Jorg's Brain Log

End of the week and the start of the new one. What was on my list for last week?

Basic schedule for week 40 (September 28 - October 4)

• Rest: Workdays get up at 6am and go to bed at midnight. 6 hours of rest.
• Running: 3 times in the morning. Getting the blisters away with 5×5 minute runs with 1 minute rest in between.
• Freediving: Pool session on Wednesday. Do a dry walk or static when I feel like it.
• Food: Start eating regularly 3 times a day on workdays. Not yet paleo style but no snacks after dinner! Soda light no problem.
• Mental: Read some books and start writing regularly again.

All in all I can say that I had a good week. The early wakeup is doing me good and giving a lot of energy. The last run, today, was not so good. I started way to fast and payed the price halfway. Lesson learned.

Freediving in the pool was also fun, but not a good training at all. I’m really missing the dedicated lane to train seriously again. On Saturday we went to visit the Wiesbaden competition, and it was a lot of fun again. I want to train pool freediving again! Wow…

Food is going good. 3 times a day cycle is back again. Sometimes small snack in the evening that needs to be replaced with vegetables or something like that. But all in all I’m happy. Book reading is also up to speed so gaining new knowledge everyday with the speed of light.

Next Step

Jorg talking with Erik van Riet Paap

Now that the first 4 weeks are over, it’s clear that this schedule is a new habit and I see no problem continuing with the basic part. Now it’s time to add some small things again.

From this week on, I will be working from my home office again, so it’s important to keep up to speed and get out of bed early in the morning, like I did in the last weeks. While proven not to be a problem while working from an office, now I need to prove myself that the same thing is possible while working from home. Discipline!

Running will remain at 3 times a week. The coming week I will run 4 times 7 minutes and will see how it goes. If I keep a consistent speed I don’t expect any problems anymore, but you never know.

Sanne and I really need to find a solution for our freediving training. Dedicated lane is really a must have, so I’ll make this a top priority to arrange. In the mean time, we will keep doing one pool session per week for now. Furthermore I will renew my dry static schedule I wanted to do last month with a dry static/walk schedule. 6 days a week doing a pool training, dry static or dry walk session of max 15 minutes again for 4 weeks straight. Lets see if this brings enough diversity to keep me going.

In the coming 4 weeks I’ll keep the food intake the same. Focusing more on the time I eat and not in the evening anymore. Next month I start with paleo food again.

Mental part stays the same as well. Book reading is going great. I think I’ve got now 8 books in my new book closet that I didn’t read yet, so I don’t have to order any books in the coming month.

In short, the two changes I will implement is that I will do freediving 6 days a week and I stop eating after dinner, except for the weekends. In my new schedule it will look like this:

Basic schedule for week 41 (October 5 - October 11)

• Rest: Workdays get up at 6am and go to bed at midnight. 6 hours of rest.
• Running: 3 times in the morning. Getting the blisters away with 4×7 minute runs with 1 minute rest in between.
• Freediving: Pool session on Wednesday. Do a dry walk or static on 5 other days.
• Food: Start eating regularly 3 times a day on workdays. Not yet paleo style but no snacks after dinner! Soda light no problem.
• Mental: Read some books and start writing regularly again.