To Train....Or not to Train?

[spiderchoke]

That is the question.

What would it take for you personally to decide that it was time to stop training in whatever you currently train in?

I mean to discontinue completely.
No more ever again.


I am just curious, if there would be anything that would make you waver in your determination, or make you lose your drive to train.

"Everyday spent training is one day closer to learning something."
.....Spiderchoke

[SweepEm]

there are only two reasons I would stop training:

when it wasn't fun anymore

when I had a serious injury or illness

I've been training martial arts for over 15 years and a few times I felt burnt out and stopped a while but eventually I had the motivation and desire to start and did so.

[Mr. Heel Hook]

Yeah, I think it would only be if I was like...missing limbs or was maimed by a bear.... which could be one in the same.

[MrPoopy]

I don't train right now and haven't for a few months. So I guess I've stopped training.

Since my wife is now staying home with our new child, I have to try to compensate for the loss of income, so it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for martial arts. I was also planning on attending a couple of college classes.

I was studying Judo and making some progress before I stopped.

I've done it so little in the past 6 months that if I went back tomorrow it would be like starting all over again. No stamina and everything I'd try to do would be sloppy.

[Mr. Heel Hook]

Originally posted by MrPoopy

I've done it so little in the past 6 months that if I went back tomorrow it would be like starting all over again. No stamina and everything I'd try to do would be sloppy.

Still though, my friend, something is always better than absolutly nothing.

[Half-Asleep]

for me to stop training permanently it would take prolly serious injury or sickness

[MrBoxerGrappler]

Well odly enough I have stopped training save for the every now and then grappling with Mr. Heel Hook or his student, I haven't trained boxing in close to five years, I work almost seven days a week (almost becuase somedays I work 6) Have a finacee and a baby due on the 4th of nov...and you know what....My desire to train is almost overwellming me...I have been drooling over getting back on the bag and that mat, I have been bugging the hell out of Heel Hook too...heh... Since he still trains and I do not.

[Lizard]

I'll stop training when it is no longer worth training.

The question is:

I am spending ? amount of hours training and it's costing me ? amount of money. I am getting ? amount of self defense training, ? amount of excersise and ? amount of fun.

Is this a good deal?

[Nutz]

I stopped training for about 8 years. I was pretty much burned out after 2 years of training 20+ hours a week. However, I've always regretted not sticking with it. Looking back at it I realize that I had too much of a good thing and should have just decreased the amount I was training and trained with other instructors more. Its true what they say about variety being the spice of life.

[swan104]

Same for me. I'll stop training when I don't find it fun, or if I get injured.

There was a period when I stopped training for about a year, which I regret doing now. Going back to training was always at the back of my head, but it was taking that first step all over again.

I bumped into a guy who I used ot train with and that made me realise how important the martial arts were for me. That made me start training again a week later.

I'm sure there will be times when I need a break from training just to re-evaluate my goals etc, but I can't see me being away from the martial arts for too long.

[spiderchoke]

I took a sabbatical from training too for a year, then got back into it. Then due to moving to an area without the opportunity to train, I missed another year. During my time off. I realized that there was something very important missing in my life. I wasn’t happy. I was less patient with everything. I was less focused. I was less successful.

I then realized that I would not be happy in life without the three rivers of energy for me. My family, My career, My training. I am incomplete without the total package.

It would take a serious event to stop me from pursuing the arts.

“Everyday spent training is one day closer to learning something.”
…..Spiderchoke

[dkm]

for the folks who are saying "I'll stop training when it is no longer fun", I would like to know how exactly do you make getting punch in the face and getting choked a "fun" experience?

[swan104]

I think thats the whole irony of the martial arts!! I can't really answer whats so fun about getting punched or choked out? I honestly don't know!

Its like asking a Shaolin monk how you can achieve enlightenment through learning to kill someone? I'm sure there are explanations around, but you have to feel it to understand.

[dkm]

Originally posted by swan104
I think thats the whole irony of the martial arts!! I can't really answer whats so fun about getting punched or choked out? I honestly don't know!

Its like asking a Shaolin monk how you can achieve enlightenment through learning to kill someone? I'm sure there are explanations around, but you have to feel it to understand.

Oh I've felt it hundreds of times to the point where I had to have an operation on my ACL. But that doesn't mean it's anymore fun than the first time I took a hit or felt the lights getting dimmer.