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List your sport and how you train for it. Simple smile

Therefore, if anyone is interested in participating in that sport or furthering their fitness for it, we can each gain insight into others training.

Karate:

I train at the dojo twice a week (total of 3 1/2 hours - would do more, but am resticted because of work)

I aim to go to the gym twice a week (total of 2 1/2 hours - aim because I can't always make it. 10min cardio, 30-40min weights, 10-20min stretching)

I am starting to incorporte walking and progressing to running twice a week (aiming up to 4-5 sessions of 6km running)

Javelin:

I don't do this anymore, but for anyone who's interested, this is what I used to do:

Train twice a week, one indoor, one outdoor. Indoor to focus on technique and fitness, outdoor to work on throwing and run up. This was with my coach.

Indoor sessions consisted of sprinting, throwing weighted balls and medicine balls, circuits for weights and flexibility, technique (inc. video analysis)

Outdoor sessions were simply throwing, usually sprint training in there as well. But this was mainly leading up to, and during the competition season.

In summer - compete once a week/fortnight (started off with it the event being held once a week, it then became once a fortnight and is now once every three weeks - so would compete in other events too)

I Play tennis... I don't play as much as I did last year but I've still gotten better =P

I have 2hr squad training on wednesdays andplay 2hrs of competition on saturday and occasionally 2hr social game with my dad and 2 of my friends parents... on sundays..


I used to do last year:
wednesday squad training (2hr)
friday private lesson (1hr)
saturday comp (2hr)
sunday social (2hr)
sunday under 16s comp (6hr)

I play rugby (I don't think its a big sport at all in the US). In terms of training I do the following

Monday: 2hrs fitness (cardio work- plenty of sprints)
1hr weights in gym

Tuesday: 1hr weights in gym

Wednesday: 2hrs playing (contact session)
1hr weights in gym

Thursday: 1hr circuit training
1hr weights in gym
1hr30 playing (mainly technique based)

Friday: Rest

Saturday: Match 70mins

Sunday: Rest

The weights I do are to bulk up- I play prop so that means I've got to be as bulky as possible (I'm about 15 stone / 210 pounds at the moment). This means I do everything in sets of 4-6 reps max possible weight

i'm going to try out for basketball next year. i have a hoop in front of my house so i work on my shooting and also work on my running for aobut a hour to a hour and a half.

the running part is mostly for conditioning purposes.

i also left weights i only have 10lb weight but i do 50 reps with them, 30 push ups a day(2 sets of 15 during the day) and 2 sets of 30 sit ups.

I fence, but right now I'm in the off season, insofar as fencing has an off season. During the time I'm fencing on the school team I do about two hours of pliometrics (exercises which are meant to build strength and endurance, focusing mostly on building leg muscle) and footwork, then fence for an hour. In addition, I take a saber class on Saturdays that's two or three hours long and free fence at a club one or two additional nights a week. At the beginning of the season I was jogging in the mornings too, but that became suicidal what with my decision to take an extra class and get together an art portfolio. Now I fence on Saturdays and, as much as I can, two days a week at the club, although it's usually closer to one. I jog for about half an hour in the mornings, too, on the days I don't need that time for sleep/homework.