Just like a sports team, when it comes to my training season, I do pre-season work to prepare for the hijinks.
Some of it is probably obvious, like going to the range and making sure that everything I demo is squared away. That's just the surface level stuff, though. I shoot often enough that I don't really need to do much of a run up, as I'm almost always at the range. I may take some detours into things I'm trying to improve on, like raw speed.
All of my lesson plans get reviewed at a minimum. Anything that needs to be changed, will obviously get changed. Some things get out of date quickly, and some things evolve. The lesson plans I'm using are nowhere near the same ones as even two years ago.
Power points also get reviewed and freshened up with new photos, graphics, and any changes that need to be made to properly reflect the lesson plans.
All of the equipment that I'm going to be using gets looked over and checked to make sure it is all in working order. Anything not meeting specifications gets repaired or replaced.
I also have to order consumables for the season. The biggest of which is targets. I don't want to tell you how many targets we go through, it is pretty crazy. I go out of my way to reduce waste, but some of it is unavoidable. Other consumables: gun cleaning stuff, spray glue, dummy rounds, binder clips, wooden stakes, and batteries.
Much more recently I've been going out of my way to physically prepare myself. Contrast that with years previously where I was just letting myself get fatter and more out of shape. I could get away with that at a younger age, but now that I'm more "senior," I need to be more proactive about my physical abilities. There's a lot to go into with this, but suffice it to say that I'm doing a lot of weights and supplemental cardio. I'm doing all of that more with an eye toward injury prevention. I don't need to go giving myself a case of rhabdomyolysis. (Been there, done that. Not fun.)
What do you do in order to prepare for your work? Do you find any similarities between that and me? I'm curious, let me know.
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