Arnold Halasz - Arnold Method

Mental Load and Recovery: What My Training Partner Taught Me

by Arnold Halasz | Aug 19, 2026 | Sleep, Lifestyle

A few years ago I was looking for somewhere to kayak indoors in Budapest over winter. Some kayak clubs have these pools built to mimic real paddling, and at one of them, talking to the manager, I found out a dragonboat team from my own village trained there twice a...

I Was Just Too Tired to Show It

by Arnold Halasz | Aug 16, 2026 | Lifestyle, Sleep

I try to keep my training load fairly consistent, whatever the number happens to be that year. Some years it’s close to ten hours a week, in quieter years six to eight, and in the more motivated ones fourteen or more. The number itself isn’t particularly...

I Forgot Why I Was Racing. The Race Reminded Me.

by Arnold Halasz | Aug 13, 2026 | Sleep, Lifestyle

It’s never one thing. A warm night that bites into my sleep can already knock down my motivation for the next day. A hard training session where the effort felt bigger than it should have. A video or article I put out that gets almost no reaction. An argument...

I Lied to My Watch, and It Cost Me the Run

by Arnold Halasz | Aug 10, 2026 | Sleep, Lifestyle

I was exhausted that day. Training had been a bit harder than usual, my appetite was bigger, and instead of doing the one piece of work that actually mattered, I scrolled reels for an hour, half-dreaming about other people’s excitement instead of getting on with...

I Didn’t Choose Recovery. Circumstances Chose It for Me.

by Arnold Halasz | Aug 7, 2026 | Lifestyle, Sleep

Early spring 2020, I was in Italy for an ice-dragon boat championship, racing on a frozen lake in the mountains with teams from across Europe — a strange sport, dragonboats modified with blades, paddled with a rubber tool that looks more like a toilet plunger than an...