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I know that people say, I’m doing this tomorrow, blah blah blah…. For me it’s the truth, I’ve been slacking for way too long, and now I have the drive to say enough!I only have breakfast planned for now, but that’s enough to start with. Here’s the plan for the morning.

1/2 cream of wheat –using water not milk, sweetened with honey, and fax seeds for extra fiber. That will be served with a protein shake, and fruit.

Meal 2: Fruit, tuna on rice cake with water

lunch: If I’m home brown rice, protein shake, salad

Meal 4: Don’t know yet…..

Training: Jiu-Jitsu…

Any food / workout suggestions would be great!

Last night I went to the Royler Gracie seminar at the school I attend, and let me tell you that was an awesome experience. For two hours I was able to see how a sixth degree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt thinks. Best of all the information that we got came from as close to the source of the art that I love as anyone can ever get. I mean aside from speaking with Helio or Carlos you cannot get a more direct source then that. I kept thinking, wow what was it like growing up a Gracie, how where the simple sibling fights? That must have been a sight to see, two five year olds going at it with more natural movement then grown men. That to me was the most awe inspiring part of it all. You could see that the moves where so second nature that the way he looked at the human body wasn’t the same as anyone else. All and all it was a great learning experience! I cannot wait to apply the thought processes I saw last night to me future fights!

Ok, the ugly ring worm is gone from my forehead and wrist, I could have trained last night, but didn’t want to chance it. This morning I wake up and BAM!!!!!!!!!!! All gone, just a little redness, but that’s not contagious! So happy! Two weeks off the mats and I felt like the biggest slacker, I didn’t want to go just to watch because I would have wanted to get in and mix it up, not to mention shaking hands, and risking a spread, but it’s full throttle from here on out! The best part of all of this is that the day I go back I’m partaking in a seminar with none-other then the great Royler Gracie! You want to talk about someone that you’d love to meet one in your life time, Royler, Rickson, and of coarse the man himself, the founder of BJJ Mr. Helio Gracie! He’s like 96years old, and I’d like to meet him before he passes, but who knows when that’s going to be, or if that’s going to be, I’ll make sure to take photos of the event! Man I’m excited!

I’ve been doing my K-Bell CF while off the mats this was last nights–I named it Natasha….

100 clean and Jerks each arm with me 16Kg bell

200 push ups

200 Swissball reverse crunches

200 curls with bell (double grip on one bell)

I got as far as 57 on the clean & Jerks before I felt it would be unsafe to do anymore.

OK, so aside from a stretch of not so good times I can deal, but not being able to train opens a box of badness. I don’t know where it came from, or if anyone else in class has it, but I’ve got ring worm on my wrist, but worst of all on my forehead! That tells me it’s not from my dirty Gi, but from someone else and their dirty butt! That pisses me off, I have to miss at least one week of training because of someone else. That’s one week of forgetting, one week of techniques, 8-10 hours of mat time, and at least one week away from my selfish time! I don’t know a lot about this thing so I’m even a bit scared to break a sweat while training with weight, call me scared, and I’ll agree.

If you’ve never had it before, do your best not to ever get it. Ring worm is a fungus, and highly contagious, wrestlers and bebe kids get it a lot. Wrestlers get it from dirty mats, people that don’t wash the gym gear then train, or from leaving old gear in a dark place then training with it. We ground fighters are very clean people for that reason alone. I’ll admit that when I’m sparring with someone and they comment on my Gi smelling fresh as a summers breeze or that it’s downy soft…. Like the old spice commercial… uhehg Your skin is soft…. Not manly….

I’m going to chance it and workout tonight, the best part of not having a job is the mid day nap… The worst part is loss of motivation, you have all day to do it, but you’re more focused on finding a job that you spend more energy looking for work then you do when you’re working… All and all, I’m getting positive feed back, now I just have to see which place I want to work for, then I might go cray and get a gym membership…