Training Tuesday with Great Britain’s Jonnie Peacock

A typical day for me would be setting three to four alarms in the morning, no word of a lie - a good five to 10 minutes apart.

This week’s Training Tuesday comes from Great Britain’s star sprinter Jonnie Peacock, who had the 80,000-strong crowd on their feet when he stormed to 100m T43/44 gold at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

The 22-year-old will be hoping for another memorable performance at Rio 2016 in what is sure to be a thrilling race between the worlds’ best. Here he talks us through a typical day – and how many alarm clocks he uses - as he prepares to defend his Paralympic crown.

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A typical day for me would be setting three to four alarms in the morning, no word of a lie - a good five to 10 minutes apart, then the last will always be about 20 minutes later just to make sure. I have a terrible history of sleeping through my alarms. I’ve turned up for training sessions an hour late because I’ve slept through, it’s ridiculous!

I’ll get up around 09:00 or 10:00 – it’s not even early, that’s makes it even worse, I know! Then I have to have a shower. I physically can’t get through the day if I haven’t had a shower, I just feel awful. Then I’ll have some breakfast – a couple of eggs and some toast and a coffee; maybe some fruit - and head straight to training.

I live about 15 minutes’ drive away from the track in Loughborough so it’s quite easy. I’ll start rolling out a bit, stretching, just to get set-up for training, then I’ll get on with my warm up. I’ll have a running session, then perhaps some form of jumps, and weights.

I train with my coach Steve Fudge, and I’m out on the track with [former European junior champion] Chris Clarke a fair bit at the moment, but it varies from day-to-day. I might have some pre-treatment before my track session; a little bit of getting the body ready. At the end I might have some post-therapy treatment too, like soft tissue massage.

On a light day I might be at the track for a couple of hours, but on a bigger day it might be more like four or five hours.

I’ll grab some food on the way home – it might be a sandwich, or pasta. Then I get home and achieve nothing for the rest of the day! I rest and recover and try and put my body back together at this time of year.

I might play a bit of Xbox, or walk the dog – I’ve got a little French bulldog called Luna. She gives me a great welcome when I come in the door – my girlfriend gets annoyed because Luna always gives me a much better greeting than she gives her - she jumps up on me and won’t leave me alone, and will find a toy straight away ready to play.

I normally stay inside in the evenings, there’s often something around the house that needs to be sorted out, or I might play a bit of Xbox, watch some television or take the dog for another walk.

I’ll have some dinner – sometimes I cook, or my girlfriend will cook, or occasionally we might go to Nandos – it’s a high protein lazy meal; the go-to if I can’t be bothered to cook. It’s either that or a really dirty burger if I fancy something naughty.

I’m into comedy – I prefer watching something that will not take up much attention span as I want to get home and just completely switch off. Comedy is my absolute favourite – I’m not going to lie, I like cartoons too. You don’t have to pay attention, you can just do your own thing, sit on your lap top or whatever.

I always try and make sure I get eight to 10 hours sleep, but safe to say when my head hits the pillow I switch off. It doesn’t take long.

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