Well, my beauties, where do I start? So much has happened!
I guess I’ll just start by sharing a bit about my trip to the world famous OLYMPIA! I was very excited! I did NOT successfully get to gush effusively to Tanji Johnson (my favorite fitness competitor) but I did see plenty of eye candy (though none that seriously caught my eye, maybe I’m blind), and I was so excited to see all the famous fitness models! My favorite sightings were Jessica Putnam
as well as Aubrie Richeson!!! 😉 The funny thing is- she is on my Freestyle Fitness Addiction PAMPHLET!!!!
I TOTALLY wanted to show her the pamphlet, but alas I didn’t have any on me!!! 😉 She was sweet as pie. It was also good to see my girl friend Sasha, who is a figure champion and my jiu jitsu partner in crime!
I look like a ghost next to her!
All in all, it was an inspiring trip to see these AMAZING physiques live and in person- and they look just as amazing in person as in the magazines! It was great to see 🙂
Okay, moving on. The BIGGEST, most exciting shift has been fight training, which utterly swept me up! Before, I was planning on figure or fitness or both and bodybuilding and strength training, lifting weights, etc etc etc…Now, my dreams are filled with kicking, coordinated reflexes, functional physiques, punches, sweeps, submissions, and quick eyes, predicting and responding to movements that I am totally incapable of seeing or knowing now!!! I am stunned and admiring of the things that experienced fighters can discern which my eyes are too slow and inexperienced to perceive at the moment. I love the development of reflexes and the patterns that fighters know…that is unknown or hieroglyphic to me at best. I love new challenges and somehow I got wrapped up in this one…As an athlete, I love that this focuses on more than the physique and I can let out my feisty nature here. Not that I’m not completely in love with the figure competitor body, but my thoughts and passions have somehow crashed down in the fight gym….
I have started to shift my training style because honestly I was lifting 6 days a week with very little cardio. Upon starting fight training, though, I was super gassed and sick of feeling that way so I decided to decease my strength training workouts and increase my cardio as well as skills/sport-specific training (e.g. take more classes). This is what I want to do…so fun…loving it!…focusing…
And here comes the ZIG ZAG. Thursday I ummm I stubbed my pinkie toe. It didn’t even hurt. But later it started turning purple and started hurting.
(shiny from arnica lotion)
Friday I went to the doctor and she x-rayed it and said it was fractured. Are you serious?! She says it takes 6 weeks for a fracture to heal. Until then, avoid things that will cause displacement or anything to prolong the recovery time e.g. no running, no things on my toes, no kicks, no fun times…
So…the excitement that I was feeling…I am quelching it. The irony is that I CAN lift weights and can’t do cardio at the moment (except the armbike)….so in essence I can revert to the routine I was on a few months ago!! But that’s not what I want!!! LOL. Ah, the universe is interesting, isn’t it? I find solace in a quote I saw on Facebook the other day:
“See each disappointment not as a negative thing, but as a gift from the Uni-verse preventing you from going down the wrong path. We think we know what we want, but very rarely do we actually know what we need.” — Mastin Kipp
So…I guess it wasn’t meant. But I do kind of feel like an excited puppy eager to race and jump, and being yanked back by my leash…Struggling…
"nooo"
"YOINK!!!! oh no ya don't"
uh this was just kinda cute
I want to PLAYYYYY!!!!
um just a weird pic to make you feel uncomfortable okay divert eyes move on
I said I want to PLAYY!!! heeeeee 😉
Stuff is crazy right now with the conflation of education, demands of work (necessary), challenge of undertaking a new physical art form, and now this irritatingly minor yet significant injury…I need love, yo! This girl needs YOU! >>>Have you ever had a fractured toe? How long did it take to heal? Have you done any major training changes lately? Do you practice any type of martial arts? Any new exciting products or recipes?? (I have been totally loving Arctic Zero, that Alyson got me into!) Leave me a comment and/or hit me up at Kristina@FreestyleFitnessAddiction.com. Much <3 ~K
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