Carl Pointer - Training Diary - 06 Aug 2012

What an exciting start to the week! Yes, 'track day' (my favourite!)...Our aim for today was to complete 2 x 1500m best efforts.

Name	1500m Time	3k Target Time
Carl	4mins 37.5secs	9mins 15secs
Grant	4mins 47secs	9mins 54secs
Coach	5mins 07secs	10mins 14secs
Mat	5mins 12.5secs	10mins 25secs

Team leaving the range skating without poles

Grant double polling with Rauschberg in the background, regular stomping ground for the team

Working on balance and power without poles

All of the 1500m times were there or there abouts, which shows that our weekly track day's are definitely working!
After accomplishing the above times, being a highly competitive team, we thought it would be a good idea to test out our high-jumping skills lol. The highlight, however was attracting a beautiful, German, Uni student, probably because we were all half naked and looked extremely professional ;)

After arriving at the range later in the day we arranged our shooting mats, did some dry-shooting (to loosen our joints and get a good feel for our natural shooting position) and zeroed our rifles.
Going onto strength training, no poles (focusing on your legs/bum bum) and double- poling (mainly lats, triceps, abs and hips), whilst performing 1k loops of the Ruhpolding stadium. Taking it in turn, prone onto paper and stand on metal, we did this several times before doing 4 mag shoots, skating with poles :)
Then we completed 4 more mags of no poles and double-poling just to finish off. Just in time to miss the rain, woop woop! :D
Stay tuned to see if we can reach our 3k target times next week!!!