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Holland's Training Blog
Welcome to my Blog. This is my first attempt at keeping one, my reasons for keeping this Blog are as follows 1. To clearly see my progress in my training as I will be keeping up to date records. 2. To help others with their own training by recording my exercises and goals and giving tips and ideas. 3. To help me reach my own goals, because if I put my goals for all to see then I have to achieve them. 4. I enjoy adding stuff to this site. Goals: I am writing this two days after my last competition. As a team, we came home with a silver medal, which was great but my performance in the individual rounds could have been better. Having a little more mat time than my last competition I came away learning a great deal, learning about myself and other fighters. So this experience has lead me to a long term goal, the thing with achieving goals is to break them down into smaller goals and reach these one at a time. My long term goal is to win an individual gold medal in any karate event. To achieve this I have set myself smaller targets to reach. 1. Lose at least half a stone, at present I weigh 16 stone and want to reach 15 1/2 stone. 2. Improve my fitness 3. Enter competitions on a regular basis I will try to update this Blog on a daily or weekly basis until my goals have been reached. Friday 10th August 2007 Running this afternoon, how I hate other runners. There I am happy that I am out training when a bloody runner comes past me and I seem like I am going no faster than walking pace. A friend of mine from karate who has read this blog, told me about his work friend who also run's (not just jogging) and happened to see my five mile times he says "she hasn't stopped laughing since". From now on i am adding a bit of Varity to my running every time someone comes cruising past me I am going to catch up and practise my mawashigeri, now how the hell do I catch up?. Rant over, one good thing today was that I have took my bike in for repair. My bike broke last summer on the way home from the gym, and now that we have finally got a little weather I want to get out on it again. lets see them bloody runners catch me now. Thursday 9th August 2007 Couldn't get into training much today, still have a stiff neck which really needs to rest. so went to the gym and only done a few things. Bench press Chest flyes Dips and rope pulldowns (triceps) Wednesday 8th August 2007 Swimming this morning 40 lengths 20 to warm up 10 fast and then 10 to cool down. Went to a circuits class tonight forgot how hard these can be, had a great work out and really pushed my self. Tuesday 7th August 2007 Down to the running track in the morning, 4 laps to warm up and then worked some hill sprints. There is a run off area at the back of the track with say a 20 metre hill, not much but gets the heart rate up. Exercises, press ups, Burpees, squat thrusts. Finished the session by running through each kata. Gym in the afternoon. Chins Leg press Leg extensions Bicep curls. Was hoping to do a little sparring at karate tonight but have a really stiff neck so didn't get to join in. Monday 6th august 2007 Rested for the day and then joined in for a little karate, nice warm up and stretch followed by a light spar trying my best not to hurt anyone. Over this next month I intend to spar when ever I get a chance and also spar more at boxing just to get my fitness up. Sunday 5th August 2007 Travelled to the BKA Squad session today, had a good two hour training session. I am attending these sessions with students hoping to win a place on the team, if not myself then hopefully some of my Kumite students. A small number were picked yesterday for a up coming competition and I failed to get a place. so I intend to train my ass off this month and hope to do better next time. Must work on control!
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