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I did these skills for years, but I'd never thought about how closely they relate to the vault.

PETA can be pretty extreme, but some of the things they say are really important for people to hear.

You'd probably like the movie Food, Inc. as well

I am such a fan!!! In the summer, my boyfriend and I would run, then watch Man vs Food. I actually don't like eating that much, but the show fascinates me. He on the other hand, can eat. Watching it usually makes me want to cook, which he appreciates

I met a cool guy at Outdoor Nationals in Wisconsin this year who just started vaulting for the first time at 50. It was on his "Bucket List" and here he was at Nationals. Totally awesome!! Good luck to you and hope to get to meet you. Bubba That's so cool! And here my boyfriend is a colle...

I love that I can watch this...my last class ended at 12:20 and I have nothing to do until 4:15-xc.

Wow what a surprise. I just got out of class so this is the first I'm hearing of it.

Our strength teacher at school is really into it. We'd do crossfit whenever it fit into our schedule...usually only once every 3 weeks. But he was always talking about it.

I started doing them with both legs out straight... a real killer on basically the whole body! (Arms, back, abs, hip flexors, and technically the quads too...) :yes: Oh yeah! We did those all the time at gym. And just holds like that too. There was a girl on my team who was actually pretty good at ...

This year, our coaches had us train through all the early meets. So if we were scheduled to lift the day before a meet, we did. Usually we did harder running workouts on Fridays, and having a meet that Saturday didn't change that. We worked like that through the last week of April. I can't say I und...

thecarney91 wrote:I wish I had a coach I could become friends with like that

Yeah I love it. She's only 25 and super fun!

Forgot to mention that since my season has ended, and I'm graduating soon, my coach and I have dropped the athlete-coach relationship and become friends. Thus, we are training together all summer, and are planning a road trip.

xjoeyx wrote:wow. thats a lot more than i could ever say lol. farthest i got were the nat'l champs in bmx racing.

That's cool. Yeahhh I went to nationals 4 times. It was super fun.