Finish What You’ve Started

New Year New Me?
Written by Marcus Smith
Tom Walker
Tom Walker
Jan 6, 2020
-
5
Mainline Class
Specialty Class
Endurance
Ladies Run Club
Finish What You’ve Started

New Year New Me is becoming a cliche, people can even right off December because they have it in their minds come January it will all change as they miraculously get a kick up the arse. There will be plenty of articles going around about goal setting and ‘kicking off your new year right’, but i’m going to discuss a key principle you can use for your training to ensure you don’t fall off the bandwagon with everyone else. It all revolves around finishing what you’ve started… Why it can work? Completing tasks gives us a great sense of achievement, our day revolves around it. Completion can seem a daunting word saved only for tasks worthy of sharing, but it doesn’t need to be. We can ‘hack’ our minds into a favourable state just by completing lots of small (possibly meaningless) tasks. Once we get our minds on a completion roll, the remaining tasks become much more attainable and easier to do. ‘No-one ever regretted working out’ I’m not sure who originally said this but it’s true and scaleable. You never regret a workout, or all the workouts you managed to complete in your week, month or block into a race. This is because it is your goal to do those workouts and by doing them you are completing tasks to achieve that goal. Sounds very simple, you have a goal and the way to achieve it is to complete small tasks along the way, but then, along comes procrastination, distractions and excuses. Using the finish what you’ve started approach might help to keep you on track, focused, motivated and winning. How to make it work? Stop multi tasking… We are not good at it, we lose focus, forget and become very unproductive when we multi task. One of the reasons we start to multi task is because starting things kicks us off down the 'completion feel good’ road. Our minds actually get a hit of dopamine from starting tasks but this soon turns back on us when we fail to complete them. Our minds become overwhelmed from multi tasking and its likely you’ll end up half-arsing 3 things instead of fully completing even 1. Eliminate distractions when training…The more you learn the less you know. This is usually used in academic contexts when talking about research but what if we look at it from a social media standpoint. The more you use social media the more you open your mind up to information you (1) don’t need and (2) want to know more on. The important part there is point (1), you simply don’t need it. From a training stand point, people don’t have too much time to spare in their day and the amount of comments I read on athletes who ‘ran out of time’ is far too many. You didn't ‘run out of time’ you just didn’t allocate your time correctly. Social media is amazing for sharing, motivating and connecting people but use it wisely. Allocate time to it, don’t just scroll through it without a purpose. Set tasks prior to your training sessions that both eliminates distractions and gets your task approach mind rolling!

Close all social applications

Turn off notifications/turn on do not disturb mode

Ask yourself ‘do I know the structure and purpose of this training session’?

The more you think about social media the crazier it gets, ultimately it is a never ending task… so does this mean our minds will never feel accomplished with it? Break your workouts down…The end of a three hour run or five hour bike, even a 60min CrossFit class can seem a life time away. Twenty minutes of a long session though, seems like nothing. As a coach I like to test my athletes physically and mentally. Some athletes love to have session structure, ready made bite size blocks they can tick off over and over, these guys do great with the finish what you’ve started method. Typical ways of breaking long unstructured sessions or races down is by; feeding intervals, time intervals, distance intervals and landmark intervals. It is a key skill to develop, particularly for longer distance athletes. Nope your coach isn’t being lazy giving you a four hour ride on feel or a two hour run by choice, they’re helping you develop this skill as come race day, it’s all down to you. Once you can develop this block structure approach, you begin to ’trick’ the mind into a completion state and the big picture of the session will take care of its self. Define a start and end point…If we don’t feel the task is fully complete we don’t get the hit of completion we crave and will begin to start other tasks to fuel our dopamine release. Do what you are doing until you have done it and make sure your brain knows the training task for the day is complete. Training starts the night before, or when you wake up, or when you press go on your Garmin. It doesn’t actually matter when training starts, what matters is what stops. Remember, we are terrible at multi tasking. If you are training and on WhatsApp or training and looking at emails you are not doing both optimally. Do one, or the other. Endurance training can be monotonous and one dimensional at times which can lead the brain into boredom and to start other tasks (like checking notifications) which as we know is a distraction from your training goals. CrossFit is intensive and require extreme focus, if you’re checking your phone every 5 min then you’re not maximising your focus. Some things like music, podcasts, audio books and youtube/netflix can be of value during longer sessions but they are ‘background noise’ that don’t take too much concentration. Thinking of words and sentences to say to people on email or WhatsApp takes a lot of concentration, ever spoke to someone who has one eye on something else? It’s pointless. So thinking you can focus on a conversation while also focusing on your session goals is naive, you cant. Knowing what needs to switch off when training starts is the key. This also means your brain… Go into each session with a mindset of ‘leave your problems at the door’. Thoughts of work and life will creep back into your mind but overshadow them with thoughts on the current task you are completing. Defining an end point makes sure you complete everything needed to ensure the session was successful.

Write down a tick list of;

1.Before tasks (nutrition, equipment etc…),

2.Session goals/structure

3.Post tasks (feedback, cleaning bike, washing etc...) to help you layout a completion path.

The finishing what you’ve started approach takes organisation, this is why it works, because you will become more organised. You may have a coach to help keep you accountable to it, you may have training partners, you may just have yourself. In all cases though, you need to be clear of your session expectations and pre and post session tasks. 2020 will be epic! So many goals are being set, lets make sure you finish what you start! By; Tom Walker, Endurance Coach

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Specialty Class #25-17

ENGINE

Double Mikko’s Triangle. We’re doubling the time and aiming to double the calories. Can you match your pace and hold on?

GYMNASTICS

Tuesday morning, we're diving into all things handstand push-ups with both strict and kipping variations, plus some fun progressions to challenge your upside-down game. Expect overhead strength work and spicy core finishers, too.

Toes-to-bar will take centre stage on Thursday evening with drills on the low bar and rig to sharpen your skills. Then we’ll move on to capacity work before wrapping it up with core and lat work to boost strength, control, and coordination.

