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Endurance as a Distraction
Harnessing the Odds for Success beyond the Finish Line
According to my extremely rough figures after a quick google search. Around 4.41 billion people play sport on planet earth. That is well over half of our 7.67 billion population. Good job earthlings! They say only the 1% of the 1% actually get paid to play sport at the top level (again, these are rough figures). One percent of 4.41 billion is 44,100,000, that is fourty-four milllion, one hundred thousand and 1% of that is 440,000. That still seems like a lot to me but relax for a second.
If you are not one of the 440,000 that gets paid to play sport, you are using sport as a distraction. Definition of distraction, a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. We do hobbies to take our mind off work, life, home, stress. People also drink alcohol and eat shit food to do the same. I want to make this very clear, doing sport as your distraction is in most cases far healthier than most other options!
But when does it become unhealthy to use sport as a distraction? and in particular endurance sport. I am writing about endurance sport for two reasons, 1) it is what I know and 2) it is probably the sport most abused for distraction.
The benefits to endurance sport are in my eyes, endless. Day to day we (at InnerFight Endurance) use endurance sport to make people better at life. We in still self-belief, we empower, we dig out true potential, we discover grit in all our athletes. They then take those new found traits and go smash life with it, it’s why we have the best job in the world. Like all good things though, these trainable traits can be addictive. How good does it feel to cross that finish line and be the most confident person in the world for a few seconds? It’s epic. But do we get it each time we cross a finish line? No… only when it’s gone really well. The more we race, the more chance we have to go wrong, that is just statistics… but we also have more chance to go right… now we are gambling.
Here are some more stats for you; World gambling statistics show that around 26% of the population gamble. That means around 1.6 billion people worldwide gamble and 4.2 billion people gamble at least once every year. The average US gambler loses $400 every year.
So when we enter event after event after event, or set big goal after big goal after big goal… we are gambling. The reward is self-beleif, empowerment, potential realisation and grit, the punishment is the loss of them all.
So endurance sport should be used wisely, we want to load the odds into our favour. It’s why we have training blocks, coaches to help us and better equipment year on year. So we aren’t like those average US gamblers.
If we just enter things to distract ourselves from life and not pay attention to the odds, you are going to fail at some point. You will get injured or burnt out because you don’t care about the process, you just want the thrill of the gamble…
I’d love to help you figure out your odds.
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ENGINE
Running into your Mikkos Cals from last week for Erg intervals into Running.
GYMNASTICS
This week we continue to focus on Toes to Bar utilising other skill work/progressions for the movement before we shift our focus to Handstand hold/walk work!
HYROX
Hyrox Specific Strength work into running into a sled and farmers carry workout.
MOBILITY
There is no mobility this week. It will resume on Saturday, 25th of January.
PURE STRENGTH
On Monday in Pure Strength, we are hitting some banded bench presses and progressing the loading on this and the banded row. Wednesday, we have banded back squats followed by some heavy hip thrusts.
WEIGHTLIFTING
This week in Weightlifting, we are focused on the Hang Snatch, which has some snatch balance, a Heavy Snatch complex, and some Pulls.
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Track Tuesday
Our weekly on track speed session! For any level of runner looking to build their run speed, threshold and Vo2max fitness and run with the best running community in Dubai.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Entrance fee: https://isddubai.com/athletics-venuehire/
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/oomJAa31vKy3hQNG6
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Monday
Time: 5:59am and 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Mobility and Tempo
AM Session:
We will start the session with a 20 mins recovery run, then head into out mobility.
We will be doing this session outside, so please dress in warm clothing. We will provide yoga mats, but feel free to bring your own.
PM Session: This evening we will have our Tempo Run, which will be 6 mins at 7/10 and 3 mins recovery.
x4. Aim to keep a 7/10 effort on each block of work.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/oomJAa31vKy3hQNG6
Entrance fee: https://isddubai.com/athletics-venuehire/
Session: Track Tuesday
This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. The session today will be 2km at 10km pace into 400m repeats at 3km pace.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Intervals
If you didn't run track, today we have some speed work for you. The session is 1km repeats, each with a 2 mins rest. Keep the effort about 8/10 on the km runs.
Friday
Brief time: 5:54am
Start Time: 5:59am
Location: Common Grounds
Session: The Coffee Run
This week we will be holding the tempo pace (7/10) for 5 mins, each with a 1 min rest. Repeat the sequce 7x before coffees at 7am as a community.
