Before I go on to that, just wanted to talk about last night, I had arranged to go to watch Jersey's first cage fighting night and a friends 40th Birthday party.
A good night you may think, and so it was, the only problem is not drinking, not the fact I don't enjoy myself without a drink, it doesn't really bother me.
Its my 'friends' who seem to have the issue with this, the just have one, it won't make any difference ! EXACTLY, so whats the point in having one ?
Or even you still have 9 weeks to go, you can stop drinking after tonight ??
I'm not sure why people do this ? Whether they would like to see me fail, because they can't enjoy themselves unless drinking, or even because I'm doing something, that takes me out my comfort zone, which they would never do, so would rather drag me back, than encourage me onwards and support me.
Anyway had a good night out, home reasonably early, but at least went out, so woke up fresh this morning.
AND BOY DID I NEED TO BE !!
Ben was away this weekend, so it was left in Alan's capable (evil) hands to take the session (Ben maybe banned from going away after today).
Had my banana omelette and amino work capacity, before getting ready for short cycle to the Fort.
After realising, I never had my bike at the house, I had no choice but to jog there (about 15 minutes) at least it would be a good wee warm up.
Once there Alan got us to do some stretching and warm up, as he thought we should get ready for the 'fun' that was coming.
After getting split into two teams again, we were reintroduced (not for the last time I imagine) to the Fort steps, from what was a workout on Thursday, is now our warm up, four sets later, we were back in gym, gloved up and 'ready' for the
Getting us to focus on improving the techniques, we had learned on Tuesday and Thursday, while trying to kill us, cardio wise.
Alan gave us 5 rounds of 1 minute, bag work, 1 minute, toe taps or step ups, 30 seconds bag work, 30 seconds toe taps, or step ups, each round finishing with what I think were 45minute planks, Alan said 45 seconds, but seemed more like minutes.
After what appeared to be 3 seconds rest, we worked in pairs on the bags, doing one of those exercises that looks ok, but actually destroys any ounce of energy you have left, combining push bag against partner then a combination of punches, repeated for a minute, before changing with partner.
This was finished off with 10 press ups, 10 V sit ups and 10 squat thrusts again 5 rounds of this.
Last up we completed more core work and a stretch.
All the guys seem to be really focused on the task ahead and working as hard as they can, again everyone pushing each other when you notice the tiredness kicking in.
At the moment we are all in this together, being a team, will be interesting to see what happens once we start sparring and then get paired for the actual fight.
But that seems a long way off now.
Even managed not to get any hits from Alan today, or maybe he did and I was too tired to notice, so still 2-0
Thankfully Ben is back on Tuesday ha ha, back to technique based session, looking forward to it.
Was really happy to get through session and done for the day, until I walked out the gym ! Oh yeah, no bike !!! The jog home was 'interesting' shall I say.
Craig :-)
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