In sport it has long been recognised that in order to improve an exercise that is really enjoyed by players and coaches alike is cross training. This is where if say you play football then at a training session organise a touch rugby game.
Or set up a net and play volleyball perhaps permitting headers. More extreme and challenging could be doing balletic exercises! Some martial arts deliberately train in another style to build up overall strength and ability
Wikipedia describes cross training well as follows
Cross-training refers to an athlete training in sports other than the one that the athlete competes in, with a goal of improving overall performance. It takes advantage of the particular effectiveness of each training method, while at the same time attempting to negate the shortcomings of that method by combining it with other methods that address its weaknesses.
What is perhaps less well appreciated is that there is an analogy with the working professional world. In its narrowest sense if you work in one form of practice such as an in house lawyer then it pays to find a forum where you can meet and exchange with lawyers from private practice in law firms or in a barristers chambers.
If you specialise in one subject such as IT law then expand your horizons to look at the many parallels in the construction industry. I reviewed an article for a magazine recently written by an academic who dealt with the theory behind a particular copyright subject and frankly verged on the philosophical. Yet because of this it made me think and introduced me to a different way of considering intellectual property law.
Within a business some element of cross training can also be beneficial so that for example a lawyer understands basic finance issues and a technical architect appreciates that what he or she articulates may become part of a contract and have certain legal consequences.
Once again sport provides a lead industry can follow.
Or set up a net and play volleyball perhaps permitting headers. More extreme and challenging could be doing balletic exercises! Some martial arts deliberately train in another style to build up overall strength and ability
Wikipedia describes cross training well as follows
Cross-training refers to an athlete training in sports other than the one that the athlete competes in, with a goal of improving overall performance. It takes advantage of the particular effectiveness of each training method, while at the same time attempting to negate the shortcomings of that method by combining it with other methods that address its weaknesses.
What is perhaps less well appreciated is that there is an analogy with the working professional world. In its narrowest sense if you work in one form of practice such as an in house lawyer then it pays to find a forum where you can meet and exchange with lawyers from private practice in law firms or in a barristers chambers.
If you specialise in one subject such as IT law then expand your horizons to look at the many parallels in the construction industry. I reviewed an article for a magazine recently written by an academic who dealt with the theory behind a particular copyright subject and frankly verged on the philosophical. Yet because of this it made me think and introduced me to a different way of considering intellectual property law.
Within a business some element of cross training can also be beneficial so that for example a lawyer understands basic finance issues and a technical architect appreciates that what he or she articulates may become part of a contract and have certain legal consequences.
Once again sport provides a lead industry can follow.
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