Pursuit of strength

It felt good to wear the Taekwondo dobok again. The light white fabric with the Adidas black trim. The feeling of folding that black belt once more with my name sewn in in Hangul. It felt good to get back into that horse riding stance and throw that punch while barking out a scream from my diaphragm. It felt good to wipe the sweat off my brow with the sleeve. It felt good to step forward and throw that turning kick, the mechanics of which have been so ingrained into the memory of my body's muscles. It felt good to be back doing Taekwondo.

...But it didn't feel so good the next morning.

Haha. So I knew coming into Muay Thai that the scheduling would be rough on me. Essentially on Mondays and Wednesdays, I have to have dinner by 5, leave around 6, train Muay Thai from 6:30 to 7:30 for an hour, drive back to the apartment and walk (up Folsom hill) to the CU Rec Center where I then spend two hours doing Taekwondo. The first hour being traditional techniques and training and the second hour being sparring. It's interesting change going from Muay Thai to TKD, in terms of style of training even to training attire. It's a little nuts though, I'm pretty exhausted by the second hour of TKD and so I'm going to be slow and sloppy while sparring which probably isn't a good idea but at least it'll help with my conditioning and force me to train while in an exhausted mentality/status. My fight at Collegiate was a serious indication of my lack of cardio and inability to fight while tired.

All in all, my deltoids and upper body are fatigued from Muay Thai and my hamstrings and legs are fatigued from TKD but I love it because I love what I do.

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