My friend Josh Savani (aka joshs on pistol-forum.com), F.A.S.T. Coin #10, has just announced that he is committing to an entire unbroken year of pistol practice. Whether live fire or dry fire, he’ll be working on his shooting skills for three hundred and sixty five days. Not only that, but he’s also committed to shooting the same model gun — the outstanding HK P30 — the entire time.
You can follow Josh’s daily progress through his online training journal.
And if for any reason he skips even a single day, he’s promised to shave his head. On YouTube. While wearing a dress. In public.
(and a Happy 1st Mother’s Day to Mrs. joshs)
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
Careful now, Richard Branson lost his bet and look at what happened.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2323292/Sir-Richard-Branson-dresses-drag-losing-bet-AirAsia-chief.html
Sounds like a bad idea to me. Vacations and breaks are a good idea. Unless he has some very short practice days scheduled in there he’s headed for a burn out.
Ken,
The minimum required training for a “day” in my plan is 15 minutes. I’m hoping this will allow me to practice every day for a year without getting burned out.
I’ve said this before, during the last 365 day event, days off are just as important as training days. I coach runners, long distance runners. You can’t run every day. You have to take a day off, a training schedule can’t be all shooting all the time – just like it can’t be all running all the time. Mental fatigue sets in. When you’re mentally spent, you don’t focus on quality. You rush training just for the sake of getting it over with. So, what’s learned during a low/no quality training session?
I tell my runners that 10 quality miles are far better than 15 poor miles. Quality over quantity.
Andy,
That’s why I made the minimum training required for a day so minimal. I think doing something like the pistol-training.com dry fire “basic routine” is more like active recovery than training.
I tell my runners, take two days a week and do no running. Do nothing, do something else, but do no running. One of the best complementary activities a shooter can do is to play tennis. You develop a quick launch from a standing start (good for IDPA, USPSA), you’re working on hand eye coordination, improving reflex response, and getting an upper body work out. If you look at the movements of tennis and IDPA/USPSA you’ll see a lot of the same body motions and movements. So you can work on shooting while not touching a firearm.
I see a lot of burn out and injury with runners who think that seven days a week is the way to train. It’s not impossible for a pro, but, most of us are not pros with pro coaches.
Not to go off topic but what happened to the 90k round p30? Did it cross the 100k mark?