Day 35/63 - May 28th, 2008 Workout - Muay Thai

May 28th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

I found out that I passed my green shirt testing at Muay Thai today! So today I took a class with the advanced students for the first time. Was it ever tough. Everything about it was harder.

The cross fighting was much more dynamic than the usual back and forth combos we practiced. It’s definitely going to take a while to get used to it and I expect that I’ll be getting hit a lot until I get a better sense of incoming attacks. We learned spinning back kicks today too, which is a technique I’ve never tried before. Even the conditioning was tougher. For our ab work, we did 30 full sit ups, 30 twisting sit ups and 30 half spring ups as one long set. By the time we got to the spring ups I was toast and had to stop every 5, but I managed to finish.

I felt like a complete beginner again at class today. Which I think is a good thing. I’m going to try to approach it with an open mind and try to see everything like it’s new again. The best way to learn is to take it in as if you know nothing. I’ve heard a quote similar to that before… just can’t think of the exact wording now.

Now I gotta search for my cup and get a mouth guard… and a bag that I can fit all this stuff into including my shin guards. Can’t wait to do more cross-fighting though!

Here’s the workout numbers for today:

- 100 Push Ups
- 20 Pull Ups / Negatives
- 10 Chin Ups
- 60 Squats
- 20 Squat Jumps
- 80 Crunches
- 20 Oblique Crunches (each side)
- 30 Leg Raises

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