Fitness from home
Sailing Today|April 2021
There has never been a better time to train from home than now. Even in normal times, just think how much time you would save. Jon Emmett provides some pointers on best technique
Jon Emmett
Fitness from home

Humans like routine and a regular activity gets done. It is habit forming, just like brushing your teeth first thing in the morning [yes believe it or not it is best to brush your teeth before breakfast to remove the bacteria before you eat]. So, let us start from the beginning.

When you first wake up your body’s top priority is hydration. You need to have something to drink, since it has been many hours since you have had any fluid intake. A quick plain glass of water first thing does the trick and requires almost zero effort. This is important to keep your internal organs working well. You certainly don’t want to train dehydrated (or indeed race or do any physical activity dehydrated).

Different people have different body clocks: some are early risers or ‘Larks’ and some are late sleepers or ‘Owls’. Regardless of this the best time to train, when your body is strongest, is usually around two hours after your first meal of the day. Exactly what you should eat before, after (and even during) exercise is a topic for another article.

The important thing is the routine, training at time that fits your schedule and that you can keep to. My suggestion would be to train three days on and one day off but for many it may be more appropriate to train fixed days of the week and I would therefore suggest two days off. In terms of timing, it is good to have a rest day, the day before you have an important task, whether that task is physical or mental. So perhaps you have Saturdays and Tuesdays off because you do club racing on Sundays and Wednesdays… the devil is always in the detail.

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