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Another Florida trip means another countdown! I saw that
not too long ago there was also a blog which I titled countdown, now it seems like
I’m always waiting for the future! I definitely still enjoy the moment and live
in it very much, especially since I now have a new family member! After 2 years
of research, everything came together and on Wednesday we went to pick up our
new puppy, who is now 8 weeks old!
Despite the fact that it will be harder to leave home this
time, I’m still very much looking
forward to my trip to Florida. This is for multiple reasons, the first being
that it’s in less than a month, so I have no choice but to think about it and
make some plans to optimize my time there. Another reason is that I have a new
set of jump skis waiting for me there. I mentioned here a while ago that I might be
skiing on bigger ski’s soon,
which is finally for sure, after some stress regarding when they would arrive
and whether to ship them to the Netherlands or Florida… but they’re waiting for
me to ski when I go to Florida now!! I’m really excited, because this is the
first set of completely new ski’s I bought for jump and also my second set
ever, so it’s the first time I will switch size since I started jumping. I hope
and think this will help me improve, once I learn how to control them and get
confident with them. Finally I am really enthusiastic about the coaches I will
be seeing, some I have skied with before, but I will also ski with Whitney McClintock,
which is the first time for me, so I’m excited to see how she will change my
perspective on certain things and the new things I’ll learn.
In order to be in the best shape possible when I go to
Florida, there is a lot of focus on diet and working out in my daily life. My
personal trainer helps by giving a structure and motivation to stay on track,
even when I really don’t want to work out, like yesterday. It’s even harder
because it’s another couple of hours that I’m not spending with our puppy! But
I really enjoy seeing the improvements, which was especially clear in Thursday’s
session. When I started training with my personal trainer, we did a so-called ‘max-test’.
A series of exercises targeting each part of the body separately are done for
45 seconds, with minimum rest in between. The goal is to do as many repetitions
as possible. In almost each exercise, I was able to increase the number of
repetitions, especially in the exercises that target the leg muscles. After
acknowledging this as a weakness when we started training together, they have
improved a lot, which I already noticed when doing jump drills with Ryan Dodd,
but now it’s also confirmed with these results. I will keep working on this of
course, but I also found a new weakness to work on, which is my flexibility. I
feel like I haven’t realized the importance of flexibility and doing stretches
enough, so I will work on this more than before. I want to do this using some
yoga exercises as well. This helps me to stay motivated, like I said last week,
because it’s another new exercise that is out of my comfort zone!
For now, it is 19 more days until I leave for my next
Florida adventure!
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