! It was even better to get the result that showed it, for once!!! I noticed a lot of the same things that Lindsay did, that we played a lot better as a team when we communicated and settled it down. In the Washington Rush game we started to pass really well, we were almost playing keep away from the other team, it was pretty fun! This weekend went well for us, we should all be proud of the way that we played and the result that we got from it!!! Hope we do as well in our next two tournaments!!!
I tore my ACL and parts of my meniscus..I will not play for about 9-7 months..Plus Phsycial Therapy.... I also will have to have surgery.. My surgery will be around the time we leave to Pleasanton... I want to go to Pleasanton with you guys but I don't know if I should stay and have the surgery or wait for a later or sooner date..
bend premier cup
first of all Woohoo!! we won!!I'm glad we won and that we kept on fighting, and trying to score in our final game, but the ref really didnt like us:)I think there were times, in the whole tournament, that we could've played much better, like when we would take too many touches and lose the ball, just kick it and not play simple, or when we just werent focused. But when we did play our game, we passed a bunch and we had better scoring opportunities. I also realized that we did better when we communicated. But I'm happy with our result, and i thought we all played very well!
Friday, July 16, 2010
July 5th -9th/ July 12th-15th
Last week I did ab work for 30 minutes, then leg curls 60 lbs. 22 reps, 2 times and ran 2 miles at SAC on Monday. On Tuesday I went to sunset practice where we worked on foot skills. Wednesday and Friday I did ab work again for 20 minutes. This week we had United Camp. On Monday I rock climbed at SAC for 2 hours with Aliyah. On Tuesday I went to Sunset practice after camp. On Wednesday and Thursday I did ab work for 20 minutes. On Friday I juggled and beat my record.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Well since i hurt my knee i cant do anything.. But in united camp I watch everyone play and past a litttle bit.... I also coached my world cup team and we are going to the finals :) And I had an MRI this morning and will not know my results til monday july 19th. I will not play in Bend... My doctor thinks i might have hurt my ACL and some legiments in the outside on my knee.. But hopfully there is nothing wrong other then some bruising...
Cascade Cup
This week, i did Cascade Cup with Sodium. We Won, and were put into a easy bracket, so that even Mercury could beat the teams. We played a U-17 B team, and lost 0-1. Then we won the next 2 games, 5-0 and 9-0. Then we got to the semi's, and tied 2-2, and we went to PK's and won in the PK's. Then on Sunday, we were in the Finals, and won 2-0 against the team that Sodium played in State Cup Finals.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Well my knee is going a lot better. I went to the gym and swam laps for a half an hour and then sat in the hot tub. This morning i walk about 2 miles no problem. Tonight for the first time i was able to do straight leg lifts. woo hoo! i did 3 sets of 10! i have a P.T. appt. on Wednesday and i'm hoping he will give me more exercises to do and give me the okay to play on Friday. Oh i almost forgot, i even jogged a little bit at Tops without any pain!
Sunday, July 11, 2010
July 5-July 8
Sorry i forgot to post on Friday but this week i went swimming on Monday and did 20 laps. Then on Tuesday i had a Southridge soccer game and i played the whole game, and i also went swimming again on Thursday.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Katie
On wednsday, i went to open play, witch is where any west lynn high school players can come and play. I was there because Floyd, my personal trainer invited me.
Thursday i worked out with Floyd for an hour.
Thursday i worked out with Floyd for an hour.
This week
This week I played two games with the Southridge team one on Tuesday and one on Thursday. In both I only didnt play for 10 minutes. I also swam for 4 hours on tuesday, which really tired me out. Sorry I forgot to post yesterday.
Friday, July 9, 2010
I went to the beach and played some beach soccer. I also watched alot of world cup games and noticed how nice their passing was. When i got back i walked around at bethany village and got my legs moving. After soccer one night, jordan came over and we passed and juggled for about half an hour. And almost every night i go outside and play with my soccer ball or pass with the neighbor kids. And obviously we had soccer practice :)
Thursday, July 8, 2010
This week I went to Bonny Slope again. I ran for 1.5 miles around the track then set up some cones like we do before games and did right, left, inside, outside, side to side, forward, backward, drags, bunny hops? and quick steps.. I did those 6 times each. After that I juggled mainly with my feet and some thigh... And after that I past against the wall and did patterns like left foot only, right foot only, one touch, two touch, settling and long balls. Thenn I did wall sits for 30 seconds each about 10 times with 10 second breaks. I did 50 sit-ups, 10 leg lifts and 25 push-ups. The next day after practice my mom and I went on a 2 mile walk with my dog. And today, I jogged around my neighborhood for 2 miles.