HYROX

Build the Upper body strength you need for HYROX with a focus on sled pulls, farmers carries, push-ups (to power through your burpees), push presses (for stronger wall balls) and SkiErg conditioning.

MOBILITY

We have been quite dominant with mobility for the lower body; per request, we will stick with the flows, but make sure we hit the upper body harder this weekend. This session will be aimed towards the people that have shoulder niggles.

PURE STRENGTH

This week's pure strength session marks the start of the deadlift cycle, following high-volume RDLS. We also have some heavy box squats and volume reps to finish up on Monday. On Wednesday, we will start a paused bench press progression, incorporating some overhead presses and barbell rows as accessories.

WEIGHTLIFTING

This week in weightlifting, we are focusing on developing the split jerk technique. Followed by a classic complex of clean + front squat + jerk.

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Endurance #25-17

Monday Ride

A ride dedicated to group riding skills and some fitness. Coach Rob Foster leads this ride, if you'd like to join email Rob Foster

Start time: 05:59 am

Session Length: 1.5 hour

Location: The Loop Cafe, Bike DXB

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.

Time: 05:59 am

Session Length: 1.5 hour

Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park

Entrance fee

Friday - Coffee Run

Our weekly tempo run.  Sessions are built on an RPE scale and accessible to all levels of runner. We start together, run hard then finish together and chat about it over a coffee and breakfast.

Brief time: 05:54 am
Start time
: 05:59 am

Start Location: Common Grounds

Saturday - Long Ride

Our weekly endurance ride.
Please email Rob Foster for more details.

Time: 05:59 am

Location: Bottom of the Stick, Al Qudra.

Introduction

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Elit nisi in eleifend sed nisi. Pulvinar at orci, proin imperdiet commodo consectetur convallis risus. Sed condimentum enim dignissim adipiscing faucibus consequat, urna. Viverra purus et erat auctor aliquam. Risus, volutpat vulputate posuere purus sit congue convallis aliquet. Arcu id augue ut feugiat donec porttitor neque. Mauris, neque ultricies eu vestibulum, bibendum quam lorem id. Dolor lacus, eget nunc lectus in tellus, pharetra, porttitor.

If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Ladies run Club 25-17

Monday

Time: 5:59pm

Location: InnerFight

Session: LRC Tempo

This week will be dialling into that Tempo effort (7/10 RPE) for 8 mins blocks. You will take a 3 min recovery after each block and repeat the sequence 3x.

Tuesday

Time: 5:59am

Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park

Entrance fee

Session: Track Tuesday

This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. This week we will be running 200s and 600s at 3km and 5km pace. We will help you identify the best pace group for your ability at the session.

Wednesday

Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm

Location: InnerFight

Session: LRC Intervals

Today we have intervals in the morning and evening. We will be running1km at effort, into 4 x 400s and then back to 1km of effort. Push hard on the 400s, these should be a 9/10 RPE.

Friday

Time: 5:59am

Location: Common Grounds

Session: The Coffee Run

This week we will be running
10X
1min @ 9/10; 1min @ 3/10

5mins easy jog

then,
4X
4mins @ 7/10; 1min @ 1/10 (easy jog/walking)

Coffee post session at Common Grounds at 7am.

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Nunc sed faucibus bibendum feugiat sed interdum. Ipsum egestas condimentum mi massa. In tincidunt pharetra consectetur sed duis facilisis metus. Etiam egestas in nec sed et. Quis lobortis at sit dictum eget nibh tortor commodo cursus.

Odio felis sagittis, morbi feugiat tortor vitae feugiat fusce aliquet. Nam elementum urna nisi aliquet erat dolor enim. Ornare id morbi eget ipsum. Aliquam senectus neque ut id eget consectetur dictum. Donec posuere pharetra odio consequat scelerisque et, nunc tortor.
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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Mainline Class
Specialty Class
Endurance
Ladies Run Club
Daily Workout 25-17

Monday:

We start the week with some single-leg deadlifts into a power clean front squat complex, followed by a leg-focused workout that is sure to set the tone for the week.

Strength:

A) Every 2:30 x 5 6/6 Single Leg Deadlift

B) Every 90secs x 5 2 power clean + 2 front squat

Conditioning:

17min AMRAP

3 Power Clean (60/40)

6 Front Squat

9 Box Jump

Tuesday:

On Tuesday, it's all about push and pull in the strength work, with pull-ups, bench press, gorilla rows, and some static overhead strength.

Strength:

A) EMOM x 6 - 15-20 sec UB kipping pull-ups

B) Alt EMOM x 10 - 8 DB Bench Press / 12 Alt Gorilla Row

C) Alt EMOM x 9 -M1 - 30 Sec Dual KB OH / 30 sec hollow hold / 30 sec arch hold/rock

Conditioning:

4 rounds for time:

16 Alt KB STOH

1 Lap Car Park Farmers Carry

10 Burpees Over KB

30 Double Unders

Wednesday:

On Wednesday, we will start with some heavy squats, followed by work on both the GHD hip extension and the GHD sit-up, and then a tough interval workout.

Strength:

A) Every 2 mins x 6 - 3 2 2 1 1 back squat + 1 set AMRAP @ 80% of top single

B) Alt EMOM x 12 - 5/10 GHD Sit Ups / 30 sec Pallof Press L&R / 10-15 Hip Extensions

Conditioning

In a 3-minute window:

15 TTB

30 wall balls

AMRAP cal row

Rest 2 mins x 3

Thursday:

On Thursday, we have some bodybuilding in the strength work, followed by a real test of grip and capacity in the workout with high-volume dumbbell snatches.

Strength:

A) Every 2 mins x 5 6/6 DB Strict Press

B) Alt EMOM x 9 - 30 sec banded tricep extension /  15-20 DB Lateral Raise / 15-20 Barbell Bicep Curls

Conditioning:

For time:

120 DB Hang Snatch

Every 3 mins

15/12 Cal Assualt Bike

10 Hand Release Push Ups

Friday:

Finally, we conclude the week with an awesome partner workout that combines aerobic work with strongman exercises.

