ahaedicke’s BodyBlog

A college wrestling match consists of three periods.  The first being 3 minutes, the second and third periods being 2 minutes in duration.  The total match (if it does not end in tech fall, pin, or injury) lasts seven  minutes. This is humbling to most when you think of the 20 weeks you spent training, for one double elimination tournament.  Double elimination means you’re garaunteed two matches.  Think of it this way, you spend hundreds of hours training, countless hours of dedication to your diet, unrivaled efforts to plan your training program and diet strategies, you spend hundreds and hundreds of hours of preparation for two seven minute matches.  You spend 20 WEEKS in preparation for 7 MINUTES of competition.  Make the most of your training because if you’ve come this far, you better get the most out of that 7 minutes as humanly possible.  Nah, forget humanly possible, you’ve committed more completely, sacriiced more to, and dedciated more time and concistancey to this than most commit to a life long goal of loosing weight or improving fitness… you did the work, now its time to make your own luck and decide your own fate.

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