My First Day

Today, I started my first day at my internship at Tekulve Acceleration. I arrived about 15 minutes early because I wanted to make a good impression on the employees and my supervisor. I was nervous to meet the girl that was going to train me on how to do everything. I knew my supervisor already since I went through the program about five years ago, and because he's friends with my mother. After we introduced ourselves to one another, Nikki (my trainer) explained to me about how to do some of the paperwork. I learned how to pull files (not that I didn't know how to before), I read over the warm-up drills, and then observed everything else. At first, I just observed the warm-up and read over the sheet of drills. When I went through the program 5 or 6 years ago, we didn't do any of the drills that they do now. We only had to run a lap or two around the track to get your heart rate up, and then you got stretched individually. The whole warm-up is totally different now. Eventually, I will have to lead the warm-up, so I have to become familiar with all of the drills.

After the warm-up, the kids were allowed to get a drink until they were sent to do either plyometrics or running on the treadmill as their workout for this particular session. I stood behind Shawn (employee/trainer) and watched him go through the different numbers on the formation. I remembered what they were so that wasn't a problem for me. There was the Munoz and Kromrite formations that I wasn't familiar with at all. They looked pretty hard compared to four square formation that I was used to. I just listened to what Shawn was saying to the athletes as they were going through the plyos. He kept saying, "bend your knees...keep your hips straight...keep your eyes down..." These are things that I'm going to have to learn to look for when I go through the plyos with the athletes.

At the end of the night, I got to actually run through the plyos with two athletes. I had to be loud, tell them what they were doing, and what they needed to work on. It wasn't too bad. I had two kids that were coordinated and knew what to do for the most part. I only had to say a few things. It wasn't too bad at all.

All in all, for the first day it wasn't too bad. I didn't feel overwhelmed at all and I felt like this isn't going to be bad at all. I have a feeling that I will be leading more plyos on Friday when I go in for my second day.