Strength:

EMOM x 5 6 Sandbag Over Bar

Conditioning:

In Pairs for Time:

800m run together

20 Sandbag Over Bar

100 Cal Ski

Park Run Together

20 Sandbag Over Bar

80 Cal Ski


Half Park Run Together

20 Sandbag Over Bar

60 Cal Ski

Car Park Run (Together)

20 Sandbag Over Bar

40 Cal Ski

Introduction

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Eget quis mi enim, leo lacinia pharetra, semper. Eget in volutpat mollis at volutpat lectus velit, sed auctor. Porttitor fames arcu quis fusce augue enim. Quis at habitant diam at. Suscipit tristique risus, at donec. In turpis vel et quam imperdiet. Ipsum molestie aliquet sodales id est ac volutpat.

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Elit nisi in eleifend sed nisi. Pulvinar at orci, proin imperdiet commodo consectetur convallis risus. Sed condimentum enim dignissim adipiscing faucibus consequat, urna. Viverra purus et erat auctor aliquam. Risus, volutpat vulputate posuere purus sit congue convallis aliquet. Arcu id augue ut feugiat donec porttitor neque. Mauris, neque ultricies eu vestibulum, bibendum quam lorem id. Dolor lacus, eget nunc lectus in tellus, pharetra, porttitor.

If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Nunc sed faucibus bibendum feugiat sed interdum. Ipsum egestas condimentum mi massa. In tincidunt pharetra consectetur sed duis facilisis metus. Etiam egestas in nec sed et. Quis lobortis at sit dictum eget nibh tortor commodo cursus.

Odio felis sagittis, morbi feugiat tortor vitae feugiat fusce aliquet. Nam elementum urna nisi aliquet erat dolor enim. Ornare id morbi eget ipsum. Aliquam senectus neque ut id eget consectetur dictum. Donec posuere pharetra odio consequat scelerisque et, nunc tortor.
Nulla adipiscing erat a erat. Condimentum lorem posuere gravida enim posuere cursus diam.

Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Finish What You’ve Started

New Year New Me is becoming a cliche, people can even right off December because they have it in their minds come January it will all change as they miraculously get a kick up the arse. There will be plenty of articles going around about goal setting and ‘kicking off your new year right’, but i’m going to discuss a key principle you can use for your training to ensure you don’t fall off the bandwagon with everyone else. It all revolves around finishing what you’ve started… Why it can work? Completing tasks gives us a great sense of achievement, our day revolves around it. Completion can seem a daunting word saved only for tasks worthy of sharing, but it doesn’t need to be. We can ‘hack’ our minds into a favourable state just by completing lots of small (possibly meaningless) tasks. Once we get our minds on a completion roll, the remaining tasks become much more attainable and easier to do. ‘No-one ever regretted working out’ I’m not sure who originally said this but it’s true and scaleable. You never regret a workout, or all the workouts you managed to complete in your week, month or block into a race. This is because it is your goal to do those workouts and by doing them you are completing tasks to achieve that goal. Sounds very simple, you have a goal and the way to achieve it is to complete small tasks along the way, but then, along comes procrastination, distractions and excuses. Using the finish what you’ve started approach might help to keep you on track, focused, motivated and winning. How to make it work? Stop multi tasking… We are not good at it, we lose focus, forget and become very unproductive when we multi task. One of the reasons we start to multi task is because starting things kicks us off down the 'completion feel good’ road. Our minds actually get a hit of dopamine from starting tasks but this soon turns back on us when we fail to complete them. Our minds become overwhelmed from multi tasking and its likely you’ll end up half-arsing 3 things instead of fully completing even 1. Eliminate distractions when training…The more you learn the less you know. This is usually used in academic contexts when talking about research but what if we look at it from a social media standpoint. The more you use social media the more you open your mind up to information you (1) don’t need and (2) want to know more on. The important part there is point (1), you simply don’t need it. From a training stand point, people don’t have too much time to spare in their day and the amount of comments I read on athletes who ‘ran out of time’ is far too many. You didn't ‘run out of time’ you just didn’t allocate your time correctly. Social media is amazing for sharing, motivating and connecting people but use it wisely. Allocate time to it, don’t just scroll through it without a purpose. Set tasks prior to your training sessions that both eliminates distractions and gets your task approach mind rolling!

Close all social applications

Turn off notifications/turn on do not disturb mode

Ask yourself ‘do I know the structure and purpose of this training session’?

The more you think about social media the crazier it gets, ultimately it is a never ending task… so does this mean our minds will never feel accomplished with it? Break your workouts down…The end of a three hour run or five hour bike, even a 60min CrossFit class can seem a life time away. Twenty minutes of a long session though, seems like nothing. As a coach I like to test my athletes physically and mentally. Some athletes love to have session structure, ready made bite size blocks they can tick off over and over, these guys do great with the finish what you’ve started method. Typical ways of breaking long unstructured sessions or races down is by; feeding intervals, time intervals, distance intervals and landmark intervals. It is a key skill to develop, particularly for longer distance athletes. Nope your coach isn’t being lazy giving you a four hour ride on feel or a two hour run by choice, they’re helping you develop this skill as come race day, it’s all down to you. Once you can develop this block structure approach, you begin to ’trick’ the mind into a completion state and the big picture of the session will take care of its self. Define a start and end point…If we don’t feel the task is fully complete we don’t get the hit of completion we crave and will begin to start other tasks to fuel our dopamine release. Do what you are doing until you have done it and make sure your brain knows the training task for the day is complete. Training starts the night before, or when you wake up, or when you press go on your Garmin. It doesn’t actually matter when training starts, what matters is what stops. Remember, we are terrible at multi tasking. If you are training and on WhatsApp or training and looking at emails you are not doing both optimally. Do one, or the other. Endurance training can be monotonous and one dimensional at times which can lead the brain into boredom and to start other tasks (like checking notifications) which as we know is a distraction from your training goals. CrossFit is intensive and require extreme focus, if you’re checking your phone every 5 min then you’re not maximising your focus. Some things like music, podcasts, audio books and youtube/netflix can be of value during longer sessions but they are ‘background noise’ that don’t take too much concentration. Thinking of words and sentences to say to people on email or WhatsApp takes a lot of concentration, ever spoke to someone who has one eye on something else? It’s pointless. So thinking you can focus on a conversation while also focusing on your session goals is naive, you cant. Knowing what needs to switch off when training starts is the key. This also means your brain… Go into each session with a mindset of ‘leave your problems at the door’. Thoughts of work and life will creep back into your mind but overshadow them with thoughts on the current task you are completing. Defining an end point makes sure you complete everything needed to ensure the session was successful.

