Strength work

Unfortunately on Tuesday the piston broke on my bike (only a crack) which meant that I was unable to ride Tuesday and Wednesday this week. After riding today it became apparent that missing out on riding and gym work makes a noticeable difference (for me) in my strength.

Today has been long motos, tomorrow is short and fast. It will be interesting to find out if my strength has altered much for these types of sessions, regardless, it is important for me to keep doing my strength training, even when I come against bike problems. Lesson learned!

The track today was soft and rutted, awesome, I love riding when there are long ruts, whether they be on straights or corners, especially when doing the longer motos where speed is less important and therefore is easier to be smooth.

I am sooo looking forward to riding tomorrow, even more so if it rains over night!

Have fun :-)

Iceland '08

My first race this year is June 5th, racing with the Kawasaki team, competing in Iceland is loads of fun and a certain challenge to be fully bike fit and at a fast race pace, in a matter of approx 6 weeks.

As with healing my wrist (which feels fine when riding) I will continue to practice visualising racing in Iceland and getting the results I want.

Here's to look to the future :-)

KISS

Amazingly, riding is going really well (and I've only ridden twice!!).

As I have blogged about before, when setting goals, use the anagram of SMARTER. Here is another anagram KISS - Kept It Simply Simple, here, I am referring to eating whilst riding.

With help from the 'edmaster nutritionist my calorie intake is really simple. Also, my beliefs regarding carbohydrate loading and taking extra care to be hydrated the day before a race, are well and truely blown out of the water, becuase training takes place so often, it's required to be hydrated everyday (even if there is no physical exercise at all) and supplying the body with fuel (as in carbo loading) is something done on a daily basis rather than just for the weekend.

I have gained great benifits from this support.

The next thing I am keeping simple is my motocross bike training program. Using my heart rate monitor whilst I am riding is providing me with specific information whilst riding and afterwards for analysis as well.

I have been off the bike for 12 months and I have done 20 and 30 minute motos at a good pace already, I am really pleased with these results.

Riding is so much fun and I am totally loving it, I am so looking forward to riding next time.

Have fun.

'EDMASTER Performance Coaching

Damn! After blogging about the Law of attraction, I walked into an illness which has lasted just over a week. So I ask myself 'for what purpose have I given myself the illness? and what should I be concentrating on, of which, I am currently not?'

Now, our kids have had a bug and I'm usually the only person in the household who avoids been ill, only this time I picked it up. So what was the reason for me attracting the bug?

It turns out that after training extra hard during the week my immune system was running low and allowed the bug to enter my body and there is a reason for this.

The answer to my question 'what should I be concentrating on, of which, I am currently not?' is that I am over due to see my nutritionist. During the consultation she pointed out (the nutritionist) what was going on. I am now in a position to make adjustments to my food intake to keep my immune system up to it's highest level whilst training hard.

This is great news and I am so happy to be working with her, not only for myself but for all our customers who want to make the most of their bodies performance whilst competing.

Check out our website and make the most of our services 'EDMASTER Performance Coaching

Circuit training is held at the Keep Moat Stadium in Doncaster on their Athletic track. Contrary to what the website says the circuit training entails alot of running among other strength exercise. This will take place on Tuesday morning and Doncaster Moto Parc is open for practice from 11am.

I have created this training so that I can have the best days training possible as I am now in a rush to be ready for my first race in June. Please come along and train with me and we make improvements together.

Law of attraction

How about this......Last week I was beginning to feel happy with how my training is going and I began to think about how training would be even better if I had some people to train with so that, pushing myself to the next level of fitness is easy.

This mornings swimming session there were 3 swimmers who were a little faster than me and 3 or 4 who were slower (compared to the 1 or 2 swimmers in previous weeks). There was certainly no place to hide! The lane was like a conveyor belt and once I was on it, 100% effort was required until it was time for the recovery period.

Interval training today was intense and so much fun.

It is amazing how the law of attraction works, think about what you want, believe that it will happen and then be greatful when it does.

Here is the important thing, the law of attraction pays no attention to positive or negative thoughts, just your own thoughts what ever they may be, therefore, we attract everything into our own world through our thoughts, wheather we consider it as being good or bad!

Think about this, think about your thoughts. What are your thoughts saying, are they good or bad, productive or destructive.

Learning to control your thoughts is as easy as you want it to be and changing thought processes is possible.

If you can change destructive to productive, how much more can you achieve than you already are doing.

Think about it.

Time to beat!

On Wednesday, riders practicing at DMP had the chance to practice with KTM factory rider Tommy Searl.

The track was in great condition and as the ground was soft, there were lots of long ruts around the turns and quite good size breaking bumps. So next time your riding at DMP and the track is in this kind of condition, use your stop watch and see if you can get any where near 1:34 lap times :-)

This was Tommy's fastest time which was recorded.

Mixing it up.

