My Training Philosophy

My Training Philosophy

Over the years my understanding of physical training both inside and outside of competition has changed drastically.

Years ago as a young lad at Sheffield Hallam University I trained under tutelage of Ami Baran who was the Israeli National Throws coach at the time. Everything he told me to do, I complied and did not knowingly doing right or wrong.

If it wasn't on my plan I didn't do it.

If he told me to eat 10,000 steaks I would probably do that as well.

I believed everything he planned and instructed me to do. The results were fantastic as I had never done any structured training before, I really reaped the benefits and shot up the National rankings in shott putt and discus.

from personal experience, if you believe or want something enough it usually comes true

In 1997 I had a serious car crash which shattered my right femur in 3 places and was on crutches for 7 months.

After this I took training less seriously and just trained. I took up running to get fit and later seriously hit the concept 2 rower.

At this point I started devising my own training plans and reading more on other peoples training philosophies.

Shortly after my 'aerobic' phase I returned to throwing, strength training and discovered kettlebells.

I then tried out just about every training method possible and weeded out all the crap and ended up with one simple plan for just about every training/competitive goal I made for myself.

It was plain and simple....

If you want to be good at something and improve then you must practice it.

There are no secret training theories or secret plans.

It's no good going cycling if you want to be good at rowing. This theory has been proved many times.

When I think back about 20 years I became good at discus because I got myself in a field and threw discus until I couldn't throw anymore.

There is more to training than just doing one thing but don't stray to far from the path your headed down.

You don't get good at kettlebells by doing Yoga. This is my 'Kettlebell Theory'

So I now keep things plain and simple and train for what I'm aiming for.

Train and improve, train harder and then train smarter

(Here Dariusz Slowik does 30 mental reps with 225lb in the Power Clean, awesome and amazingly talented guy with serious guts for hard training)



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My Training Philosophy