I went on a 20 minute jog this morning. Also I walked to bethany village and back which i think is about 4 miles(and i saw chris!). I carried a 135 pound person for about 30 feet. And i had 2 softball games...I hope this is enough exercise for the week because today I am EXHAUSTED, I am so not excited to get up at 6 tomorrow but whatever cya guys at the game!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Sunset team
Marlee!! Hey I'm tring to play with Sunset team and want to get to know the coaches. Do you have the coaches numbers???? I already know their names.. And I'm going to be practicing with them on Tuesdays and Thursdays (before our practices) with my friend Ashley who is on the varsity team.Plus I'm tring to get Alex to go too.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
What I did this week
Well this weekend i had ODP mini camp to get ready for regional camp in a couple days. There, we worked on passing, shooting, and we did continuous drills that involved helping us on forward runs, and pretty much positioning. Rochelle also went over different senarios that could happen in a game and how we would work together to fix it/problem solve.
THE SMOOTHIE WORK OUT!!!!!
Today i work out for hour and 15 minutes. With my weights i did 60 leg extensions with 30 pounds, then i did 60 single leg extensions with 20 pounds, and then i did 60 hamstring extensions with 15 pounds. I also did 30 beach press with 20 pounds, then i did 30 bicep curls with 10 pounds, and thin i did 30 single dumb bell curls with 5 pounds. After i was done with weights i did 100 toe raises and 300 jump ropes. Then i did 50 crunches, 50 sit-ups, 25 push-ups, and i did 20 leg lifts holding them for 10 seconds. Then to finish my work out i did some yoga and streching. Oh then i had a berry smoothie!:) Also im going to ask my dad to take me to practice early around to kick the ball.
Today i work out for hour and 15 minutes. With my weights i did 60 leg extensions with 30 pounds, then i did 60 single leg extensions with 20 pounds, and then i did 60 hamstring extensions with 15 pounds. I also did 30 beach press with 20 pounds, then i did 30 bicep curls with 10 pounds, and thin i did 30 single dumb bell curls with 5 pounds. After i was done with weights i did 100 toe raises and 300 jump ropes. Then i did 50 crunches, 50 sit-ups, 25 push-ups, and i did 20 leg lifts holding them for 10 seconds. Then to finish my work out i did some yoga and streching. Oh then i had a berry smoothie!:) Also im going to ask my dad to take me to practice early around to kick the ball.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Workout
Yesterday I went for a bike ride around my neighborhood to see the fireworks. Going up and down hills getting a leg workout. Today I went for about a 30 minute jog around my neighborhood. I ran up hills and sprited 15 yard distances to have an extra sprint in a game. I went to the school to play a game kinda like kickball. What you do is you kick the ball against the wall and when it comes back you trap it, do a move, and hit is back against the wall. Also, I lifted weights on the weight machine downstairs. I did some leg lifts on 25 pounds. Pull ups on 15 pounds and some leg streches on 40 pounds. Leg streches is where you have a platform and you try to push it out and bring it back in. Oh and I did some squats where you like sit in a chair position on the wall. I did that for 30 seconds, 10 times.
Sunriver
This week im in sunriver. But im going to be practicing with the u-15's and going to play the cascade cup with them as well. But i plated tennis, went on a bike ride, and went on a run. While i am in sunriver, i have been kicking the ball/playing with it in our condo.
After reading morgans post I tried some of it and kinda made up my own workout:
I did 80 total curls (40 each arm) I did them with 12 lbs. Then I did 35 weights lifters where you lay on a yoga ball and bring the weights up and touch them together. Then I did 20 lifting the weights straight up. I did all the weight lifting with 12 lbs. Next I did 10 jumping squats w/ankle weights, 40 mountain climbers w/ ankle weights, 20 toe raisers w/ankle weights, 40 crunches, 20 sit ups, and 20 push ups. Oh ya the ankle weights are 2.5 lbs. I also juggled today, my sister and i had a juggling contest of who could get the most without dropping the ball, we also did headers and we got 25 again.
