$10,000 Fine Might Be Worth It

I'm going to make this uber snappy for ya'll. Today we hopped on the railway to the Olympic Park in Sydney. We were given a tour and taken inside NSWIS (New South Whales Institute of Sport), where they have the most advanced training facilities, equipment, scientists, nutritionists, trainers and training rooms. For instance this is just a few of their gadgets: They have rooms heated to 90 degrees Fahrenheit and resemble cycling at 3,000 ft. I was given a heart monitor as one of the few people who got to test out the room. I started sweating just putting on the heart monitor in that room. They also have hyperbaric chambers that pump out 100% oxygen that athletes will sleep in and hang out in for 12 hours a day and then train at sea level.

They have video cameras every 10yds that take down your speed, form and record it for further trials at it when it comes to sprints and running. I also volunteered to have these reflective looking stickers that have grey circular balls attached to them. They stuck about 15 of them all over my lower body from my lower back to the backs of my heels and knee joints. Around the room there were in-fared cameras that put a model of my lower body on a tv in the same room that showed every slight movement my body was making. It helps them assess what movements a person is making while doing a certain action in a sport.
 They also had reaction boards that lit up and you had to hit the lit up parts as the wall as fast as you can and I WON...I felt kind of slow and discombobulated because I did it right after biking in that hot room. They also had us do push ups, dips, sit ups and squats in a room like 5 mins before out seminar on training to keep us awake. We were later given a tour of the sydney stadium where the olympics were held and now I'm going to hit you with some COOL stats:

It cost them $650 million to build the stadium and took 30 months to finish
It is the largest privately owned stadium holding 110,000 people
The poles in the picture above have the names of the 70,000 volunteers at the olympics
The lighted room picture above is actually the platinum suite which costs a check of $300,000!!! WIth that you got access to every event for the olympics, and tickets for any event at the stadium until 2030. Russell Crowe owns the suite next to this suite and also owns a rugby team of his own in Australia.
The podium we are standing on in the picture is the same one for the olympics.
They have the 2 biggest LED HD TV's in the southern hemisphere which cost $1 million each
It was the first "Green" Olympics with the stadium having a water catching system when it rains draining to a tank that could hold 3.1 million liters of water which they used to irrigate the fields and clean.
They use the stadium today for rugby, cricket, soccer and concerts like Snoop Dogg and Bono.
I would also like to say that the signature in this photo is of DAVID BECKHAM!! That is for my friend Gigs at school.
And my favorite stat is that it costs a civilian $5,000 if you touch the grass on the field...and $10,000 if you do it naked. hahah.

Adelle, Desiree and I went to exchange some money and went out to eat at a Japanese place around the corner from the apartments and went back to the apartments to workout. Desiree was trucking on the treadmill and Deli worked the elliptical as I warmed up and then did our lunges test for school with 20lb weights and lifted a bit. It's really nice to have that commonality and goals in mind with other people on a "vacation." They're all yelling at me to get ready now because they want to go out so I'll leave you be now. Have a good day and thanks for reading...more tomorrow!

Love,

ME