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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. Sunday 16th September
Myself and a small squad travelled to Leicester today to take part in the Kazoku Kai competition. And what a great day for Rokakai we came home with four trophies. Lloyd penny took the gold in the men's open weight brown and black belt division beating myself in the process (one point only Lloyd so don't get to smart Lol!) I managed to have a third place fight off after winning my first fight and losing my second, disaster for me as I suffered with severe cramps in my calf's and couldn't continue. (this isn't the first time this has happened to me, and I think I will see my doctor over this as my calf's are still very tender now) not sure what can be causing this maybe it's a combination off working the night before and having only 4 hours sleep and then eating bad on the day or maybe I have been over training as my calf was tight this Friday after my run. Just hope I can avoid it next time. All my junior team members done me proud displaying all the right qualities of good fighters, sprit, manners and skill. Conor Easterbrook, martin Thompson, Ben Easterbrook all took silvers in the fighting sections. Also fighting where Shay Doherty, Adam Barkes and Harry Robinson who although didn't take trophies fought hard. Friday 14th September 2007 Running again today went for my longer run 5 miles and felt good doing it. to see my time click - Here to see a map of my run use the link. - http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-kingdom/kettering/1095832177 Thursday 13th September 2007 Running this afternoon, ran my short run of 2.5 miles and really went for it. And at last I beat my best time and not only did I beat it I smashed it Wahoo! to see my time click - here Wednesday 12th September 2007 Circuit training this evening, had a good session but not as hard as previous times, also stayed behind and took the ab's class which was very hard lots of core muscle work, which to my horror I sadly neglect. Tuesday 11th September 2007 Cycling, plotted a 10 mile course that I could try to do as fast as possible and set a bench mark for future rides. Went the wrong way and ended up doing 5 miles extra Doh!. To see a map of the ride route use this link - http://www.mapmyrun.com/ride/united-kingdom/kettering/966285024 Also joined in at Karate had a good stretch and done some light sparring ( really need some more sparring find it hard to fit in. ) then practiced some kata, we finished with a few different exercises and a stretch. Monday 10th September 2007 Rest day First three months - Here
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