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Preparing for Drum Corps- Colorguard Edition

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          With the past and upcoming tryouts for the 2019 drum corps season in motion, I thought this post would be a great one that most of my friends could relate to. Preparing pre tour for drum corps is essential for a better experience with your corps, in my opinion, not everyone thinks so, but I bet you will after this post.                     When I say preparing I mean very specific things, not just raising money or gathering items for tour, or even the infamous packing for tour. What I mean is preparing your body, preparing your skills and most importantly preparing your mind. One of the top reasons members leave within the first few weeks of tour, besides injuries, is mental stability. And that is totally okay, never feel like if that has happened to you that it was the wrong decision because you need to take care of your body and ...

A journey in 66 days

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Starting my journey.... Journey; noun; an act of traveling from one place to another. Is my journey considered a journey? What is my journey? My 'journey' is how I am restarting my fitness lifestyle. In 2016, I had a lot of built up anger towards a lot of people and I did not like that. After doing a lot of research I figured going to the gym would help relieve a lot of that stress... and it did and bonus I lost 33 lbs. I started January 2017 after a very miserable Christmas in 2016. I did it for a complete year and during Christmas of 2017 I was so happy with who I was with that the gym and eating healthy slipped out of my grasp. Once back to school in 2018 for spring semester, school, work, and attempting to move to a different state took over and my healthy lifestyle never saw daylight again... until now. Now I am back. No excuses. I have had my time to settle in to my new life and now it is time to get my life together. I feel motivated... maybe even more motiv...