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Blog 1 & 2 - Shodai Sensei Clements UBBT
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| October 04, 2007 |
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Our UBBT group officially starts Oct. 1 and I have started put the different components together that I will need, such as my custom test requirements, printing the Mastery cards, and so on.
I am a little apprehensive right now about the test as I don’t even now if I will have enough time in a day to all that will be need. I have picked a kata that is new to me but one I have always wanted to learn and do (it’s an Aikido bokken kata). This kata is new to Shinkyu Kenpo and is one of our 2nd degree katas.
My family thinks I will have a hard time with this test. Not the physical part, but the 1000 acts of kindness and compassion, and righting wrongs & mending relationships. I can be grumpy and don’t suffer fools, and I have never been very forgiving. The “mending relationships” is going to be very, very hard for me, but I do have three people in mind. I already feel dread. This is going be good for me and something I should have fixed long ago.
The physical requirements in the UBBT are equal to or less than I already do for myself now (I am a personal trainer). As part of my custom test requirements I will be beefing up the physical requirements and adding more, such as 200 push ups a day instead of 150, and 400 sit ups with a 25 lbs weight a day instead of the 150 crunches. The one thing I will be adding is pull ups. I weigh 230 pounds, mostly muscle :), and find pull ups very hard to do for some reason. My goal is to be able to do 20 pull ups. If I reach 20 pull ups before the years end I will shoot for 30 pull ups.
I am looking forward to doing everything else and learning new things.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Well here it is, the first day of our groups UBBT and I am also starting the Body for Life 12 week program today as well. I talked my wife and one of my students into doing the Body for Life 12 week program with me. I spent the weekend getting everything ready so that today would go smoothly. So far so good.
My wife and I got up at 5:30 am today and went on a brisk two+ mile walk though the Lincoln Park desert trails, took about 30 minutes. At a little passed 6:00 am I did my first set of push-ups (60) and sit-ups (120), by the end of the day I will have done 200 push-ups and 400 sit-ups.
The Body for Life workout looks easy enough so I am going to do my best to push it hard. I guess I will find out today with the first workout.
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