[updated] Day 1:
I'm about to head out to my first day of training in 45 minutes. After talking with the head instructor at the gym, it looks like I'll just be taking Muay Thai tonight and slowly getting myself into it. Also it would cost me an extra $100 a month to take Boxing with Muay Thai, so I'm going to be doing Muay Thai / Submission Grappling on Wednesday. Although because of this, I'll be switching out Muay Thai for Boxing every two months which means my schedule would go from Muay Thai / Submission to Boxing / Submission Grappling for a month, then i'd go back for two months. I think this small change will actually benefit me by changing up the mix and keeping it fresh and fun as well as letting me learn the basics of each without a competing set of basics (Kickboxing vs Boxing).
I'll post how my day went when I get back later.
Just for giggles to copy Phenom some more,
Breakfast:
3 Egg Omelet (omega 3 eggs) /w spinach and cheddar cheese
Lunch:
Grilled Chicken w/ some carrots
Pre-Workout Snack:
Home-Made Granola Bar / Low-fat chocolate milk (My closest place to get supplements is like 45 minutes away, so when I run out of protein powder I tend to get lazy about making shakes and substitute this in as a low fat high protein drink)
Dinner: I kind of gorged here when I got back, I had some Brocoli / Spinach Lasanga. I don't so much mind the carbs since I just got back from a workout, but the fat in all the dairy i've eaten today is a bit higher than I usually like.
On this topic, I was thinking about this while I ate and thought I'd share one of my diet tips if any of you are looking to start eating healthier. Basically you have to look at your body like a machine, and feed it only the nutrients it needs to run smoothly. Well, that sucks. What i've found though, is that if you eat something healthy and don't hate it, but you force yourself to keep eating it once a week or something, you eventually start to enjoy it and the flavor it adds to your meal, transitioning from feeding the machine, to enjoying what you eat. The best example of this for me is spinach. If you read my meals for the day you can see I really love spinach. I used to basically hate it. I forced myself to eat it basically because it's a super healthy food, and if popeye can do it, i can do it. The result was that I didn't quite hate it, but I would have prefered almost anything else to it. Slowly I kept forcing myself to eat it, all the time focusing on needing to eat it for its health value. Little by little it started to grow on me, and now I love it. Same thing with mushrooms. Before I started dieting I wouldn't touch them, the texture just freaked me out. Now I use them and onions as a staple in my cooking.
Onto my Training
Today was Muay Thai.
We started for about 5 minutes with "bouncing" stretches. I don't know the technical term, but I'm used to long and slow stretches, these were like quick and fast jerks to get the blood flowing through the muscles.
For the next 10 Minutes we did shadow boxing working on basic combinations. As I have done boxing before this felt pretty comfortable for me, and my punching combos were clean and crisp. Then we started incorporating kicking into our combos and I was completely out of my element. I feel ashamed to say I was terrible. We spent the majority of the time working on a quick step to the outside during a 1-2 then snapping a outside low kick. I would either step to far, not far enough, put to much twist in my hips basically over kicking which would lead me wide open, or just get off balance in some way shape or form. I definitely need a lot of work on my kicking / balance / flexibility.
For the next probably 45 minutes we did partner pad work and drilled numerous combinations. I found holding the pads to be difficult as it really put a lot of pressure on me to help the other person adequately practice, but I wasn't technical enough to really point out any problems in his movement because I'm so inexperienced in Kickboxing. Another problem was that my partner was a wrestler and kept having a mentality of leaning into his punches and basically trying to run me over, which makes it hard for an inexperienced pad holder. I really enjoyed the combinations that we were throwing though, my instructor would go over things like Jab-Cross-Inside Leg Kick-slip-slip-left hook to body-right straight-left hook to head - right straight and discuss how your body should be moving in order to anticipate how the opponent will react. He even began to talk about what you should be doing to set up the combos but didn't go into to much detail. I apologize I don't really remember to many more of the combinations we worked on. The other two I do remember was Jab-Outside Leg kick and the jab-cross-left hook- body kick - left hook - right hook- left knee to body.
After this we did Squats, Push-ups, and V-ups , switching one to the next every minute with no rest.
All in All I would say that It was an enjoyable first day. I have a lot to improve on. My goal is in Three Months to have really solid fundamentals and begin sparring. I really REALLY want a nasty outside low kick. Forrest Griffin vs Rampage Jackson nasty low kick. I also want to have a very solid clinch game. Those are the two areas I hope I can spend the majority of my time perfecting during training.
Thanks for reading,
VocalistSSP
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