Laying here in my bed in Hua Hin, Thailand and the time is 7.50 PM. I’m exhausted after a long day-flight down here from Stockholm and I only slept about two hours. My goal today was to stay awake until about now and then try to sleep a whole night. On, the plane down, I had a lot of time to think about golf and training. I also read some very interesting things in some magazines about just training. The most interesting thing was an interview in the Swedish magazine ”MAN” with the former world champion wrestler Martin Lidberg. 

Like I’ve said many times before, I easily get impressed and motivated about hearing and reading about other sportsmen’s training regimen. Martin Lidberg’s regimen is among the craziest I’ve ever heard of. First of all, training and exercising wrestling has to be one of the toughest things you can do. Second of all, when Martin had won everything, he decided to change weight class for the World Championships in -03. He went from the 82 kg to the 96kg class. Everybody laughed at him when he decided to do so but he didn’t care what others thought and started training harder than ever before. He worked out for 4 hours a day to put on the necessary kilograms. He was always on the line of overtraining himself. One time, he did. He had a black out and was hospitalized for a few days. The doctor ordered him to have a longer rest and not start training until he was perfectly rested and fit again. Martin didn’t listen and trained even harder. He said his only goal each day was to survive the brutal training he ahead of him. Do I need to say that he won the 2003 World Championships in the 96 kg weight class. ”

So, I decided to work a little harder and get used to working hard. Now, when I go pretty hard I get easily tired and have to rest a little to feel fresh again. I want to be able to train hard and still feel fresh. I know for a fact, that I train way less than wrestlers for example. The only difference is that they are use to training hard. With this new motivation and desire to get better I have a plan for my little training week here in Thailand at Black Mountain Golf Club. Here it is:

30th Dec- 04.45 AM Running 30 minutes plus abs and flexibility

  06.15 AM 18 worseball 

  12.00 AM-16.00 PM Golf training (putting, shortgame, range or playing on the course with the other                                        players)

   16.45 PM-17.45 PM Workout

31st Dec- Same as above except no running in the morning

1st Jan- Same as 30th

2nd Jan- Same as 31st 

3rd Jan- Same as 30th

4th Jan- Same as 31st

5th Jan- No gym and only casual golf training. Heading to Royal Trophy in the evening.

My goal is to accomplish this. I have never followed a schedule before but I’ll be very proud of myself if I can follow this one.

Hope all is good with you guys!

Back soon with pics from this cool place!