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.

Well I haven´t written for quite some time because I could not access my blog, this happens a lot and as I said before, there is no help to get from my blog provider. I have considered deleting it instead and start a new one but I have worked a lot on this and written many things over the years, I don´t want all this to desappear.

Yesterday at the gym I tried to lift more weights and I was thinking how it has taken one year for my shoulder to get better, this is ridiculous! The focus now is to get stronger and get myself some serious muscle mass. I know this will help me prevent injuries like this in the future. This is actually the main problem and the reason why I am injured all the time. I am not strong enough even if I am  tough, no strength means you have no business in Martial Arts. This is a set back for me, I had come a long way but I could never reach the next level and  this is why.

I can say I have worked a lot during the past months and I can see some difference. I am also getting educated on how to workout properly and I am constantly trying to get good  informations from different sources. Not only is it good to know what you are doing, it is also very interesting to learn how the body works.

A lot of women think they will transform into a man by lifting weights, well I will not give a course on that , there is a huge amount of information everywhere. Being strong and having a descent muscle mass is good for various reasons.

For information the person I am getting most of my information from is the Swedish Fitness Athlete Pauline Nordin.

http://fighterdiet.com/

How interesting , as soon as I start to write about how better I am,  I get worse! I can barely move these days.

I am supposed to write about my training and instead it is all about this injury and quite frankly this one starts to get on my nerves real bad!

So I am waiting for an Xray and will see what happens from here.

Anyway,  I am looking for a smaller punching bag right now. I had a really heavy one and it was very hard I could not move it when I needed to because it was bigger and heavier than me :-), it has now moved to our club, where it is no problem for the guys to handle. Mikael has arranged the club with training stations, it is good to be able to have this possibility as well and is easily put away for JKD class.

We are nevertheless waiting for the winter to go away so we can start our outdoor training. I can at least run and do other stuff as long as I don´t lift or push or punch. So honestly and seeing the positive aspect in all this , there is no reason why I should not train footwork like a beast right now 🙂 🙂 🙂

I am back !  the shoulder is much better. Never give up the hope that it will get better! Most of the time it is a mind game and even if I had dark times it was never a question whether I would always train JKD.

I have trained JKD since 2004 probably the only girl in sweden that has lasted so long and I am proud of it. Question is why? Well because of what it brings to my life and because of how it makes me feel, I don´t need recocgnition, I don´t get any anyway either than from my own instructor and this is all I need.

Our group has fought to get there and we are here to stay. How I plan to write my blog will maybe change a little from now on but me and Mikael are serious about our training and even if less information is going to come out, the training  is getting intensified. We feel it is not essential to share too much anymore, too bad but we have our reasons. nevertheless our JKD training is and remains! in Honour to our Sifu Ted.

My shoulder is getting better, I can now add some weights to the exercises the doctor gave me. Acupuncture is working well even if I did not think it would.

I started to train and can do most drills but I have to take it easy on the power and increase gradually. As soon as I start to feel it in the shoulder I just have to stop.

I will have to do that until I get back to normal but that is good to be able to do anything at all, I am happy about that!

PS : in case anyone wonder about that Bloody white square coming after all my posts, it is something my blog provider has no interest in fixing , if I was paying for that blog I would for sure get a better service!

Oh well, That was my ” bitching” moment,  let´s move on

Have a nice day 🙂

Let this year be a good training year!

My shoulder is still not good, I have trained last Wednesday and even though I was very careful and only did a few drills on mitts, I paid for it the rest of the week. The doctor says I should take it easy but I don´t think I can stay inactive anymore,  I have to take myself back into the game one way or another.

I have felt bad and sorry for myself for months and let the injury dictate my life , what good did that do? So at the end, it is only a question of how I manage the situation, not the other way around.

I have left the bad spirit back in 2013 and start the New Year with a new attitude. 

Happy new year !

Earlier this week I met with a doctor and a personal trainer, both say no to training…

This is no good news but no surprise either. I will have to focus on everything else but the right side, this is tough and my strong side will suffer from it, my whole training will suffer from it, but I will have to suck it up ,  I can´t just sit and do nothing anymore because it is starting to get to me real bad both mentally and physically.

The personal trainer told me she thought it would be better to stop all together because it is not the first time I injure the same side and I could end up with permanent damage. I answered “I wonder what Bruce Lee would think about that!”. No really it is difficult to understand for people outside the JKD world so I did not try too hard to explain but there is always a way and I will find mine.