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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 13th July 2007 Trained at the gym with a five mile run on the treadmill (45 mins) and then put on some ankle weights and performed the following circuit. Circuits 3 sets with minutes rest between sets Stairs 10 reps All below to failure. Press ups Twists sit ups Pull ups Dips Burpees Squat thrusts Squat jumps I am drained of any energy now as this was a very intense workout, might skip my run tomorrow. Thursday 12th July 2007 Gym this afternoon, Bench press Clean and jerks Shoulder press Dips Team training in the evening, just me and Lloyd which suits me fine get my workout done and then home. Bought a 6ft kick bag and took it to the club for us to use, based our workout around this, using a pod cast I found on the internet. The workout is structured as follows: Hands only (1 min - moderate pace) Kicks only (1 min - moderate pace) Hand & Feet (1 min - moderate pace) 1 Minute Rest Heavy Hands Single Shots (1 Min) Explosive Combinations (1 Min) Continuous Straight Punches (1 Min) 1 Minute Rest Hands & Feet with Lots of Movement (1 Min) Close-Range Strikes (1 Min) 30 Seconds Rest 4 Straight Punches – 4 Hooks (1 Min) 1 Minute Rest Anything you want (2 mins) Jab-Cross-Hook-Cross Pyramid (1 Min) 1 Minute Rest Hands only (1 min) Kicks only (1 min) Hand & Feet (1 min)
I done mine first followed by Lloyd. As Lloyd done his I used the same timings and skipped. A great workout! Wednesday 11th July 2007 Down at the track today, 4 laps (1 mile) to warm up. and 400 metre sprints with a walking lap after each 400 metres. (I say sprint you have maybe seen grannies run faster but did the job for me). Ran through each kata making sure to get my stances correct, various punches and kicks but not too many as my legs are really stiff from Monday and Tuesday. 100 press ups 2 set of 50 reps and 100 sit ups 1 set. Tuesday 10th July 2007 Mid morning run today and due to time I ran my 2.5 mile run and I got a personal best Wahoo! running times - Here Into the back garden and done, 100 press ups 2set of 50 reps, 60 Burpees 3 sets of 20 reps 100 reverse punches on my makiwara each hand. Also gutted as my makiwara is about had it, it is at a stupid angle and every time I punch it hits the wall and shakes the neighbours kitchen. I need to have a good dry weekend and reset it into the ground. Joined in with the evening karate session, worked pads with various punching and kicking drills, also had a good stretch and finished with some exercises. Monday 9th July 2007 Gym session this afternoon. Chins Squats Bicep curls Karate this evening, Shane took the class and we worked very hard on legs, using all sorts of kicks with very high reps (wish I hadn't trained squats at the gym today). Finished the session with some kata and a little bunkai. Great session.
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