How often do you train?

Sparks

Nice and simple straight-up question in information-gathering mode. How often do you guys train? Not gymwork, but technical training (whether on or off a range, dry or live firing or whatever)

Bananaman

Used to train a few evenings a week - one live - the rest dry fire - one days live fire drills once a fortnight - back when we were allowed do IPSC

ministers and kids put an end to that

nowadays do a bit of dry fire once a week if I can - most range time is spent in admin or competition - rare to get specific training or practice these days


B'Man

gunhappy_ie

Once a fortnight... but that has only started happening recently.

Hopefully as the year progresses it will be more frequent than that.

GH

It wasn't me!

Six days a week, with physical training every day, the breakdown of the training itself might vary however, and I'm going to change down over the coming weeks to try give muscles a chance to rest a bit.

A range day is typically 4-5 hours, typically broken down into setup and preparation, then some dry-firing, some groups, some more live firing and some more groups until I have my goals for the day accomplished or have enough data to make useful notes. Also occasionally just dry fire at home for a couple of hours, focusing on form and shot routine when the shooting starts to show more fliers than it should, so as not to reinforce 9s. Actually, after tomorrow, I won't be doing any live shooting before the match on sunday, just dry fire with the mirror thursday and friday, day off on saturday. Good for the confidence and you get to work on mental routine better than when dealing with conditions and inconsistent rhythm.

Sparks

On three days a week on the range at the moment myself, split between dry-firing, RIKA time and live-firing, with my coach there for at least one (and up to all three) of those days.

IRLConor

On a good week, I've one dry fire session on the SCATT (60-90mins), one live fire at 25 yds (typically < 60mins) and either a day training at 50m (3-6 x 30min) or a match.

I average about twice a week at the moment.

Kryten

Usually twice a week, and normally dry fire and holding exercises. Once a week to once a forthnight I live fire. Sometimes just go to a competition and hope for the best.

bunny shooter

I don't train ................. I go shooting ................. Lads that sounds more like going to work :eek:

It wasn't me!

bunny shooter wrote: »

I don't train ................. I go shooting ................. Lads that sounds more like going to work :eek:

If I didn't enjoy it, I'd stop.

Sparks

bunny shooter wrote: »

I don't train ................. I go shooting ................. Lads that sounds more like going to work :eek:

That's because it is work Bunny.
The fun's in the middle, but that doesn't mean it takes no effort to get there.
The payoff is that it is very, very satisfying when you do get there, especially if it took hard work to make it

bunny shooter

It wasn't me! wrote: »

If I didn't enjoy it, I'd stop.

Sparks wrote: »

That's because it is work Bunny.
The fun's in the middle, but that doesn't mean it takes no effort to get there.
The payoff is that it is very, very satisfying when you do get there, especially if it took hard work to make it

Fair enough guys if it works for ye.

I just do it to relax and I still get where I wanna be ............ enough of the time to make it worthwhile

Sparks

If it works for you Bunny, that's cool. It's what I do in pistol myself. It just wouldn't work for me with the air rifle is all - that's where I want to see just how far I can take it...

It wasn't me!

bunny shooter wrote: »

Fair enough guys if it works for ye.

I just do it to relax and I still get where I wanna be ............ enough of the time to make it worthwhile

It's the line along which people define themselves in terms of their shooting. For me, it's a serious sport and I train hard at it. It's not always fun and there are days it just doesn't seem to work, and those are awful, but they're part of a progression towards perfection. Sometimes winning, long term, is more important than having fun that day for me. Depends why you shoot and what you want to get from it. Me, I like medals.

bunny shooter

Does being so competitive not take the fun out of it?

It did/does for me

It wasn't me!

bunny shooter wrote: »

Does being so competitive not take the fun out of it?

It did/does for me

Nope. Only adds to it. Winning things is fun, but the best part is the constant progression towards perfection. Every ten I shoot deliberately, every step of the process perfectly performed, is a joy. Some day, I'll string them all together.

Sparks

bunny shooter wrote: »

Does being so competitive not take the fun out of it?
It did/does for me

Nope. I'm not competing against anyone but myself. Doesn't matter who's on the line, who wins the overall match or even who shows up. There's just me and the rifle and the target for this one shot, and if I shoot this shot perfectly, that's all I need until the next shot. I don't generally even see the score until afterwards, and usually lose count of how many shots I've fired until nearer to the end (I lay out 60 pellets in the box so I don't shoot too few/too many). It's a kind of zen thing I guess. At least on the good days.

MiGiD

I used to just shoot competitions and not train. That's still true for me for .22 but not anymore for air - it'll be interesting to see how my 'custom altered' rifle will go Friday night at training Hopefully after the summer when the air season starts I'll be ready to compete properly

I do agree that training seems an awful lot like work but I genuinely think I need the routine, structure and discipline as I've a tendency to be a bit of a flake and not see things through