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Germany767 Posts
Hello everyone,
I'll dedicate this blog to how I want to become a pro-gamer. Even though I make my living from gaming, I never considered myself a true professional. Most of the past years have been pretty unstructured and I haven't consistently been working towards my goals.
I'm an easily distracted person. When I was in school I was usually always the best when we started covering a new topic, but slowly became closer to average as I lost interest and something new grasped my attention. I pick things up quickly, but I am also lazy and unfocused. It happens a lot to me that when I am thinking and try to solve a problem I end up thinking about everything but the thing at hand.
The same applies to SC2 as well, rather than optimising 1 style I usually shift every now and then how I approach the game, which isn't necessarily bad but definitely needs to be structured better. For that reason I finally want to start living on a proper training schedule, hoping to gain more consistency. I figured I should share it with you so you guys can hold me accountable for when I seem to be lazy!
Here's my first timetable, consider it a work in progress!
Just to explain some things in the schedule that might not be entirely clear:
"preparing the day": includes doing groceries for the day, breakfast, hygiene and a light workout. I come to the conclusion that a proper start in the day is absolutely vital for my training and performance in tournaments.
"doing something nice": Once a week I'll try to get completely away from all stress, go to a spa get a massage relax in the sauna. Shut off and rejuvenate. Training all week long can be pretty taxing so I think I'll gain a lot from having some time for myself to recover.
Sunday is my tournament day that I'll try to dedicate entirely to playing online cups and learning habits that are useful in offline competitions, basically simulating events as close as I can from home.
This is my first complete version and I am sure it'll require a lot of tweaking still. I'll try to follow this for 1 month and then see if need to revise it, whether I can do with less sleep, add more sports and maybe need to increase the amount of sc2 practiced. Sometimes the schedule will have to be adjusted a bit, for example when I am playing team leagues or participating in cups other than on Sunday. I'll probably play from time to time on my free day as well but shouldn't overdo it, as its point is to make the rest of my week more efficient.
I realise the last few months my training was really sub-par. It took me a long time to find my own apartment in Berlin, I still don't have internet at my new place thanks to ISPs sucking... and the winter has been extremely depressing. However now Heart of The Swarm is changing things up and spring is finally breaking through in Berlin. No more slacking. 
Big shout out to Robert, Steffi and my brother Aurel who have been excellent coaches!
I'll give you guys an update after i48!
 
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Good luck TLO!! Surely looks like a cool schedule
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Good. And good luck. 
Btw, what have you planed to become more constant or coherent over time game-play wise ? I mean, if you play a lot and regularly but keep shifting the way you play, it might be pointless, no ?
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Germany767 Posts
On March 14 2013 07:46 Serimek wrote:Good. And good luck. Btw, what have you planed to become more constant or coherent over time game-play wise ? I mean, if you play a lot and regularly but keep shifting the way you play, it might be pointless, no ?
I'll get more into that in my next blog entry
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I am exactly the same way. Super motivated, interested and successful at the beginning of any undertaking, and then it tapers off over time. I'm glad you found your focus, it's not easy. Best of luck! TLO hwaiting!
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Goodluck with your training TLO, will be sick to meet you again at i48 xD
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Sick schedule man. I really like it.
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Everything worth achieving takes time and effort. And I know your hard work is going to pay off, Dario.
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Looks good! But be careful with structuring your time too much. Having 30 minutes to an hour of free time before bed might help you unwind, sleep better, and give you a chance to think about how you are performing. Just a thought. Good luck! I'm rooting for you
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Best of luck, kind sir.
I'll be trying to sort out my day and thus my own practice soon myself, so might inspire myself in your endeavours. Don't go lazy on me now! :D
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Hope everything goes well. Atleast for me, its a total headache to get anything done without some kind of schedule/plan, so hope planning will help you do better(even though you broke my heart by switching zerg).
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Germany767 Posts
On March 14 2013 07:52 Arabidopsis wrote:
Looks good! But be careful with structuring your time too much. Having 30 minutes to an hour of free time before bed might help you unwind, sleep better, and give you a chance to think about how you are performing. Just a thought. Good luck! I'm rooting for you
well I usually go to bed around 0:30 to 1:00 so I'll have time to unwind. I don't need a lot of sleep usually
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Good luck with this TLO!
Schedule looks really interesting, maybe I'll try something like this during my summer break. Seems much more efficient.
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Good luck TLO!! :D
Looks like a good schedule, hoping it works well for you
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United States37500 Posts
The schedule is readable but still pretty small.
Good luck TLO!
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Good luck Dario!
Nice schedule, I think I'm going to convert it for my studies!
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Yay TLO GL
Should have some "meet friend time" imo!
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oh little one, i wish you the best! viel Glück bei der Erfüllung aller Zerg Träume  strenger Plan! nice shedule! i need more chillout, like after every single game
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Glad you meditate.
It does good things for the mind.
Your mind's a great force!
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GL TLO! Hope all goes well and hopefully you'll become the next MLG/DH/AUSREP/GSL/OGN champion!
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Good luck TLO, HotS is a new game so I expect you to excel!
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i'd advice meditation (30mins) and 1 hour technical SC2 practice everyday. latter stems from my experience with learning guitar. think about your keyboard like a guitar and you wanna play as fast and precise as john petrucci. i think there's no way to get there unless you consciously focus.
i wonder what you mean by "SC2 stamina". i can only imagine it's gonna be similar to what i call "technical practice"?
i once read that rats were able to learn the best when they regularly exercized. you could try doing 5 minutes of cardio every hour.
another idea, coming from my experience with poker. both self-reflection and reflection are sickly important. i'm not sure if an hour a week does this justice. i feel you should regularly take the time to watch a replay of yours with an open mind.
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This sounds great TLO! You are an inspiration, and I really hope it all works well for you!
Will you marry me?
-Jordan Navarra
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TLO fighting! Hope a regular schedule gets you the results that you desire!
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GL man...this schedule looks pretty tight. I'd need a lot more sleep than you do though
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United States996 Posts
From experience I can say making a schedule is far easier than following it. Hopefully you have the uncompromising willpower to keep on track with yours.
Good luck with it all.
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Bisutopia19216 Posts
I noticed that showers wasn't in there. Can you confirm that liquid players do indeed take showers?
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what program did you use to make the schedule?
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Stream less and practice (not just play games) against other pro's.
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It's interesting how common this "distractibility" issue is among gamers. I think it's because games force you to pay attention to different things at the same time, so the various attention focuses relieve the person's need to shift focus between things. I have the same problem.
