Bouncing back from injury, the Africa javelin record holder Justin Robbeson has announced that she is back training with renewed commitment for the new season.
The festive season offers her the chance to intensify her pre-season conditioning ahead of the Yellow Pages Series, that gets underway in January, and for Robbeson, making a significant impact during the Series is uppermost on her mind.
To gauge her level of fitness, she pursued every segment of training and evaluation at the Athletics South Africa (ASA) Elite Athletes Training Camp with enthusiasm, during a camp held at the High Performance Centre at the University of Pretoria in Tshwane.
"It is great feeling to be back training at full pace after recovering from my injury. I hurt my oblique muscles in France a week before the All Africa Games in Algiers (Algeria).
"At that late stage I was not going to miss the Games. So I got myself strapped and with pain, managed to clinch the gold medal in Algiers. Then I went through the process of treatment and rehabilitation," Robbeson recollects.
She says consultation between herself, Dr Ekkart Arbeit, ASA’s Scientific Advisor, and her personal coach Terseus Liebenburg during the camp, has helped reshape the way she approaches her training. This has given her fresh confidence to improve her throws.
"If I am to improve my throws in competition it is no use sticking to the same training regime I have followed for the past three years. We have gradually increased my level of strength and endurance training. I regularly train twice a day and is tough but I am hanging in there," Robbeson concedes.
Robbeson has also made some important choices off the training circuit and competition track which she hopes will impact positively on her athletics.
"No more wild weekends for me for the foreseeable future. I will keep my friends and possibly make many more. But there is going to be some clear boundaries I will not cross.
"Unless I do this, a lot of the hard work in training will go to waste. There will always be time for partying. Right now I have to give more attention to athletics because I cannot be an elite athlete forever," Robbeson smiles.
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