Thursday, March 13, 2008
Well I know that it has been a long while since I have put anything on my blog. I have just been very busy. The competition that I am in has been very hard. Nothing is easy but this has been a hard time to do this competition. I only have just a few more weeks before the comp. is over and we do the final talley. I have not done near as well as I would have hopped to do during this competition. Between family issues and health issues this has not been the best two and half months.
I have changed up my training a bit though. I have started taking something that is new to me. My wife and I joined a local gym that offers muay thai and brazilian jujitsu. They offer a lot of mma type classes. My wife has really enjoyed it and has done very well over the past two months. I on the other hand enjoy it when I have been able to go. Like I said before between family issues and health problems I have not been able to go like I wanted. But that all is changing because now I am healthy. I know that a lot of back problems know stem from my weight that I am carrying around. The only way to make my back to quit bothering me and to get my stamina back is to really work hard on getting this weight off. This has always been very hard for me because I must constantly stay after it or the weight will creep back on.
That is why I have joined this class because this is something that I really enjoy doing and it gives me an unbelievable workout. It is not that I don’t enjoy throwing iron around but I get such a better workout from doing muay thai. Plus through this I have learned that I must learn to lift differently. I must incorporate a lot of olympic lifting into my program.
That is another good thing about this place that I am at. They offer a strength and conditioning course that I can take that prepares me for mma. Plus I get the benefit of working out with pro fighters and learn some of things that helps them. They have been very helpful and are always willing to show me new things. My fire inside has been burning strong since my mom got sick but it is really burning hotter than ever. I am finally starting to come into my own.
The best thing about this whole deal is my wife and I have both found something that we love to do and can do together. That is the key. Finding something that you love to do and doing it. That is how you change your lifestyle of living. I am truelly blessed to have found such things. The lord has worked in amazing ways for me. I see now that this challenge was just a tool that he used to show me what I really need to be doing to make my body stronger. It is like I heard a pastor say one time, he said that you must grow spiritually but you also must grow stronger physically. That is one thing that I have taken out of this challenge. If I don’t win that is ok, I have learned that over the past few months. Yeah the big prize is nice but the best thing is being able to start a new healthy lifestyle that you can live with and continue to grow with.
If there is nothing else that anyone gets out of this I hope that they get this. No matter what you do whether it be power lifting, bodybuilding, or what ever it is, as long as you really enjoy that lifestyle and love what you are doing then you will always stay with it. It will make you stronger and it will be something that you can do for the rest of your life and somethig that you can pass on to futer generations.
