Archive for the category: ‘Dominic’s training log’

My Training – An update

It’s been a while since I posted an article on my own training so will take some time to do that today.

“There is time for competition and there is time for training, don’t try to do both at the same time”. This was something said in passing by our Olympic lifting coach some weeks ago. Competition is pushing for maxes, going really heavy etc and training is the accumulation of those 10,000hrs you need for any movement to become automatic and optimal performance when IN competition.

Rapid recovery – post marathon things you must do

Yesterday after a quick 7km run I popped into my local supermarket and bought a rake of bananas. So much so that the lady at the checkout asked if I was baking banana bread. I replied”No, these are going to a greater cause. I’m giving them out to all those flagging marathon runners at about mile 22″. With that my daughter (3yrs old) and I drove up to the 22mile marker and spent the next hour or tow screaming words of support and dishing out bananas.

Photoshoot with Larry McMahon

Hope this post finds you fit and healthy. Two weeks ago I was asked by a top photographer would I be willing to do a photo shoot for his portfolio of stunning photos.

Larry McMahon is the photographer and you can have a look around his site and blog which is just packed with cool and beautiful work.

It’s hard work making it look so easy

Another week rolls around and you like me may ask the question – am I one step closer to my goal? What did I do last week to take another step towards e.g. getting your diet right, preparing meals, doing short effective [...]

Simplicity is the key to brilliance

Bruce Lee has to be one of my all time heroes and it was him that gave me the title of this post – “Simplicity is the key to brilliance”. If you are looking to improve on any aspect of [...]

Kindness is free

To open up this update on my training log I would like you to watch this really short video by the great Tom Peters. It’s on the importance of kindness and how it is so vital especially in the current economic [...]

Going beyond

“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed. Sources of strength never taxed at all because we never pushed through the obstruction” I read the above quote recently and [...]

New Section for the site

I have decided to add a new section to my site where (Dominic’s training log on the side bar) I will aim to record my training sessions. I am doing this to give you the readers an idea of what [...]