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Which one's going to break first, Sheth's new diet or TLO's new schedule?
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Please, don't consider like sleep is a waste of time, the more well rested you are, the more you get from all day's training.
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Oh snap, good luck!
Pretty cool that you've made yourself a schedule. Time to get down to business, hope to see you improving a ton :D
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GO TLO! hint: please don't gain weight with snack time lol
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I like the title of going pro and it's nice to have a free day to recoup.
Let's see how this works out for you Dario.
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Wow, I wish that was my life.
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Good luck man! I hope you keep at it. First few days may feel easy to achieve this, but you really need to maintain motivation to continue for months.
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I think this is awesome! I think that you have the skill to take a MLG or IEM for sure! And with this "training schedule" i think that you will be able to hone in on the awesomeness that you have and show everyone else out there how awesome you are!
(p.s. sorry for the fan-boy-ish-ness..I just dont normally see something that really excites me lol I'm lame I know :D)
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Nice schedule bro! I need to do something like that for my time off.
If you want to keep it really strict, you can try this Checks System someone told me about once. The Checks System is, you have a calendar on the wall that you never write in. It's just a clean calendar with nice/relaxing/motivating pictures. If you make a major break from the schedule you mark it on the calendar. Try to keep the calendar clean!
Good luck and I hope you make great progress toward your goals.
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If anyone can do it, it would be you, TLO. Make your dream come true!
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Love your blogs TLO, so does it mean that you sleep around 6 hours?
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Entire schedule should be filled with SC2 for best results.
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Calgary25976 Posts
Can I ask why you chose this on / off structure? Why didn't you try wake up, work for 4 hours, 30 minute lunch, work for 4 hours, free time? Just curious why that wouldn't work for SC2. It seems like you're averaging ~8 hours/day anyways.
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I don't see any ladytime in that schedule?! Looks pretty neat though - glhf!
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Looks really great! I hope you will be able to keep that schedule so we´ll see you rise! TLO 2.0 incoming!
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Keep up the good work Dario and never forget - your great fan base
supports you because of the person you are, not the results they want to see.
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Germany767 Posts
On March 14 2013 08:25 TheSeed wrote:
Yay TLO GL
Should have some "meet friend time" imo!
saturday is my free day! So I have time to be social ^^
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Germany767 Posts
On March 14 2013 15:12 Chill wrote:
Can I ask why you chose this on / off structure? Why didn't you try wake up, work for 4 hours, 30 minute lunch, work for 4 hours, free time? Just curious why that wouldn't work for SC2. It seems like you're averaging ~8 hours/day anyways.
Well the idea behind it is that sc2 practice is really intense and becomes less effective the longer you're going, because you're simply not able to focus 100% for long periods of times. So by cutting it into smaller segments I hope to be able to get more out of each session.
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good luck TLO! :D hope you do good with that!
will you be streaming sc2 when you have good internet?
which scheduling program did you use?
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Oh man, I wish you the best TLO! It's gonna take some serious self-discipline, but we have faith in you, do it!
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Nice work
Some small suggestions - I like that you include running and swimming - help a lot. If you want to have even more healthy lifestyle consider having constant hours for your meals (I know, it's a bitch) and rather 5 meals a day than 2-3.
I am sure I don't have to tell you that feeling and staying fit helps a lot - also and most importantly mentally.
Good luck
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Germany767 Posts
On March 14 2013 16:58 Cracy wrote:Nice work Some small suggestions - I like that you include running and swimming - help a lot. If you want to have even more healthy lifestyle consider having constant hours for your meals (I know, it's a bitch) and rather 5 meals a day than 2-3. I am sure I don't have to tell you that feeling and staying fit helps a lot - also and most importantly mentally. Good luck
I choose to not have regular meals because I feel it's dangerous for me to condition my body on getting food at specific hours. You have to follow the schedule of tournaments at events and if you have a match during your daily lunch time it might be bad. But not sure yet, 5 meals might be a good idea though. As I said this is the first time ever I'm on a schedule like that so it'll need lots of improvement in the future
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getting something nice - BJ XD?
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This is the first step to committment, awesome! I hope you will continuously write about your furthers steps - the easy and the hard ones. Do you have any (small) goals other than tournaments on Sunday that you have set yourself?
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Looking good! Just don't cut too much off from sleep, it's more important than most people give credit.
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i find there are only 2 important times in a daily schedual - the time you go to bed, and the time you get up and shower, eat and GO. sort these 2 out and stuff inbetween will be a lot easier and satisfying.
if i were you i'd do like
a) turn off computer at 9pm, read a book if you want with the intention of sleeping around 10pm (or before!)
b) if you wake up in the night, toilet and drink a glass of water but do not turn the computer on - read if you need to and try to immediately sleep again
c) hopefully you'll wake up naturally around like 9-10am, get up and eat immediately, then shower and stretch as you're getting dry. it helps to have a broomstick handle, you can do squats with it which are amazing for hip mobility
d) get dressed and fucking goooo
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FFGenerations wrote:
i find there are only 2 important times in a daily schedual - the time you go to bed, and the time you get up and shower, eat and GO. sort these 2 out and stuff inbetween will be a lot easier and satisfying.
if i were you i'd do like
a) turn off computer at 9pm, read a book if you want with the intention of sleeping around 10pm (or before!)
b) if you wake up in the night, toilet and drink a glass of water but do not turn the computer on - read if you need to and try to immediately sleep again
c) hopefully you'll wake up naturally around like 9-10am, get up and eat immediately, then shower and stretch as you're getting dry. it helps to have a broomstick handle, you can do squats with it which are amazing for hip mobility
d) get dressed and fucking goooo
that's like 11-12 hours of sleep... that's crazy haha you dont have time to sleep that much if you want to be successful friend
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Hey Dario,
I think its very good that you put time and thought into how to be a better gamer. I feel a lot of pros live their dream in being a progamer but don't actually live like its their job. While you make a living out of progaming I feel like investing time into it is a great thing to do. While I don't know how you did live and practice in the past and how much your CTS (hope I did take the right term) allows you to play without a break in between, I think your schedule could be re-worked as you mentioned over time.
Being strict with yourself, having a schedule is a good thing overall, but its bad as soon as you start forcing it onto yourself. I'll put a bit of criticism / feedback in here. If you want to apply that or ignore, its up to you, just trying to give you some personal and general experience with scheduling days/weeks.
