Quotes About Training

Mind is everything; muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." So said Paavo Nurmi, the Finn who won nine Olympic gold medals at distances from 1,500 meters to 10,000 meters.

of the short time for preparation, each of these mesocycles is abbreviated. If you

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juggle days around from time to time. That's expected, and as long as you don't try to make up for lost time by doing several hard days in a row, you should be able to avoid injury and overtraining. By following

the specific workout for each day as well as the category of training for that day. For example, in the 18-week schedule, on the Tuesday of the 7-weeks-to-go column, the specific workouts are

there are four recovery days that week, along with a lactate-threshold session, a long run, and a medium-long run. Looking at the row for Sunday, it's easy to see how the long runs progress and then taper in the last few weeks before the marathon.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Periodic practice arrests forgetting, strengthens retrieval routes, and is essential for hanging onto the knowledge you want to gain.

Reflection can involve several cognitive activities that lead to stronger learning: retrieving knowledge and earlier training from memory, connecting these to new experiences, and visualizing and mentally rehearsing what you might do differently next time.

the kind of retrieval practice that proves most effective is one that reflects what you'll be doing with the knowledge later. It's not just what you know, but how you practice what you know that determines how well the learning serves you later.

It's not just what you know, but how you practice what you know that determines how well the learning serves you later.

Back on land he headed for the pub to forget the kill. The Army had taught him how to handle that as well. How to suspend human feelings in combat, to refuse the blame for all the deaths, the pain, suffering, horror. Greg had never woken screaming like others in the regiment had.

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

if and when we do cross the finishing line, sadly there will not be much time for celebration. We will already be in training for the next one!

if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors—valiant men who carried the shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for battle.

Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:

From Zebulun: 50,000 fit for service, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, who with one purpose were devoted to David.

Together with their relatives, who were all trained and skillful in the songs of the LORD, they numbered 288.

Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.