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SYNOPSIS
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WHO CAN BENEFIT
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Chapter 7 Excerpt -
Life as a College Athlete
Your alarm clock goes off, it's 6:15AM and
you have 5 minutes to open your eyes, get dressed and go out the door
for practice, walking across campus in 8 inches of snow. After running
around a gym for an hour and a half with no food, you grab a quick bite
to eat, head back to your dorm, take a shower and catch your breath. Its
9:30 now and you have classes starting in 30 minutes till 2PM. After 2,
you grab a quick bite to eat and then head back to your dorm to change
for practice again. Its 3PM now and again you are at the gym, shooting,
swinging, and running lines. Its now 5PM, there is a long line in the
dining hall, you are all sweaty and tired, but you don’t feel like going
back to your dorm room to change.
You make it back to your dorm at 6PM, but you don’t shower because you
have to be back to the weight room at 7pm to lift with your team. Its
8:30 now, you are back at your dorm, you shower, change, and sit down on
your bed to relax for a minute and to digest the day you just had. You
have 5 chapters to read in two classes, a 10-page paper that's due in 3
days and a short quiz on the environmental impact of humans on the
Florida Everglades, and then there is that cute girl a few floors above
you who wants you to go with them to a party tonight. You flip through
the TV channels stopping to watch Sports-center for a second, then
world’s wildest police chases catches your eye. Then it dawns on you.
You just completed a 14 hour day where you didn’t have one second of
time that was devoted to just you.
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