When I was playing at my peak and I actually enjoyed playing more than 12 hours a day, one comes to mind: Its exhausting. While players that are not on a high level might disagree, I am pretty sure you would agree that its not just mentally but also physically exhausting to be focused a lot of hours straight up. You are on a level that should put you under a lot of stress which strains the body. So having physical workout in your schedule is something I really find fitting. Not only for balancing your time on the computer, but also for overall healthyness.
One point I would disagree with is your 'opening' if you want to have it in Starcraft terms. While some people don't need a lot of sleep and get a long with it, you might still feel improvement when you have a good sleeping schedule. As funny as it sounds, I'd rather cut an hour of Starcraft instead of an hour of sleep, because it hurts you less. Sleep affects contentration and your whole day, while 1 hour of less Starcraft or freetime does not or not in such a scale.
You mentioned that you go to bed at around midnight to 1 AM, which is really late if you get up at 7:30AM. Your body should get 8 hours of sleep average which is basic term if you do sports of any kind. You don't do as much sports as an athlete, but neither do you live as healthy (I suppose) nor do you have less stress and strain on your body. As mentioned, I'd take out 1 hour / half an our of anything and put more time to sleep. When you never really had a schedule before you will notice that its more exhausting than doing whatever you want, when you feel like it. If I could give any insight on sleeping, I'd suggest a pitch black room. Try to avoid LEDs / lights of any sort, try to get your room cool and filled with fresh air before you sleep if you dislike sleeping with your window open and as you already put in your schedule, stick away from computer/really pushing things (brain-wise). This could greatly improve sleeping and fight exhaustion.
Even as a progamer I think free time / other activity is important. You are not directly competing with Korea and while I think their superior (in most cases) mechanics and game evolves around hard practice and a lot of it, I think having a balanced life and time to think allows for an equally good game. Its not like you don't play a lot.
Other than that, as Chill mentioned. I don't know if you do that kind of on/off schedule of playing starcraft and mixing free time because your hand/health condition doesn't allow otherwise or if you simply do not like a long sitting and having freetime after. While I think your schedule has its downsides, I also think it has a lot of advantages. While a long session can and will improve stamina a short session will allow a higher level of gameplay for that time and time to rethink the games after.
If there is anything more than running/swimming you like, I could suggest to do a bit of crossfit. It will improve overall physical fitness and is really straining. Might want to do it in the end of the day if you are not used to it, as your muscles will be sore haha. (can start easy though)
http://www.learncrossfit.com/
Example taken from there (first site right now even, as benchmark of fitness)
For Time:
Run 400m
21 Push ups (the females will do these on their knees)
21 Squats
5 Burpees
Run 400m
15 Push ups
15 Squats
5 Burpees
Run 400m
9 Push ups
9 Squats
5 Burpees
Take your time for that, improve it... move on to harder excersize if its too easy ! Good luck living your dream and improving your level, I'll follow your progress!
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TLADT24920 Posts
That's a nice organized timetable. Make sure not to get completely stuck with the times planned as in be a bit flexible. You don't have to start exactly at 9, 9:10 is still ok and if something comes up that's important, adjust the schedule. Life is full of surprises and a strict schedule while is beneficial also has its drawbacks. GL!
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Hell Yeah! Looks like a great plan TLO, STICK TO IT! I'm rooting for you.
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To be honest, I think the "playing SC2" part is too little. That's your fulltime job so it should be at least 8 hours per day. Comparing to how much the Korean pro's play, if you want a chance against them you can't get away with less than 8h / day.
View this as constructive feedback.
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its not all about how much you practice, really, it is about how efficient your practice time is
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Germany767 Posts
+ Show Spoiler +On March 14 2013 17:47 Type|NarutO wrote:Hey Dario, I think its very good that you put time and thought into how to be a better gamer. I feel a lot of pros live their dream in being a progamer but don't actually live like its their job. While you make a living out of progaming I feel like investing time into it is a great thing to do. While I don't know how you did live and practice in the past and how much your CTS (hope I did take the right term) allows you to play without a break in between, I think your schedule could be re-worked as you mentioned over time. Being strict with yourself, having a schedule is a good thing overall, but its bad as soon as you start forcing it onto yourself. I'll put a bit of criticism / feedback in here. If you want to apply that or ignore, its up to you, just trying to give you some personal and general experience with scheduling days/weeks. When I was playing at my peak and I actually enjoyed playing more than 12 hours a day, one comes to mind: Its exhausting. While players that are not on a high level might disagree, I am pretty sure you would agree that its not just mentally but also physically exhausting to be focused a lot of hours straight up. You are on a level that should put you under a lot of stress which strains the body. So having physical workout in your schedule is something I really find fitting. Not only for balancing your time on the computer, but also for overall healthyness. One point I would disagree with is your 'opening' if you want to have it in Starcraft terms. While some people don't need a lot of sleep and get a long with it, you might still feel improvement when you have a good sleeping schedule. As funny as it sounds, I'd rather cut an hour of Starcraft instead of an hour of sleep, because it hurts you less. Sleep affects contentration and your whole day, while 1 hour of less Starcraft or freetime does not or not in such a scale. You mentioned that you go to bed at around midnight to 1 AM, which is really late if you get up at 7:30AM. Your body should get 8 hours of sleep average which is basic term if you do sports of any kind. You don't do as much sports as an athlete, but neither do you live as healthy (I suppose) nor do you have less stress and strain on your body. As mentioned, I'd take out 1 hour / half an our of anything and put more time to sleep. When you never really had a schedule before you will notice that its more exhausting than doing whatever you want, when you feel like it. If I could give any insight on sleeping, I'd suggest a pitch black room. Try to avoid LEDs / lights of any sort, try to get your room cool and filled with fresh air before you sleep if you dislike sleeping with your window open and as you already put in your schedule, stick away from computer/really pushing things (brain-wise). This could greatly improve sleeping and fight exhaustion. Even as a progamer I think free time / other activity is important. You are not directly competing with Korea and while I think their superior (in most cases) mechanics and game evolves around hard practice and a lot of it, I think having a balanced life and time to think allows for an equally good game. Its not like you don't play a lot. Other than that, as Chill mentioned. I don't know if you do that kind of on/off schedule of playing starcraft and mixing free time because your hand/health condition doesn't allow otherwise or if you simply do not like a long sitting and having freetime after. While I think your schedule has its downsides, I also think it has a lot of advantages. While a long session can and will improve stamina a short session will allow a higher level of gameplay for that time and time to rethink the games after. If there is anything more than running/swimming you like, I could suggest to do a bit of crossfit. It will improve overall physical fitness and is really straining. Might want to do it in the end of the day if you are not used to it, as your muscles will be sore haha. (can start easy though) http://www.learncrossfit.com/Example taken from there (first site right now even, as benchmark of fitness) For Time: Run 400m 21 Push ups (the females will do these on their knees) 21 Squats 5 Burpees Run 400m 15 Push ups 15 Squats 5 Burpees Run 400m 9 Push ups 9 Squats 5 Burpees Take your time for that, improve it... move on to harder excersize if its too easy ! Good luck living your dream and improving your level, I'll follow your progress!
