Just in  case you wonder, we are still here, I still train but I am less active in my blog because of family matters. I don´t wish to write about the details right now but I may get back to it later.

On the news side I can say that my god daughter will visit in April, she just started with another style of  martial arts and when she is here in April we plan on an introduction to JKD for her. She is very interested and very dedicated . My other brother also has a daughter in martial arts who happens to be the French junior champion in Karate.

One word ( or five ) : Girls rule in that family  🙂

This is the birthday of our Sifu Ted Wong . This year he would have turned 78 .
We will remember his kindness and his dedication, his expertise and his devotion, his way of making you feel special and his tremendous ability in JKD which made you feel so lucky to be his student .

Today we think about you a little more than usual and thank you.

I have put my JKD training on hold because of the last injury but it does not mean I will ever stop, what I am doing now is making myself stronger to avoid this really tough situation I have been living in for months now.

I have now started with morning trainings with a personal trainer, first to get advice on what I do wrong and then on how I can build muscle  and avoid injuries and stuff.

This morning was the first session it felt very good. I will use the information I got and train by myself twice a week and my PT says it should build some serious grounds just were I need them so I am more than happy and look forward to meet her again next week.

This saturday I booked myself to a yoga class just because of my unhability to relax, I need to see if this could help . Then maybe I will also have to add a swimming time during the weekend, I actually used to compete as a young girl, that made my think that it could also be a good thing for my back. So right now the weekly  plan is:  3-4 times at the gym, one morning session a week with my PT, one swimming session and maybe one yoga session if I like it ( can´t garanty that yet ). After some time I should be both stronger and maybe bigger which means I am going to come back strong and kick som serious A…. 🙂

No really when will  this problem with my back be solved? whatever treatment I tried these days  it made it worse , now I stopped it all and go back to the gym to start all over again. Next step is a personal trainer who I hope will give me good advice on how to train my back , back in shape and back in normal functionality !

Some say I am too old for this sh…. I say I am too young for this Crap! Enough with the problems and on with the training for God sake! It  has been going on for a while now, it seems anytime I feel I am back something goes wrong and I am down again.

It feels  like I don´t get to reach my goals , you know what one of the principles of JKD is?  first to not let anyone take you down and if you end up down anyway ,get the hell back up ! so no I won´t let this destroy me! everything I tried did not work? well I am gonna try something else but I won´t give up training my friend !

On Saturday I ran up the ski slope two times (not the big one, the backside) I was surprised that I could run so easily, I for sure need more cardio but my legs were surprisingly strong. Will also commented on the strength of his legs and this is a fact: SQUATS!!!!

I try to educate myself about training techniques all the time, I spend a lot of time on different websites and You Tube videos. Overall I think I am getting better at finding out how to train for my body type and for the goals I have.

I am not always happy, I have no patience  (no wonder,  I am French ! ) but I don´t let this discourage me because if I do,  I will never see results, positive or negative.

Lately I think I gained volume and I am not sure I like it, I know there are different phases in training and it is not so easy to find the right balance. I need to try myself through the process until I find the way to build muscles and get rid of fat without extreme dieting. I am not competing and I don´t want to get ripped either but some definition would be nice. I am still looking for the right balance,  not sure I have found it yet.

I definitely have to introduce more cardio because when I ran the slope it is what failed me the second time up, you can´t train martial arts if you almost die after two punches either!

So 4 times a week at the gym to built some strength and muscles, one JKD group session + own training on my punching bag at home, then running (I will also run a 10K race in September in Stockholm).

Hopefully I have built my shoulders enough to avoid new JKD injuries so I can get back on track when it comes to training. I have a tough schedule but I feel good when I train, better than go home after work and stay in the couch like a potato  ( and become one ! )

Walk on !

My training is  good right now, of course not as good as I wish but I will not go too fast and get injured again .

I ´ve had a couple of rough months  but I am feeling much better. There is no secret no training is making me feel bad about myself and when I feel bad, everything else is not good either. In order to take myself out of this, I had to force the mind and be stronger than ever and not let the dark toughts rule my life.

I feel good anytime I  train, always have , if it is heavier now it is because I have not been training enough these last months so I kick myself in the butt and get myself to the gym to build some muscles , get back strong and kick ass!

I had a surgery and could not train at all for 6 weeks. Yesterday I went back to the gym for the first time after 6 weeks of doing nothing, this was painful! not only for the body but for the mind! I was sad and desappointed where did the muscles go ??? where did the strength and stamina go ?  wow it is like I have to start over that is really hard to accept and I feel  bad actually. I had put some effort in it before the surgery because  knew how this would go and the time it would take but it seems it did not make any difference I lost it all and only thing to do now is rebuild !

as an exemple before the surgery I could do 293 squats, yesterday I did 25 and my legs are killing me today. that is the level I am starting with so this is going to be a lot of work but I know about muscle memory I am convinced I am going to rebuild this in no time as long as I put the effort in it.

It is like in JKD,  if you fall get back up and do it fast as hell !

How important is it to know what you are doing?  often come injuries because of lack of knowledge.

I like how people say we get stupider with age, I really don´t agree with this, we don´t get stupider we get lazier. The fact that it is easier to take the phone and search for any answer instead of trying to think with our brains, the lack of training makes us  not stupid but not challenged,  not trained.  As a result we are not able to answer any question , all basic knowledge we had before is gone. I am really bothered with this because this is exactly what I do, I feel it takes to much energy to try and find the answer myself but if I was doing it all the time, it would not be so hard to keep my brain alive!

Well it is the same with the body,  there is no age to start or keep on training and unless serious illness, the body does not become too old,  it becomes too untrained.  What about injuries then?  Still same problem , lack of training leads to injuries but there is a difference between quantity and quality. Unlike the two first times I injured my shoulder in a fight, the last one was pure lack of quality training, punching a hundred times wrong has messed up my shoulder to the point I am not sure it will ever get back to normal. So instead of having done it a hundred times wrong,  I could have done it 10 times right and I would not be in this situation.

I am trying to educate myself,  I seak information sources almost anywhere and with time and experience I am able to part what is good information from what is bad. It is so important to know what you are doing before you do it, the benefit will be so worth it.

I´d better write while I can access my blog !:-)

so yes I am much better,  I had a set back some weeks ago, as I thought I was better I did not think some exercises are still a NO GO ,  so I trained for the plank, my record is 4,15 and this is why I went straight back to the doctor ! stupid yes but how long is that going to take now really ???

so no plank anymore, Ok. I can do almost anything else so it is not the end of the world, the most important is to reach my goal which is to build myself some serious muscles and get stronger in order to avoid JKD injuries.