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Day 43/63 - September 17th, 2008 Workout - Muay Thai

I think the two weeks off I had actually did me some good and let my body recuperate or something, because I just got back from 2 hours of Muay Thai and I feel great.  I never felt really out of breath during the two hours until the last 5 minutes when we were doing [...]

17Sep2008 | Salar | 1 comment | Continued
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Day 41/63 - September 15th, 2008 Workout - Muay Thai

We did a conditioning class at Muay Thai yesterday.  Started off with our normal warmup, then did a bunch of drills with high reps to work on our conditioning.  We partnered up, got thai pads and then did a bunch of drills, then did sets of 25 pushups or 25 squats in between drills.
We finished [...]

16Sep2008 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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I won a fitness challenge… and back posting again finally!

I found out yesterday that I won my division (male 25-35) in the 9 week fitness challenge I did a couple of months ago at Kombat Arts!  I never thought I’d win anything fitness related, so it was a nice surprise to get chosen.  Ironically, part of my prize was a gift card for a [...]

15Sep2008 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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Day 32/63 - September 6th, 2008 Workout - Muay Thai

Class today was pretty good. We did some really tough drills with focus mitts where our partners would call out numbered combos and then we would throw them at the mitts.   I think I’ve finally got it drilled into my head to keep my hands up and it feels natural to me now to get [...]

6Sep2008 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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Day 29/63 - September 3rd, 2008 Workout - Muay Thai

It’s been 2 weeks since I last went to Muay Thai class and I’ve missed it so much.  Now that work is under control I was able to make it back in today for a class.
We spent the whole class doing drills in response to catching a jab from our partner.  We went through different [...]

3Sep2008 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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Day 28/63 - September 2nd, 2008 Workout - Misc

Had my first real workout in 2 weeks!  Did a quick warm up, then alternated doing pull ups, chin ups, push ups and squats until I couldn’t do any more.  Finished up with some core work and stretching.
It feels so good to move again and get my blood pumping.  I haven’t felt like myself at [...]

2Sep2008 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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Day 28/63 - Finally back

I haven’t updated the site in 2 weeks now.  I’ve been working on a project for work pretty much non-stop in that time.  I’ve literally been working 14-16 hour days 7 days a week for the last 2 weeks.  I decided to not count the last 2 weeks in my 9 week challenge because other [...]

2Sep2008 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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Weight Loss Plateaus and Taking Responsibility

In my readings about weight loss, exercise and nutrition, I’ve seen the concept of weight-loss plateaus come up again and again.  The idea is that a person will be doing everything “right”, but their weight stays at the same level.  I’ve read cases where this is attributed to gaining muscle at the same rate as [...]

19Aug2008 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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The concept of failure

I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the last few days and while I was out running today, all the pieces finally snapped together in my head.
Many times in my past I’ve felt like a failure at one thing or another.  It starts out by failing at something specific I was trying to do [...]

16Aug2008 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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Day 27/63 - August 16th, 2008 Workout - Running

Went for a 5k run this morning and it felt sweet.  I’m changing up my program so that instead of trying to run as long as I can each time, I do two runs where I focus on improving my speed and technique and then one long run where I just go as far as [...]

16Aug2008 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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