Do you exercise your eyes?

Eye Stretches: a vision training drill that develops some of the eye movement skills you need to optimize your sports performance. Eye Stretches help build strength, range, flexibility and stamina in your eye muscles, allowing you to move your eyes rapidly and accurately during a game or activity. This will help you keep track of the ball or puck and see the whole court, rink or playing field.

Eye Stretches
To perform the drill, you need no equipment—just your eyes.

Pretend there is a big clock dial in front of you. Point your eyes straight ahead at the center of the dial. Move your eyes to the 12 o’clock position, then back to center. Move your eyes to the 1 o’clock position, then back to center. Move your eyes to the 2 o’clock position, then back to center. Continue the pattern for every hour position on the clock and back to center each time. Make sure your eyes move through their full range of motion throughout the dial, while keeping your head still.

Once you have moved your eyes through every hour position in this fashion, repeat the Eye Stretches, going from center to 12 o’clock and around the clock dial in reverse (counterclockwise).

Do this a few times a week, even up to twice a day. Try to maintain an even pace throughout the drill by keeping a count, or use a metronome.

Variations

1. Move your eyes smoothly to the number using a gliding eye movement (called a pursuit).
2. Jump your eyes from the center to the numbers and back (called a saccade or saccadic eye movement).
3. Change the speed of your eye movements from set to set.

"You Again?"

   Yeah thats how I feel every time I look in the mirror and I see something about myself that I do NOT like. Seriously, it is like the fat, that wrinkle, mole, hanging thingy, scar or whatever won't go away. It is only a couple weeks into the new year and what I wanted to happen did not really go right. The days I wanted to workout, I missed a few. Whats a couple extra MISSED miles really mean at the end of the year......

      Well, each mishap I make in the step to my healthier self, is a reflection to the imperfections I identify with. When I don't run, go to the gym, or each crappy foods, then I am reminded of that each time I look in the mirror and see something I don't like. Another moment of that "You Again?".

     This year, this month, this week is a different You Again!! Thats what I am going to say to myself every time I put on my running shoes. I feel like that is when I am at my best. Every little imperfection is not who I am! I will not identify myself with those things; When I am searching for the person I want to be in the mirror,  you know referring to my better self, to the person who gets up at 6am to go run 10 miles. I will say you again, to that person. Smile when I put my shoes in the gym bag to go after work, or when I don't hit the snooze button, when I eat salad instead of fries, or do 6 sets instead of 3. I will say, "You Again!". Not with a question, but with confirmation that this is who I am. This is who I will be.

Double Cross Over Drill

                    

As the name suggests, it is a basketball move which is constituted of two back-to-back crossover.  In essence, it is a controlled, low, and small crossoverfollowed by a quick, huge crossover. 

1. Dribble towards your opponent while slightly leaning towards the right
2. Get your opponent to follow you and move slight to your right
3. Do a sudden small cross to the left and swing your shoulder also to the left so that you look more sincere
4. If your opponent jumps right at your lane, counteract your momentum by pushing hard with your left leg towards the right side
5. Perform a vigorous, quick crossover in front to get past your opponent
6. Full steam ahead along the open lane

PAIN....