Yep, the big red man will be leaving presents for all you good girls and boys soon, but what are people planning on doing training-wise over the holiday period?

No change for me

training as much as possible, but i like to let my hair down a bit over christmas and have lots of mince pies

anyway i can never perform to my best when its this cold (thats the excuse i always use!)

so ill just work extra hard come january

Sam you are 'dedication'....

Ive been down with that 24hr bug that turned into flu and back into the 24 hr thing! So im letting my body recover over the next two weeks and xmas....

But I dont drink or smoke to im not going to suffer too much... but I think a good rest will do me the world of good and then I can start 08' with new goals and feeling fresh!


Nothing that a bit of interval training wont get back in January.

The best thing is you can justify eating more because you have the time to train more.

Plus all them 'lovely' runners don't wear those horrible ball hugging, tackle showing shorts that are so off putting!!!

Anyway I just ordered a book about kung fu fitness in 28 days. Each workout is followed by meditation. So lets see how kung fu wisdom stands up to Christmas gluttony

Who is that one by then?

Yeah if you work hard, you certainly deserve to eat well over christmas.

has anyone else experienced this, on wednesday before training i was really looking forward to doing some hard work and was generally 'in the mood' for training, but when i was actually training i felt i couldn't perform anywhere near my best.

i havent been slacking off with training recently, infact ive probably been working harder than for the rest of the year

is this to do with the weather do you think?

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Who is that one by then?

Yeah if you work hard, you certainly deserve to eat well over christmas.

The Shaolin Workout: 28 Days to Transforming Your Body, Mind and Spirit with Kung Fu by Sifu Shi Yan Ming.

Hopefully it works

Beedham, take it easy on yourself! Sounds like you're putting yourself under a lot of pressure to perform here.

Yes, I do think the weather has a lot to do with motivation and the mood you are in. Also, we are all knackered. It's the end of term, we all want to stop working for a while and take a deserved rest.

Keeping up such a high pace isn't good for you. Your body needs rest and as much as hard work, or you will make yourself ill. I for one am not planning to do any hard training over the Christmas holidays, then I'm going to get back into it in the New Year and try to prepare for a couple of competitions next year.

So my advice is to ease off a bit and come January, you will all be raring to go again.

cheers lesley i think your right, christmas holidays are almost upon us and its a busy year next year for me so i think a rest will do me good.

i was just sure i was going to finish on a high but ahh well looks like my body couldn't keep up with my head!