Sunday
Time: 06:00
Session: Dirtopia
Location: The Sevens, check WA for exact Location:
From 6am - midday clients and coaches will be running Dirtopia. Come along and support if you are not running.
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We start the week with hinge endurance and a spicy partner, AMRAP, with Deadlift ski and wall walks. On Tuesday, we have some gymnastics and interval work. Wednesday, we are working on our overhead strength with the push press and push jerk, followed by a fast workout and the second week of our assault bike work progression. Thursday, we are snatching in the strength piece and then a For Time workout to get after. We finish the week with a double workout for Friday therapy.
Monday:
Strength:
Barbell Good Mornings into Banded Good Mornings
Conditioning:
AMRAP 20 Partner Workout
15/12 cal Ski
8 DL (120/80)
3 wall walks
Tuesday:
Strength:
A) Kipping Pull Ups + Ring Rows
B) Wall Balls + Goblet Wall Sit
Conditioning:
In a 3 Minute window
30/24 Cal Row
10 burpee over the rower
AMRAP in the remaining time Box Jump steps down
rest 2 mins
x 4
Wednesday:
Strength:
Push Press + Push Jerk
Conditioning:
30-20-10
Alt Db Reverse lunge (2 x 50/35)
DB STOH
AB Mat sit-ups
Thursday:
Strength:
A) Snatch Complex Power Snatch + Hang Power Snatch + OHS
Conditioning:
5 rounds for time
12 Power Snatch (40/30)
12 Push-ups
30 Air squats
Friday:
Some 5-minute intervals to finish off the week. Will you be able to hold the pace? Have your running shoes, your lung,s and your gymnastic game ready!
According to my extremely rough figures after a quick google search. Around 4.41 billion people play sport on planet earth. That is well over half of our 7.67 billion population. Good job earthlings! They say only the 1% of the 1% actually get paid to play sport at the top level (again, these are rough figures). One percent of 4.41 billion is 44,100,000, that is fourty-four milllion, one hundred thousand and 1% of that is 440,000. That still seems like a lot to me but relax for a second.
If you are not one of the 440,000 that gets paid to play sport, you are using sport as a distraction. Definition of distraction, a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. We do hobbies to take our mind off work, life, home, stress. People also drink alcohol and eat shit food to do the same. I want to make this very clear, doing sport as your distraction is in most cases far healthier than most other options!
But when does it become unhealthy to use sport as a distraction? and in particular endurance sport. I am writing about endurance sport for two reasons, 1) it is what I know and 2) it is probably the sport most abused for distraction.
The benefits to endurance sport are in my eyes, endless. Day to day we (at InnerFight Endurance) use endurance sport to make people better at life. We in still self-belief, we empower, we dig out true potential, we discover grit in all our athletes. They then take those new found traits and go smash life with it, it’s why we have the best job in the world. Like all good things though, these trainable traits can be addictive. How good does it feel to cross that finish line and be the most confident person in the world for a few seconds? It’s epic. But do we get it each time we cross a finish line? No… only when it’s gone really well. The more we race, the more chance we have to go wrong, that is just statistics… but we also have more chance to go right… now we are gambling.
Here are some more stats for you; World gambling statistics show that around 26% of the population gamble. That means around 1.6 billion people worldwide gamble and 4.2 billion people gamble at least once every year. The average US gambler loses $400 every year.
So when we enter event after event after event, or set big goal after big goal after big goal… we are gambling. The reward is self-beleif, empowerment, potential realisation and grit, the punishment is the loss of them all.
So endurance sport should be used wisely, we want to load the odds into our favour. It’s why we have training blocks, coaches to help us and better equipment year on year. So we aren’t like those average US gamblers.
If we just enter things to distract ourselves from life and not pay attention to the odds, you are going to fail at some point. You will get injured or burnt out because you don’t care about the process, you just want the thrill of the gamble…
I’d love to help you figure out your odds.
Track Tuesday
Our weekly on track speed session! For any level of runner looking to build their run speed, threshold and Vo2max fitness and run with the best running community in Dubai.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Entrance fee: https://isddubai.com/athletics-venuehire/
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/oomJAa31vKy3hQNG6
Monday
Time: 5:59am and 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Mobility and Tempo
AM Session:
We will start the session with a 20 mins recovery run, then head into out mobility.
We will be doing this session outside, so please dress in warm clothing. We will provide yoga mats, but feel free to bring your own.