Fantastic, I started swimming 3 weeks ago, after doing very little exercise since the middle of October (5 months). Today I swam with a girl who I consider fast, from the last time when I was swimming and today we were the same speed.

So, I'm back up to speed in a very short time (as long as the girl was swimming as quick as she was doing when I was swimming last time!!).

Interval sessions is what I started off with and these sessions have only being lasting 40 mins, including the warm up and cool down. I've noticed very quick results with this type of training, however, I have been aware of needing to do more of an aerobic workout to improve stamina. After doing a swimming session which lasted 1 hour 15 mins, including warm up and cool down, I am happy that I have found a routine that will satisfy stamina training.

Now it is possible to mix up these sessions and balance out my training routine. After this I plan on starting to ride my bike and hone in my training program for that, of which, I have a good idea of how it will go.

I am sooo looking forward to getting back on a bike :-)

Have fun.

Weired?

I have mentioned previously, how to set a goal in a way that is achievable and ecological.

Here's the best thing....when you have set it, let it go, completely. By letting go of it, paradoxically it will come back. Weired, yes. Effective, definitely :-)

Have fun.

Last week I saw the doctor regarding my progress with the scaphiod. All is healling well and the next stage of recovery is now in place.

Training has recommenced, which means I can start swimming again. I love swimming its a great part of my training routine. So that it's easier for me to get even better results in the pool I purchased a heart rate monitor which I can use in the water (a monitor which requires no watch). After downloading my first session, it is easy to realise the benefit of having such data.

My HR was running as high as 180 bpm (my max being 186) and dropping only as low as 160 bpm for the duration of a 40 mins training session!

So, there are two things to take into consideration: 1, My current fitness level is may be only average, and 2, Inactive recovery is required during the training sessions to help lower the HR training zone.

Only having this HR data is it possible to know how to alter my training to get the best improvements. The next thing to do is to organise a maximal fitness test to find out exactly where I'm at now and then develop a programme that will allow me to be in great shape by the 1st June this year.

Enjoy training :-)

New training programme

I have recently carried out a new training programme, which works with 12 riders, and got great results with it too.

I find coaching really enjoyable, espcially now as I can use a bit of magic, to get even better results than before. I even did a class of Auto riders, the first in a long time. Impressed with how quick some of the riders are and how quick the improvers can improve, I will probably have more training for auto riders in the future.

I have also carried out some 1:1 coaching with amazing and instant results, this is already very popular with the riders.

So, dare I say, the 'EDMASTER performance coaching' website is nearly ready to go live. I say dare because I've mentioned the new DMP website a number of times and it is still in the waiting.

Sprinting

Friends from Iceland visitd me last week and joined me training. It was great fun and really good to have someone else to train with. We had a day at the athletics track which worked out really and realised how much work I have to do to get to the level of fitness that I want.

I really enjoy doing 100m sprints and in the past was quick compared to the poeple in our training group. Orsse, from Iceland, ran me into the ground beating me easily.

Motivation supplied, more track work coming up!

X-ray

8 weeks after the operation on my scaphiod and I have had the first x-ray. The signs are good, the bone is healing well around the screw and the gaps are filling in nicely. Fortunately, I am using a small splint now for the next 4 weeks, however, I still need to be careful with the wrist so that full recovery can be achieved.

I am grateful that I still need to be careful as it means that I am still unable to ride my racer on the road, on the turbo is ok. This is great because I will now start using the new athletics running track at the Keep Moat stadium in Doncaster for training. I have kept away from running in the past and I am looking forward to creating some new work outs to get me in shape for the next 4-6weeks.

How do you improve your performance?

As a Motocross rider/racer, what do you need to do/to have, to improve your performance?

For me as a racer the are 3 main areas, as an athlete, that you need to concentrate on:
Fitness, Nutrition and Coaching (both on and off the bike) of course you need outstanding bike performance which is well maintained and a good team around you all working towards your goal (and that's the riders goal only!)

I have become really curious over the last couple of years about what I would need to be doing, if I was in a fight for a World Championship title? How could I make it possible to be in this situation?

Experiencing racing with World Champions, training with Multi National and World Champions is a great way of getting this information. Whilst I was racing I was lucky enough to be in that situation, however at that time, I was unable to make the most of it.

Now, I am in a position where, after a lot of studying and research I can use it for myself and give, racers of today, the key ingredients that make up the composition of being a champion.

Services that 'EDMASTER Coaching include: Bespoke Nutrition Plans, Fitness training Plans, Motocross Coaching, Personal Sports Psychology and Circuit training.

The 'EDMASTER Circuit training will be taking place on Tuesday mornings 9.30 until 10.30 and the track will be open from 11.30 for riders who will want to ride after training to make the most of a great day. I am really looking forward to doing this type of training as it really helped me when I was doing Grand Prix.

It will be starting mid February and I will advertise it more closer to the time.

Have fun.

Within 10%!?!

I am sure that my scaphiod is within 10% of being fully healed. Today I have noticed that the intensity of my last couple of training sessions, including today, have increased. I think this is important so that the blood is getting pushed through the area fresh and faster!