Crossfit is definitely something I want to look into, I do pushups, chrunches and pullups at home every morning. It's included in preparing the day basically ^^ but I could try to integrate into my running as well, sounds like lots of fun.
I hope to have a more intense trainings schedule in 2-3 weeks, this is just to get used to things.
About the sleeping, I feel really comfortable sleeping 6-7 hours day. Sleeping longer than that I usually feel less refreshed, I think it's pretty individual. For me it seems to work just fine.
Thanks for your response!
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First of all I want to say that I have same problem as you, concentration wise. As far as some theme go proportionaly I lose all the interest for it. Thats why I am stuck with studies a little longer, instead of learning my book, I red all but faculty one's and had learned a lot but not what I needed.
Why I was saying this? Because I found the solution for it. To maintaine desire to play you must have few goals, on daily basis and a final one. Lets take for example my exam. If I must learn 800 pages for exam which is for 2 months, I must split number of pages per day and number of times I need to read the book. So daily goal is to reach certain number of pages, lets say 30-40, and final one is to pass the exam. So, if you have final goal to win, for ex. Dreamhack, I think its good to set daily goal on reaching certain number of wins on ladder/custom matches. So basically you must force yourself, (without specific time schedule, which can make things worse), to win certain amont of games/points no matter what happened that day. That way, you will turn off gimicky play because it can "make your goal potentially unreachable" and force yourself to learn playstyles which suits you the best and practice only that ones (which is probably why Koreans are dominating, they are practicing one thing 20000 times until they are past over it). Also, it can give you will to play at the times game is boring to you, because you must do the schedule to reach final goal.
Sorry for bad English, I hope you understood me, and I hope that this can help you even a little bit.
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New schedule to put TL(O) back on track again, Korean style. 9:30 sc2 a day minimum! Foreigners so lax...
08:00 - 08:30 get up, wash, shave, ramen
08:30 - 11:30 sc2
11:30 - 12:30 ramen and football
12:30 - 18:00 sc2
18:00 - 19:00 ramen and walk outside
19:00 - 22:00 sc2
22:00 - 23:00 fitness
24:00 - 08:00 sleep
And of course you won't get the weekends off, what were you thinking?! You may take 5 min/hour to do 50 pushups and 50 squats. If you're doing well again, you'll get half a day off in the weekend, which you'll voluntarily spend playing sc2 of course.
I saw EG hired that geezer from SKT1, good move, but send me a PM Nazgul, for although IM has been pressing hard, I'm sure I could make myself available for the good cause.
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To people saying you need at least 8 hours of sleep to do any kind of professional sports is not true. A perfect example of this is Kobe Bryant who only sleeps 3-4 hours and he's the best player in the NBA.
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On March 14 2013 19:19 Bumblebee wrote:
To people saying you need at least 8 hours of sleep to do any kind of professional sports is not true. A perfect example of this is Kobe Bryant who only sleeps 3-4 hours and he's the best player in the NBA.
but Kobe probably has power naps in the plane since an NBA team is on the road half the season. But i agree with you, you don't need the classic 8 hours of sleep, i have been doing with between 6-8 hours for years and i never felt any breakdown in my day cycle, neither i felt the need to sleep in the afternoon or after lunch.
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On March 14 2013 18:31 nepeta wrote:
New schedule to put TL(O) back on track again, Korean style. 9:30 sc2 a day minimum! Foreigners so lax...
08:00 - 08:30 get up, wash, shave, ramen
08:30 - 11:30 sc2
11:30 - 12:30 ramen and football
12:30 - 18:00 sc2
18:00 - 19:00 ramen and walk outside
19:00 - 22:00 sc2
22:00 - 23:00 fitness
24:00 - 08:00 sleep
And of course you won't get the weekends off, what were you thinking?! You may take 5 min/hour to do 50 pushups and 50 squats. If you're doing well again, you'll get half a day off in the weekend, which you'll voluntarily spend playing sc2 of course.
I saw EG hired that geezer from SKT1, good move, but send me a PM Nazgul, for although IM has been pressing hard, I'm sure I could make myself available for the good cause.
ehhhh...is this the IM coach XD? Let him decide his own schedule ^^ he is just experimenting now. As far as it goes for being unfocused when you have a lot of stuff to do, I feel the same! When I have lots of stuff to do at the same time I tend to not do anything of it all and get lazy. Happy to know that a lot of people are the same like me :D
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On March 14 2013 19:19 Bumblebee wrote:
To people saying you need at least 8 hours of sleep to do any kind of professional sports is not true. A perfect example of this is Kobe Bryant who only sleeps 3-4 hours and he's the best player in the NBA.
Exactly. EVen for science, Nikola Tesla slept only 4 hours per day whole his life. It's dependant of person. I know a girl who needs to sleep 12 hours, otherwise, she doesent have energy to live
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TArujo wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2013 19:19 Bumblebee wrote:
To people saying you need at least 8 hours of sleep to do any kind of professional sports is not true. A perfect example of this is Kobe Bryant who only sleeps 3-4 hours and he's the best player in the NBA. but Kobe probably has power naps in the plane since an NBA team is on the road half the season. But i agree with you, you don't need the classic 8 hours of sleep, i have been doing with between 6-8 hours for years and i never felt any breakdown in my day cycle, neither i felt the need to sleep in the afternoon or after lunch.
No, he's actually specifically stated many times that he only sleeps 3-4 hours and that's it. There are many blogs and interviews about it and peoples experience with him -- he's really inspirational as a person and athlete in how he perceives things and works.
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On March 14 2013 19:52 Bumblebee wrote:Show nested quote +TArujo wrote:On March 14 2013 19:19 Bumblebee wrote:
To people saying you need at least 8 hours of sleep to do any kind of professional sports is not true. A perfect example of this is Kobe Bryant who only sleeps 3-4 hours and he's the best player in the NBA. but Kobe probably has power naps in the plane since an NBA team is on the road half the season. But i agree with you, you don't need the classic 8 hours of sleep, i have been doing with between 6-8 hours for years and i never felt any breakdown in my day cycle, neither i felt the need to sleep in the afternoon or after lunch. No, he's actually specifically stated many times that he only sleeps 3-4 hours and that's it. There are many blogs and interviews about it and peoples experience with him -- he's really inspirational as a person and athlete in how he perceives things and works.
