Nick Marrocco

Today Colin and I woke up for breakfast and go to the dining hall around 8 o clock. For breakfast, I had scrambled eggs, sausage links, yogurt, and chocolate milk. After breakfast, we headed over to the turf strip and got in our first session of stretching. I really focused on stretching out my hip flexors because they are always tight and I knew I would be hitting legs later. So I made sure I was properly stretched. Finally, we headed into the weight room and got our workout in. I squatted today, focused on my form, and didn't worry too much about the weight. Then after squatting, I followed it with some single-leg hamstring curls, going until failure. I also did some cardio on the treadmill, incline fast pace walk for 20 minutes. Then we hit our second session of stretching immediately after our workout. Focussing on my back and hamstrings so they wouldn't be sore the next day. By this time it was lunchtime, I had my usual egg salad sandwich with chips, white rice, and a bowl of fruit. I had a glass of chocolate milk and blue Gatorade. Then we headed over to the Ted to get some work in for hockey. We stick-handled and shot pucks. We also started our Instagram called palifts23 which you can follow us and watch our journey. Then we went to our sports. then at dinner, I had chicken with American chop suey with cucumbers. After dinner, my calorie count was at 3163, 181 grams of protein,  371 grams of carbs, and 110 grams of fats. My total hours were 5.

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