bbg95 wrote:
Doing the Mission wrote:
Serious Question.
Is that 6:30AM-10AM time where they wake up, get ready, exercise, plan for the day the time when they BYU type athletes that are on a mission get in some training time? B-ball athletes go shoot some hoops, football players go lift weights, and the distance guys go for a 7-8 mile run while their companion rides along on his bike?
In general, no. Missionaries really don't have time to do a lot of training. If you have a companion that's cool with it, maybe, but it's hard to count on that. People usually only played basketball on Preparation Day (we had some pretty competitive games on our day off). As for weight training, when I first started, I had a companion that was a former D1 wrestler, and we woke up at like 5 so we could hit the gym for an hour before we started at the normal 6:30 time, but this was the only time (six weeks) that I really could do that. You only have 30 minutes a day for exercise, so maybe a distance runner could use that time to get a little work in, but I don't think it would really be enough to actually stay fit. As someone who has been lifting for 20 years, 30 minutes really isn't enough to do a whole lot. After I got transferred and couldn't go to the gym every morning anymore, I dropped close to 20 pounds and was really skinny when I got back. That block of time in the morning is usually more about studying and planning than it is about exercise. But like I said, it kind of depends if your companion cares that much about what you're doing. In general, the idea that athletes on missions are doing a lot of training is not very believable.
Thanks for the reply and the first hand knowledge.