have any of you secluded yourself in the woods or just moved to a new area to train and do "all the right things" for an extended period of time? how did it work out for you? any big improvements? failure stories?
have any of you secluded yourself in the woods or just moved to a new area to train and do "all the right things" for an extended period of time? how did it work out for you? any big improvements? failure stories?
Yes, more than once.
Rented a friend's spare room in Palo Alto, Ca for 2 weeks. Ran twice a day (swam a mile after the first run, yoga after the second run). Napped, watched movies, and read. It was great! Then I came back to Michigan's February ready for spring.
Once I trained for a fight in a secluded house in Russia. It worked out pretty good, I won. The KGB was annoying though...they kept watching me and my brother in law go at it in th shower.
Moved to Wisconsin once summer in HS to stay at a family member's house. The house is right on a nice lake. I painted the whole house in exchange for room and board and laundry.
I ran first thing, every day for 60 days, then did deep water running for as long as I could take it. Then I swam freestyle for 10 minutes. Three days a week I would do calisthenics and pushups and situps before hitting the water.
I did 60 miles a week for 7 weeks, 72 for 1 week, and 1 easy week of 40 or so. It was the summer before sophomore cross country. It would have been the perfect time to do two runs a day, now that I think about it, but I was only 15.
I improved 2.5 minutes over freshman year to 16:40 on grass, also set sophomore records for 5k XC and 9:50 for 3200 in track.