PM Session: This evening we will have our Tempo Run, which will be 6 mins at 7/10 and 3 mins recovery.
x4. Aim to keep a 7/10 effort on each block of work.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/oomJAa31vKy3hQNG6
Entrance fee: https://isddubai.com/athletics-venuehire/
Session: Track Tuesday
This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. The session today will be 2km at 10km pace into 400m repeats at 3km pace.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Intervals
If you didn't run track, today we have some speed work for you. The session is 1km repeats, each with a 2 mins rest. Keep the effort about 8/10 on the km runs.
Friday
Brief time: 5:54am
Start Time: 5:59am
Location: Common Grounds
Session: The Coffee Run
This week we will be holding the tempo pace (7/10) for 5 mins, each with a 1 min rest. Repeat the sequce 7x before coffees at 7am as a community.
Sunday
Time: 06:00
Session: Dirtopia
Location: The Sevens, check WA for exact Location:
From 6am - midday clients and coaches will be running Dirtopia. Come along and support if you are not running.
We start the week with hinge endurance and a spicy partner, AMRAP, with Deadlift ski and wall walks. On Tuesday, we have some gymnastics and interval work. Wednesday, we are working on our overhead strength with the push press and push jerk, followed by a fast workout and the second week of our assault bike work progression. Thursday, we are snatching in the strength piece and then a For Time workout to get after. We finish the week with a double workout for Friday therapy.
Monday:
Strength:
Barbell Good Mornings into Banded Good Mornings
Conditioning:
AMRAP 20 Partner Workout
15/12 cal Ski
8 DL (120/80)
3 wall walks
Tuesday:
Strength:
A) Kipping Pull Ups + Ring Rows
B) Wall Balls + Goblet Wall Sit
Conditioning:
In a 3 Minute window
30/24 Cal Row
10 burpee over the rower
AMRAP in the remaining time Box Jump steps down
rest 2 mins
x 4
Wednesday:
Strength:
Push Press + Push Jerk
Conditioning:
30-20-10
Alt Db Reverse lunge (2 x 50/35)
DB STOH
AB Mat sit-ups
Thursday:
Strength:
A) Snatch Complex Power Snatch + Hang Power Snatch + OHS
Conditioning:
5 rounds for time
12 Power Snatch (40/30)
12 Push-ups
30 Air squats
Friday:
Some 5-minute intervals to finish off the week. Will you be able to hold the pace? Have your running shoes, your lung,s and your gymnastic game ready!
ENGINE
Running into your Mikkos Cals from last week for Erg intervals into Running.
GYMNASTICS
This week we continue to focus on Toes to Bar utilising other skill work/progressions for the movement before we shift our focus to Handstand hold/walk work!
HYROX
Hyrox Specific Strength work into running into a sled and farmers carry workout.
MOBILITY
There is no mobility this week. It will resume on Saturday, 25th of January.
PURE STRENGTH
On Monday in Pure Strength, we are hitting some banded bench presses and progressing the loading on this and the banded row. Wednesday, we have banded back squats followed by some heavy hip thrusts.
WEIGHTLIFTING
This week in Weightlifting, we are focused on the Hang Snatch, which has some snatch balance, a Heavy Snatch complex, and some Pulls.
According to my extremely rough figures after a quick google search. Around 4.41 billion people play sport on planet earth. That is well over half of our 7.67 billion population. Good job earthlings! They say only the 1% of the 1% actually get paid to play sport at the top level (again, these are rough figures). One percent of 4.41 billion is 44,100,000, that is fourty-four milllion, one hundred thousand and 1% of that is 440,000. That still seems like a lot to me but relax for a second.
If you are not one of the 440,000 that gets paid to play sport, you are using sport as a distraction. Definition of distraction, a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. We do hobbies to take our mind off work, life, home, stress. People also drink alcohol and eat shit food to do the same. I want to make this very clear, doing sport as your distraction is in most cases far healthier than most other options!
But when does it become unhealthy to use sport as a distraction? and in particular endurance sport. I am writing about endurance sport for two reasons, 1) it is what I know and 2) it is probably the sport most abused for distraction.
The benefits to endurance sport are in my eyes, endless. Day to day we (at InnerFight Endurance) use endurance sport to make people better at life. We in still self-belief, we empower, we dig out true potential, we discover grit in all our athletes. They then take those new found traits and go smash life with it, it’s why we have the best job in the world. Like all good things though, these trainable traits can be addictive. How good does it feel to cross that finish line and be the most confident person in the world for a few seconds? It’s epic. But do we get it each time we cross a finish line? No… only when it’s gone really well. The more we race, the more chance we have to go wrong, that is just statistics… but we also have more chance to go right… now we are gambling.
