Month 3 Week 3 Day 1

Recovery- Tiger's Milk
Breakfast- 1 cup rice milk and cinnamon Ezekiel Cereal
Snack- 2 dried seaweed sheets
Lunch- 1 bowl of pork and shrimp rice vermicelli noodle bowl
Snack- 2 dried seaweed sheets
Dinner- Before 7pm, calzone with artichoke, mozarella, and can't remember what else...

The workout this morning was cool. Dagnamit, I was late again, but I jumped right in and tried to figure out what was going on.

This time, there was a tape that called out 1,2,3,4 or 'defense'. What we had to do was execute a combination on command.

So, if they called '1' you threw a jab (took me awhile to figure this out, I kept throwing a cross)

if they called '2', jab, cross

'3' jab, cross, hook

'4' jab, cross, hook, uppercut

'defense' meant going down to a plank postion an dthen back up again in one smooth, move. Sometimes we were told to go down to defense and hold... then they would call 'left' 'right' and we would either do slow mountain climbers, or I would try to mimic Rudy and do a grappling slide move...

I took grappling for a short time about two years ago. I liked it. They say that ground defense is gret for women, for obvious reasons that if we were to fight, we most likely would end up on the horizon rather than have a vertical fist fight.

So we did 3 minute 'rounds'

After the three minutes, we 'rested' for 30 seconds, but what we really did was either pushups, abs, or dumbells, until it was time again to go for another round.

Earlier in the class, Rudy had told me to get in front. There was a huge space right there in the front of the class. I jumped right in front. It was strange to have the big mirror right in front of me, I am usually quite a ways away from it. But there I was, no hiding. I asked Rudy after class if he had called me out because I was late, he said that he wanted to keep an eye on what I was doing since he knows I have a little background in fighting. Said I was close and kept up with Sal and him ok. I take that as a humungo compliment.

I feel like I am working out well, not so sore, recovering quickly, eating, ok...I have tightened up, but lost hardly any fat or weight it seems... I hope I can make a difference in the next 1.5 weeks!