Works for one athlete in the world - must be good for everyone. Good logic you have there!
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Germany767 Posts
Type|NarutO wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2013 19:52 Bumblebee wrote:TArujo wrote:On March 14 2013 19:19 Bumblebee wrote:
To people saying you need at least 8 hours of sleep to do any kind of professional sports is not true. A perfect example of this is Kobe Bryant who only sleeps 3-4 hours and he's the best player in the NBA. but Kobe probably has power naps in the plane since an NBA team is on the road half the season. But i agree with you, you don't need the classic 8 hours of sleep, i have been doing with between 6-8 hours for years and i never felt any breakdown in my day cycle, neither i felt the need to sleep in the afternoon or after lunch. No, he's actually specifically stated many times that he only sleeps 3-4 hours and that's it. There are many blogs and interviews about it and peoples experience with him -- he's really inspirational as a person and athlete in how he perceives things and works. Works for one athlete in the world - must be good for everyone. Good logic you have there!
The point is everyone works differently and I know from myself that I have higher winrates and better focus with LESS sleep
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Dario,
to be honest, from my point of view your weekly schedule looks rather good already.
- you have about 40h/week for SC2, which is roughly the usual working hours on a job
- staying healthy and balanced obviously is high on your agenda and you scheduled decent slots for this
However, as you say, playing SC2 takes a lot of concentration, maybe the real question is how to mix the work actually done on SC2. Thereby staying focused at the sime time while keeping things interesting.
Things to consider on which to allocate SC2 time (just some ideas you might have considered already behind your schedule, but want to keep secret ).
- playing 1v1 ladder/streaming
- training on mechanics (micro/macro)
- casting/watching others play
- review of replays (finding out about your particular strengths, weaknesses; write them down and think on actions how to leverage them or improve)
- game theory (drafting build orders/strategy trees etc.)
- tournament preparation (e.g., review of players)
- team discussions (with awesome TeamLiquid!)
- fun games like 4v4, or FFA, random ladder, etc.
To illustrate what I mean:
Just as playing 3-4 hours ladder straight might be quite hard on a regular basis, idea would be to do 1,5-2 hours ladder, then do a short break e.g. having a snack while watching replays, then write down your analysis from replays, then go back to 1,5-2 hours ladder.
Enjoy the game!
Jörg
PS: personally, I would really love to know what your doing on the whole range of SC2 activities listed above
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That's awesome TLO, having a schedule is really helpful for imvproving.
If you like meditation, you should try to incorporate it into your schedule everyday, just 15-30 minutes is good enough. Personally it calms me down a lot and I find it much easier to focus after a session, and get much better sleep if I meditate before bed. I think mindfulness is helpful to SC
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I am really glad you have set aside time for meditation. People really dont fully appreciated the effect it can have in terms of relaxing yourself, but most of all building mental balance, which is an incredibly crucial life skill and ofc, sc2 skill
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Looks like a good plan, I will tune into you streaming whenever I can too to help support you! :D. I am hoping HOTS brings out the best of foreigners and we get some foreigners winning some tournaments! And it sounds like you want to to do that too!
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I've been looking forward to reading your blog. I must say, I wasn't disappointed mate. Good job! I believe in you!
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Sounds like a good plan
With focus and with giving yourself some hard time, we sure will see you owning some tours soon.
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I am so excited to see this! Incidentally, I just made a plan like that for myself the other day. However, instead of "SC 2" I had to squeeze in 40 hrs of work and 20 more for my studies... now that I think about it, "doing something nice" really is the only slot left where I can play some SC2... thanks for reminding me how much my life sucks. 
The best of luck to you, man!
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I was always wondering why youre not competing in the german eps.. :/
Now that youre in germany and its not extraordinarily time consuming to play a 32 player bracket every 2 weeks...
I miss some tlo action in the eps
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Don't eat three meals, but five or six. Your body needs energy to process the food. Wich means that energy won't go into focus. The bigger the meal, the bigger the energy loss. On a tight schedule as the one you have it will be less efficient to play SC right after a meal.
Maybe take a small powernap after lunch/dinner, or divide your meals into smaller portions and more times.
On tournaments you could follow the schedules some of the poker professionals follow. They eat really light (banana etc) during the time they need to focus, and have a bigger meal after the playing time.
I believe it already was posted here, but I would reconsider your feeding times.
For tourney's in different timezones you'd get hungry when you eat on a specific timetable.
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Whhhhaaaaaa. I love the intentionality that went into this. Putting yourself in a very structured environment is actually very relaxing for the mind, because it takes away so many of the day-to-day decisions that sap your brain power
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5 bucks says you won't follow through
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seems legit, good luck with it
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Get a hobby in there. Preferably some sport.
Not just a work out you do for the sake of working out, something you do for fun.
This way you get to work out, and relax/clear your brain at the same time.
There is so much stuff you can do in Berlin. Try some martial art, learn archery, start kajaking, doesnt really matter as long as its fun.
Im sitting on my desk most of the day for the last years (studying and working) and sometimes i had a hard time motivating me to work out. But since i started naginata (traditional japanese martial art were you fight with a long, glaive-like weapon, but as mentioned, it realy doesnt matter what ou do, i just like hitting people :D) im there three times a week. I don't have to work out anymore. I get to work out. And thats a big difference to me :D
Way better than doing exercies just for the sake of it imo. You would do sport and "do something nice" at the same time.
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Germany767 Posts
+ Show Spoiler +On March 15 2013 02:12 Snotling wrote:
Get a hobby in there. Preferably some sport.
Not just a work out you do for the sake of working out, something you do for fun.
This way you get to work out, and relax/clear your brain at the same time.
There is so much stuff you can do in Berlin. Try some martial art, learn archery, start kajaking, doesnt really matter as long as its fun.
Im sitting on my desk most of the day for the last years (studying and working) and sometimes i had a hard time motivating me to work out. But since i started naginata (traditional japanese martial art were you fight with a long, glaive-like weapon, but as mentioned, it realy doesnt matter what ou do, i just like hitting people :D) im there three times a week. I don't have to work out anymore. I get to work out. And thats a big difference to me :D
Way better than doing exercies just for the sake of it imo. You would do sport and "do something nice" at the same time.
agreed, it's a good idea. I'll see what I can find without having to travel too far
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Dario,
just a tip : dont go selfmade rambo with crossfit.
