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Moving on from the place of God and the kids, it can be very hard to fit the training and MT in when you also need to pay the bills and bringin in your greens is derived from MT activities.
I agree that it is at times a matter of just keeping on putting the gi/uniform on as much as possible as it can be hard to get back into the regeime/rhythm when you can only go sporadically to the club or make time to train.
I like my work but happen to be in an industry where the daily hours are generally always long, so recently I have not been able to go to my regular club that much but I still try to fit in my power/weights work every lunch time instead of heading to the canteen etc and just chewing the fat (literally and metaphorically) (I make this pretty non-negotiable except where clients really need to see me at that time). I have a full length heavy bag and focus pads etc at home so most nights I then work my techniques and when I can, meet up with friends to train one on one.
Even when you can't make it to the club try to do stuff when you can, ie kata or whatever in the hotel room when you need to travel or use the hotel gym if available. I concede nothing matches training with others and especially your betters/sensei but as said above, when you cut out all the TV and rubbish that clutters up the edges of our lives (or more than the edges) there's always some time for MA.
I am a very keen MA'st and until recently was able to focus and compete a lot but, like many others, don't want or am unable to open a school myself and love the job I do that brings in the greenbacks; such is life. Those out there that have fully continued down the MA route and make their livelihoods out of it, that is awesome and would be a beautiful thing....that said (and no offense to anyone specific intended) some of the best training and clubs I have been to have been those run after hours and not as a fully commercial undertaking (and some of them can be a complete let down!). But maybe that's another post and no doubt canvassed already in full.
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I agree that it is at times a matter of just keeping on putting the gi/uniform on as much as possible as it can be hard to get back into the regeime/rhythm when you can only go sporadically to the club or make time to train.
I like my work but happen to be in an industry where the daily hours are generally always long, so recently I have not been able to go to my regular club that much but I still try to fit in my power/weights work every lunch time instead of heading to the canteen etc and just chewing the fat (literally and metaphorically) (I make this pretty non-negotiable except where clients really need to see me at that time). I have a full length heavy bag and focus pads etc at home so most nights I then work my techniques and when I can, meet up with friends to train one on one.
Even when you can't make it to the club try to do stuff when you can, ie kata or whatever in the hotel room when you need to travel or use the hotel gym if available. I concede nothing matches training with others and especially your betters/sensei but as said above, when you cut out all the TV and rubbish that clutters up the edges of our lives (or more than the edges) there's always some time for MA.
I am a very keen MA'st and until recently was able to focus and compete a lot but, like many others, don't want or am unable to open a school myself and love the job I do that brings in the greenbacks; such is life. Those out there that have fully continued down the MA route and make their livelihoods out of it, that is awesome and would be a beautiful thing....that said (and no offense to anyone specific intended) some of the best training and clubs I have been to have been those run after hours and not as a fully commercial undertaking (and some of them can be a complete let down!). But maybe that's another post and no doubt canvassed already in full.
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