Loris Bertolacci sacked
I can have empathy with the coaches that have been sacked recently. Many years ago I worked as a barman at Crystals T striptease joint in Brunswick. It catered more for hens nights so all I usually saw was blokes taking their clothes off . Wow! A friend got me the job and I needed the money since I was working in the AFL at the time. I drink very little alcohol and had zero idea of how to mix drinks. I had to learn very quickly because “crazed” women out on hens nights can put a lot away. Well I failed. I wasnt motivated and didn’t really want to look at blokes with “tied up penises” gyrating onstage. I couldn’t keep up with the complexity of the drinks and after 2 weeks I was sacked. I considered legal action but really they were correct in sacking me. I was no good at my job. So I moved on.
Next job was cleaning at a safeway at nights. It was a 3 hour gig but I made it into a fitness session and ran all night , sweeping in quick bursts, buffing at high intensity and mopping with gusto. All muscle groups were worked and the buffing was great proprioception. I changed direction a lot and ran up the stairs for the sake of it. The people stacking shelves thought i was on uppers.
Home two hours early and in bed and still I had done a great job. What a cleanathlete. If they had a cleanathlon I would be world champion. The supermarket was spic and span. Every month the supervisor would arrive at 12 and I wasnt there and he nearly sacked me a number of times. I would do the right thing for a few weeks and stay for 3 hours and then go back to high intensity cleaning again until he caught me again home fast asleep!
He had a problem. Like a junior coach who has to play his star player even though he doesn’t train, I was just too good to get rid of.
Thus I developed a periodization plan where I had one month of high intensity buffling/mopping done in an hour to low intensity recovery cleaning sessions of 3 hours.
And really this is a model that should be adapted universally to allow people the opportunity to vary their work and fitness.
Great job and left with good references and superfit.
Kristen Jansen and UNI BLUES
I watched the UNI BLUES vs QLD game on Saturday 28 th at Dandenong. Exciting game. Obviously I am a VIC so good result but the contest was the issue and QLD provided a real fight. I was very impressed with the athletic qualities displayed by Kristen Jansen. Very quick and agile and looked strong and lean. I am not really in a position to judge volleyball skills but subjectively Kristen looked like a very fit player. Very explosive. It would be interesting to see whether my subjective observations correlated with fitness tests or screening. Sometimes does and sometimes doesn’t. And yes of course UNI BLUES looked real fit.
loris bertolacci 