Hi all

Hi Sam!!!Im an 17 years old athlete from Greece so excuse me for any verbal mistakes.Im a good athlete in tae-kwon-do.I love this sport more than anyone can imagine :) except you... You are an athlete and i believe that you can understand me.i cant sleep at nights because i think about this(taekwondo).I dont know how you can help me but i think that you can.if you know any way answer me......

hi stelios
firstly dont worry about your typing your english is probably far better than my greek.

i have nights where i havent been able to sleep due to my sport, but only before big competitions which isnt usually a good thing.
You could have done the hardest training session and can not push your body anymore, physically you are drained but your mind is racing thinking about what you can do, to improve and beat your opponents.

try to take your mind off your sport, try reading a good book, i recommend The Hobit and/or The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R Tolkien. Both will books take your mind of anything else.

Hope this helps

Hi again and sorry i didnt read your post properly but hope what i said will help you sleep :lol:

ill try again.

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as a coach i plan my weeks training out, for example this weeks plan is

Monday - rest

Tuesday- swimming 45minutes, gym light weights 45minutes 12-15 reps, athletics training 2hours which involves warm up, 400mflat out, reaction time game, a hill session and warm down .

Wednesday - take dog out for a long walk 2- 2.5hours walk about 3 miles.

Thursday - swimming 45minutes, gym 45minutes heavy weights 6-8 reps, athletics training 2hours which involves warm up fitness circuit, sit ups press ups, bound in sand pit, crocodile run and warm down.

Friday - take dog out for a long walk 2- 2.5hours walk about 3 miles.

Saturday - Javelin throwing 2hour working on technique

Sunday - Rest

tick them off once youve done them. hope this is more along the lines of what you were asking.

on the sunday and monday resting days plan out the week ahead.

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although im an athlete im not in the best shape (6'2" 120kg/266lbs im fat but im fit if you understand that) so i do not think i am qualified to say anything about diet except try and eat a healthy well balanced diet (if you want to know more about dietry needs ask in the forum im sure theres a couple of nutritionists on there, and they will help you more than i can on that subject)

as for competitions i dont know about your sport but in javelin throwing alot of the time the event has been won before youve made it out onto the runway by a better athlete. its all to do with your thinking. if you know theres a 70m thrower competing against you and your strugling to hit the 55m line, you need to think i WANT a new PB, aim higher but always make sure your is goal within your ability. dont think about what your opponents can do/have done.

Try and stay relaxed and focused in alot of sports as soon as the competitor tenses up and starts stressing their technique and form drops alot, even though sometimes the stress may help out alittle with a sudden increas in strength due to anger and adrenalin boost.

and the night before a competition get a good nights sleep so you can wake up fresh and relaxed ready for the big competition ahead of you.

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I hope this is more along the lines of what you were thinking
bye bye for now
Sam

for those of you that dont know:

reaction speed games: need a minimum of 5 people to make it a fun game. can have as many people as you want but i have found that a minimum of 5 is ideal but as many as you

ill try and do a small diogram on here for you to explain how to set it up

* = person
| = line
H = home marker
R = referee

H *|* H
H *|* H
R

the home marker is set about 10m from the line

ok

now this is called Rat and Rabbit reaction game you need to set it out as above. its to test reaction times.

the left side are Rats
the right side are Rabbits.

you stand with facing your home marker with one of your foots toes touching the persons oppostie you who will be facing their home marker.
Markers need to be about 10m from the line

and the ref should be on line

the idea of the game is when the referee shouts out either Rat or Rabbit they need to try and run to their Home marker without getting cought by the person opposite. it doesnt matter if you shout out rat more than rabbit or vis-a-versa

E.g Ref shouts Rabbits then the rabbits have to run as fast as possible to their home marker without the Rats catching them. to catch a player you need to just touch them with your hand.

you do this for the first person to five then swap the players round. so swap the ref in for one of the others.

only do this for about 10-15minutes as you can get cold pretty quick, i use it as a warm up exercise before a sprint session

Hope that makes sense.

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Crocodile run

This works best with about 6-8 people but no more than 15 people.

you need to be able to run round a football pitch or a running track.

you all need to be in a line with the lowest person at the front as they set the starting pace of this excercise. start off jogging you are all in a line one behind the other with about a 1meter gap in front and behind you, after about 15-20meters the person at the back of the line sprints to the front and shouts 'GO', soon as they get to the front and shout 'GO' the person at the back sprints to the front, everyone else should still be jogging and keeping the gap of 1m between the person infront. keep doing this until everyones sprinted to the front twice then have a 3-5minute rest depending on how fit you are and do it again.

I usually get my group to do this at the end of s session before warming down, to totally finish them off :twisted: (im a nice coach really) I always do what i ask my athletes to do