Your training outside the dojo

[Spartacus Maximus]

How and what do you practise when you are not in the dojo and on your own?

I practise for at least one hour every day. It is all that my daily schedule allows for because family and work takes the rest of my time. Anyway, I divide my practise time like this:

20min: stretching, all kicks in each direction, First slow then fast. Kick/punch combos

40-45min: kihon kata, 3 kata of my choice, applications for 2 kata.

Each day I change my focus to different kata and practise everything I know once a week, usually Friday because Saturday I'm at the dojo.

How about you?

[Nidan Melbourne]

I train often on Mondays and Wednesdays in class. But outside of the dojo i do kihon everyday with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays.

Then I do combinations (Kihon Ido Ich, Ni & San) and kata everyday with the exception of weekends.

I do Bunkai on Tuesdays and thursdays

[mal103]

I teach twice a week and try my best to train at other Dojo's twice a week, at work we have a gym with a studio so I mix up gym work followed by Kata, I also work on new combinations I want to introduce into my lessons that I teach.

If i'm lucky I will get 4-5 hours worth of gym/Karate a week.

Other than that it's just bits and pieces at home, my whole family does Karate so it's no shock to see me training in the garden...

[Wastelander]

I don't set aside time for it, but I do at least a little training every day, and it's usually scattered in bits and pieces throughout the day. A kata here, some bagwork there, things like that. I try to always work Naihanchi Shodan, at least, every day, and rotate through my other kata. I do, occasionally, do a longer 1-2 hour workout, but they aren't planned in advance.

Edited July 17, 2014 by Wastelander

[Hawkmoon]

Outside the dojo...

I run 2-3 times a week, might change this to 2 a week and swim 1 or 2 times ... might, to be honest I'm really not feeling this as a change I can commit to !

...and currently I'm in the process of converting my man cave to a mini dojo to do some work!

Kick bag, chin bar, sit up bench makiwara board and so on.

[guird]

my schedule is convenient in that if I have time to train on a day, I also have the opportunity to go to the gym and take a class. If I don't feel like training in a class I usually train alone in the dojo, or if I have a lot of time i might train alone and go to a class after. It's usually an hour of bag work with some shrimping/bridging and breakfalling worked in.

if I'm away from the gym I try to find time and space to shadow box, ideally filming it to look for mistakes.

[DWx]

I usually do 4 days a week in the dojang. On those days the only training I will really do at home is just a bit of stretching and maybe light running through of techniques. I then try to get in 2 days at the gym and save the extra day as a rest day. Really need to sort a proper programme out for the gym though as I tend to just alternate between a cardio day (pool or maybe rowing/bikes/eliptical) and a strength day (either upper or lower body). I'm sure I'd see better gains, especially on the strength, if I had a better schedule.

Unfortunately I also travel for work and stay away from home a lot too. On the nights when the hotel doesn't have a gym, I have to try to do bodyweight exercises and/or run through techniques in my room.

[sensei8]

At home, for the most part, I'll run through all empty-handed Kata's and drill my wooden dummy!!

[yamesu]

Im luck enough to have a little dojo at home with a 6-foot heavy bag, kick shields, thai pads etc etc, so a lot of my training focuses around using this as well as doing cardio/weights and bodyweight circuits.

Other than that, I try to drill basics as well as technique every other day. Kata is a big one.

I do a lot of weapons related training at home, specifically Arnis training and some kobudo.

I do some running, but its winter now so no swimming for me (can't wait for summer!)

[hammer]

Not enough room at home to do much and I can only get to 2 classes a week. Have a half marathon in a few weeks that I've been training for which has involved 5 runs a week and upwards to 40 miles/week. Once that's done I'll cut back on the running, would like to settle down to 3 to 4 runs and about 20 miles/week. Need to set aside more time for strength training, though...that's been lacking.

Does anyone have an individual program of floor exercises that they do in a smaller space without much equipment? Looking for something that will build up overall strength and that has a good amount of core work.