Week 7/23 - 7/29

Mon. Sparring drills. 8 x 2min, 8 x 4 min, 7 x 1 min. Sparring rounds. Sparred straight through with a 30 sec. break between matches. Tons of fun, except for foot hurting.

Tues. a.m. biked 45 min then did 45 min strength training. No fun at all.
p.m. Forms, grappled 5 x 2 min, 1 x 3 min, 1 x 4 min, 1 x 11 min

Wed. Pad work 1 HR. Foot was killing me afterwords.

Thurs. a.m. Biked 45 min, strength training 45 min. Still not enjoying sitting on my bike in the 100 degree garage.
p.m. Adult belt test. Grappled all the jr. Black belts testing. Those kids are really good.

Fri. Forms & strength training. Kids phase three test at night.

Sat. Kids belt test. Did some good strength & conditioning training at night.

Sun. Biked 45 min with abs & push ups after.

Monday night sparring felt really good. I feel like the speed & timing is coming back. Little by little. I really paid for it afterwords. I could barley walk wed. night after the pad workout in the morning combined with sparring from mon. I have decided to take a break from most stand up sparring for a few weeks. Hopefully my left foot will some how heel up with the break. 11 weeks until test time. Not sure how the foot is going to hold up with sparring. It's hard to beat the feeling you get from setting a goal & then putting forth a plan to make it happen. The journey is the best part of achieving a goal.