Write down a tick list of;

1.Before tasks (nutrition, equipment etc…),

2.Session goals/structure

3.Post tasks (feedback, cleaning bike, washing etc...) to help you layout a completion path.

The finishing what you’ve started approach takes organisation, this is why it works, because you will become more organised. You may have a coach to help keep you accountable to it, you may have training partners, you may just have yourself. In all cases though, you need to be clear of your session expectations and pre and post session tasks. 2020 will be epic! So many goals are being set, lets make sure you finish what you start! By; Tom Walker, Endurance Coach

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Endurance #25-17

Monday Ride

A ride dedicated to group riding skills and some fitness. Coach Rob Foster leads this ride, if you'd like to join email Rob Foster

Start time: 05:59 am

Session Length: 1.5 hour

Location: The Loop Cafe, Bike DXB

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.

Time: 05:59 am

Session Length: 1.5 hour

Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park

Entrance fee

Friday - Coffee Run

Our weekly tempo run.  Sessions are built on an RPE scale and accessible to all levels of runner. We start together, run hard then finish together and chat about it over a coffee and breakfast.

Brief time: 05:54 am
Start time
: 05:59 am

Start Location: Common Grounds

Saturday - Long Ride

Our weekly endurance ride.
Please email Rob Foster for more details.

Time: 05:59 am

Location: Bottom of the Stick, Al Qudra.

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Ladies run Club 25-17

Monday

Time: 5:59pm

Location: InnerFight

Session: LRC Tempo

This week will be dialling into that Tempo effort (7/10 RPE) for 8 mins blocks. You will take a 3 min recovery after each block and repeat the sequence 3x.

Tuesday

Time: 5:59am

Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park

Entrance fee

Session: Track Tuesday

This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. This week we will be running 200s and 600s at 3km and 5km pace. We will help you identify the best pace group for your ability at the session.

Wednesday

Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm

Location: InnerFight

Session: LRC Intervals

Today we have intervals in the morning and evening. We will be running1km at effort, into 4 x 400s and then back to 1km of effort. Push hard on the 400s, these should be a 9/10 RPE.

Friday

Time: 5:59am

Location: Common Grounds

Session: The Coffee Run

This week we will be running
10X
1min @ 9/10; 1min @ 3/10

5mins easy jog

then,
4X
4mins @ 7/10; 1min @ 1/10 (easy jog/walking)

Coffee post session at Common Grounds at 7am.

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Mainline Class
Specialty Class
Endurance
Ladies Run Club
Daily Workout 25-17

Monday:

We start the week with some single-leg deadlifts into a power clean front squat complex, followed by a leg-focused workout that is sure to set the tone for the week.

Strength:

A) Every 2:30 x 5 6/6 Single Leg Deadlift

B) Every 90secs x 5 2 power clean + 2 front squat

Conditioning:

17min AMRAP

3 Power Clean (60/40)

6 Front Squat

9 Box Jump

Tuesday:

On Tuesday, it's all about push and pull in the strength work, with pull-ups, bench press, gorilla rows, and some static overhead strength.

Strength:

A) EMOM x 6 - 15-20 sec UB kipping pull-ups

B) Alt EMOM x 10 - 8 DB Bench Press / 12 Alt Gorilla Row

C) Alt EMOM x 9 -M1 - 30 Sec Dual KB OH / 30 sec hollow hold / 30 sec arch hold/rock

Conditioning:

4 rounds for time:

16 Alt KB STOH

1 Lap Car Park Farmers Carry

10 Burpees Over KB

30 Double Unders

Wednesday:

On Wednesday, we will start with some heavy squats, followed by work on both the GHD hip extension and the GHD sit-up, and then a tough interval workout.

Strength:

A) Every 2 mins x 6 - 3 2 2 1 1 back squat + 1 set AMRAP @ 80% of top single

B) Alt EMOM x 12 - 5/10 GHD Sit Ups / 30 sec Pallof Press L&R / 10-15 Hip Extensions

Conditioning

In a 3-minute window:

15 TTB

30 wall balls

AMRAP cal row

Rest 2 mins x 3

Thursday:

On Thursday, we have some bodybuilding in the strength work, followed by a real test of grip and capacity in the workout with high-volume dumbbell snatches.

Strength:

A) Every 2 mins x 5 6/6 DB Strict Press

B) Alt EMOM x 9 - 30 sec banded tricep extension /  15-20 DB Lateral Raise / 15-20 Barbell Bicep Curls

Conditioning:

For time:

120 DB Hang Snatch

Every 3 mins

15/12 Cal Assualt Bike

10 Hand Release Push Ups

Friday:

Finally, we conclude the week with an awesome partner workout that combines aerobic work with strongman exercises.

Strength:

EMOM x 5 6 Sandbag Over Bar

Conditioning:

In Pairs for Time:

800m run together

20 Sandbag Over Bar

100 Cal Ski

Park Run Together

20 Sandbag Over Bar

80 Cal Ski


Half Park Run Together

20 Sandbag Over Bar

60 Cal Ski

Car Park Run (Together)

20 Sandbag Over Bar

40 Cal Ski

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Specialty Class #25-17

ENGINE

Double Mikko’s Triangle. We’re doubling the time and aiming to double the calories. Can you match your pace and hold on?

