Day 14 and 15

Day 14 was a simple half hour of yoga, day 15 was 3 hours in the gym working thai pads and core strengthening exercises.

Days 12 & 13

Day 12 was a half hour run finished up with some stairs. Even got crazy and did some one legged stairs on the way up. Overall good workout.

Day 13 was a good workout in the gym, and some weight lifting for the upper-body. Hard workout overall, and slowly but surely catching up to the guys I'm training. Shout out to Brandon Banda who is leaving Thursday for his next fight in the WCL which should be televised shortly after.

Day 11

Simple workout today. 30 minutes yoga.

Day 10

Pretty good day despite the fact that my knee was hurt and it was a leg day. As long as I didn't go past down to a 45 degree angle or hit some crazy twist I was able to do most of the exercises I had my guys doing. The session lasted an hour and a half, but this was the first time doing this one so I'm sure we can get it down to an hour and 15 or better.

Day 9

Day 9 was simple. Half hour of yoga.

Day 8

Today was better than yesterday. An hour and a half workout at the gym, that worked the core pretty good as well as some Thai pad work, and I managed to keep my heart rate up pretty well throughout even though it was less cardio orientated.

Day 7

Day 7 was spent doing around 2 hours training in the gym. It was a mix of upper-body and core. Overall decent work, but nothing special.

Day 5 and 6

Ah... barely get going and already a failed day. Day 5 I missed my workout window. Day 6 however I did manage to get a workout in though light one. Half hour of Yoga. I think I'm finally starting to feel a little less sore.

Day 4

Managed to stay on track. Even though it wasn't until 10:00 pm, I got my workout in. Half an hour of yoga. Today's yoga was tough for me, a couple of the positions I could tell I wasn't quite ready for, and really tested my flexibility.

Day 3

Oh man... Today was kinda crazy. I was so sore in my core from Day 1 workout it felt like a bruise wrapping around my entire mid-section. Add to that I was teaching our fighters a whole knew set of body-strength exercises, that I was still getting familiar with, it was crazy. These new exercises are requiring a lot more balance and overall body strength. Shit even my top in shape fighters had beads of sweat pouring off them.
Anyway Day 3 is a success... 27 days to go, lol. This is just the beginning of the beginning. I'm really feeling the fighting bug coming on again. Gonna need to do a lot of work if I wanna go down that road again.

Day 2

Missed my chance to get the Yoga in I wanted for day 2, but I still managed to get a half hours worth of band work in, so I met my goal.

Back to day 1

Okay, so I've obviously fell off the wagon as far as keeping up with my blog, and to a smaller extent my workouts and diets. I had finals come up and let that be part of the excuse, but the fact is life always has something. I've actually been working out still regularly just not as often as before, and am feeling stronger overall when I'm in the gym.
So today I decided is day 1 all over again. I have a plan for this go around though. I want to have 30 days straight of working out and blogging that workout everyday. Minimum requirement for a workout to qualify is 30 minutes. That's it... just 30 minutes of some kind of workout. Yoga, Muay Thai, grappling, running, whatever. It just has to be something, every day for 30 days. I'm not going to worry about diet so much, although I will trying to maintain some healthier eating habits, the focus is going to be on the workout. The idea is that if I can maintain it for 30 days, that will go a long way to making it a habitual regular part of my life. With my baby due within the 30 day timeline, that is definitely going to throw a wrench in the works, but as I said before: Life always has something. It's up me to deal with it directly and not let it impact a measly 30 minutes in a 24 hour day.


Todays workout: 2 hours Muay Thai at the gym... probably about 30 minutes of which was just coaching. I'm getting more and more into working out with my guys as I coach them, instead of just before and after, and little bits during.

Day 1 weight: 208.6

Oh boy....

So for days 13 -14, my wife and I were sick. I should have worked out even though I was sick, because it wasn't as bad as before, but I admit it, I kinda wussed out. Day 15 I did a light workout barely worth mentioning. Day 16 and 17 I am back on track and had two good workouts at the gym. I actually have been feeling better and better in the gym, so despite a few setbacks things are going in the right direction. My wife said she thinks I'm looking slimmer, which is always nice. :)

Goal-wise I hit my goal of 205, coming in a little under at 204.8 tonight, after dinner even. Now onto the next goal of 200. I think I can hit it by my birthday which is pretty close, so that's the new goal.

Day 12a.

I didn't workout yesterday, so I made up (read: punished myself) for it today by doing another burpee fitness test this morning. 3 rounds of burpees for a total of 115 burpees. It's a move up from the last test, but not enough. I'll post Day 12b. tonight after I go to the gym.

Starting weight: 206.4 lbs.

12b.
Did a killer core workout at the gym. Especially hard on lower back and sides.

