Training schedule
This time of year is always busy, and there just seems to be an element of anxiety in the air! Family pressures, work schedules, holiday plans, school finals, college football in the homestretch…the list is endless! Lately several people have expressed anxiety about how their hectic schedules and outside commitments keep them from adhering to their training schedule. It can be frustrating to watch fellow students advance at a rapid pace because they are able to train several hours a day in Krav Maga or BJJ Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and while you’re happy for them, you feel like you’re moving much slower in comparison. I completely understand this frustration…I’ve felt it myself on countless occasions! It’s not easy, but the best thing you can do is to try to stop comparing your training schedule to others’, which in turn helps you look at the bigger picture and see the cycles of life a little more clearly. Maybe you can’t train much because you’re rehabbing an injury or because you work a demanding job. Maybe you have young children and caring for them fills your days. And then you look at that college student who has a comparatively open schedule and a freedom in his life that you remember only vaguely (if at all!). While it’s easy to feel despondent and discouraged, remember that everyone’s life moves in cycles.
Eventually, at one time or another, most of us will feel the pressures of work, family, or injury. We also will have times when we have fewer outside pressures and can make it into the school more often for a more rigorous training schedule. What’s truly important is that we keep training and keep moving forward on our own individual paths. For a small number that path is a career as a professional fighter, but for the majority of us it’s a lifelong commitment to improving our lives and the lives of those around us through martial arts. Elite is here to help you attain those goals in any or all of our programs, including Muay Thai kickboxing, Kali, MMA mixed martial arts, and warrior yoga and fitness classes; try to train steadily and consistently to the best of your ability while maintaining a balance in the rest of your life. Martial arts are about enriching and adding to life…enjoy your particular path, with all of its slow climbs and occasional steep jumps!
~Katie
Elite Training Center
1628 South Pacific Coast Highway,
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
(310) 543-1600
www.elitetrainingcenter.net