GYMNASTICS

Tuesday morning, we're diving into all things handstand push-ups with both strict and kipping variations, plus some fun progressions to challenge your upside-down game. Expect overhead strength work and spicy core finishers, too.

Toes-to-bar will take centre stage on Thursday evening with drills on the low bar and rig to sharpen your skills. Then we’ll move on to capacity work before wrapping it up with core and lat work to boost strength, control, and coordination.

HYROX

Build the Upper body strength you need for HYROX with a focus on sled pulls, farmers carries, push-ups (to power through your burpees), push presses (for stronger wall balls) and SkiErg conditioning.

MOBILITY

We have been quite dominant with mobility for the lower body; per request, we will stick with the flows, but make sure we hit the upper body harder this weekend. This session will be aimed towards the people that have shoulder niggles.

PURE STRENGTH

This week's pure strength session marks the start of the deadlift cycle, following high-volume RDLS. We also have some heavy box squats and volume reps to finish up on Monday. On Wednesday, we will start a paused bench press progression, incorporating some overhead presses and barbell rows as accessories.

WEIGHTLIFTING

This week in weightlifting, we are focusing on developing the split jerk technique. Followed by a classic complex of clean + front squat + jerk.

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Finish What You’ve Started

New Year New Me is becoming a cliche, people can even right off December because they have it in their minds come January it will all change as they miraculously get a kick up the arse. There will be plenty of articles going around about goal setting and ‘kicking off your new year right’, but i’m going to discuss a key principle you can use for your training to ensure you don’t fall off the bandwagon with everyone else. It all revolves around finishing what you’ve started… Why it can work? Completing tasks gives us a great sense of achievement, our day revolves around it. Completion can seem a daunting word saved only for tasks worthy of sharing, but it doesn’t need to be. We can ‘hack’ our minds into a favourable state just by completing lots of small (possibly meaningless) tasks. Once we get our minds on a completion roll, the remaining tasks become much more attainable and easier to do. ‘No-one ever regretted working out’ I’m not sure who originally said this but it’s true and scaleable. You never regret a workout, or all the workouts you managed to complete in your week, month or block into a race. This is because it is your goal to do those workouts and by doing them you are completing tasks to achieve that goal. Sounds very simple, you have a goal and the way to achieve it is to complete small tasks along the way, but then, along comes procrastination, distractions and excuses. Using the finish what you’ve started approach might help to keep you on track, focused, motivated and winning. How to make it work? Stop multi tasking… We are not good at it, we lose focus, forget and become very unproductive when we multi task. One of the reasons we start to multi task is because starting things kicks us off down the 'completion feel good’ road. Our minds actually get a hit of dopamine from starting tasks but this soon turns back on us when we fail to complete them. Our minds become overwhelmed from multi tasking and its likely you’ll end up half-arsing 3 things instead of fully completing even 1. Eliminate distractions when training…The more you learn the less you know. This is usually used in academic contexts when talking about research but what if we look at it from a social media standpoint. The more you use social media the more you open your mind up to information you (1) don’t need and (2) want to know more on. The important part there is point (1), you simply don’t need it. From a training stand point, people don’t have too much time to spare in their day and the amount of comments I read on athletes who ‘ran out of time’ is far too many. You didn't ‘run out of time’ you just didn’t allocate your time correctly. Social media is amazing for sharing, motivating and connecting people but use it wisely. Allocate time to it, don’t just scroll through it without a purpose. Set tasks prior to your training sessions that both eliminates distractions and gets your task approach mind rolling!

Close all social applications

Turn off notifications/turn on do not disturb mode

Ask yourself ‘do I know the structure and purpose of this training session’?

The more you think about social media the crazier it gets, ultimately it is a never ending task… so does this mean our minds will never feel accomplished with it? Break your workouts down…The end of a three hour run or five hour bike, even a 60min CrossFit class can seem a life time away. Twenty minutes of a long session though, seems like nothing. As a coach I like to test my athletes physically and mentally. Some athletes love to have session structure, ready made bite size blocks they can tick off over and over, these guys do great with the finish what you’ve started method. Typical ways of breaking long unstructured sessions or races down is by; feeding intervals, time intervals, distance intervals and landmark intervals. It is a key skill to develop, particularly for longer distance athletes. Nope your coach isn’t being lazy giving you a four hour ride on feel or a two hour run by choice, they’re helping you develop this skill as come race day, it’s all down to you. Once you can develop this block structure approach, you begin to ’trick’ the mind into a completion state and the big picture of the session will take care of its self. Define a start and end point…If we don’t feel the task is fully complete we don’t get the hit of completion we crave and will begin to start other tasks to fuel our dopamine release. Do what you are doing until you have done it and make sure your brain knows the training task for the day is complete. Training starts the night before, or when you wake up, or when you press go on your Garmin. It doesn’t actually matter when training starts, what matters is what stops. Remember, we are terrible at multi tasking. If you are training and on WhatsApp or training and looking at emails you are not doing both optimally. Do one, or the other. Endurance training can be monotonous and one dimensional at times which can lead the brain into boredom and to start other tasks (like checking notifications) which as we know is a distraction from your training goals. CrossFit is intensive and require extreme focus, if you’re checking your phone every 5 min then you’re not maximising your focus. Some things like music, podcasts, audio books and youtube/netflix can be of value during longer sessions but they are ‘background noise’ that don’t take too much concentration. Thinking of words and sentences to say to people on email or WhatsApp takes a lot of concentration, ever spoke to someone who has one eye on something else? It’s pointless. So thinking you can focus on a conversation while also focusing on your session goals is naive, you cant. Knowing what needs to switch off when training starts is the key. This also means your brain… Go into each session with a mindset of ‘leave your problems at the door’. Thoughts of work and life will creep back into your mind but overshadow them with thoughts on the current task you are completing. Defining an end point makes sure you complete everything needed to ensure the session was successful.

