Causal Analysis: Football And Basketball Team In Middle School

It was the spring of 7th grade, and a young and naive Jackson Lampley was training to become a Tennessee Future Star. The Tennessee Future Stars is an all star football team for 7th graders, and there is also one for 8th graders. After trying out for the seventh grade team in the 6th grade, and not making it. 13 year old Jackson Lampley was determined to make the 7th grade team. I was so determined like Rocky Balboa in Rocky VI (the best movie of the series), you could 've probably made a pretty epic training montage for me. I started running up and down the massive hill that I have for a backyard, and I also bought a rope agility ladder to improve my footwork. I would do about 100 push ups and sit ups a night, and yes at the time I thought

As a student, I always find myself stressed about things like homework, tests, due dates, grades, rent, and all other sorts of college-related problems. When I start to feel overwhelmed by all of the noise of being a young college student, I turn to the one thing that gives me the greatest sense of purpose and inner piece; weightlifting. For me, a weightlifting session is a form of meditation, a time when I can be by myself and truly find inner peace. There is no better feeling to me when I enter a gym with a planned and detailed workout in mind. The feeling of anticipation and readiness to vent out my stress gives me the motivation to hit a workout hard. During a weightlifting session I put on my headphones and block out all the noise of

After the end of a JV football season, the varsity coach always selects a few players to move them up with the varsity. Getting moved up with varsity is a huge deal. It means that the varsity coach thinks you’ll make a good impact on the team next year and sees potential in you. I always knew I wasn 't a good football player, but that didn 't matter to me because I loved the sport. I didn 't start at any positions my freshman or sophomore year. In fact I barely even got in with practice squad at practice, I was small and my body just wasn 't fit enough for me to play any position. At the end of my second JV season in tenth grade, the varsity coach came and talked to us and called out the names of who he wanted to move up. I knew my name wasn’t going to be called but I was still

My mother, native to the Philippines, grew up in poverty. Although she had little, she always managed to give back to the community. She expressed that it is better to give than to receive. This idea has shaped me into the person I am today. It has taught me to be humble and to always give back to those who are less fortunate. That is why I drift toward activities that can help others and impact society.

There is no doubt in my mind, I was born with a hockey stick in my hands. Like my dad, I have grown to love the sport with a passion, most notably dangling. For people who have never played hockey before, they may not understand how the word is portrayed to hockey players. Dangling is when fancy, or skilled stickhandling is used to keep the puck away from the opponent. Although hockey as a whole has captivated my love of the game, this specific aspect has intrigued my attention more than the rest. I have always been impressed the most with players who dangle around the opposition. For this reason, there aren’t many activities that give me as much enjoyment as the thrill of going out on a sheet of ice, and competing with another team to show off my dangles.

My passion for track and field began with a Nike advertisement. At age ten, I opened the newspaper to a two-page spread of the hometown distance running legend Steve Prefontaine overlaid by a paragraph of inspirational copy. It concluded asking, “Where is the Next Pre?” The story of his small town Oregon roots, gutsy racing style, and ambition to be the best resonated with me like nothing ever had before. I told myself I was the next Pre, and then tore off for my first run through the streets of Eugene, Oregon – “Tracktown USA”.

During my 2nd year of high school, my family moved from Illinois to Kansas because of my mother’s job. As I was registering for classes at my new school, I told my counselor I wanted to try out for the cheerleading team. In response, she told me the cheerleading coach likes to see the cheerleaders complete a weightlifting class to become stronger for the season. At first, I didn’t want to take this class because I never liked traditional workouts, but decided to take it, for one semester, to become stronger for the cheerleading season.

I cannot imagine how I had gotten my feet to move, but I had found myself enthusiastically swinging my body around the room when hearing the instructor count: one, two,three and four repeatedly as each muscle throughout my body, swung around, to each beat being counted. I had waited for these exciting moments, where having fun and being myself suited each moment dancing.

Growing up I was always considered much smaller than most of my friends. I was a lot skinnier and weaker compared to most of the kids my age. All through middle school and ninth grade it was like this. I saw this as a problem in my life because I had a very low self esteem and couldn’t feel comfortable in my own body. I was tired of how I looked and decided to make a change.

Have you ever wondered what it 's like to have a person of the other gender join your sports team? I play basketball and personally I would hate for boys to play with us. Although many people think boys and girls should play on the same team, I disagree. Without a doubt boys and girls should not be on the same team because they will argue with each other, the sport could be dominated by one gender, and communication could be bad because of attraction to each other.

“Stop eating so much” “You’re already fat” “He doesn’t need more food”, These were all things screamed to me by my parents. Believe it or not, my weight would be one of the reasons arguments occured in my household. I was very lazy as a child and loved food as

Air ball— again. My form was lost, coordination gone, and so was my patience. I’ve stopped playing basketball for 3 months mainly because of school work and things going on in my life. I was determined to get my skills back no matter how long it’ll take. I started a game of basketball with other people inside the gyms court. As soon as I got the ball, I started to race down the court pounding the ball as I was dribbling. I squared up facing the hoop getting ready to take my shot. I raised my arm up, releasing the ball with my fingertip with poor form and arc. The ball went flying towards the hoop very fast. The sound of the net went swoosh but, sadly it was an air ball. Unfortunately, I lost the basketball game for us; the people on the

Every man desires to sew wide. Military or defense you may have to go to any service-related chest must be broadened. Anyway, clothes only look good when your chest wide.

For many years I was interested in becoming the greatest soccer player in the world but I practiced only like once every two weeks. I started noticing that all of my friends were surpassing me in soccer and becoming a lot better than me. I asked myself, “how am I going to become the greatest soccer player in the world if I rarely practice and all my friends are becoming better than me?”. I told myself that I would become better than all of my friends again and that I would practice everyday for three hours. I asked myself, “am I actually going to meet my goal of becoming better than all of my friends and am I actually going to practice for three hours every day?”. I decided that I would meet my goals because I was going to try to become a really good soccer player.

The difference between a bodybuilder and a physique competitor, anyone who trains with weights is building their body and is, therefore, a bodybuilder.