FINALS
I am about to enter my last three days of school beginning tommorrow… I’m very excited about seeing the end of this semester and the start of Christmas break, but in the meantime I have to deal with finals. I have six classes at school: Government honors, College prep honors, Physics II C AP, Anatomy/Physiology honors, English IV honors, and Calculus AB AP. AP indicates a college level course where you can be awarded college hours depending on your results on the AP test at the end of the year, for those who are not familiar with how that works. As a senior, I am allowed to exempt three finals the first semester, so I have chosen classes with borderline A’s, Physics II and Government, to secure my GPA in that area. I am also exempting College Prep, a ridiculously easy course. This leaves me taking Calculus (which I have no choice because a large number of people cheated on the SFA, a district administered end of semester course that is so easy there is no reason to cheat), English (which cannot be exempted because it is a dual credit course, it awards both high school and college credit), and Anatomy (I have an 87 in there, making it my only real potential B this semester). The only final I am stressed over is the Anatomy final, I need a 100 and a little bump from the teacher to get all A’s this semester and muscle my way in to the top 10%. The senior class at my school has 828 kids in it and is extremely competitive, as of now I am in the top 11 or 12%. I will be taking the anatomy final on Wednesday, and spending the majority of Monday and Tuesday afternoon memorizing the ridiculous amount of information we are expected to memorize in that class. I suppose I had better get used to it if I plan on continuing to medical school after college and becoming a doctor…
Now that I have thorougly bored you all with my personal academic life, I will move on to bodybuilding. I took an off day Friday, having trained the previous three days, and between work 9:30-5:30 and premade plans with the family yesterday, I was left with little time, and could not train then either. I plan on punishing myself for that extra offday in the gym today, going all out with a shoulder workout followed by abs and calves. I found what may be the best calf workout in existence on the forums here. I cannot remember who posted it, but it always makes walking a challenge the next day. You begin on any calf machine and first perform 15 slow, full reps of a moderately heavy weight, then chase that with 20 faster reps, still with a full range of motion, but without pausing at the top or bottom of the rep. Shake your legs out for 5-10 seconds, then hop back on and repeat the 15/20 scheme, decreasing weight if absolutely necessary. Then you shake it out for another 5-10 seconds, and hop back on and perform 5-12 reps with somewhere near your max. Finally, you finish out with 20 2 foot up 1 foot down reps of around the same weight you began with. I will usually do two of those, and finish out with a light, slow set on the sitting calf raises machine, using the maximum range of motion on each rep.
Anyways, it is about time I get started on this extra credit for physics, then hit the gym and get some Christmas shopping done. So long everyone!
