College_B-ball

College B-ball With dreams of becoming a starter for her college basketball team, Beth trained harder than ever the summer entering her sophomore year. She hadn’t played as much as she would have liked her freshmen year and her coach had mentioned that if she could become a better runner and loose some body fat, she had a chance to start the next year. She needed to be thinner and be able to run up and down the floor with the rest of the girls. During the summer, Beth trained twice a day. She was determined to start, to impress the coach. It was almost an obsession to her. At six in the morning Beth ran 3-4 miles, jumped rope for 20 minutes and did abdominal exercises. Keep in mind, she did all of this extraneous exercise on an empty stomach hoping to burn excess calories and body fat. She only wanted lean muscle, no flabby skin. On her way out the door to work, Beth finally grabbed a small bite to eat: yogurt (fat-free), a piece of fruit, and a bottle of water. When she got off work in the afternoons, Beth rushed to the gym to lift weights, go through beth, coach, female, eating, body, year, start, fat, pressure, athlete, work, very, triad, thought, summer, sports, performance, participate, exercising, diet, athletes, appearance, young, without, weight, trained, told, three, thin, susceptible, stress, sophomore, serious, running, restrictive, red