Blog Entry 7-10-10 -- Swimming Gazelles (aqua day)
After a long day of camp my legs feel sore and my quads are on fire. The morning tempo run we were up and early in front of Wilson Hall. The beginning of the morning we started with some static stretching. No one was talking besides Bo. He seems to be a morning person. Bo decided that we would do a "steady-state" run, something I had never heard of. It was a whole lot of fun running with Stevo and Jessie at the front of the pack. Bo instructed us to encourage our fellow campers as we started to pass them. This tactic helps to build a feeling of team unity.
The leadership and motivation blended in with one another; which helped me to understand how to be a better leader by helping people and teammates by motivating everyone; especially by staying positive. The blindfold game, enforcing trust into teammat
es, was after the lecture. Bo loved to continuously chunk tons of “land mines” into the center of the sand volleyball court. This game taught me to listen to my teammates and at the same time have fun with everyone. In somefashion or form your teammate led you by being your eyes as you walked, shuffled and crawled all
across the sand volleyball court. The only rules to the game were: Do not step on the land mines! Once we were finished teams switched the blind fold to guide their partner whom they just guided across the court.
Instead of doing a run for the afternoon session, Bo and the counselors decided to take us to the pool to te
ach us how to cross train with free weights, med-balls, stationary bikes, elliptical machines and aqua jogging; as well as underwater workouts. Aqua jogging had more to it than meets the eye. It was very easy to incorporate the wrong form even when using an aqua jogging belt. I think underwater swimming was the toughest out of all the workouts. We moved quickly, with little rest, through the underwater swim, but each and every one of them helped us to swim with little breath.
One of the most fun parts of the camp, personally, is the bonding time that the campers share with one another. Even when some campers are not with the counselors we talk and tell stories as if we’ve been around each other for more than just two days. Bonding time is not given as some certain point during the camp, but each and every camper is conversing with one another 24/7. Bonding isn’t only among campers, but also with campers and counselors who converse and tell stories to bond all the time.
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