How long do you spend travelling vs training?

Discussion in 'General Martial Arts Discussion' started by Morik, Oct 15, 2017.

  1. Morik

    Morik Well-Known Member Supporter MAP 2017 Gold Award

    Just curious.

    For me I travel about 45 minutes out of my way for 60-90 minutes of Muay Thai, and also around 45 minutes to an hour to weight train for 60-75 minutes.
     
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  2. Rataca100

    Rataca100 Banned Banned

    I opt to not leave my town due to no personal transit. Anything outside of my town or on the outskirts or technically in limits is too unreliable to get to.

    edit: For gyms, there is at least one gym i can get to reliably and when i did go the gym time was usually 20-40 minuets.
     
  3. Travess

    Travess The Welsh MAPper Supporter

    Walking distance for me for Karate, both at for the club I train at, and the kids classes I teach at, but it's about an hours round trip, to get to and from my Judo class.

    All other training, strength, cardio etc. I do from home - I'm not much of a gym rat.

    Travess
     
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  4. Latikos

    Latikos Valued Member

    Since I don't have a car, or a drivers license even :D , I take buses and trains.
    If take the walk to the station into account it's 70-90 minutes one way.

    After training, especially on Tuesdays and Thursdays it's a while for the way back, because I have to wait 20-30 minutes until the bus comes.

    It's not ideal, but worth it.
    I would prefer it, if it was closer though :D
    I should have moved towns :D
     
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  5. Pretty In Pink

    Pretty In Pink Moved on MAP 2017 Gold Award

    About 4 miles onorth a bike for me. 15 minutes if I absolutely leg it.
     
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  6. Dan93

    Dan93 Valued Member

    Jujitsu is pretty local so about 5min drive to Smurf Dojo but train in two locations for my HMB training, one is about twenty minutes away and the other is a 2 hour trip each way which alternates each week assuming we do not have any competitions, some of which are worldwide, not at that level yet but possible events abroad next year.
     
  7. aaradia

    aaradia Choy Li Fut and Yang Tai Chi Chuan Student Moderator Supporter

    My school is only just over one mile from my house. And right on the way home from one of two freeways I can take as a route home from work.

    I am very lucky.

    I measured the distance when I first moved here!

    I think about this. My TCC instructor is also the Chief Instructor at my school location. He is the second highest person behind only my Sifu. It means he is in training to become a Sifu someday. When this happens, students will often follow their instructor to the new location to keep that instructor/ new Sifu as their personal instructor. The problem is San Diego is pretty saturated with 9 locations of my school . The next location will probably be moving into the LA/ Orange county area, or maybe even Mexico. And that travel time would severely shorten my time to train, since I work full time. So I probably won't do it. But I will be sad to have to change instructors.
     
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  8. AndrewTheAndroid

    AndrewTheAndroid A hero for fun.

    An hour there and back for an hour of training. 30 minutes on my bike. But because it a gym I could do fitness training at any time.
     
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  9. Dead_pool

    Dead_pool Spes mea in nihil Deus MAP 2017 Moi Award

    An hour of traveling overall, two hour classes, plus my own conditioning afterwards for max 30 minutes.

    So all in all its upto 3 hours 30 minutes out of the house.
     
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  10. Smaug97

    Smaug97 Valued Member

    Hmmm lets see; theres a ninjitsu class thats a half hour walk and in my town for around an hour, muay thai is 20 minute bus ride for an hour (more when i start sparring again), jiu jutsu is either a 10 minute lift or a 40 minute/25 minute journey on foot (depending on how much of it i run) for 2 hours , and finally its another half hour bus journey to my other training location for 2 hours.

    So really i personally keep it under 40 minutes travel time.
     
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  11. Jaydub

    Jaydub Valued Member

    My Dojo is a 10-15 minute drive each way, depending on traffic.

    Our classes are 90 mins in duration.
     
  12. Simon

    Simon Administrator Admin Supporter MAP 2017 Koyo Award

    Today's training was a gruelling 10 steps.

    I have a punch bag hanging at work.

    Class is about 4-5 miles away, so just 10 minutes drive and I teach 90 minute sessions.
     
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  13. Fish Of Doom

    Fish Of Doom Will : Mind : Motion Supporter

    Not currently training at any dojo, so I literally do stuff where I happen to be standing at the time or walk to another room if I need more space :p

    Have done 30-60min commutes in the past, though.
     
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  14. StooXex

    StooXex Valued Member

    One dojo is about 10 minutes walk, 90 minute sessions, generally kids class then adult class.

    The other dojo is about 10-15 minutes drive away, and that's 4 hours there. (2 kids sessions then adult session)
     
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  15. axelb

    axelb Master of Office Chair Fu

    Most places I've trained at it has been about 20 mins drive, most was traveling over an hour when I was teaching.

    At the moment one class is 10 mins, and another 15-20 minutes.
    Non martial arts;
    My gym is in my garage so that's easy to get to for lifting and bag work, and the same for running, I put my shoes on and go :D
     
  16. Mangosteen

    Mangosteen Hold strong not

    Until a judo club opened up on my bus route home, the closest club was a wrestling club about 45 minute walk through the country side (which is fine until it gets to winter in scotland) or a 30 minute walk to an hourly bus that only leaves exactly when the BJJ class starts and ends.

    Now its a regular 20 mins bus on my way home. But this is what happens when you live in a small village at the foot of the highlands and dont drive.
     
  17. Mushroom

    Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.

    I'm lucky that my MMA gym is walking distance for me. However my weightlifting gym is about 4 miles away and depending on how the public transport is acting, the journey can be anywhere between 30min to 1hr.
     
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  18. axelb

    axelb Master of Office Chair Fu

    that's a good find @Mushroom walking distance, or hobbling distance? :D

    I lived at a house for a year which was 1 house away from a Judo club; it was labelled, training in a church. I never knew about it until after I moved away :oops:
     
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  19. Mushroom

    Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.

    I was lucky that they opened up and as soon as I saw the coach inside and asked when he was gonna open, I signed up before they officially launched. Because I saw "Catch Wrestling" in their logo!
     
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