Training Journal

So,
as of last week I have been documenting everything that I have done to train everyday, and I've decided that at the end of each week I will post it onto my blog. That way I will be able to receive comment on whether or not my training looks sufficient of whether I need to step it up a bit :-). This is also a place for me to look back to in case something happens to my journal.

August 5, 2009

Time frame:
9:00am - 10:00am

Activity:

Met with Sifu Schermbrucker and worked on board breaking, as well as forms.

• We focused on my palm heel strike.
• Started out on the focus shield and did around 100 repetitions.
• Transfered over to a pine board, and I didn't end up breaking it with my palm.
• Blasted it with my elbow.

we also looked at the following forms.

• Hung 1&2
• Kempo 1&2
• Hsei Chen
• Lung 1&2

Reviewed on what I needed to work on and corrected it.

Time Frame:
1:00pm - 1:20pm

Activity:

• 60 repetitions of combative side heel thrust (right leg) on heavy bag. (reps of 10 6x)
• 60 repetitions of horizontal elbow (left hand) on heavy bag. (reps of 10 6x)
• Also completed 60 pushups. (reps of 10 6x)

Time Frame:

1:30pm - 1:45 pm

Activity:

• completed the rest of my side heel and elbow reps on the bag.
• Completed the rest of my pushups and 150 crunches.

August 6, 2009

Time Frame:

9:00am - 10:00am

Activity:

Met with Sifu Schermbrucker

• Worked on Lung 1&2, completing 50 reps.
• Noticeably improving my form by the end of the hour.
• Completed 150 pushups

Time frame

10:15am - 11:00am

Activity:

• 100 reps of side heel thrust (right leg) on bag
• 100 reps of palm heel strike (right hand) on bag
• 100 reps of elbow (left arm) on bag

**all in sets of 10 10x

• 150 crunches

August 7, 2009

Time Frame:

9:00am - 10:00am

Activity:

Met with Sifu Schermbrucker

• Completed countless reps of hammer fist (I changed my right hand board breaking technique.) elbow, side heel thrust, and knee.
• Finished off with theory questions
• Also completed 150 pushups

Time Frame:

10:15am - 10:20am

Activity:

• completed 150 crunches

So this is the end of my post. With everything that I had done this week.

Overcoming

So,
we did a demo today at rotary park and it was my day to board break. . .

I got up there . . . lined my boards up,
broke on my side heel , didn't break my palm.

second attempt
didn't break

then i lined up again, and broke my knee and elbow.

You know, It gets very frustrating after awhile to know that you have worked so hard to getting to this point and then you cannot break a stupid board lol. But it is something that I need to do, and I WILL do it. . .

And the more I think about it, the more I do come to believe that it is all mental. (not that I haven't been told this already, I just didn't believe it??)
I have spent a part of my time trying to make everything perfect, to make sure that the boards are the best that they could possibly be, to find the easiest board and use it for my "so called" weakest technique. But I've got to stop thinking about it that way. . . I have to start thinking of it as
"okay, I have this piece of wood standing in the way of my target, so I have to go through it."
because ultimately, it is not the board that is stopping me. I am stopping me.

I have spent time crying over this, worrying, but I won't do it to myself anymore, ill just break it. . . this is what I have to do.

Blast through it lol.