Last night I had an indoor soccer game and it had to be over 100 degrees in the building! We play in an old warehouse and we had a pretty early game so the sun was still blazing down on the all-metal building. It was 94 degrees outside, and it had to be much hotter inside. I could hardly breathe as I was running around and I probably drank a gallon of water. My wife is pregnant and it was so hot in the building she went out to the car and cooled off with the air conditioning. Although it was uncomfortable, it was probably one of the best weight loss workouts I have had in awhile. My shirt was drenched by the end of the game, but I felt really good! Plus, my team won the game. It was a great workout and probably very effective, but I wouldn’t mind it being a little cooler next game!

I think playing soccer is one of the best workout I recieve all week. I usually have a game every monday night and I am going to start playing pick up games on Saturday mornings. My monday night games are on an indoor league so it is a lot of running and very fast paced. I am pretty tired after a 40 minute game and I am also very sore. This last monday we had 2 games on the same night. We played our first game and I was exhausted, we play in an old warehouse and the air conditioning does not work very well. It was a hot summer day, and our game was at 7:00. It was probably between 90 – 100 degrees on the field. I have never sweat as badly as I did during that frst game. After the first game, which we won 4-1, we had a 40 minute break before we played the best team in the league. I was worried I was not going to have the energy to play in the second game. I was suprised when i felt as though I had more energy in the second game than I had in the first game. It was like I got my second wind and I was able to play very well. We ended up tying the best team in our league and we played one of the best games of our season. I am one of the youngest players on my team at 26, and their oldest player was probably 23. They were young, but the old guys ran circles around them and we should have won the game. It just taught me that I can still be in great shape despite my age!

I slept very well that night and got up and played basketball the next morning. I was still pretty sore from soccer, but I drug myself out of bed and made it to the gym. I played a good 40 minutes and felt great all day at work. It was a great 12 hours of working out!