Today was the day 1 of my senior project. I left campus after lunch and went to Hopkinton, Mass, where I will be staying until Thursday morning. Tonight I observed as my sponser, Laurie, ran a 2 hour class at her house with her partner Taylor. The class consisted of 10 middle school and high school aged athletes. They did all types of Burdenko exercises, which they were very non-traditional compared to your normal workout session. They used no weights, and it was predominately free movement. The kids were all levels of athleticism, but they all had some form of experience with the Burdenko style workouts from working with her.
After the session was over I talked long with Laurie about the exercises that were done and why they had the kids do them. The most important thing I learned was that the Burdenko philosophy is that the foundation of all workouts should be in balance, coordination, and flexibility. It is important to have endurance, strength, and speed and these should be addressed as well, but you need to have the strong foundation first. Most of what she talked to me about made sense, but were not what I was thinking before.
Overall today was a successful first day, and I look forward tomorrow to working on my own rehab. We will be going in the pool and learning Burdenko water exercises, which is a large part of his method of sports therapy.
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