Write down a tick list of;

1.Before tasks (nutrition, equipment etc…),

2.Session goals/structure

3.Post tasks (feedback, cleaning bike, washing etc...) to help you layout a completion path.

The finishing what you’ve started approach takes organisation, this is why it works, because you will become more organised. You may have a coach to help keep you accountable to it, you may have training partners, you may just have yourself. In all cases though, you need to be clear of your session expectations and pre and post session tasks. 2020 will be epic! So many goals are being set, lets make sure you finish what you start! By; Tom Walker, Endurance Coach

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Ladies run Club 25-17

Monday

Time: 5:59pm

Location: InnerFight

Session: LRC Tempo

This week will be dialling into that Tempo effort (7/10 RPE) for 8 mins blocks. You will take a 3 min recovery after each block and repeat the sequence 3x.

Tuesday

Time: 5:59am

Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park

Entrance fee

Session: Track Tuesday

This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. This week we will be running 200s and 600s at 3km and 5km pace. We will help you identify the best pace group for your ability at the session.

Wednesday

Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm

Location: InnerFight

Session: LRC Intervals

Today we have intervals in the morning and evening. We will be running1km at effort, into 4 x 400s and then back to 1km of effort. Push hard on the 400s, these should be a 9/10 RPE.

Friday

Time: 5:59am

Location: Common Grounds

Session: The Coffee Run

This week we will be running
10X
1min @ 9/10; 1min @ 3/10

5mins easy jog

then,
4X
4mins @ 7/10; 1min @ 1/10 (easy jog/walking)

Coffee post session at Common Grounds at 7am.

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Mainline Class
Specialty Class
Endurance
Ladies Run Club
Daily Workout 25-17

Monday:

We start the week with some single-leg deadlifts into a power clean front squat complex, followed by a leg-focused workout that is sure to set the tone for the week.

Strength:

A) Every 2:30 x 5 6/6 Single Leg Deadlift

B) Every 90secs x 5 2 power clean + 2 front squat

Conditioning:

17min AMRAP

3 Power Clean (60/40)

6 Front Squat

9 Box Jump

Tuesday:

On Tuesday, it's all about push and pull in the strength work, with pull-ups, bench press, gorilla rows, and some static overhead strength.

Strength:

A) EMOM x 6 - 15-20 sec UB kipping pull-ups

B) Alt EMOM x 10 - 8 DB Bench Press / 12 Alt Gorilla Row

C) Alt EMOM x 9 -M1 - 30 Sec Dual KB OH / 30 sec hollow hold / 30 sec arch hold/rock

Conditioning:

4 rounds for time:

16 Alt KB STOH

1 Lap Car Park Farmers Carry

10 Burpees Over KB

30 Double Unders

Wednesday:

On Wednesday, we will start with some heavy squats, followed by work on both the GHD hip extension and the GHD sit-up, and then a tough interval workout.

Strength:

A) Every 2 mins x 6 - 3 2 2 1 1 back squat + 1 set AMRAP @ 80% of top single

B) Alt EMOM x 12 - 5/10 GHD Sit Ups / 30 sec Pallof Press L&R / 10-15 Hip Extensions

Conditioning

In a 3-minute window:

15 TTB

30 wall balls

AMRAP cal row

Rest 2 mins x 3

Thursday:

On Thursday, we have some bodybuilding in the strength work, followed by a real test of grip and capacity in the workout with high-volume dumbbell snatches.

Strength:

A) Every 2 mins x 5 6/6 DB Strict Press

B) Alt EMOM x 9 - 30 sec banded tricep extension /  15-20 DB Lateral Raise / 15-20 Barbell Bicep Curls

Conditioning:

For time:

120 DB Hang Snatch

Every 3 mins

15/12 Cal Assualt Bike

10 Hand Release Push Ups

Friday:

Finally, we conclude the week with an awesome partner workout that combines aerobic work with strongman exercises.

Strength:

EMOM x 5 6 Sandbag Over Bar

Conditioning:

In Pairs for Time:

800m run together

20 Sandbag Over Bar

100 Cal Ski

Park Run Together

20 Sandbag Over Bar

80 Cal Ski


Half Park Run Together

20 Sandbag Over Bar

60 Cal Ski

Car Park Run (Together)

20 Sandbag Over Bar

40 Cal Ski

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Specialty Class #25-17

ENGINE

Double Mikko’s Triangle. We’re doubling the time and aiming to double the calories. Can you match your pace and hold on?

GYMNASTICS

Tuesday morning, we're diving into all things handstand push-ups with both strict and kipping variations, plus some fun progressions to challenge your upside-down game. Expect overhead strength work and spicy core finishers, too.

Toes-to-bar will take centre stage on Thursday evening with drills on the low bar and rig to sharpen your skills. Then we’ll move on to capacity work before wrapping it up with core and lat work to boost strength, control, and coordination.

HYROX

Build the Upper body strength you need for HYROX with a focus on sled pulls, farmers carries, push-ups (to power through your burpees), push presses (for stronger wall balls) and SkiErg conditioning.

MOBILITY

We have been quite dominant with mobility for the lower body; per request, we will stick with the flows, but make sure we hit the upper body harder this weekend. This session will be aimed towards the people that have shoulder niggles.

PURE STRENGTH

This week's pure strength session marks the start of the deadlift cycle, following high-volume RDLS. We also have some heavy box squats and volume reps to finish up on Monday. On Wednesday, we will start a paused bench press progression, incorporating some overhead presses and barbell rows as accessories.

WEIGHTLIFTING

This week in weightlifting, we are focusing on developing the split jerk technique. Followed by a classic complex of clean + front squat + jerk.

