Thursday 7th - The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle!

Thursday was a manic training day! loved it though.

No cit in the morning so i headed down to Coalville at 6am to get personal training in. Knowing i might not be training at lunch time i had a thorough warm up and lots of reps in mind.

I warmed up using the bleep test, again out of pratice with this, got to level 14.2 - over a level off my best. After that i headed to the weights bench and worked arms, shoulders and especailly the chest and abs. In addition i forced myself into a really horrible 3 minutes of the knee in using the trx.

I returned to Coalville for 18.45 and went back into the gym with dozer to again work the abs. 19.30 and class rolled round and we were straight into traditional mode. Thoes that forgot their etiquette were punished with pushups and the poor sods on their left hand side paid for mistakes as well. All in good fun. We continued with reverse punch, and introduced lunge punch. After serveral drills of 50 we learnt a bloke followed by a grab sweep defence.

Black Belt club introduce traditional kumite sparring for the first time. I have tounched on this before but simply as a one off. It was pretty painful to begin with, but once the body strating pumping adrenalin the pain eases and the will to win comes back. I sparred twice, found me feet against johny and scored a few nice points, including two kicks round the chops!!! muhahahahaha

Great stuff, looking forward to developing it.