Having that week off...

[spinninggumby]

Um well I know this is an old post but I think I'm going to respond to it anyway, haha. Usually I just listen to my body. When I first began kung fu I was always under the impression that more is better so eventually I blew myself out after 5-6 hour training days. My techniques became sluggish and I was just more tired and not feeling too well. Eventually after a few months I cut it down to 3 hours every day and that seemed to work out okay. However, I always took a day off once I realized that my performance was not as great as it was the day before. I dunno, I just try to think of it as reaching one's peak performance, and then pushing yourself a little past it (but not quite going or training til failure), and then once you do that you take a rest. The next day or two days afterwards, I have always come back with increased coordination, strength, technique, and flexibility due to probably the healing of all tissues and supposedly a chance for all the muscle memory to sink into your brain without the added stress of extra and detrimental additional training. I know that there will always be those people out there who can train 6-8 hours every day and still keep happy and maintain or increase their skill or competence. But I don't think I'm one of them. Actually right now instead of doing 3 hours all at one time I split it up into two 90 minute intervals so that each time I am training with a more refreshed and less-tired body (as opposed to 90 minutes in good condition and the other 90 minutes being slightly tired or exhausted which will naturally put you at less than peak potential output). However I have never really taken a week off. 1-3 days is perfect if I am recovering from extremely sore muscles or a punishing workout otherwise often times a break is not even necessary. Sometimes we feel like crap and don't feel like lifting a finger on some days, but when we finally push ourselves to go through the warmup we feel just fine again

 

 

[KickChick]

Well, our school has been on "vacation" this week .... although I have stretched every morning (need to maintain!) It actually is now starting to bother me. I am getting itchy to get back to training once again although I know having this week off is actually good for my body since I have been going fuul speed in the last weeks training for my upcoming 2nd dan.

 

When school reopens on Monday we have a schedule change. I can now take 4 classes a week (instead of 2) besides still teaching my cardio class (my class size will now increase to 20-25) because class days have been cut down to only 2 nights for cardio instead of 4).

 

What I am really psyched about is that we will now have Black Belt Only classes which we never had..... and the Adult All class follows so we can take a back to back class.

 

Come Monday I will surely be sore!!! I'll get back to you all on that I'm sure!

 

 

[Blue]

I've had an extended time off now due to a broken wrist. I'm only ready to test for my orange belt in TKD and have been trying to stretch, practice form and kicks. Still it's been about 3 months since i've been to class.

 

It'll be interesting, i'm nervous and excited to begin again.

[shaolinprincess]

I think it will affect your skills slightly. I know!