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Warrior-Mentor
10-18-2005, 18:51
Training tips from Randy Couture, a 5 time UFC Champion...arguably one of the best athletes in the world.
Use them to help you prepare for SFAS...
1. Use a calendar to periodize your training, include your peaking phases for competitions or goal deadlines.
2. “The human body is amazing.” It will adapt to a workload in 8 to 10 weeks. Use that as a guide to adjust training and keep your training moving forward.
3. Keep a training log: include workouts, diet, sleep, and anything else pertinent to your training.
4. Set daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals. Write them down and share them with someone close to you.
5. After a competition (win or lose), or at a goal deadline (accomplished or not) evaluate your program and routine. Keep what works, eliminate what didn’t, and move forward.
6. Establish a warm up “ritual”. Think of your best performance, what did you do to warm up? Repeat that! It’s a living, evolving thing. Make changes accordingly until you can put yourself in the “zone” every time.
7. “Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” Find workout and drilling partners that challenge you or you’ll never improve your game!
8. Proper rest is just as important as time spent training hard. Listen to your body and let it recover.
9. Over training is more a state of mind rather than body. Alter your routine to keep it fresh helps avoid plateaus and stagnation.
10. Strive to get 1% better each day. It doesn’t sound like much, but adds up in a hurry!
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Good all around advice for anyone. Thanks for the post. I think I'll post it in the team room.
Couture's an incredible athlete. Thank you for posting this, Warrior-Mentor.
Re #3, I discovered a good resource at www.fitday.com for tracking my diet from which candidates may benefit. The program's user friendly, free, and available anywhere w/internet access.
The online program allows the user to track fitness activities as well. Users can also run reports (pie charts and graphs). The charts and fitness functions are unsophisticated, but better than nothing. I think the real benefit is tracking diet.
I think the site is designed for chubby housewives trying to get into shape, but it can be adapted to training use.
Thank you again for the list.
more great advice, I've been reading the 'Get Selected" book frequently, and have started the additional readings and listening suggested. This is just one more thing to add. I suppose I'd add one more thing to this list: "If you're not making progress on a program, change your program"
Warrior-Mentor
01-18-2006, 20:00
Training is WHY we grow,
Eating is HOW we grow,
Sleeping is WHEN we grow.
- Bill Romanowski
NFL Pro Bowl Linebacker
The Reaper
01-18-2006, 20:12
Gee, I thought Romanowski grew from what he was shooting into his body?:rolleyes:
TR
Warrior-Mentor
01-20-2006, 05:43
A technicality...I suppose he'd call it another form of eating...
Jack Moroney (RIP)
01-20-2006, 06:17
Ahh yes, and hanging a goober off the nose of a ref is just another form of self-expression.
Warrior-Mentor
01-22-2006, 19:49
LOL.
He's a character alright... not a role model.
Warrior-Mentor
02-15-2006, 21:28
1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969,
1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975
Warrior-Mentor
02-16-2006, 11:51
They're the years that John Wooden coached the NCAA Championship Team.
10 out of 12 years...not a bad record - in fact it hasn't beaten since then.
I'm reading his book Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court right now and it is excellent.
Will share some of his insights relative to our aspiring SF Soldiers in the next couple posts....
The 20th Century? :pStay safe.
Warrior-Mentor
03-05-2006, 16:31
"The Players were charged with trying to improve a little each day, trying to get closer to becoming their best. I tried to be hoonest with them in letting them know they wouldn't reach perfection.
But I was also honest in saying that I expected them to give everything they had in trying to reach perfection.
That's what we worked toward. Let's see how close we can get. We won't reach 120%, or even 110%, but how close to 100% of our potential can we get?
That was my challenge to them: How close can we get to perfect?
When individuals are sincerely motivated to take up that challenge, the results are astonishing."
"Are you a failure if you do your best?"
"Did you REALLY win if you gave a second-rate effort?"
-John Wooden
"Are you a failure if you do your best?"
You may not be a personal failure, but sometimes the answer to that questions is 'yes' when viewed within the context of the larger picture.
Warrior-Mentor
04-24-2006, 17:04
"The basic difference between an ordinary man
and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything
as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes
everything as a either a blessing or a curse."
