Motivation to train

[KickChick]

Sometimes it is tough to workout when you don't have anyone there to spur you on. One of the things a teacher gets paid to do is to make you do things that you won't make yourself do. Sometimes though, you just have to be your own teacher.

 

Everyone finds their own motivation from different sources .... but I tend to go with Jack on his opinions. Train for yourself! And I think its taezee that had a quote in his sig that says it all ... ""whenever youre lazy enough not to train .someone, somewhere is training very hard to kick your ass"

 

A training journal can be a great motivational device! Buy a medium sized spiral notebook and use one line for each day. Also write important or interesting things that happen in your life too!

 

You will find that in keeping a journal you will tend to stay on track. You can also see where you can change things around a bit .... diversify your workouts if they "look" like they are getting played out a bit and getting boring.

 

I've discussed your workouts with you ... and I find them anything but boring. Maybe you are just over-training. Keeping a journal will also show you whether you are or not.

 

If you are not really fired up about working out, sometimes it is hard to get started, and easy to kill time, and easy to quit early. On those days it is good to have a workout that is quantifiable, that is, something that can be counted -- like the 1000 kicks workout or picking one kata that you are interested in and then doing it a specific number of times, or another kata workout is to do every kata you know a set number of times.

 

Try imagery to motivate you also. Before or during training sessions, calling up images of your goals for that session, or of a past or future competition or competitor can serve a motivational purpose. It can remind you of your objective, which can result in increased intensity in training.

 

If you have something you are just dying to try out, or improve, or learn, then motivation is not your problem .... you just have to find that "something"!!!!

 

... as far as motivational songs -- my all time fav will always be Rocky's theme song (see the imagery of him jogging up those steps with the sweat stains all over his sweatsuit .... you know what he is thinking about .... he out to kick booty) that does it for me!!

[Eye of the Tiger]

Thanks kickchic, there does seem to be something about the rocky theme songs especially Eye of the Tiger which for me is the most motivational song in the world, I love it.

 

This weekend I will make my Chishi (power stone) and for 1 solid month I'm going to combine them with my combat conditioning exercises to see if there really is benefit in weight lifting once and for all!

 

Any tips on the weights would be very nice. I imagine I have to do the 3 day split thing again?

 

Thanks a lot

[Jack]

You're not doing normal weight training, on which I could give a lot of advice, but chishi with which I have little knowledge and no experience. You could do a fullbody workout twice a week, perhaps.

[ZR440]

I took about two months off this summer, partly because I moved into a new house and our class takes a month off anyway. I didn't practice much at all and found it a nice change of pace. But I soon found myself ready to get back into the routine. Physically and mentally I needed a boost. Attending class a few hours a night twice a week keeps my mind clear and allows me to do other things the rest of the week. To make my point, maybe a training schedule change is needed to keep the intrest level upwards.

[Radok]

I just think about when I get in a bad fight. There's that deciding second, when your at equilibrium, I I just think, "that second could depend on this."