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Endurance #25-17

Monday Ride

A ride dedicated to group riding skills and some fitness. Coach Rob Foster leads this ride, if you'd like to join email Rob Foster

Start time: 05:59 am

Session Length: 1.5 hour

Location: The Loop Cafe, Bike DXB

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.

Time: 05:59 am

Session Length: 1.5 hour

Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park

Entrance fee

Friday - Coffee Run

Our weekly tempo run.  Sessions are built on an RPE scale and accessible to all levels of runner. We start together, run hard then finish together and chat about it over a coffee and breakfast.

Brief time: 05:54 am
Start time
: 05:59 am

Start Location: Common Grounds

Saturday - Long Ride

Our weekly endurance ride.
Please email Rob Foster for more details.

Time: 05:59 am

Location: Bottom of the Stick, Al Qudra.

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Triathlon
Swimming
Race Prep
Finish What You’ve Started

New Year New Me is becoming a cliche, people can even right off December because they have it in their minds come January it will all change as they miraculously get a kick up the arse. There will be plenty of articles going around about goal setting and ‘kicking off your new year right’, but i’m going to discuss a key principle you can use for your training to ensure you don’t fall off the bandwagon with everyone else. It all revolves around finishing what you’ve started… Why it can work? Completing tasks gives us a great sense of achievement, our day revolves around it. Completion can seem a daunting word saved only for tasks worthy of sharing, but it doesn’t need to be. We can ‘hack’ our minds into a favourable state just by completing lots of small (possibly meaningless) tasks. Once we get our minds on a completion roll, the remaining tasks become much more attainable and easier to do. ‘No-one ever regretted working out’ I’m not sure who originally said this but it’s true and scaleable. You never regret a workout, or all the workouts you managed to complete in your week, month or block into a race. This is because it is your goal to do those workouts and by doing them you are completing tasks to achieve that goal. Sounds very simple, you have a goal and the way to achieve it is to complete small tasks along the way, but then, along comes procrastination, distractions and excuses. Using the finish what you’ve started approach might help to keep you on track, focused, motivated and winning. How to make it work? Stop multi tasking… We are not good at it, we lose focus, forget and become very unproductive when we multi task. One of the reasons we start to multi task is because starting things kicks us off down the 'completion feel good’ road. Our minds actually get a hit of dopamine from starting tasks but this soon turns back on us when we fail to complete them. Our minds become overwhelmed from multi tasking and its likely you’ll end up half-arsing 3 things instead of fully completing even 1. Eliminate distractions when training…The more you learn the less you know. This is usually used in academic contexts when talking about research but what if we look at it from a social media standpoint. The more you use social media the more you open your mind up to information you (1) don’t need and (2) want to know more on. The important part there is point (1), you simply don’t need it. From a training stand point, people don’t have too much time to spare in their day and the amount of comments I read on athletes who ‘ran out of time’ is far too many. You didn't ‘run out of time’ you just didn’t allocate your time correctly. Social media is amazing for sharing, motivating and connecting people but use it wisely. Allocate time to it, don’t just scroll through it without a purpose. Set tasks prior to your training sessions that both eliminates distractions and gets your task approach mind rolling!

Close all social applications

Turn off notifications/turn on do not disturb mode

Ask yourself ‘do I know the structure and purpose of this training session’?

The more you think about social media the crazier it gets, ultimately it is a never ending task… so does this mean our minds will never feel accomplished with it? Break your workouts down…The end of a three hour run or five hour bike, even a 60min CrossFit class can seem a life time away. Twenty minutes of a long session though, seems like nothing. As a coach I like to test my athletes physically and mentally. Some athletes love to have session structure, ready made bite size blocks they can tick off over and over, these guys do great with the finish what you’ve started method. Typical ways of breaking long unstructured sessions or races down is by; feeding intervals, time intervals, distance intervals and landmark intervals. It is a key skill to develop, particularly for longer distance athletes. Nope your coach isn’t being lazy giving you a four hour ride on feel or a two hour run by choice, they’re helping you develop this skill as come race day, it’s all down to you. Once you can develop this block structure approach, you begin to ’trick’ the mind into a completion state and the big picture of the session will take care of its self. Define a start and end point…If we don’t feel the task is fully complete we don’t get the hit of completion we crave and will begin to start other tasks to fuel our dopamine release. Do what you are doing until you have done it and make sure your brain knows the training task for the day is complete. Training starts the night before, or when you wake up, or when you press go on your Garmin. It doesn’t actually matter when training starts, what matters is what stops. Remember, we are terrible at multi tasking. If you are training and on WhatsApp or training and looking at emails you are not doing both optimally. Do one, or the other. Endurance training can be monotonous and one dimensional at times which can lead the brain into boredom and to start other tasks (like checking notifications) which as we know is a distraction from your training goals. CrossFit is intensive and require extreme focus, if you’re checking your phone every 5 min then you’re not maximising your focus. Some things like music, podcasts, audio books and youtube/netflix can be of value during longer sessions but they are ‘background noise’ that don’t take too much concentration. Thinking of words and sentences to say to people on email or WhatsApp takes a lot of concentration, ever spoke to someone who has one eye on something else? It’s pointless. So thinking you can focus on a conversation while also focusing on your session goals is naive, you cant. Knowing what needs to switch off when training starts is the key. This also means your brain… Go into each session with a mindset of ‘leave your problems at the door’. Thoughts of work and life will creep back into your mind but overshadow them with thoughts on the current task you are completing. Defining an end point makes sure you complete everything needed to ensure the session was successful.

Write down a tick list of;

1.Before tasks (nutrition, equipment etc…),

2.Session goals/structure

3.Post tasks (feedback, cleaning bike, washing etc...) to help you layout a completion path.

