“I know kung-fu…” –Phase 2 & The Wing Chun Experience

Current Weight:  220.4 lbs.
Savage Countdown: 42 days (my new countdown clock until raceday)

Saturday Run:

 

Again we ran the Circle B Bar Reserve running trail, and I am happy to say that we tried running the trail in reverse this time and it was MUCH better…that plus the sun wasn’t out so none of our runners almost died this time. We also saw a lot more of the wildlife out and about, especially the hogs and birds. We even saw a baby gator death glaring people on the trail, how fitting. Overall we finished running about 1:13 so we not officially have a bar set to work towards for the next week.

Mixing P90X and Wing Chun:

This week marked the beginning of phase 2 of my P90X journey, and because of how I decided to modify my workouts for this week, my muscles are definitely getting the full benefit of the muscle confusion. Monday was Labor Day and since I had the day off, my friend Carlos invited me to a free boot camp class in his club at the Lakeland Wing Chun Kwoon downtown. I didn’t want to give up my P90X for the day so I just went ahead and did my morning workout routine, my P90X mid day, and finished off with the Wing Chun that evening. Luckily at the boot camp many of the moves were very similar to the P90X program with a few added variations of new moves (personally, I liked body slamming the 100 lb. dummy after kneeing it in the groin 10 times with each knee, unfortunately my wrist did not) which I did find extremely refreshing. 

After the class Sifu Och offered me to train for free for the week and I accepted, initially thinking I’d just skip my P90X to go to the Kwoon instead. Later that night I had a much better idea, I decided to just combine my morning workout routine with my P90X one and do Wing Chun in the afternoon. I thought this would be an easy way to build up my cardio and muscles even more (and it is), but easy isn’t how I would exactly put it, brutal is more fitting.

The first day wasn’t bad, but on the second day I was already starting to feel it already. I actually passed out at the bar (not drunk, which is a first) and didn’t wake up until my friend Ben shook me maybe fifteen minutes into my cat nap on the bar of the Pulse. On day three people at work started saying how I looked like the walking dead. The increased work outs and having to cut an hour out of my sleeping in the morning in order to get both workouts in before work was taking its toll on me. I decided after day four I wouldn’t continue because I needed a break and would rather relax in the afternoon at least once during the week, and was disappointed when I got to the Kwoon since I found out that Thursday is there tournament training day so there was no beginners class, but I did get padded up and beat up by high school sophomore who has an incredible future in fighting if he keeps kicking that hard (he even bruised my rib). I only did that for about half an hour and decided to throw in the Cardio X DVD just for the hell of it because I didn’t feel I had a complete workout being beat up by a minor.

I am happy to say I thoroughly enjoyed doing Wing Chun for the week, but I can’t afford to attend the school, so I may just up my P90X routine to include the 3 a days still this next week and see if it is still helping or if I need to back off before I become a complete zombie.

            On a side note, my right wrist is starting to really bother me because of the carpel tunnel (or at least I think it's that) so I’m going to try doing more wrist stretches in order to have it ready to hoist my ass up many of these obstacles.

Until next week,

Will

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