- Don Juan
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it."
- William A. Ward
"So many of our dreams,
at first seem impossible,
then they seem improbable,
and then, when we summon the will,
they soon become inevitable."
-Christopher Reeve
"The mark of a good action is that
it appears inevitable in retrospect."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
-James Michener
"If you don't know where you're going,
you'll end up somewhere else."
-Yogi Berra
"Judge a man by his questions,
rather than his answers."
-Voltaire
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead
wher there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds."
-Albert Einstein
"Results? Why man, I have gotten a lot of results.
I know 50,000 things that won't work."
-Thomas Edison
"You must have long-range goals to keep you from
being frustrated by short-range failures."
-Charles C. Noble
"One that would have the fruit
must climb the tree."
-Thomas Fuller
"Genius is nothing but continued attention."
-Claude A. Helvetius
"Second only to freedom,
Learning is the most precious option on earth."
-Norman Cousins
"We know that a person thinks not when they tell us
what they are thinking, but by their actions."
-Isaac B. Singer
Warrior-Mentor
04-24-2006, 18:03
"Perfect valor consists in doing without witnesses that
which we would be capable of doing before everyone."
-Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
"A hero is a man who defies adversity
by doing what he believes is right in spite of fear."
-Anthony Robbins
"The human capacity is incredible: We can
Adapt to anything if we make the right demands
upon ourselves incrementally."
- Anthony Robbins
It may be repeated over and over again, but that's why I like it the most:
"Crawl, Walk, Run"
I have to tell myself that every time I run to keep myself from burning myself out trying to make a great time.
It's kept me from hurting myself and kept my attitude positive because I'm not afraid to admit I'm still in my crawling stages.
Jack Moroney (RIP)
04-25-2006, 12:10
"Crawl, Walk, Run"
A good philosophy and one of those, "If wishes were horses then beggars would ride" sort of thing. Works well in an training environment and when you have the luxury of time with which to implement it. I have found that it has been more of a jog, run, sprint world once you clear the jump platform where the continuum runs from jog at day one to sprint as the last day closes in on your career. The key is that you keep to your charted course so that you never resort to running in circles otherwise you will find youself sucked up in a vortex of your own indecisiveness as the pace accelerates with ever increasing responsibilities and challenges.
But then, I never really considered myself a champion.
WM, JM, thank you for the posts.
Warrior-Mentor
05-12-2006, 12:46
"Big Shots are little shots who keep shooting."
- Christopher Morley
"No generalization is wholly true,
not even this one."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Act as if what you do makes a difference.
It does."
- William James
"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake
even its existence on its stated purpose."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Other people may NOT have had high expectations for me...
but I had high expectations for myself."
- Shannon Miller
"A man of courage is full of faith."
- Marcus Tullis Cicero
"The higher we soar,
the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The higher we soar,
The harder it is to shit on someone."
- Smart Ass
"You don't just stumble into the future.
You create your own future."
- Roger Smith
"Man is a goal seeking animal.
His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals."
- Aristotle
"Don't just face your fear,
embrace it."
- Anthony Robbins
"Knowledge is power,
but enthusiasm throws the switch."
- Ivern Ball
"There are two cardinal sins
from which all others spring:
impatience and laziness."
- Franz Kafka
Warrior-Mentor
05-22-2006, 14:02
"Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope,
and the one unchangeable certainty is that
nothing is certain or unchangeable."
- John F. Kennedy
"Great things are done by a series of
small things brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh
"If you can dream it, you can do it.
Always remember, this whole thing was started by a mouse."
- Walt Disney
"Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character."
- Anthony Robbins
"Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him."
- Aldous Huxley
"I can give you a six-word formula for success:
Think things through - then follow through."
- Captain Edward Rickenbacker
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
- James Joyce
"Often we don't realize how far we've come because
we're so caught up in the process of achieveing."
- Anthony Robbins
"He who moves not forward goes backward."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When you're green, you're growing.
When you're ripe, you rot."
- Ray Crock
"To begin is the most important part of any
quest and by far, the most courageous."
- Plato
"The only pace you'll find success before
work is in the dictionary."
- May B. Smith