Morning practice can take a lot out of you, but it can strengthen your durability for your sport. Some of your Clarkston student athletes have morning practice or a very long afternoon practice.
Freshman Marin Lugger is on the CHS dive team and she has morning practice every other day. “I definitely do feel like morning practice [influences me] a lot out when I’m waking up and getting there. It’s hard to wake up because we get up and then we have to be there at 5:45 a.m. But once I’m there, it’s fun, but at the end of the school day or around lunch, I’m very tired.”
Sometimes I feel like afternoon practice is a bit much. We have 3 hours of practice and we get homework. In one or more classes, I get home around 5:30 and I have to eat dinner and that takes about an hour, and then I have to do homework and then I sleep or I do other things. Diving and practices change how I look at my time and how I’m relaxing, but have also created a group of friends that I’m close to.
Furthermore, muscle soreness is really bad; I definitely get sore sometimes. The other day, I smacked my body against the water and got a bruise on my leg and I guess sometimes it will make me tired, but when I get a new dive it’s always exciting. Morning practice or a very long afternoon practice takes so much out of you, especially if you get a lot of homework.
Freshman Oscar Eisele is on the freshman football team at CJHS and he has afternoon practice every day. “Most of the time when I get home I think about how practice went or what I could improve on,” Eisele said.
I definitely feel like it takes away time from my day a little because practice ends at 5:30, so by the time I get home it’s about 6:30 and then I have a few hours to do homework or just chill.
According to Sleep and athletic performance: the effects of sleep loss on exercise performance, and physiological and cognitive responses to exercise – PubMed, sleep is vital for both body and mind but athletes often lose sleep before competing research suggests that negatively impacts their performance through the specifics of how and why are still unclear. It’s not terrible for my sleep schedule, but it does affect it a little bit.