Here are some more stats for you; World gambling statistics show that around 26% of the population gamble. That means around 1.6 billion people worldwide gamble and 4.2 billion people gamble at least once every year. The average US gambler loses $400 every year.
So when we enter event after event after event, or set big goal after big goal after big goal… we are gambling. The reward is self-beleif, empowerment, potential realisation and grit, the punishment is the loss of them all.
So endurance sport should be used wisely, we want to load the odds into our favour. It’s why we have training blocks, coaches to help us and better equipment year on year. So we aren’t like those average US gamblers.
If we just enter things to distract ourselves from life and not pay attention to the odds, you are going to fail at some point. You will get injured or burnt out because you don’t care about the process, you just want the thrill of the gamble…
I’d love to help you figure out your odds.
Monday
Time: 5:59am and 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Mobility and Tempo
AM Session:
We will start the session with a 20 mins recovery run, then head into out mobility.
We will be doing this session outside, so please dress in warm clothing. We will provide yoga mats, but feel free to bring your own.
PM Session: This evening we will have our Tempo Run, which will be 6 mins at 7/10 and 3 mins recovery.
x4. Aim to keep a 7/10 effort on each block of work.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/oomJAa31vKy3hQNG6
Entrance fee: https://isddubai.com/athletics-venuehire/
Session: Track Tuesday
This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. The session today will be 2km at 10km pace into 400m repeats at 3km pace.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Intervals
If you didn't run track, today we have some speed work for you. The session is 1km repeats, each with a 2 mins rest. Keep the effort about 8/10 on the km runs.
Friday
Brief time: 5:54am
Start Time: 5:59am
Location: Common Grounds
Session: The Coffee Run
This week we will be holding the tempo pace (7/10) for 5 mins, each with a 1 min rest. Repeat the sequce 7x before coffees at 7am as a community.
Sunday
Time: 06:00
Session: Dirtopia
Location: The Sevens, check WA for exact Location:
From 6am - midday clients and coaches will be running Dirtopia. Come along and support if you are not running.
We start the week with hinge endurance and a spicy partner, AMRAP, with Deadlift ski and wall walks. On Tuesday, we have some gymnastics and interval work. Wednesday, we are working on our overhead strength with the push press and push jerk, followed by a fast workout and the second week of our assault bike work progression. Thursday, we are snatching in the strength piece and then a For Time workout to get after. We finish the week with a double workout for Friday therapy.
Monday:
Strength:
Barbell Good Mornings into Banded Good Mornings
Conditioning:
AMRAP 20 Partner Workout
15/12 cal Ski
8 DL (120/80)
3 wall walks
Tuesday:
Strength:
A) Kipping Pull Ups + Ring Rows
B) Wall Balls + Goblet Wall Sit
Conditioning:
In a 3 Minute window
30/24 Cal Row
10 burpee over the rower
AMRAP in the remaining time Box Jump steps down
rest 2 mins
x 4
Wednesday:
Strength:
Push Press + Push Jerk
Conditioning:
30-20-10
Alt Db Reverse lunge (2 x 50/35)
DB STOH
AB Mat sit-ups
Thursday:
Strength:
A) Snatch Complex Power Snatch + Hang Power Snatch + OHS
Conditioning:
5 rounds for time
12 Power Snatch (40/30)
12 Push-ups
30 Air squats
Friday:
Some 5-minute intervals to finish off the week. Will you be able to hold the pace? Have your running shoes, your lung,s and your gymnastic game ready!
ENGINE
Running into your Mikkos Cals from last week for Erg intervals into Running.
GYMNASTICS
This week we continue to focus on Toes to Bar utilising other skill work/progressions for the movement before we shift our focus to Handstand hold/walk work!
HYROX
Hyrox Specific Strength work into running into a sled and farmers carry workout.
MOBILITY
There is no mobility this week. It will resume on Saturday, 25th of January.
PURE STRENGTH
On Monday in Pure Strength, we are hitting some banded bench presses and progressing the loading on this and the banded row. Wednesday, we have banded back squats followed by some heavy hip thrusts.
WEIGHTLIFTING
This week in Weightlifting, we are focused on the Hang Snatch, which has some snatch balance, a Heavy Snatch complex, and some Pulls.