Day 10

So yeah, still not completely healthy thus no update for day 8 and 9. Basically just bitched out and didn't work out 'cause I was sick. Today I felt pretty good overall, if not completely healthy, so I went to the gym. Got a decent workout in, again in between coaching some guys with upcoming fights. It wasn't super great, but it will work. I did manage to injure my right foot kicking Ryan in the knee. Got about and inch and half bump raised up on the top of my foot, and even though it hurts like hell right now, I don't think it's too serious, and will hopefully heal quickly. We'll see tomorrow what it feels like working out on it.

End Weight: 206 lbs.

Day 7

Day 7 sucks. I'm still sick, worse than yesterday. Didn't work out today. I better be feeling better tomorrow.

Day 6

Starting Weight: 207.8
Ending Weight: 209

Today was a bit of an odd day. I woke up pretty sick this morning, and even now feel like crap. I didn't let it get in the way of my run today though. It was a pretty hot day, but I still ran with my plastic sweat suit under my long warm-ups. I didn't run for long, but I got some good sprints in. I lost so much water weight that I was down to about 205 lbs. afterwards. Obviously after re-hydrating I put that all back on, and apparently then some. I'm starting to get a little nervous about the recent weight hike, as my eating has been pretty good (small portions, healthy food), but I'm moving up a little after dropping about 7-8 lbs. I figure some of it is just my body gaining some of it's muscle back, but I want to see a nice drop... to 205 or less by the end of next week.

Anyways, props to myself for not giving in to being sick and skipping my workout. Slops to being sick in the first place. I knew my son was sick and didn't bulk up on vitamin C when I should have.

Day 5

Day 4 was a rest day.

Starting weight 208.8
Finishing weight 208.8

Went to they gym today, sparred a few rounds with Ryan then did some upper body lifting after. I pretty much stick to compound movements, and felt like I got a good workout in today. I did a small core routine this morning as well. I'm starting to slowly feel a little more energetic.

Day 3

Starting Weight: 207 lbs
Finishing Weight: 207.4 lbs

Nothing real dramatic today. Did a core workout in the morning then went to the gym in the evening and tried to fit some workout in between coaching.

Day 2 Summary

Finishing Weight: 207 lbs.

I decided to go to the gym today for my workout. It wasn't as strong a workout as I had hoped, 'cause George had me coaching some of the guys with upcoming fights. Still I managed to get in at least a partially good workout before I had to take care of the guys. Thanks to my brother Shon, who sparred a few rounds with me.

Burpee test!

So I did my burpee test this morning. I did three rounds, three minutes each with a one minute rest between rounds. The purpose of doing it in three rounds instead of the 10 minute burpee challenge, is so that I can better gauge my recovery as well. For my purposes this 3 round style is better than a 10 minute challenge. Here is the breakdown:

Round 1 - 35 burpees

Round 2 - 33 burpees

Round 3 - 34 burpees

Total is 102 burpees over an 11 minute time period.

My overall recovery between rounds was better than expected, but I think it may because I over-paced myself in the first round. I think I could have been in the mid to low 40s first round, but my subsequent rounds would have been lucky to hit the 30s I think. In one months time I would like to see a 75-100% improvement. I'm not sure if that is possible, but it is the goal.

Also, since I will be weighing myself twice a day, once in the morning and once at night, I'll list my morning weight here:

Morning weight - 209 lbs.

Let's get started

Today I did shadowboxing for 5 rounds @ 3 minutes, with a heavy resistance band. After that I did a half hour of yoga watching Namaste yoga on the fitness channel. Mondays are a hard day for me to workout as I have school at night, and usually some kind of homework to finish up as well as studying to do, so I'm happy to have at least gotten something in. Tomorrow I think I will do some kind of fitness test to use as a gauge later on when measuring my progress. Probably gonna be burpees. Burpees suck! Seriously. They are really good for your overall body and cardio strength, but damn they suck to do. The guys at the gym I train always give me dirty looks when I finish a workout with a high count of Burpees, lol. They're young though, they can handle it.

Getting started

Ok, decided to make a blog to keep track of how I'm doing in regards to getting back into shape. My goal isn't just being pretty fit. I am currently trying to get into extremely good/great shape, and hopefully get a few more Muay Thai or MMA fights in before I get to old (I turn 31 in May). One of my biggest problems has been staying on track, and keeping some/any kind of record of what I'm doing. I think it's important to track your progress as it lets you see how far you've come, and allows you to make adjustments to your routine once you recognize what has been working, and what hasn't.
Probably the most important thing about blogging all this, is that it will force me to be accountable to myself. I think that by putting at least one entry a day, detailing what I've done that day to reach my goal is going to help me stay on track. Wish me luck.