No Excuses

"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem."
Emil Zatopek

Many mornings lately I've been waking up tired, sore, and sometimes a bit unmotivated. Sometimes I fall into the trap of convincing myself I "need" an off day. I guess I'm a very goal oriented person and if I don't write those down and keep them in mind sticking to a plan becomes much more difficult. The mind and body adapt to both comfort and deprivation. Against the typical training philosophy, I'm going to purposefully overtrain. Force my body to adapt. No more excuses to skip lifting by telling myself I want to "save my energy" for fight training. No. Working through the pain and soreness will make me a better fighter.

I'm supposed to go to yoga with my friend Brooke at 11:30 today. Haven't heard from her...honestly part of me is dreading yoga. I seem to have no patience for stretching. I feel like Matt Powers, hahaha.


Yay! No Yoga. Marina texted me asking if I was going to the gym conveniently as I was writing out my workout:

Movement 1: Body weight squats and Sledgehammer hits on the tire [20 mins]
Squats: 18 sets in 270 reps
Sledgehammer: 92/92 in 7 reps

Movement 2: Still Legged Deadlifts (95lbs) [20 mins]
77 reps in 14 sets

Movement 3: Body weight lunges [15 mins]
150 in 5 sets

I deviated slightly from my workout since Garrett and Marina were doing a circuit and I talked to Taylor, one of the trainers (I guess he knew me), and asked to borrow the sledgehammer. I also got permission from him to use the other equipment. Sweet! Leg day is brutal. I felt really weak even though I drank some Surge. The whole adjusted Warrior Diet is still difficult. I find myself hungry and weak during workouts with a tendency to way overeat at night.