Symphony-x

my two senseis met in a class, now they are long term partners

you could do it watching snooker, although boring, they scores points quickly

no, each ones about 45 minutes of circuits

If you watch 'Bravo' here in the UK, the UFC is on most Fridays or saturdays

fights happening on new years eve i think. Anyway, chuck is my favourite MMA fighter, and, going by their last few fights against opponents, Chuck will easily win again.

Well, I have a mix of styles which I use Practiced both WTF and ITF TKD, Which learned me more of my kicking based skills, which I then realised some aren't as p[ractical as we are told [i.e axe kicks using your heal] Boxing Has helped me get my upper body power and technique down to a T nearly. Although I'm quite big, for my size im extremely quick and agile. Freestyle Karate/Kickboxing: This is what I currently do along with boxing. This still is sometimes seen as a 'showmans' sport which is extremely inaccurate. We mainly learn a variety of stand up martial arts ranging from traditional styles of Karate, to Kickboxing, to Muay Thai to TKD. We also train ground and 'throwdown' martial aets like wrestling ju jitsu and Judo. And also Self-Defence. Our martial art is split into 3 groups mainly 1. Fitness 2. Points fighting. 3. Continous sparring. No1 is forced to do sparring and competitions. I do more the continous [kickboxing] side of it, where I do full contact and light contact fighting.

don't think a BMI is very effective imo for me going by the internet 1s due to the fact that they count your whole body weight as fat, and dont even consider muscles. And as I have rather big muscles in my thighs, calfs and biceps, don't think it'll be too accurate EDIT: Yeah my classes are going to go up to an extra one on a thursday fore an hour of pure sparring a week too. I do circuits about 3 times a week at classes + twice at my house too now. Recently I've started cycling and jogging more, and doing a bit more weights.

not to sound like a total idiot, but... how do i do that?

Boxing, muay thai or contact karate would be my safest bests

to lose about 3 stone [42 lbs] by march... really. Though, losing weight isn';t the main thing, its losing body fat

indeed

so, before I start doing more. Could people say whats good/bad about my diet/exercise and what should be changed?

Onto Fridays training then and eating habits. Day off of college again. Woke up later than usual. 1:30pm: ham sandwich 6pm: Pasta and chicken with a side salad and a glass of water 10pm: had my weeks treat, a small bar of dairy milk chocolate. Training: Well, My kitchens currently being renivated, and I had to move my cooker. I didnt realise how heavy then can get, especially when the other person isnt as strong as you. So lifting it was a bit of a work out. At about 3pm I walked my dogs for about half an hour. 8pm: Karate starts. We started off with a 10 minute warm up jog, then stretched off. We then did a relay where we got into groups of two. We had to run to one side of the hall, do an exercise, then run back. Then your partner would do the same. The eercises were: 10 star jumps, 15 push ups, 15 sit ups and 15 power push ups. After that we did line drills on our 'XL BOB' practice thing. We started off by doing front leg roundhouse kicks in left fighting stance, then after a while in right fighting stance. We then went onto doing axe kicks, and the same: left fight stance first, then right. After we did that for a while, we were able to do combinations of both in either stance. We did that for our remaining hour. Finally, we lifted up the mats and stacked them up And, before I went to my bed, about 1:30am, I did 20 push ups and 20 sit ups. So, that was Friday

http://youtube.com/watch?v=v896NHK8SR4 Guy at my Kickboxing, read the description please

yeah, but, I prefer learning more combat type things that are more effective, but once in a while, a flashy kick is fun

Congrats ^^

Yeah, its white, red, yellow... blah I've been doing it for 3 months. And, I had my belt giving last night. Sensei graeme says for this belt its all internal assessment, and it was based on improvement, correct attitude etc. So, I passed and im now a Red Belt XD

sometimes where I cant sleep I read a magazine until im either tired or so bored i go to sleep

Whats wrong with learning something for fun anyway?

Ok, now on to thursdays training. I had college in the morning, and then my college afternoon out, where I had to go early due to kickboxing training. here goes: 7am: Strawberry muller light ypgurt. 10am: 'Just Juice' 100% apple juice carton 2:30pm: Chicken and bacon panini with side salad. 6:30pm: toast on its own. Ok so with our afternoon out we went bowling. Now I wouldnt have said bowling was much exercise but the ammount I walked about, and throwing the bowling ball couldnt have did any harm atleast. 8pm: My kickboxing started. We started off with a 15 minute job around the hall, getting warmed up, and to work some sweat. We were asked to speed up every so often, so we'd feel it more. After that we stretched a bit, and then ran for about 5 minutes again, to losen are legs off once more. We were told the night we'd be working on front and rear leg round house kicks, spinning back leg round houses and blocking kicks. We started off by getting into groups of 2, where 1 person would kick, and we'd block the kicks after sensei graeme showing us exactly what to do. We did this from 1 side of the hall, to the other, and the other person would do it back. We moved onto doing backleg round houses and front legs where the person blocking would have to watch out to see which 1 to block. We then moved onto spinning kicks, which I love. We just found a space outta everyones way, and tried spinning back kicks, and blocking them. At the end of the class we were given our new belts, and were told this time round we had been assessed continually instead of doing a grading at the end. I got my red belt WOOOO!

Well, sorry for the delay, but had my grading yesterday, so couldn't post my wednesday log. so here goes again... Wednesday I had a day off of college, but the weather here was absolutely terrible, heres my food intake of the day: 10:30 Strawberry muller light yogurt, glass of semi-skimmed milk. 1pm ham sandwich, just plain. [and I hate butter, ick] and a glass of peach water. 6pm ham, chuttney and mixed salad wrap. with water. Now for my training. Well the only training I could do on wednesday was that at my boxing. Arrived and started at half past 7, with a run around the hall for about 10 minutes for a warm up, then onto stretches. After that we had a circuit layed out which consisted of: 1, skipping 2, lunges 3, sit ups with medacine ball 4, punches with weights 5, sit ups to ankles 6, quat thrusts 7, press ups: thumbs touching 8, tricep raises 9, sit ups with medacine ball again 10, flys with weights we did each for 3 minutes. After that we had 3 rounds of 3 minutes shadow boxing to get our bodys lose and ready. Starting off with just leg movement and gradually working everything together. We then went upstairs to do pad work, and bag work. Altogether we did 12 2 minute rounds, which included 3 pad work rounds, and 2wice on the speed ball. After these, we went onto stomach work where we had to start off doing 15 sit ups, then raising your legs up six inches, doing full circles with your legs in one direction 10 times, then the same in the other direction 10 times again. Then straight into 15 sit ups again. We had to then raise our legs 12 inches, and hold it for 1 minute, pointing out toes away from us. 15 sit ups again after that. finally we had to put our legs vertical, and push them up raising our legs as far up as we can do 20 imes. We stretched our stomachs off, and did stretches as a cool down, and tht was us finished.

I believe you should say that you'll be doing another style aswell, but its your choice whether you do a diff. style aswell

for xmas we usually get up at 10, open presents, play with the new toys and then have a mean at about 3. just the 3 of us [me, my mum and my dad]. the either have people over at night, or go to someones.

heh... well, I best start posting to catch up ^^

the only punishments we get is either doing push ups or sit ups for a long time. I.e if some doesnt come back in fighting stance, the class must do 50 press ups at the end, adding on 50 for each person who doesnt do it