Easiest way to fuck up your body.
belive me.
go for a 3/7 training for 2 months.
if need help or tips ,contact me.
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just to be clear: i think your schedule is a bit "Rought" ,and you really need to focus on what you eat/weight/ concentration level.
Anyway,send me a PM.I do this for a lot of guys here improving their body condition.
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i dont wanna sound pessimistic but you said the same thing over and over is hard for me to belive you will actualy do what you plan on doing . anyway i wish you gl
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this is because there's not a professional/competent support behind him. The easiest result is failure.
I worked with a lot of guys in my life with the same issue , but its possible to reach what TLO wants if there's someone who help him.
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Germany767 Posts
On March 15 2013 02:34 dadde wrote:
this is because there's not a professional/competent support behind him. The easiest result is failure.
I worked with a lot of guys in my life with the same issue , but its possible to reach what TLO wants if there's someone who help him.
Hey dadde,
I actually have a really awesome coach now that is helping me out a lot
We'll be working on finding the perfect schedule for me over the next weeks. Right now the schedule I published is still pretty rough but I already have a lot more details of it at hand that I'll probably publish in the 1-2 entries afters this
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thats good!
Anyway,my pow is that tring to squeeze yourself in a strict/rigid schedule wont bring you far.
Btw, i wish you the best of luck.
If you need tips,just pm me.
Cheers and GL!
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On March 15 2013 02:22 Liquid`TLO wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On March 15 2013 02:12 Snotling wrote:
Get a hobby in there. Preferably some sport.
Not just a work out you do for the sake of working out, something you do for fun.
This way you get to work out, and relax/clear your brain at the same time.
There is so much stuff you can do in Berlin. Try some martial art, learn archery, start kajaking, doesnt really matter as long as its fun.
Im sitting on my desk most of the day for the last years (studying and working) and sometimes i had a hard time motivating me to work out. But since i started naginata (traditional japanese martial art were you fight with a long, glaive-like weapon, but as mentioned, it realy doesnt matter what ou do, i just like hitting people :D) im there three times a week. I don't have to work out anymore. I get to work out. And thats a big difference to me :D
Way better than doing exercies just for the sake of it imo. You would do sport and "do something nice" at the same time. agreed, it's a good idea. I'll see what I can find without having to travel too far
well there is naginata in berlin too :D
If its anything like in here in mainz, there will be girls (in japan actually more women than men, quite a few in germany to) and nerds.
But it shouldnt be to hard to find something in Berlin. The problem should rather be to decide what to do of all the possibillitys.
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Good luck TLO!
I will try a schedule for myself, just for luls.
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Germany767 Posts
well as you can see my lunch break there is 2 hours. Doesn't mean I eat for 2 hours :D will eat the first part of the break and then have time until I go swimming
Thanks for the concerns!
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
From my experience (not in Starcraft II, mind you, but swimming, which is still a competitive sport with some similar requirements), it's usually beneficial to have one day - preferrably wednesdays, to sleep in - at least an hour or two. Let's you recuperate for a bit, and even if you get up at roughly the same time, you'll likely still feel more rested.
You might prefer similar schedules for each day, in which case that's totally fine, but it might be something to consider.
GL HF!
Mostly applies when you're doing intense swimming. I don't know how well TLO swims, but I reckon muscle cramps likely won't be an issue unless he's going hardcore, all-out workout.
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It will be a pain in the ass to follow a strict schedule like this, but if you stick to it for at least a month, I think it will become easy, and you'll be one happy dude
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On March 15 2013 03:49 Liquid`TLO wrote:well as you can see my lunch break there is 2 hours. Doesn't mean I eat for 2 hours :D will eat the first part of the break and then have time until I go swimming Thanks for the concerns!
Best of luck, I love how you and the rest of TL are so public about your training regimes and self-improvement schemes.
Keep at it, would love to see your name more regularly in the brackets!
Also, what's your current hair situation? Hobo-mode, shaved head or something in between?
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After reading this, I realised how little foreign progamers are actually practising. If this is the schedule you're supposed to work towards to, it suggests that you're currently practising far less. I work about 8-10 hours a day, and sometimes I get calls from the office even during weekend and I have to either work from home or get my ass back to the office. I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but I consider being progamer as a full time job, and if this is how foreign professional players are being managed, I'm not surprised at all why Koreans are that much better.
Most companies have a punch in/out system to track their employee's working hours. Some of them even track your work progress by the hour (unfortunately my company is one of them). IMO, u need to put more hours in... Do not aim to achieve your targeted hours -- try to exceed them!
But I applaud your effort. Baby steps! Most people say they hate their jobs, perhaps it's boring, not challenging enough, the boss is a prick, the workload is too heavy, etc. but the truth is, most people hate to work, they only do so because they need to earn a living. You have a great team of colleagues, great working environment, extremely flexible working hours. Never forget that -- work hard!!
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On March 15 2013 06:07 MrStorkie wrote:
After reading this, I realised how little foreign progamers are actually practising.
Can't agree less
Good luck TLO, looking forward to see your games
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On March 15 2013 06:07 MrStorkie wrote:
After reading this, I realised how little foreign progamers are actually practising. If this is the schedule you're supposed to work towards to, it suggests that you're currently practising far less. I work about 8-10 hours a day, and sometimes I get calls from the office even during weekend and I have to either work from home or get my ass back to the office. I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but I consider being progamer as a full time job, and if this is how foreign professional players are being managed, I'm not surprised at all why Koreans are that much better.
Most companies have a punch in/out system to track their employee's working hours. Some of them even track your work progress by the hour (unfortunately my company is one of them). IMO, u need to put more hours in... Do not aim to achieve your targeted hours -- try to exceed them!
But I applaud your effort. Baby steps! Most people say they hate their jobs, perhaps it's boring, not challenging enough, the boss is a prick, the workload is too heavy, etc. but the truth is, most people hate to work, they only do so because they need to earn a living. You have a great team of colleagues, great working environment, extremely flexible working hours. Never forget that -- work hard!!
A lot of foreign professionals are being pro in the spare time. They have school and other obligations, where as full tie korean pros are actually full time
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On March 15 2013 06:40 WikidSik wrote:Show nested quote +On March 15 2013 06:07 MrStorkie wrote:
After reading this, I realised how little foreign progamers are actually practising. If this is the schedule you're supposed to work towards to, it suggests that you're currently practising far less. I work about 8-10 hours a day, and sometimes I get calls from the office even during weekend and I have to either work from home or get my ass back to the office. I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but I consider being progamer as a full time job, and if this is how foreign professional players are being managed, I'm not surprised at all why Koreans are that much better.