The finishing what you’ve started approach takes organisation, this is why it works, because you will become more organised. You may have a coach to help keep you accountable to it, you may have training partners, you may just have yourself. In all cases though, you need to be clear of your session expectations and pre and post session tasks. 2020 will be epic! So many goals are being set, lets make sure you finish what you start! By; Tom Walker, Endurance Coach

Introduction

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If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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Race Prep
Finish What You’ve Started

New Year New Me is becoming a cliche, people can even right off December because they have it in their minds come January it will all change as they miraculously get a kick up the arse. There will be plenty of articles going around about goal setting and ‘kicking off your new year right’, but i’m going to discuss a key principle you can use for your training to ensure you don’t fall off the bandwagon with everyone else. It all revolves around finishing what you’ve started… Why it can work? Completing tasks gives us a great sense of achievement, our day revolves around it. Completion can seem a daunting word saved only for tasks worthy of sharing, but it doesn’t need to be. We can ‘hack’ our minds into a favourable state just by completing lots of small (possibly meaningless) tasks. Once we get our minds on a completion roll, the remaining tasks become much more attainable and easier to do. ‘No-one ever regretted working out’ I’m not sure who originally said this but it’s true and scaleable. You never regret a workout, or all the workouts you managed to complete in your week, month or block into a race. This is because it is your goal to do those workouts and by doing them you are completing tasks to achieve that goal. Sounds very simple, you have a goal and the way to achieve it is to complete small tasks along the way, but then, along comes procrastination, distractions and excuses. Using the finish what you’ve started approach might help to keep you on track, focused, motivated and winning. How to make it work? Stop multi tasking… We are not good at it, we lose focus, forget and become very unproductive when we multi task. One of the reasons we start to multi task is because starting things kicks us off down the 'completion feel good’ road. Our minds actually get a hit of dopamine from starting tasks but this soon turns back on us when we fail to complete them. Our minds become overwhelmed from multi tasking and its likely you’ll end up half-arsing 3 things instead of fully completing even 1. Eliminate distractions when training…The more you learn the less you know. This is usually used in academic contexts when talking about research but what if we look at it from a social media standpoint. The more you use social media the more you open your mind up to information you (1) don’t need and (2) want to know more on. The important part there is point (1), you simply don’t need it. From a training stand point, people don’t have too much time to spare in their day and the amount of comments I read on athletes who ‘ran out of time’ is far too many. You didn't ‘run out of time’ you just didn’t allocate your time correctly. Social media is amazing for sharing, motivating and connecting people but use it wisely. Allocate time to it, don’t just scroll through it without a purpose. Set tasks prior to your training sessions that both eliminates distractions and gets your task approach mind rolling!

Close all social applications

Turn off notifications/turn on do not disturb mode

Ask yourself ‘do I know the structure and purpose of this training session’?

The more you think about social media the crazier it gets, ultimately it is a never ending task… so does this mean our minds will never feel accomplished with it? Break your workouts down…The end of a three hour run or five hour bike, even a 60min CrossFit class can seem a life time away. Twenty minutes of a long session though, seems like nothing. As a coach I like to test my athletes physically and mentally. Some athletes love to have session structure, ready made bite size blocks they can tick off over and over, these guys do great with the finish what you’ve started method. Typical ways of breaking long unstructured sessions or races down is by; feeding intervals, time intervals, distance intervals and landmark intervals. It is a key skill to develop, particularly for longer distance athletes. Nope your coach isn’t being lazy giving you a four hour ride on feel or a two hour run by choice, they’re helping you develop this skill as come race day, it’s all down to you. Once you can develop this block structure approach, you begin to ’trick’ the mind into a completion state and the big picture of the session will take care of its self. Define a start and end point…If we don’t feel the task is fully complete we don’t get the hit of completion we crave and will begin to start other tasks to fuel our dopamine release. Do what you are doing until you have done it and make sure your brain knows the training task for the day is complete. Training starts the night before, or when you wake up, or when you press go on your Garmin. It doesn’t actually matter when training starts, what matters is what stops. Remember, we are terrible at multi tasking. If you are training and on WhatsApp or training and looking at emails you are not doing both optimally. Do one, or the other. Endurance training can be monotonous and one dimensional at times which can lead the brain into boredom and to start other tasks (like checking notifications) which as we know is a distraction from your training goals. CrossFit is intensive and require extreme focus, if you’re checking your phone every 5 min then you’re not maximising your focus. Some things like music, podcasts, audio books and youtube/netflix can be of value during longer sessions but they are ‘background noise’ that don’t take too much concentration. Thinking of words and sentences to say to people on email or WhatsApp takes a lot of concentration, ever spoke to someone who has one eye on something else? It’s pointless. So thinking you can focus on a conversation while also focusing on your session goals is naive, you cant. Knowing what needs to switch off when training starts is the key. This also means your brain… Go into each session with a mindset of ‘leave your problems at the door’. Thoughts of work and life will creep back into your mind but overshadow them with thoughts on the current task you are completing. Defining an end point makes sure you complete everything needed to ensure the session was successful.

Write down a tick list of;

1.Before tasks (nutrition, equipment etc…),

2.Session goals/structure

3.Post tasks (feedback, cleaning bike, washing etc...) to help you layout a completion path.

The finishing what you’ve started approach takes organisation, this is why it works, because you will become more organised. You may have a coach to help keep you accountable to it, you may have training partners, you may just have yourself. In all cases though, you need to be clear of your session expectations and pre and post session tasks. 2020 will be epic! So many goals are being set, lets make sure you finish what you start! By; Tom Walker, Endurance Coach

Introduction

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Elit nisi in eleifend sed nisi. Pulvinar at orci, proin imperdiet commodo consectetur convallis risus. Sed condimentum enim dignissim adipiscing faucibus consequat, urna. Viverra purus et erat auctor aliquam. Risus, volutpat vulputate posuere purus sit congue convallis aliquet. Arcu id augue ut feugiat donec porttitor neque. Mauris, neque ultricies eu vestibulum, bibendum quam lorem id. Dolor lacus, eget nunc lectus in tellus, pharetra, porttitor.

If you want to swim faster on race day, it’s no secret you’ve got to swim fast in training.

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Conclusion

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