Of course this is my interpretation and what I am visualising to make the bone heal together strongly, tight and hard together.

I love training!

Engines have filters.......

Describing what Time Line Therapy does for people, and how it works, is something I have been considering lately and here is a way that I can put it, to help people, consider the possibilities of what this process can do.

Motor sport people are aware of engines having filters, and that these filters, hold dirt and engine particles whilst filtering everything else that passes through it. If there is dirt on the filter, even more is attracted to it and the filter becomes even more clogged up and then eventually the engine begins to break down.

The same is for our mind, of which we have two (our conscious mind and our unconscious mind and I am referring to our unconscious mind at the moment). Our unconscious mind filters all information that comes in to us, through our senses (Eyes, Ears, Touch, Smell & Taste) and stores ALL our experiences.

Bad and inhibiting experiences can clog our internal filters and reduce our ability to create even better results than the one time you went out and produced something amazing, that time when everything went awesome and was so easy.

Well, this is what NLP, Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy is all about. It's just as easy to change/clean out your unconscious minds filter as it is to do with an engine, allowing you the possibility to enjoy your racing, hobby, job, family...! Just like the times when you were a kid and had so much fun, which came free and easy. You could have it back :-)

Healing

Training is going well. I'm really enjoying getting on my bicycle every day.

The reason why I'm cycling is so that I can oxygenate my blood and increase my heart rate so that, at least once a day, fresh blood is being pumped around (and through) the scaphiod.

The scaphiod has blood supplied to it at one end, as apposed to both ends like other bones, this is what makes the bone tricky to heal.

I have been using Hypnosis and my pendulum to find out how the bone is healing and the progress seems to be very good. I loose count of how many times I visualise the bone healing and concentrating on what I want to be doing when the cast comes off.

I'm stepping up the duration and intensity of my sessions from January 1st.

Certification

Since I went to see Ashley Scott at Mindracing for a break through session, I 've been learning about NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and have been using some of it for coaching, with great results. I was totally blown away with Time Line Therapy (the process used in the Break Through session) and have been learning about it and going through the self development as I have gathered more information on the subject.

I have now completed my courses and have become a Master Practitioner of NLP, Time Line Therapy and Hypnosis.

Why would I want to use this for Motocross coaching?

The great thing about NLP is that it's about communication, problem solving and empowerment. So it's easy for someone to learn a new technique or strategy for racing, it's possible for a rider to over come mental blocks through conversation, as well as using Anchors to get rid of, for example, nerves before starts or jumps.

For problems that people may experience all of the time, rather than some of the time (such as before a start) then Time Line Therapy is the tool for removing negative emotions, such as, Anger, Sadness, Fear, Hurt & Guilt, as well as Limiting Decisions and Limiting Beliefs.

Hypnosis is great for coaching, of which, I want to practice some ideas that I have for it's use with riding. Also, it's great for relaxation and unconscious suggestions.

So, at the moment I am putting different coaching packages together and am really excited about creating, empowering transformations for anyone in sport whether that be riders, mechanics, teams or businesses.

In a previous blog I wrote about setting SMARTER goals. If you want to achieve something for racing next year or something in life, use this method and you will put yourself in good stead for achieving it.

Simple plan

I have now had a 2-3 hour operation on my wrist. The doctor thinks it will be 6 months until we will know if it has healed correctly! and that there is a 60% of recovery.

Now, this may seem like the odds are slightly stacked against me, however, I know I am a quick healer and that my plan will have me back to normal in weeks rather than months.

The plan is simple: rest, exercise, eat well, visualise the bone healing and rest.

One thing that I am over the moon with is the fact that I have had no pain what so ever. I am unsure of how I have done this, even when the nurse said that taking the drain out of my hip (from the removal of bone for the graft) was going to be painful. I watched her pull it out with no pain at all. I like this!!

Recovery has already started!

Keep having Fun

Time

The last time I wrote was September 6th, wow, that seems such a long time ago. I have my operation for my wrist tomorrow, of which, I am looking forward to.

I have full movement in my wrist now. The doctors said that I would loose movement and the strength of my grip feels really good also. This begs the question 'have I healed the bone already?'

I have finished my training courses now which means that I can now offer the best Motocross coaching that anyone can provide in the U.K.

Did you know that there is no need to feel nervous on a start line? Is it possible to feel excited, determined, and totally confident, Every time you go to the start line? You bet it's possible.

I have learnt new techniques that are quick, easy and very effective. I'll explain more after my visit to hospital.

Keep having fun

It's all about the CandEy

Its been sometime scince my last blog, mainly due to studying, of which, I will write about another time.
I have also been training alot. I am having an operation on my scaphoid in the beginning of December and I want the bone to heal really well and very quickly, for me, the best thing I can do to make this happen is to be in great shape for the operation and start training as soon as I can afterwards...........here's to hoping :-)