This week, I went for a double on Monday. The plan was to clear the "quota" before Fri approaches. I have 3 days; Mon, Tue and Thur to play around with. Last term, I did most on Mons and Tues but this term I struggled with this, partly due to the longer traveling distance, the mental fatigue and sometimes the body fatigue after an intense session.
Just after yesterday's double, I was so stoned. The beginner class was ok, nothing too taxing, working on a basic strike. I am still not pro enough so these beginner classes helps me to work thru basics.
Manageable. Before class, I had a bottle of coffee. After beginner class, I had a bottle of isotonic drink. Mid-way through the adv class, I finished another bottle of isotonic. After the Adv class, I was drinking lots of liquid from my gigantic bottle. This shows the strain.
The Adv class was really exhausting. We wore full safety gear, face guard, gloves and even chest guard. Did "light sparring" to work on defending and attacking, very remiscient of boxing. 3 mins per round. Guess what, I am still a noob. Can't defend much. Don't remember covering a lot of this. With no refresher, just start, and obviously I tio a lot of hits even against the female senior... And easily gas-ed out.
Then after 2-3 round, had to swap partners and did with guys. Some were more gentle (didn't atk much or held back some) but one was ferocious... plus strong and obviously had boxing background. One hard punch to my stomach and I bent over with tears misting. Ouch! And many strikes to the head. Under this type of pressure, had to adapt and try to guard as much. Temper and aggression did flare up. Midway, he did ask if I was ok and let up a bit. Later at the end, he did apologize for the hard strikes. I was literally seeing stars and thinking to myself; Boxers deserve my respect for going through that. There was a plus point to all these; I was forced to try to guard better and attack sometimes. Cos now I know the pain and potential hurt if I don't. Keep hands up and dodge by moving the body. Nothing like good old-fashioned pain to learn a lesson quickly.
After about 6-7 rounds of 3-mins sparring, we ended. Had my weak points pointed out. We were told to buy mouth piece, boxing gloves and arm wraps. K those would be on my shopping list esp the mouth piece. Cos when I went home, I was brushing my teeth, realized the two corners on both insides of my cheeks had a small cut each from the clenching of teeth hard when we were striking. Had to bite the teeth and also keep chin lowered. Ok tha would really be important.
Obviously I was sweating like crazy, the gear kinda smelt too. Was stoned on the ride home. Ate a late dinner and reached home about 11 plus. Bathed and then applied lots of muscle cream to the sore parts and slapped on medicated plaster on my right bicep and shoulder area. One is the strain from hyper-extension, all those punching and also some bruising from being punched in the shoulder (maybe from dodging) Looked at my stomach, wasn't any particular pain or bruises, except from muscle pain from all the crunches I did earlier last week. So safe. Slept really soundly like a log
Ended up with medicated plasters on me for work. Obviously my body aches esp the sore muscles from the arms, shoulders, stomach (from own conditioning last week) and back... Kinda feel old.
Today kinda zoomed past at work. It was another hectic day. The past two days are, due to time-table changes, everyday is heavy and hectic. My only light day was replaced with the heavy day. Can only look at the sky. But I got through but not sure how much can I go on like this. The increased exercise (restarted doing conditioning exercises at home, last Sat ad Sun) helped and KM was definitely a blues-killer but I had to rest up and recover today. Despite the muscle cream, some parts ache more today... But thankfully no major injuries, just sore and bruised.
See how things are by Wed before I decide whether I would attempt a double this Thur. One day at a time. I better monitor the stock market more despite the hectic schedule. Buy my Toto. Also should go to the near-by temple to offer some incense. Literally seein stars today, not from KM, but from the hectic-ness of work.
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