How do you Prepare for Intensive Seminars?

Intensive Seminars offer an often overwhelming amount of physical, mental, and emotional demand. Maximizing the ability to retain information, and train the methodologies of any given intensive seminar can be a daunting task.  With the May 16th & 17th intensive with Sifu Sam F.S. Chin coming up, we would love to hear some comments from our readers on how they may or may not alter their training before or after intensive seminars.  

It would be great for all of us to learn more about how everyone prepares for intensive seminars. Please Feel free to comment.

Classical Chinese Translation, "Thoughtfully comply with what is tried and true."