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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. Saturday 21st July 2007 Running today on my five mile run, felt like a good time as started strong but not even near my best time. Oh well times click - Here Friday 20th July 2007 Went to the gym today again, challenged myself with a gym triathlon. I do this now and again to stop me getting bored of just running. Row 2,500 meters Bike 20km = 12.42 miles Run 5km = 3.105 miles Start the clock then don't stop it until you have finished all the disciplines. Time - 113.29 Felt drained after doing this need to rest.
Friend and gym owner Vince (20 stone sparring partner him not me.) Thursday July 19th 2007 Got up early to run and really didn't feel like it, so went swimming instead. Had a great session forgot how hard it can be. Gym session this afternoon. Bench press Clean and jerks Shoulder press Dips Wednesday July 18th 2007 Hardest thing I done today was decide what to have for diner, fish and chips with the mrs in front of the telly. Tuesday July 17th 2007 Run first thing this morning, really struggled today and it didn't help that I needed a number two half way round, thought if I ran quicker I can make it back in time, but that didn't help made it worse. Running times - Here karate this evening joined in and had a good session worked up a great sweat. Monday 16th July 2007 Gym work today and really enjoyed doing it. Chins 50 reps (I find chins hard as I do these wide grip behind the head, I need to improve them up until this point I have been doing about four sets of between 6 - 10 reps. my idea now is to do 50 reps and it don't matter how many sets I have to do as long as I get 50 done.) Squats Bicep curls Didn't do much at karate this evening as I needed the rest.
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