Most companies have a punch in/out system to track their employee's working hours. Some of them even track your work progress by the hour (unfortunately my company is one of them). IMO, u need to put more hours in... Do not aim to achieve your targeted hours -- try to exceed them!
But I applaud your effort. Baby steps! Most people say they hate their jobs, perhaps it's boring, not challenging enough, the boss is a prick, the workload is too heavy, etc. but the truth is, most people hate to work, they only do so because they need to earn a living. You have a great team of colleagues, great working environment, extremely flexible working hours. Never forget that -- work hard!!
A lot of foreign professionals are being pro in the spare time. They have school and other obligations, where as full tie korean pros are actually full time
That doesnt count for TLO since hes clearly playing full time, yet you cant count the raw SC2 hours as his working day. Good use of downtime, working out, relaxing, preparing and eating healty food on a conscious basis improves every hour spend on SC2.
It sounds like an excuse, but if done right you get more out of 3+3+3h playing and 1+1+1h relaxing inbetween than 12h straight grind.
Hours count in the end, but smart use of time can give an edge when everyone invests the same. If you do both, invest more and smarter, one should gain an edge, but hard to tell since noone will actually track the progress and noone else is there to compare.
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Firstly this timetable is a really great inside into a life of a progamer.
Secondly, you should finish your study/find a job and find someone special in your life. You are really awesome. However seeing this schedule your life looks extremely dull if I might say so, yet I often have weeks when I play A LOT more than you do and I'm only playing for fun. You are surely smart enough to realize that if you ever wanted to win something big, to compete with Koreans you would have to push it to the limit and play much much more. I realize that you might find yourself living a perfect life, not regretting anything, playing video games and hanging out with real ballers, but is it worth it in the long run? It really depends on an individual, but surely a timetable with a lot more social interactions and with someone special in your life, while being successful in a real job should be more rewarding than this.
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Good luck and a step in the right direction towards showing results in the future!
However, I can't help but cringe at the discrepancy between the number of hours of practice of a typical Korean SC2 house member and a western progamer who's actually decided to practice more (so others most likely practice even less). At only about 1/2 the practice time, those ~7 hours per day better be damn efficient practice.
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Schedule is too tight. From my experience, zero breaks between blocks don't work. Other than that, good luck. I'm fighting the same battle against myself. It's hard, but consistency wins the race.
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awesome schedule TLO, GLGL!
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Good luck, TLO. You are my favourite player, forever and always. <3
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Great initiative. Keep us updated. I'm specifically looking to forward to seeing if you will share specific aspects of the game you are working on at any given time.
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You have inspired me TLO to continue what I had once started. It seems like I was in the same situation as you as far as distractions and whatnot. I was the same way in school, I'm still the same way now sadly. Your schedule looks like it's do-able compared to some of the random "goals" I make for myself but never complete. Maybe I will start following your schedule. lol.
Good luck bro!
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Germany767 Posts
+ Show Spoiler +On March 15 2013 08:05 edlover420 wrote:Firstly this timetable is a really great inside into a life of a progamer. Secondly, you should finish your study/find a job and find someone special in your life. You are really awesome. However seeing this schedule your life looks extremely dull if I might say so, yet I often have weeks when I play A LOT more than you do and I'm only playing for fun. You are surely smart enough to realize that if you ever wanted to win something big, to compete with Koreans you would have to push it to the limit and play much much more. I realize that you might find yourself living a perfect life, not regretting anything, playing video games and hanging out with real ballers, but is it worth it in the long run? It really depends on an individual, but surely a timetable with a lot more social interactions and with someone special in your life, while being successful in a real job should be more rewarding than this. + Show Spoiler +http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4
Oh on the contrary my life is freaking awesome.
I would never want to study again in my life, not because I don't like learning. I love educating myself whenever I can but our education systems are so incredibly dull that I don't find myself enjoying being part of the system. I need to go my own way, just like I am pretty sure I'll never be able to work a 9-5 job because I need to be able to be my own boss to some extend.
About the playing more, I always say there is a difference between ''playing'' and training a game. I can easily play sc2 12 hours a day without any exhaustion. Or I can have one super intense, giving it my all 3 hour session and I'll feel physically exhausted and can't concentrate anymore without a small break. People don't seem to realise the difference between casually playing a game and playing with near 300apm for 3 hours while being focused, finding your weakpoints, making decisions and actively improving your game. You can compare it with taking a walk for 1 hour or running as fast as you can for 1 hour. Quality and intensity are very important for the training of a pro-gamer.
As I was saying this is the first version and I want to exceed my goals listed here, but I've never trained on a schedule so it would be pointless to set myself goals I can't reach and get demotivated.
I have lots of really awesome friends in Germany and the entire world. Get to travel to different places every month and I got free time on the weekend. I'm not a person who needs to be social every day, not in person at least. My life has become much more interesting since I've become a pro-gamer. And if I want to do more fun things in the week I'll have to become more efficient simple as that. But in the end if you love something as much as I love sc2 you can go just being happy about playing the game for several weeks and having a free day here and then.
Definition of happiness is very individual!
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Looks nice. Good luck Dario!
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Reading TL's last post somehow makes me really happy. I can feel your enthusiasm and love for the game and I think it's inspiring. :-)
Since there were a few gamers that left TL and SC2 in general, I'm just so glad to hear that you are more motivated than ever.
Keep fighting!
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This sounds very wise and inspiring. I've been thinking about doing something similar in order to live a more productive life. Although I suppose social interaction will probably kill my productive schedule in a day or so :D. Which is important too, but less productive.
On another note: I am very envious of you guys being able to live with 8 or even less hours of sleep. So much more time!
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Hi Dario,
Now that you have a new coach for EG-TL, is the team going to have a new training schedule? If so, are you going to switch it with the one you have now/implement parts of it to the existing one? I've heard a lot about coach Park and how awesome he was in Brood War so I guess he has a pretty solid way of working up the game.
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On March 15 2013 18:29 herMan wrote:
Hi Dario,
Now that you have a new coach for EG-TL, is the team going to have a new training schedule? If so, are you going to switch it with the one you have now/implement parts of it to the existing one? I've heard a lot about coach Park and how awesome he was in Brood War so I guess he has a pretty solid way of working up the game.
I think its just EG-TL for proleague, not actually a complete fusion of teams, but I'll wait for TLO's answer. I guess TL is not affected by coach Park, at least not the ones that are not part of proleague.
