10/25/2017 1 Comment week 6- halfway Welcome back to my blog! This is a super exciting week for me because I am very close to getting my needle. This is week six which means it is the halfway point so I am going to work very hard these next six weeks. These past six weeks have flown by and I haven't realized how fast time flies until now. When I first started this project i was thinking to myself that I am just going to take it show the whole time but now I have realized that I can't. Getting a needle is much harder than people think. It involves very hard stretches that you have to do weekly and getting more and more flexible as the weeks progress. I am in the final stages of getting my needle and I am very excited. I need to keep doing my stretches daily so that I become more and more flexible.
On Thursday of this week I went to my cheer gym and my coach helped me with my stretches. I haven't been to my cheer gym in a while so it was good for me to get back into the routine. When I got to the gym I first worked on tumbling just to get me warmed up and ready. Then after I got my muscles loose we started working on the flexibility aspect of it. I did a lot of scorpions to help me stretch for my needle and I did a lot of splits. I wasn't used to all of this stretching at the gym because they work you much harder. But this was a good experience for me to go because it made me a lot more flexible. Now I am going to start going to the gym every Thursday because it improved my ability to do a scorpion and I did more stretches there. One thing I am very proud of that I accomplished this week is something called a scale. A scale is lifting your leg a little bit higher than a scorpion and not quite touching your head yet. This gets me much more closer to my needle so I am very excited about this. When I did the scale I felt some sharp pain in my leg. To help with this I did some splits and some scorpions and tried it again.The second time I did it I didn't feel any pain at all and it made it easier to do the scale. The following weeks I just want to work on getting my leg a little higher every week. See you next week bloggers!
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Anna Smith
11/1/2017 10:38:48 am
Very good! I know how stretching out your back and getting this skill can be very hard. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see the final product!
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