Sports training - strong back muscle

Sept. 5, 2016

Learn from sports training -
Do some research how professional players conduct training.

Personal story to warm up the topic

Early in 1998, in Florida state of USA, Julia suffered first back pain injury because she did not exercise regularly, she could not turn one side if she lies on the bed without using her arm to help, over 1 week; In 2001, she suffered a few back pain incidents as well.

Since 2011, Julia started to play tennis regularly, invest time to do some research on fitness, nutrition. She did not have back pain anymore, because if she sits too long for a few days, she knows that back pain will come back; she takes breaks to play tennis for a few hours, a lot of running, a lot of tennis forehand swing and backhand swing, and other conditioning exercise. Hour spent on tennis, 500+ hours (Just guess, last 5 years)

So, it is important to change the life style, play more sports, be more healthy.

Now back to the topic.

Sports training / Coaching 

Julia always learns from professional tennis players, how they handle training, work with coaches, and handle difficult time as a professional player up-and-down in ranking etc.

She learns from sports, always prepare, get more training before she works on a new project in her career.

Through her tennis training, she learns from her most favorite tennis players - Angelique, Maria Sharapova, Ana, through training videos. She starts to examine her training, discipline herself, use a variety of tools, work on more warming up etc.

Sharapova training video

Ana trainging before tournament, 15 minutes warm up using medicine balls, and all other routines, using elastic strips to stretch arm muscles etc.



More training videos: (Ana Ivanovic)

Fast activity, lower center gravity, a lot of drills - work with ladders, tones, fitness trainer, stretch etc.

Do not over training, do not push too hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rXncq7dO4E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqBbuhZEKIg

Throw tennis balls, to sky, to forward, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLyv-VXW9v4

Fitness, coordination, strength, balance, speed, - scott byrnes - strength and conditioning coach
3 coordination - head and eye coordination
Prevent injury - structure in your training

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm-IO7mRRC4

How a coach helped so many WTA top players to achieve success?

http://www.wtatennis.com/news/article/5287997

Competitive Edge Sports Performance Tennis Training Drills -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dd07b1bnaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvLicjixeoc

Fitness Drills for Tennis Players - Tennis Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb4IkMbNElE

Spider's drill is such a great idea - learn how to get down low, work on quad and string muscles.

Coach's talk - more focus, move to net, top 5 players - coaching is not an easy job.

video: How to Keep Calm at Crunch Time - Ask Ian #31

April 19, 2016

To write code for a competition/ assessment is to like to play a sports match. Julia still has to work on mental toughness, and improve her probability to pass any code assessment. How to keep calm in crucial moment?

Spend a lot of hours to work on techniques, practice; but in the crucial moment, allow the pressure take control, and cannot execute as normal.

How to do your best?  practice, continue to improve and be in present. It takes a lot of discipline. A lot of experience under the situation. Be in present, problem solving.

Take notes from the talk in the video:

Key #1:
1. Be present. Do not think about past, do not think about future;

Do not allow yourself travel time line; What if you lose, do not take it too seriously; do not focus on the future outcome. Second guess themselves, it is not good.

Focus on present, problem needs to be solved.

2. Learn to embrace your nerves and anxieties. Everybody gets nervous, does not matter how good you are, how long you play. Every one has anxiety, every one has fears over winning or losing. It is natural response if you are put in the competition.

As a matter of fact, it is a great thing to feel nervous and anxiety. This shows that you care about outcome. Use it to sharpen your focus, sharpen your perform.

Do not put yourself in a downward spiral.

video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8KjshrxS48

Arguments:

Amazon hiring bar: better coding than 50% existing employees. Code assessment is just a basic skills indicator. Learn from the experience.

https://goo.gl/HkHyFV

Always memorize a bible verse to calm down:

How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.

Psalm139： 17 -18 NIV

June 14, 2016
Study 2 hours on the blog:
https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-get-over-my-failed-interview-at-Amazon


Study the article - July 4, 2016

http://firstround.com/review/Mechanize-Your-Hiring-Process-to-Make-Better-Decisions/