Saturday, 19 March 2011
Losing weight
So the day if the PUMA Black Belt World Championships finally arrives...
Sparring has been scarce due to working in London and I think this has contributed to me not being able to cut weight as easily. I was at 83kg and only had to lose 2kg in 3weeks, which ive done more than before. I haven't been able to this time so its resulted in a 24hr fast before weigh in. Man I'm hungry!
Just checked the scales and I'm 79.5kg, boo yeah! I wouldn't recommend fasting, eating better and increasing the cardio is much healthier! My pee/urine is yellow and I do feel dehydrated. Oh well, since my division is not competing until tomorrow; its time to eat and drink lots :-)
Good luck to all that are fighting this weekend!
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Work Training Balance
I'm missing training tonight as I'm stuck on a train coming back from work in London, and its not the first time!
I'm interested to hear how other people adsress this balance. Especially now that I've been contracted to a job in London for the next ten weeks, with a big comp coming up in march.
Any ideas?
Sunday, 26 December 2010
General Update & New Years Resolution
Apologies for leaving this blog unattended to - to be honest I had almost forgotten about it, but thanks to an interesting comment by Yakattack, I've made it my New Years Resolution to keep this updated more often.
Since my last update in October 2009, I was peer pressured into competing in a full contact kickboxing match for my university. Having come back from four months in America (on a rubbish diet), I was a bit dubious. To cut a long story short, three weeks is not enough time to prep for a fight, which resulted in me breaking my jaw.
I didn't realise my jaw was broken until four hours later when the adrenaline had died down and the pain started to kick in. It turns out my jaw was fractured in three places, from just one punch! I had surgery where two metal plates were put in and my teeth wired, to keep it all in place. Three months later (~March 2010) there's no cosmetic damage and I'm back in training :)
Soon after that I spent three months in Italy working as a graphic designer, unfortunately no training and an Italian high carb diet meant I started to gain the wrong kind of weight. Following a few days back in the UK, I flew off to Mexico and travelled around Central America for two months (again, no training).
I've been back in the UK since September and have been training at my old Tae kwon-do club, where training seems to have gotten easier - I enjoy a session where I get to work up a good sweat! I entered a few competitions in November, which showed me I had a long way to go to get back up to my "peak".
December/January is always a bit light on the training front, but rest assured I will be training hard once Christmas/New Year celebrations die away.
Since my last update in October 2009, I was peer pressured into competing in a full contact kickboxing match for my university. Having come back from four months in America (on a rubbish diet), I was a bit dubious. To cut a long story short, three weeks is not enough time to prep for a fight, which resulted in me breaking my jaw.
I didn't realise my jaw was broken until four hours later when the adrenaline had died down and the pain started to kick in. It turns out my jaw was fractured in three places, from just one punch! I had surgery where two metal plates were put in and my teeth wired, to keep it all in place. Three months later (~March 2010) there's no cosmetic damage and I'm back in training :)
Soon after that I spent three months in Italy working as a graphic designer, unfortunately no training and an Italian high carb diet meant I started to gain the wrong kind of weight. Following a few days back in the UK, I flew off to Mexico and travelled around Central America for two months (again, no training).
I've been back in the UK since September and have been training at my old Tae kwon-do club, where training seems to have gotten easier - I enjoy a session where I get to work up a good sweat! I entered a few competitions in November, which showed me I had a long way to go to get back up to my "peak".
December/January is always a bit light on the training front, but rest assured I will be training hard once Christmas/New Year celebrations die away.
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
I'm back!
After graduating I immediately went on a family holiday - cruise around North Europe. They had a gym on board with head to toe windows covering one side of the wall, so the view was magnificent! Anyway although I hit the gym everyday with my brother, it was inevitable I would put weight on because we were eating five huge meals a day (that's what all inclusive cruises do to you)!
When I came back to England I had a few days of hard training, but before I knew it I was offered a job as a fitness (and archery) instructor in America, working at a children's summer camp. I took up this offer and spent the next two months, eating quite well and working out quite well. I was also on the whey protein, which is really cheap in wal-mart. I met some great guys at camp and we decided upon a road trip around America!
After ironing out a few problems, we were restricted to the west coast, which was still bloody amazing! But during our road trip we hit the gym twice in three weeks, but each session were long three hour sessions doing all over body work outs! It was the same deal when we returned the car and there was just two of us left backpacking.
So now I'm back in England and I'm finding it tough getting back into it. I went for a short run and was dead! I went back to my old long term club and was shattered after a short session and I can feel some of my old injuries coming back. Plus flexibility has gone down hill. With all these negative thoughts, it's easy to give up but it's tough to suck it up and put in even more effort to get back to the standard I was. I am determined to get there. I'll keep you updated of how I progress!
When I came back to England I had a few days of hard training, but before I knew it I was offered a job as a fitness (and archery) instructor in America, working at a children's summer camp. I took up this offer and spent the next two months, eating quite well and working out quite well. I was also on the whey protein, which is really cheap in wal-mart. I met some great guys at camp and we decided upon a road trip around America!
After ironing out a few problems, we were restricted to the west coast, which was still bloody amazing! But during our road trip we hit the gym twice in three weeks, but each session were long three hour sessions doing all over body work outs! It was the same deal when we returned the car and there was just two of us left backpacking.
So now I'm back in England and I'm finding it tough getting back into it. I went for a short run and was dead! I went back to my old long term club and was shattered after a short session and I can feel some of my old injuries coming back. Plus flexibility has gone down hill. With all these negative thoughts, it's easy to give up but it's tough to suck it up and put in even more effort to get back to the standard I was. I am determined to get there. I'll keep you updated of how I progress!
Thursday, 9 April 2009
Charity TV advert for Help for Heroes
A few posts a go, you may remember me mentioning a varsity charity kickboxing fight night (Bath VS Loughborough Uni). This post continues on from Being a star for a day, by showing you the final TV ad! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dStuXQoLZHE
They did shoot a lot more footage but things get cut, oh well I still get my two seconds of fame! I’m surprised by the amount of people who that quick glimpse! Watch out for it on all most TV channels (so far it has been seen on Sky One, BBC1, ITV, and Channel 4).
They did shoot a lot more footage but things get cut, oh well I still get my two seconds of fame! I’m surprised by the amount of people who that quick glimpse! Watch out for it on all most TV channels (so far it has been seen on Sky One, BBC1, ITV, and Channel 4).
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