It seems that lifting does not happen when I'm playing principal cello when rehearsing a symphony series. I'm just too dang tired and super stupid stressed about playing well that I'm afraid that when I lift that day of a rehearsal that I'll be tired, worn out, and make horrible mistakes.
I mean, I not only do I have to worry about playing my entrances correctly but also I must play with precise intonation AND musicality must be played with every phrase, MAN, is it exhausting to finish a symphony rehearsal.
That is why my lifting days have suffered. I wake up at 5:45 or 6:15 and the only energy I have is to get my kids ready for their day of school let alone lift reps of heavy weights OR trying to succeed at a snatch or clean & jerk lift at a 85% load?!
How do I get so spent if I'm not lifting?!
The rehearsal seems to kick my butt more than lifting and I'm pretty sure I'm SITTING on my butt when I rehearse while playing my cello. Sitting. on. my. butt. Just sitting there. I've determined it's the mental stamina that I exhaust, along with fine motor skills that go and go for every movement I play using my bow and fingering on my cello.
Knowing my limitations and giving into my exhaustion will help me heal and perform at my best. If I take a break at lifting while attending rehearsals I will go back to my lifts rested and prepared. As if I take cello back a notch I will build stamina every time I practice.
So breaks aren't such a bad thing after all.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Weighing in
Wondering why those pictures are posted?
Well, I signed up for an Olympic Weightlifting competition, The Georgia State Games. It's nothing fancy but it feels funny doing a competition that's not cello related. It's even more funny how I've always been afraid to audition for any cello competitions but next Saturday I'll compete to place heavy kilos over my head!
I'm not exactly sure why I've been putting hours into practicing my lifts but ever since I started being coached on olympic lifts (Oly-lifting) I've been motivated to practice my cello. I've even started to work on Elgar's Cello Concerto *GASP* (Those that know me, know how much I hate this concerto).
Maybe signing up for GA Games has put the fire under my butt to DO and not just watch. I feel that if I can bring myself to compete in Oly-lifting then I should bring my self to practice and sign up for symphony auditions.
I'll have to just start and try. I mean, what do I have to lose?
(Wish me luck at the GA Games! Please.)
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Bigger the Kid, Bigger the problems?
Does it ever get easier? I once heard a friend say, "The bigger your kid, the bigger the problems." Yikes! How am I going to handle these so-called "problems?" I have one kid still in the single digits but another in the double digits and starting middle school. I know, I know, puberty, hormones, and/or peers can effect my offspring but I was never prepared for the....lying.
Yes, I'm complaining about the lying. Once, getting caught playing with his Nintendo DS in bed (because I heard the music playing from the game) my child has managed to lie to my face that he wasn't playing it. He plainly and quickly said that he wasn't. I look at him in awe and wonder how can he possibly think to get out of this?! He kept trying though, an A for effort but a freaking F for lying, every time he kept saying, "I really, really, really don't know what you're talking about." I eventually walked out to calm my blood pressure. Another time, involving a neighbor and their bee hive, Taylor said he think he knew who did it, blamed another kid, and insisted that he we no where near the bee hive. Turns out another kid with him saw all of it go down. Taylor wasn't the one messing with the bee hive but he WAS there witnessing someone else doing the action. I mean, why couldn't he just come clean and explain that before coming up with his bogus lie?!?
How or why do we lie? Where do people think they'll get? It made me think, after a new discovery that people at my CrossFit gym have been fibbing their scores and/or times, I wonder WHY?! Why would someone feel the need to do that? Technically, they're only competing with themselves.
So it doesn't surprise me that if adults think they can get away from lying then what's stopping a kid who gets CAUGHT in the act of lying?
Yes, I'm complaining about the lying. Once, getting caught playing with his Nintendo DS in bed (because I heard the music playing from the game) my child has managed to lie to my face that he wasn't playing it. He plainly and quickly said that he wasn't. I look at him in awe and wonder how can he possibly think to get out of this?! He kept trying though, an A for effort but a freaking F for lying, every time he kept saying, "I really, really, really don't know what you're talking about." I eventually walked out to calm my blood pressure. Another time, involving a neighbor and their bee hive, Taylor said he think he knew who did it, blamed another kid, and insisted that he we no where near the bee hive. Turns out another kid with him saw all of it go down. Taylor wasn't the one messing with the bee hive but he WAS there witnessing someone else doing the action. I mean, why couldn't he just come clean and explain that before coming up with his bogus lie?!?
How or why do we lie? Where do people think they'll get? It made me think, after a new discovery that people at my CrossFit gym have been fibbing their scores and/or times, I wonder WHY?! Why would someone feel the need to do that? Technically, they're only competing with themselves.
So it doesn't surprise me that if adults think they can get away from lying then what's stopping a kid who gets CAUGHT in the act of lying?
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