Good job everyone who participated in Sportsfest this Saturday! We were just a small band of cadre compared to the 192 teams present and you all really put your heart into going beyond your capacity.
As I write this entry, cliches’ such as “practice what you preach,” and “walk the talk” come to mind. Saturday April 24th was an exciting and fun-filled day, packed with people and competition.
Sportsfest was high on the list, underneath winning, and we all came to St. Pete Beach that Saturday with one mission – Leave with putting St. Pete Boot Camp on the map.
The strategy was simple, we were more conditioned, trained harder and longer over the coarse of one year, had more endurance, agility, speed and comraderie. I adopted the philosophy of many athletic coaches: “Sports specific training should not be the importance above overall conditioning for a particular sport.” Although we clearly had outmatched our competition physically in every event we participated, learning the specific fundamentals or “practice” was in fact as important as our theory that we would out-muscle them with our years worth of physical training through intensive boot camp regimens.
I found that though we may have placed in the top 20 out of 192 teams in tug of war, the theory behind applying our routines to competition day was meaningless without practicing the actual event.
Congrats to the first St. Pete Boot Camp Sportsfest team. You all did an excellent job and I can’t wait for next year!
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