2007 Workouts #10-12: Fun with basics…

Been in a bit of a blogging lull lately, so I’ll summarize the last few workouts:

Saturday – Mapleton closed due to power issues, so we trekked on back in the snow to Pekin. We did an hour of black belt kata and some basics, and were charged $5 apiece which was a surprise to everyone. and I have trained there several Saturdays and no one ever charged us before this, but I guess we just caught them on good days or something.

Tuesday – The illustrious return of . I know he worked out for a half a workout on the Thursday before, but I was here for this one. 🙂 We did a lot of basics and some sparring combinations, a good solid basic workout.

Tonight – The basics trend continued. I led warmups and we plowed through 100 ab exercises and 30 pushups. The triangle pushups are just plain miserable, I’m glad we did them though. The first class was all basics in stance, especially kiba-dachi. The second class was a few Bassai Dai kata to warm up, followed by a bonanza of sparring.

I was REALLY dragging tonight… nothing felt good except for the little bit of sparring at the end of class. I was tentative, my timing was off… I got popped in the nose by and the cheek by (that one was my fault, I chose to break timing in the middle of his run of attacks… I’m stupid).

I don’t know what it is right now, but I’ve got to do something to break out of this burned out phase that I’m in… working out has been a bit of a chore lately, and I hate the plateaus like this.