MBSC Training Day 1

First day of internship today. It was a short day, thankfully. They are easing us in. We arrived at 12, by 12:15 we met with Nicole who is out supervisor. We did an 'about us sheet' and then got a tour of the facility. We then had about 20 mins to mingle and talk amongst ourselves before the meeting started.

The first hour of the meeting was Coach Boyle going over the rules for the summer, pretty standard. The next 3 hours we went over Day 1 and Day 2 workouts. Coach Boyle showed us how it will be done. We will be working with groups of 9-10 athletes at once, 3 coaches per group. So 3 athletes to 1 coach more or less. Everything is done in a circuit like fashion. Each station there will be 3 exercises and athletes will be at each station for 20 minutes. Athletes will roll and stretch for about 12-15 mins first thing, they they have about a 12-15 dynamic warmup. Then they go through their lifts. Finally endin with conditioning.

Days 1&3 are lower body and back/core. Days 2&4 are upperbody days. Similar to what I usually do, so thats nice. Then 2/4 days are linear conditionig, and 2/4 are lateral conditioning. Should be very hetic. Each session is 1hr and 30 mins. The facility moves through about 300 athletes a day. Our schedule seems like it will be 7am-9pm with 1-3pm for lunch and work outs. Not sure how I will survive. The good thing we only work Mon-thurs.

There are about 12 interns total between 19 and 27 years old. Mostly college students or just graduated. Most are from NE and/or go to school in NE. Rachael and I felt like the outsiders, me esp. because I went to school in the south. Not sure how they'll take the 'ya'll' haha. There are 5 girls total for interns. The three of us in the house a girl Bridget (i think) who is still in college I believe. And a rcent BU grad named Marietta (i believe). There are 2 interns from Ireland as well (Dubin and Cork). So it is a interesting group of people.

I am looking forward to working with everyone and getting to know people and seeing what their backgrounds are like. I feel like I'm the only one who does not have a background in exercise science, or some sort of sport/athletic related field. Oh well. I have enough experience and should be doing just fine. Esp since Coach told us multiple times today not to get too smart/sciency on the athletes. Most of them will not get it anyway.

Welp, time for me to make some dinner I think. Then relax.

Until next time, KIK