April 22, 2008

• Still haven’t found what I’m looking for

  Last night I observed a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class at the gym.  Everyone there was very nice and encouraged me to join.  There were about 20 men and 2 women.  I decided it wasn’t the sport for me, though.  There’s no punching.  It’s all grappling on the ground.  (I knew from reading about it that it focused on grappling, but didn’t get that there wasn’t anything else to it.)  It did look like hard work and many of the people had sweat pouring off them during the class, but it just wasn’t the sport for me.

  I’ll keep looking though – find a Tae Kwon Do class or Karate class to observe.  Kickboxing or boxing would be ideal, but I haven’t seen any resources for those yet. 

  I did my boxing drills yesterday, but I’ve had to cut out jump roping for the time being due to shin pain.  My shins didn’t hurt from my treadmill work, but jumping rope was becoming too painful.  So it’s out until I lose more weight.

  So far, since January 1, I’ve lost 17 pounds.

  Right now, I’m just doing the treadmill and boxing on Mon, Wed, Fri, – but next week I’m going to add back in some cardio on Tue and Thur as well as some strength or power training that will supplement the boxing.  I may add the kicking back into the boxing drills, too (ie, kickboxing) just to break up the monotony.  I took it out because it was straining my knees, plus it’s damn hard work, but I’m ready to add it back now.

  And Powerhouse still isn’t open.  Or at least, they’ve not sent out the email telling anyone they’re open.  It’s ridiculous.  I signed up with them in February because they were going to have all this wonderful new equipment (including boxing stuff) and be opening very soon.  I’m still waiting. 

  Happy Earth Day everyone!

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