An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I practice running and high jump on Thursday and then have another technical session at the weekend.
I feel like I kind of earned my stripes working with The Stereotypes. It was maybe my 6th songwriting session I’ve ever been to, and they just gave me and a writer I used to write with 3-4 tracks and kinda just let us come up with whatever.
I couldn’t get session work because most musicians hated my style.
The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.
I’m a writer; I’ve worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note session at Imagine for a TV show I wrote that they were producing, and they happened to say, ‘You’d be great as Crosby, do you want to do this show we’re doing, ‘Parenthood?’
Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
I recorded everywhere. I would go to different cities and do a session there for the project. I did sessions in New York and I did sessions in L.A. It was just kind of wherever I was and I felt like cutting a track.
I’ve always had really wonderful people around me. But early on, I remember I would walk into a session or go do something with some musicians, and they viewed me, basically, as their chick singer.
In terms of actual day-to-day training; a normal training day would begin with a gym session for about two hours, focusing on strength; so heavy weights on the lower body, with the main exercise being free weight squatting, with between one and ten repetitions depending on the time of year and the aim of the session.
I got scouted for Tottenham and was there for three to four weeks before a phone call from Arsenal came. The first session they wanted to sign me so, happy days, I didn’t look back. I’m an Arsenal fan, everyone in my family is Arsenal, so it wasn’t a hard decision.
My brother Gary, who was my coach, five years my elder, studied human movements at Queensland University in Brisbane. We used to train together every day, and we’d train for so long that at the end of a session, we would physically almost collapse.
The manager and the fitness staff condition every training session. They plan it out week by week on what players need. If players need a rest, they will do that; if players need to work hard, they will do that as well.
Some black women hug me and walk away. A lot of black men talk about dating white women and how they’ve been there, too. People open up about their racial experiences. I feel like I’m a walking therapy session. It’s quite intense. But it means a lot to people.
I have always given my best, in every game and every training session.
I never pushed to be a star. I didn’t want to. I had my home, my family. Session work let you do the music and leave.
There’s always another press conference, another training session and more videos to watch.
By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn’t shatter. And after the third session, I really didn’t know where this voice had come from.
If the opportunity came my way, if somebody wanted me to look over a script or sit in a room in sort of like a brainstorming session… I would certainly be open for that.
When you’re making a show or a movie, there are a million people and things in your way. As an actor, you’re like a glorified session musician or player. You really are.
During a workout session, my focus is on having a good time.
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.
When I’m traveling, I always make sure to fit in a good daily AKTread session. And, of course, a day off every week.
I’m not a legislator. I’ve never been a lobbyist. I’ve never worked a session before, but based on my conversations with leadership in the Senate and the House, I get the general sense that people want to work together to make things happen.
I can’t even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we’d all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.
If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.
Every weekend I go to the guitar bar in Hoboken and do a jam session.
Every training session you take part in, you have to work very hard and train hard because there is no other way to get where you want to be – it’s not a secret and not a magic formula – just hard work and application.
There was a rule at Rangers, going back to the 1950s, that players needed to turn up for every training session dressed in a suit and tie. I was a teenager. You’d have been lucky to see me in a jacket even on a Sunday – it just wasn’t my style.
Hip hop classes and ballet are what I’ve been keeping up with, and of course my usual abdominal workout, which consists of 500 sit-ups a session. Or I take a 30-minute abs class at my gym. But dance classes are a full-body cardio workout, which always brings me success and keeps me feeling great.
I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn’t really matter what level you are as a writer – whether you are a beginner, or you’ve been around the block a bit; there’s something that you can take away from every session.
Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer’s job.
There’s a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that’s very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.
So much of the time people focus on the awesome power of Led Zeppelin, the whole ‘Hammer of the Gods’ thing, but John Paul Jones, probably because he was a session player, he put a lot of thought into his playing. He didn’t just lumber through.
I am a huge box sets fan and love a Sunday marathon session watching my favourite series back-to-back.
A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.
I just remember playing in my school and then getting invited to go along to train with a development squad at Reading. My first training session, the manager said, ‘You have to come and play with the academy girls,’ so that would probably be my first footballing memory.
I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not.
Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I’ve starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
I just kind of talk about what’s happening in my life and it’s kind of like a therapy session. Usually something good comes out of that. Or sometimes other writers will come to me with ideas and then I’ll put my own spin on it. It’s usually really collaborative and open and it’s very therapeutic for me as well.
My first joke that ever aired on ‘Late Night’ was for a list of ‘Top 10 Least Popular Summer Camps.’ My contribution – ‘Camp Tick in beautiful Lyme, Connecticut’ – squeaked in at No. 10. Like a trip to Camp Tick, my time at ‘Late Night’ faded into memory like a short session at a dicey summer camp.
When I’m on the road, I’ll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session.
Mourinho was good; a very good family man. If people had children and there were days we had to come in he would let you bring kids in and mess about with them while the training session was going on.
As a session player for so many years, I have found myself in rooms looking around going, ‘Is this for real?’
After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.
I’ve long favored smart judicial-selection reform – every member of my court does – and every legislative session, reform measures are filed… and then they fail.
There are artists that actually don’t like going into the studio. They get mad when people say they’ve got a session. I’m just the opposite. I actually enjoy it.
You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn’t raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves – and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?