Track Tuesday
Our weekly on track speed session! For any level of runner looking to build their run speed, threshold and Vo2max fitness and run with the best running community in Dubai.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Entrance fee: https://isddubai.com/athletics-venuehire/
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/oomJAa31vKy3hQNG6
According to my extremely rough figures after a quick google search. Around 4.41 billion people play sport on planet earth. That is well over half of our 7.67 billion population. Good job earthlings! They say only the 1% of the 1% actually get paid to play sport at the top level (again, these are rough figures). One percent of 4.41 billion is 44,100,000, that is fourty-four milllion, one hundred thousand and 1% of that is 440,000. That still seems like a lot to me but relax for a second.
If you are not one of the 440,000 that gets paid to play sport, you are using sport as a distraction. Definition of distraction, a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. We do hobbies to take our mind off work, life, home, stress. People also drink alcohol and eat shit food to do the same. I want to make this very clear, doing sport as your distraction is in most cases far healthier than most other options!
But when does it become unhealthy to use sport as a distraction? and in particular endurance sport. I am writing about endurance sport for two reasons, 1) it is what I know and 2) it is probably the sport most abused for distraction.
The benefits to endurance sport are in my eyes, endless. Day to day we (at InnerFight Endurance) use endurance sport to make people better at life. We in still self-belief, we empower, we dig out true potential, we discover grit in all our athletes. They then take those new found traits and go smash life with it, it’s why we have the best job in the world. Like all good things though, these trainable traits can be addictive. How good does it feel to cross that finish line and be the most confident person in the world for a few seconds? It’s epic. But do we get it each time we cross a finish line? No… only when it’s gone really well. The more we race, the more chance we have to go wrong, that is just statistics… but we also have more chance to go right… now we are gambling.
Here are some more stats for you; World gambling statistics show that around 26% of the population gamble. That means around 1.6 billion people worldwide gamble and 4.2 billion people gamble at least once every year. The average US gambler loses $400 every year.
So when we enter event after event after event, or set big goal after big goal after big goal… we are gambling. The reward is self-beleif, empowerment, potential realisation and grit, the punishment is the loss of them all.
So endurance sport should be used wisely, we want to load the odds into our favour. It’s why we have training blocks, coaches to help us and better equipment year on year. So we aren’t like those average US gamblers.
If we just enter things to distract ourselves from life and not pay attention to the odds, you are going to fail at some point. You will get injured or burnt out because you don’t care about the process, you just want the thrill of the gamble…
I’d love to help you figure out your odds.
According to my extremely rough figures after a quick google search. Around 4.41 billion people play sport on planet earth. That is well over half of our 7.67 billion population. Good job earthlings! They say only the 1% of the 1% actually get paid to play sport at the top level (again, these are rough figures). One percent of 4.41 billion is 44,100,000, that is fourty-four milllion, one hundred thousand and 1% of that is 440,000. That still seems like a lot to me but relax for a second.
If you are not one of the 440,000 that gets paid to play sport, you are using sport as a distraction. Definition of distraction, a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. We do hobbies to take our mind off work, life, home, stress. People also drink alcohol and eat shit food to do the same. I want to make this very clear, doing sport as your distraction is in most cases far healthier than most other options!
But when does it become unhealthy to use sport as a distraction? and in particular endurance sport. I am writing about endurance sport for two reasons, 1) it is what I know and 2) it is probably the sport most abused for distraction.
The benefits to endurance sport are in my eyes, endless. Day to day we (at InnerFight Endurance) use endurance sport to make people better at life. We in still self-belief, we empower, we dig out true potential, we discover grit in all our athletes. They then take those new found traits and go smash life with it, it’s why we have the best job in the world. Like all good things though, these trainable traits can be addictive. How good does it feel to cross that finish line and be the most confident person in the world for a few seconds? It’s epic. But do we get it each time we cross a finish line? No… only when it’s gone really well. The more we race, the more chance we have to go wrong, that is just statistics… but we also have more chance to go right… now we are gambling.
Here are some more stats for you; World gambling statistics show that around 26% of the population gamble. That means around 1.6 billion people worldwide gamble and 4.2 billion people gamble at least once every year. The average US gambler loses $400 every year.
So when we enter event after event after event, or set big goal after big goal after big goal… we are gambling. The reward is self-beleif, empowerment, potential realisation and grit, the punishment is the loss of them all.
So endurance sport should be used wisely, we want to load the odds into our favour. It’s why we have training blocks, coaches to help us and better equipment year on year. So we aren’t like those average US gamblers.
If we just enter things to distract ourselves from life and not pay attention to the odds, you are going to fail at some point. You will get injured or burnt out because you don’t care about the process, you just want the thrill of the gamble…
I’d love to help you figure out your odds.
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