Yo Warriors,

You want to stay healthy, then train a wide variety of activities.
Don’t limit yourself to any single modality.

BUT

If you want to make improvements to a particular modality or skill, ie specialising, do it 2-3 times a week.
Or 2-3 times as often as any other training session.

3 times is usually better then 2 but do what you can.
And depending on the goal, 5-6 times

I’ve always found that my basic program is very slow at all progress.

I’m aware of this but I’m in it for the longevity and the diversity, which I believe is more beneficial to all rather than specialising.

And given long enough, I’ve improved all areas over time.

However, there are times I’d like to do something a bit more often because I want to get better (or make faster improvements) at.

This could be a single exercise/skill or a particular type of session.

For example, I want to improve my long duration cardio.
So, what I’ll do is program it in as a priority – making sure I get my 3 runs arranged in a week first.
Then I’ll add in my other sessions as regularly as I can – possibly combining the Battle Drills and the Skills sessions into a single session (usually doing about half of each).

Same goes for anything else!

Say I want to improve my muscle up technique.
Well, I’ll start every session (or at least 3 sessions) with a few minutes of doing the muscle up before I do anything else.

I try and keep things pretty flexible based upon my goals.

THERE IS A CATCH THOUGH . . .

Doing something more often means neglecting other areas in someway.

This is where I often find other programs fall flat for LARPing – they’re too focused on their goal!

If a program is focused on powerlifting, then theres no time to improve the LARP skills.
So we have to find extra time to fit it in – especially with 4-5x a week programs.

The trick is to boost the bare minimum I need to make improvements to what I want.

Choosing my 3 run sessions means I need to put energy there so all my other sessions may not be as productive
Good to do still, just not as productive. – but they’ll still get done

Doing muscle ups before the rest of a session will result in me tiring those muscles out before the rest of the session and thereby maybe not lifting as much though the rest of the session.
AGAIN, good to do still, just not as productive. – but they’ll still get done

This isn’t a bad thing IF its progressing me towards my goal.

The expression to remember here is:

“He who chases many chickens catches none.
He who chases one chicken, will eat.”

Colonel Sanders
(Probably not)

So it’s about where to direct focus and where to cut back to make it doable.

If you’re beginning, then do the spread of activities in the standard program for a long time (like 6-12 months minimum) as it’ll be a fair way of finding out what you’re good at and what may want a little focus.

Then when you’ve found what what you want to focus on, give only that your attention for a few months.
Progress is still slow BUT not quite as slow.

You’ll know when to stop specialising as you’ll have plateaued too long and it won’t be fun anymore.
Stop there and come back to the standard program – you can always specialise agin later.

In the app, there are specialised programs already there for intermediates waiting to be unlocked.

Anyways, just a quick one to go through about putting focus into an area.

Train Well

Matt