I'm starting my journey to my 4th Degree Black Belt, which will be 7 months of various physical and mental training. Some of the fun activities we are task with are doing 150 pushups daily, 150 situps daily, 3 miles of running and/or biking daily, Martial Arts training 3 times per week and sparring. We get Sunday to rest. Other planned physical and mental activities are forthcoming and will be revealed soon.
Some of the obstacles that I will have to face personally are:
1. Physical and Strength Training - To be honest, the physical and strength aspect of the training doesn't worry me. Throughout my life I've always been religious about putting in gym time and hitting the weights. I would normally hit the gym and lift 3 times a week. Need to get those beach muscles going.
2. Cardio - I've always been active so the Cardio aspect doesn't worry me as much. I've run a lot in my life and participated in a lot of running events (5k's and 10k's) and endurance events (3 Tough Mudders). What I'm more concerned about is my right knee. A year ago my knee gave out during a 10k event and I had to walk the last mile in pain. With that said, I'm a little fearful of my knee giving out again, which could hamper my training. Hopefully I can balance out my cardio with activities that are less impactful to my knees, such as biking. I would say I could do more swimming but most of you know I can't swim. Doggy paddling would be exhausting! Any suggestions from anyone on other forms of cardio activities would be helpful. Feel free to chime it.
3. Flexibility - One of the other things I need to do more is stretch. To be honest, I'm not one of the most flexible person out there, so I'm going to devote at least an hour a day to stretching.
4. Time Management - It's going to be difficult to fit all the training I need to do into my busy schedule. I have a full time day job plus the Martial Arts school to run. On a typical day, I'm working from 8am to 7pm. In addition, I have to make time for my 2 boys and my wife. I understand that this training is important but my family comes first. If this training regiment hampers my ability to spend time with the family, then I might have to consider postponing it. My kids grow up too fast and my wife is too important to ignore. I guess I'll just take it one day at a time and see how it goes.
OK, so enough of my babbling. Here's the week summary (actually 4 days since it was a short week) of my training.
- Hit the gym and lifted 355 reps of weights this week (4425 lbs of weight).
- 650 pushups, which averages out to 162.5 pushups per day.
- 300 Sit Ups, which averages out to 75 per day. I was slacking on the sit ups but I wanted to pace myself. I already have a six pack abs so I didn't want to overdue it and get a 12 pack. Just kidding!
- Running 3 Miles
- Biking 6 Miles
- Martial Arts Training of 1 hr.
For those interested in the details, I did a spreadsheet so enjoy:
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