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Hi Dario you are an awesome person and i want to thank you for this very motivating blogpost :>
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Thursdays from 10h30 to 11h30 is for "self reflection on your game". That's interesting: do you just sit on a couch and think (that would pretty awesome) or do you watch your replays and replays of pros? Hopefully this schedule yields substancial results in the futur for you.
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I felt so bad for you at IEM, nothing to do with results, more the look on your face when you lost on stream. You really looked disappointed, even though you were playing some of the best in the world. I always enjoy watching you play and was afraid of maybe you deciding to follow a different path. I'm glad you are motivated and I can't wait to see the new TLO after a few months of such a demanding practice schedule.
(Also switch back to terran, ) <3
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This is a great idea Dario, but I have a couple of questions/comments:
Is dinner incorporated into your chilling time on Fridays? That's easy enough to do, but I was just curious why it wasn't listed separately like every other day.
I like how you vary the schedule from day to day, since that will help keep things fresh and keep you from feeling like a slave to the game, which I know a lot of progamers with a rigid schedule struggle with. However, it's my understanding, and I could be wrong, that one of the challenges of being a progamer, at least in SC2, is maintaining a training regiment like this while still keeping your schedule flexible for traveling, online cups, and the occasional interference from real life. While this may be an excellent guideline for what you want to accomplish with your SC2 training from week to week, I doubt you'll be able to stick to it religiously for long, and that has nothing to do with your work ethic. But if you have this schedule in the back of your mind, reminding you of how much time you need to spend practicing, it's a good thing.
Props to you for taking your SC2 career by the horns...been a fan ever since the TL Invitational back in WoL Beta, more specifically the Metalopolis game against Nazgul. TLO fighting~
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gl TLO, been your fan since forever ago!
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This will not be enough, if you really want to make up for what you are lacking compare to the top koreans, you need a good coach. TL doesn't have a full time coach like every korean team has. You can't do it alone. You guys should never have let nony go, keep him around as a coach if you had to,you guys lost someone irreplaceable, who can analyse the in and out of every player.
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stuff like this never works
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1.5 hour lunch breaks. TLO so European.
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Best of luck to ya buddy, I have the exact same problem with losing attention, teachers just think I'm crap
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Anyone can make schedules but how do you keep it up. It's hard even for people with regularly scheduled jobs to keep to a schedule. But for a progamer, how do you deal with frustration and disappointment?
You start playing and you get frustrated for whatever reason, how do you carry on?
On one hand its counter productive to continue playing angry, on the other hand, if you stop how do you get back on schedule.
And for a person as motivated as you, if you take a break how do you relax, instead of getting angry with yourself for slacking.
Also whats up, self reflection should be done in the end of the day, in the beginning of the day youre to excited to play, youll just reflect that everything is fine and great and you should start playing asap.
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looks not that hard to me to be honest
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Hey TLO,
I just worked out a way of handling university that took my GPA from 2.1 to 4.0. Can I summarize it for you? If it can help you, great, and if you can tell me how to do it better, also great!
1- leisure time. I try to enforce 4 hrs of leisure time a day plus an entire day off on weekends that is specifically kept free. I think that of all of it, keeping spare time every day has saved me from burnout! Even a hint of burnout throughout the week begins to erode my productivity when I am working. Apparently, long hours trains you to resist burnout though- but it takes years. The Korean school system anyone?
2- starting slow, building up to 50hrs/wk schoolwork. Began with do 1hr of work in 3hr slot, etc. More and I tend to burnout hard- hence, (1) above. Work towards the full workload. The idea is to make early failures impossible.
3- prioritization. About 10% of the possible work pays off enough to get 100% on most tests and assignments. Figuring out what that 10% was and hitting that hard. Specifically, using active recall to review every lecture the day after, and doing problem sets that target my specific failure points. I think that's one major reason why Kespa players can get so good, right? They don't just ladder, they grab their training bitch and/or teammates and iron out every single kink in a focused way.
4- margin of error/identify failure points: make sure that there's a lot of room to move with the system so it won't collapse. Figure out all the common reasons why things go wrong and address them directly.
5- reflection and big-picture focus once a week on Sundays. This is for life and for school!
6- condensing: condense everything I learned into a 1 page summary per subject or something every sunday. This helps with memory, and with the big picture focus.
7- exercise and a morning/evening ritual that focuses on good food with no white carbs. High intensity > duration, imo so far. I find that by avoiding carbs my concentration is unreal too... you said your easily distracted. Look into the research for avoiding wheat and carbs in ADHD lately. I can't stress how big this is, you could never understand unless you were in my shoes
I assume you have your own thoughts too! I'm eager to see you tear it up in some upcoming tournaments!
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hey TLO would u mind doing a few custom games with me some time? the replays would be invaluable to me to compare to players in my leauge so I have a good time range for scouting/hitting etc. Also id love to try to take a game off you :p :D!
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On March 20 2013 03:16 LtAscott wrote:
hey TLO would u mind doing a few custom games with me some time? the replays would be invaluable to me to compare to players in my leauge so I have a good time range for scouting/hitting etc. Also id love to try to take a game off you :p :D!
dude..,,,,, dont u see the timetable... i cant see your name in it...
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Good luck TLO. (but im sure you wont need luck :D)
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On March 22 2013 23:56 Chrono000 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 20 2013 03:16 LtAscott wrote:
hey TLO would u mind doing a few custom games with me some time? the replays would be invaluable to me to compare to players in my leauge so I have a good time range for scouting/hitting etc. Also id love to try to take a game off you :p :D! dude..,,,,, dont u see the timetable... i cant see your name in it...
Asking doesn't cost a thing
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On March 23 2013 01:59 Type|NarutO wrote:Show nested quote +On March 22 2013 23:56 Chrono000 wrote:On March 20 2013 03:16 LtAscott wrote:
hey TLO would u mind doing a few custom games with me some time? the replays would be invaluable to me to compare to players in my leauge so I have a good time range for scouting/hitting etc. Also id love to try to take a game off you :p :D! dude..,,,,, dont u see the timetable... i cant see your name in it... Asking doesn't cost a thing
i know. i just wanted to poke fun.
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very nice... but apparently koreans will laugh loud about..
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I don't mean to sound grim but isn't "SC2" a bit vague? What I read here is a rough 40 hours of ladder from which you'll focus on stamina on thuesday and only 1 hour of self reflection. I'm sure you've got specifics in mind though, the best of luck!
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How did you make that time table? any specific software?
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Looks like the schedule is paying off, nice! I was looking at a blog post on tl and I was surprised and happy to see your name in the top 10. I've been out of the scene for two years now, but I try to check in here and there.
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