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Swim season has begun, which has put quite a limit on my amount of free time. I come home from school at around 5:15 and am left with no inclination to do anything. Perhaps that is why I missed last blog cycle.

Regardless, this post is supposed to make up for it.

Last week, I was chosen to be the captain of the swim team, along with a fellow swimmer I've known and swam with for the greater majority of my life.

Looking at my history involved in endurance and performance sports, it only seems logical to do some thinking about sports in my future. Another subject I've taken an interest in is exercise physiology and kinesiology (that is, the study of motion in the body, as well as chemical processes that are necessary for motion.). I was lucky enough to visit San Jose State University's Exercise Physiology department with a number of other students from Westmont as part of our AP Biology class.

One of our students put on numerous sensors and ran as hard and as fast as she could in accordance to the protocol used for a VO2 Max test, or Volume of Oxygen gas in the lungs. Essentially, it is a precise way to measure lung capacity and to evaluate how efficient the body is at absorbing the oxygen.

I wish to develop a further understanding of how the body works from day to day. Because hey, that's what life is: motion.