Well that's a first, I completely overlooked writing my post for the week. I put it down to the head full of stuff I have at the moment. I am sure you can understand and forgive me. Right now I am a little over a week out from my competition and I can sense changes going on in my head. No doubt entirely appropriate when you list some of them. Do I have time to make weight? How's my fitness? How to train to prepare but avoid injury? Plenty of others too. I think the challenge is to sort, prioritise and focus on gaining clarity on those that are important and relevant and ditching the rest. I have some time and space on my hands this week so I'm still feeling good about it all.
Weight this week really hit a roadblock. I lost nothing at all and that really did my head in for a day or so. I am starting to believe that it is more than just a plateau and is in all reality my body having reached it's limit as far as weight loss goes. At least in terms of my current methods. I don't have the time now to mix it up, so it's a matter of working with what I've got. It leaves me with a pretty tough challenge of dropping 2-4kg to make weight depending on how I fare in the next week. I have plans in place and will do everything I can short of setting myself up to be completely wasted in the effort and unable to perform. There are some sensible strategies I can employ to make weight. If it was 24 hours between weigh in and competition I would hold no concerns. Switch that to 2-3 hours and you have a completely different story. This week will have a fair amount of time devoted to finalising the plan of attack on this front. As with all aspects of this endeavour, I can only do everything in my power to make it happen. After that, the result is not something I have the final say in. Let the fun begin!
There's nothing of significant worth to fill the partially blank page I am staring at right now. I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing. In some respects all those thoughts floating around in my head I mentioned before are clouding things, however, I'm not massively concerned about that at present because I know it takes me a while to process things and to be fair, there are some things looming large that it's reasonable to expect deserve a good amount of thought. The potential realisation of the significant goals of weight loss and competing in Mixed Martial Arts at the same time is immense. Also, this sport of MMA I have found to be a remarkably emotional experience. Both in terms of myself as an individual and towards that of the people that I have met, trained with and so many that have helped me along the way. I'm not sure I want or would be able to articulate it all even from the perspective of doing it justice. I guess time will tell how that works out.
Short and sweet this week. No point in padding things out unnecessarily. Maybe things will flow better next week!
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