Big Ten Tournament. Indianapolis. THe only way the Michigan Basketball team could really redeam itself was to win the Big Ten Tournament to get the the NCAA Tournament. It is too hard to tell in words...so let me show you the video....
Ohio State was the bitter. After coming back from a 10plus deficite and Manny hitting the game winning bucket with 2.2 left on the shot clock, NCAA Player of the Year Candidate, Evan Turner shot up a Hail-Mary Half Court shot to win the game. I can say no more.
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Spring Break...its that time when everyone leaves you and its cold and lonly...its the time you get to sleep and eay a lot from the basketball team...and its the time wthat you can lift and play ball like that was all there was to do. Love it. So that is pretty much what I did.
I started a new power based workout. It revolves around the three big body lifts. The squat, the bench, and the clean. The squat I am doing is a full squat, done all the way. The bench is a very explosive bench, going down and then blowing up. The clean is the most difficult lift out of the three for sure. If you dont know what the clean is, check out this video...
This video has the full clean and jerk. I am just doing the first part where he gets it in the squad position. Sick. This dude Kendrick Farris has the world record with 405 KG...anyhow
Why is it so hard? Becausre there are three states to the lift. THere is the initial hip movement, then there is the sholder shrug, and then the pull of the bar up with the elbows flipping under the bar supper fast. Its super complicated. To learnt the lfit correctly, I am getting my buddy, Dan, Assistant strength and conditioning coach. I have split the lift to three parts...the Romanian dead lift, the power snatch and the front squat to work on all three parts. Hope to get the Clean down in 2 months
The team got to go to the theater together. We watched the movie shutter island. It was a very interesting movie. It was depicted more of a horror movie but it wasnt really that scary. It was very mental, very thought provoking and mind twisting. So if you like those type of movies, you should go watch it. I am pretty picky in what I watch cause I dont like to waste my time watching crap, but if thats your type, then go for it. Here is a trailer.
I was also lucky that my dad got to visit for two days. He came on his way to see his client. We got to watch mIchgian Hockey destroy Lake Superior State at my first ever hockey game. It was cool to see my buddies play on the ice.
The next day I got him row 2 tickets for our last season game against Michigan state. Oh what an atmosphere! It was rediculous. Whitnes everywere. And was I getting heckled! Getting called cowboy and yeehaa!! the whole time hahaha. But we palyed pourly and the Spartan fans savored every minute of it. There was one point efore the game when the Izzone, the student section, was getting all non state fans out of their zone. Well there was this girl who was wearing a while shirt like everyone else, but it had a block M on it. THe whole student section started to yell at her till the ushers came and made her leave! What the heck! I felt so bad for her! These people are crazy! hahaha
