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Halfway there with less than 7 weeks to go! :)

posted on July 25th, 2012 by |

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What a journey its been so far!! The past weeks have honestly been extremely tough for me with old injuries creeping its way back in again. My knees / ITBs has its up and down days – the pain during my down days is excrutiating but I am determined not to let this affect my training schedule [...]

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As if I needed a humbling moment

posted on July 5th, 2012 by |

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So we started the fourth week with a bang. Having been asked to get mouth-guards, gloves and head protection last week I honestly did not think we were gonna need to use it for a while. So my boxing self esteem in not particularly high as I am considering myself to be on Level 0. [...]

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The “Killer workout” as introduction for the third week !

posted on June 26th, 2012 by |

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Hi All,   I’m late sorry ! Just a few words to say that the training is going well. Yesterday in order to celebrate Sarah’s visit to HK, Alain the Panther gave us a “Killer workout” that we all enjoyed like when your Mom was forcing you to eat something because-it’s-”supposed to be”-good-for-you. Well it [...]

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1 week down, 11 to go! :)

posted on June 18th, 2012 by |

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“You win the training, you win the fight, you win the training, you win the fight”…..Alain’s famous words seem to be engraved in my head since the first brutal session at Impakt. I’m starting to think burpees aren’t really that bad…….Am I going insane??!! It gradually got much easier as Wednesday and Friday came along [...]

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First week is (almost) completed, only 11 to go !

posted on June 16th, 2012 by |

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Hi all ! The taekwondo guy is back for his second post ! Most importantly, now that we have started the training at Impakt, I’ll be able to share a bit of my experience (less the pain…) ! So we all gathered at the gym last Monday, I didn’t know what to expect at all [...]

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Summary of the second training

posted on June 13th, 2012 by |

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Today’s training was a little easier that the one we did on Monday. It might be a good cop, bad cop sort of thing going on, and let’s be clear Alain is NOT the god cop. So the assistant coaches are more than welcome to help out! On the schedule today was squats, pushups, pullups, [...]

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Why I do this

posted on June 12th, 2012 by |

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It’s hard to know where to start for my first blog post. I could start writing about how I decided to to get in shape (It means something different for about everyone, I know) just over a year ago following a period of inactivity. Alternatively, I could go on about the desire to do something out of [...]

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