Rickard Gustafsson | Saturday, 21 March 2026
When I was active in olympic weightlifting sometimes during the training cycle I did two sessions in one day. Mostly because of that’s how “the big guys” does it. It can be useful and work for a regular person without the tools and improvements the pros in that sport has. If you have the time and split a regular session into two sessions you can get away with slightly more volume, and more importantly keep focus on more technical aspects of the training. So for the fly caster this could mean that two sessions, one for accuracy and one for distance will be more productive than combining the events in one session. Or focusing on two different things to work on in the technique will be more efficient spread over two sessions than one.
But one interesting thing happened when doing two sessions of weightlifting in one day. In the second session the time needed for warm up was noticeable shorter, almost like it wasn’t needed you could just hit the working sets directly. And I’ve learned a trick for this that works almost as well as two sessions, for the warm up part at least. And it works for life in general also it seems. If you start your day with some light gymnastics and stretching. Doesn’t have to be vigours. You will feel and move better for the rest of the day. It does also help a weightlifting athlete in the first weight session also. So this can probably be useful for the fly casting athlete also.
I think this is a thing in Japan. Radio calisthenics. It gives you a good inspiration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpzsLUVHokc
Or if you want something even simpler, look how a dog does this when getting up after a nap.
And maybe some flycasting earlier in the day can help later in the day also? Like if you have a competition session later in the day, some easy casting in the morning can help you feel sharp later.
That’s all of my creativity gone for today. I’ve spent all day and all evening being creative with computer stuff so I’m a bit spent. Hope Paul keeps his deadline of the new page so my work isn’t in vain.
Cheers, Rickard