Making the Cut

As I walked out onto the pitch on the first day of tryouts I told myself "this is the year to prove myself to everyone one what I can do." We went through our usual warm ups and I felt great. Like I was on top of the world. The first thing we did was a shuttle run. This 300 meter shuttle smokes everyone and this year was no different. I fought through it though and stayed near the front of the group. By the end of the 6 excruciating rounds I continued to fight and was grateful when we were done with that. After several similar exercises we were done for the day. The next two days passed in a similar fashion but at night instead of fitness testing we had skill and short side game work. At the end the coaches called us down one by one to tell us our fate. Were we to go home over joyed or disappointed. By the time my name was called my heart was in my mouth. I couldn't think straight until the coaches congratulated me on making Varsity. But i knew that this one success wasn't enough. I would have to prove myself to them in order to not just be on the team to to start in games and be able to play the whole time. So in order to stay in shape and not only rely on practices I do some of the work outs I do at Crossfit. When I told one of my friends he argued that practice is enough of a work out itself. But I know for a fact that it isn't. Soccer works on fitness and coordination but not much else. My point was that Crossfit worked on everything and it would keep me in better all around shape not specialized in one area.