I’m the first to admit that I hate winter. Especially this one where all warmth has left us Finns to the embrace of record snow falls and at worst -25 degrees Celsius temperatures and gusty winds. This has been a time, when I’ve doubted my sense to go jogging into the bitter cold. Thank the maker for gyms and central heating.
I believe that physical fitness is something Finnish Paintballers aren’t concentrating enough on. Of course we, the competition paintballers, have left behind the time, when our back players were all over 30 BMI. Still, Cyclones target for this year: getting to play all the games in the final day of all the Millennium tournaments, is something I think few of us Finns are equipped to deal with. It really takes endurance both from the body and mind to keep pushing through those snakes point after point and game after game.
The thing is; Paintball has been a geek sport and we geeks are somewhat predisposed for our favorite deadly sins, sloth and gluttony. But your body is pretty straight forward to sculpt to proper portions. Easy it’s not, candy is the crack for me, yes: ” My name is Hilu, I’m a sugar addict”. But following the following recipe you should be ok 1. Find somebody who knows his stuff (especially in sport conditioning) and do what he tells 2. Eat more healthily 3. Rinse and repeat ad nauseam 4. Profit…
This is something that’s been gone over gazillion times in all the formats imaginable and I have little to add. In the next post I’ll try to cover the more interesting mental aspects of training, so, to be continued…
Below are a couple of pictures from last winter’s physical training sessions, when we did not have such an elaborate conditioning plan laid out for us, but we started sweating none the less..