I did 80 total curls (40 each arm) I did them with 12 lbs. Then I did 35 weights lifters where you lay on a yoga ball and bring the weights up and touch them together. Then I did 20 lifting the weights straight up. I did all the weight lifting with 12 lbs. Next I did 10 jumping squats w/ankle weights, 40 mountain climbers w/ ankle weights, 20 toe raisers w/ankle weights, 40 crunches, 20 sit ups, and 20 push ups. Oh ya the ankle weights are 2.5 lbs. I also juggled today, my sister and i had a juggling contest of who could get the most without dropping the ball, we also did headers and we got 25 again.
Katie
Ok so lets start with Friday. Me and some other people pulled MJ up and down strenuous hills in a wagon!!!!!! Ask anyone who helped it was really hard!!!!! Then Yesterday I did some juggling, I worked on moving to get my body to the ball quicker when I took a bad touch with my feet.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
today i went to the gym and ran for an hour then did the elliptical machine for a bit. after that i did weight machines for upper body (i can do 2 push ups now) and did a little bit of ab work.
and tomorrow, im going to kick the ball around for a little bit with my friends so ill be getting some touches.
Saturday 7-2-10
Well this was yesterday but i havent gotten on the computer till today. I took part in some team bonding over a 5 quart tub of rainbow sherbet...why does no one like the lime?
Anyways...I still need to do some exercise/soccer related activity but i just felt like posting. If anyone wants to hang out and do something soccer-ish that would be cool cuz i dont wanna have to pass to myself(:
Anyways...I still need to do some exercise/soccer related activity but i just felt like posting. If anyone wants to hang out and do something soccer-ish that would be cool cuz i dont wanna have to pass to myself(:
Friday, July 2, 2010
This week I juggled everyday using my thighs and feet. I did ab work for 30 minutes on Monday. I also practiced on Tuesday with the varsity and incoming freshman sunset team where we ran about 2 miles. Today I went to SAC(Sunset Athletic Club) and ran 1.5 miles and did 30 minutes of ab work. I also did leg extensions with 55 lbs., 22 reps, 2 times. Then I did this inner and outer thigh machine with 100 lbs., 22 reps, 2 times for both inner and outer.
June 26 - July 2
This week I had 2 highschool soccer games one on tuesday and one on thursday i played a little more than one half in eachh game. I also went swimming, i did 20 laps on wednesday and 15 laps on thursday.
June 26-July 2
This past week I went to the soccer field about 3 times. I played the crossbar game with my sister and I hit the crossbar 1 in 6 tries, and so did my sister. Then we tried hitting the crossbar from inside the circle at half, but after like 100 billion tries we still didn't hit it. The other times I went to the field I just practiced long balls/goalkicks.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Extra
Ok so mine is going to be about the same as Nikki's but anyways. I played two games this week for Southridge and played more than half the game in each. I also swam about 10-20 laps in the pool today(IDK if that counts).
Tuesday and Thursday
On Tuesday I played a soccer game with the southridge freshman team and trained before the game, I did the same on thursday. I played for both of the games for more than 30 minutes. We won both of our games by 3 points.
I will be out of town tomorrow so Im going to write it now. This week I went downtown with my mom and walked for about 2 miles. On Monday I went to SAC (Sunset Athletic Club) and I did weight training with my dad. I did my arms, legs and core. After weight training a ran around the track for a mile (around 6 laps). Today I just went to Bonny Slope Elementary School and did foot work, past against the wall and ran. I ran about 2 miles around the track (about 10 laps). Then I got my ball a past against the wall with the inside of my foot, outside of my foot and practiced hiting a long ball with my left and right foot. Then, I got some cones and set them up like we do before games. I practiced inside, outside, right, left, forward, backward and side to side about 6 times each. And for a cool down I ran one more lap and stretched.
Monday
I went to a idk what to call it but lets say its a group of people working out together. I was there, Twist, for an 1hr and 15min. I lifted weights, did planks and some sprinting. The funny thing was that a Neon player was there. I think Britny mb? It is a lot of fun! I encourage all of you to do something like it, its been helping me alot!!!!!!!!!
IDK why I am putting this on it, but my mom insists I do. :) On Sunday I went to the special Olympics to volunteer. This caused me to constantly be moving and getting the Bocce balls for the players. The game of Bocce is to get the colored balls closest to the white Paulina so I was pretty much do squats to see who got the closest to the Paulina.
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