Well its 2026 shortly, like in a day or so, and I have
so many new goals. When I started Blogging decades ago it was my way of keeping
myself on track, to say I have gotten off track is a misstatement of extraordinary
proportions. I started out 20 plus years ago as what I would call a slightly
out of shape Karate athlete and progressed to my current 52-year-old VERY out
of Shape Karate instructor situation.
I wont place blame on any one thing, I mean
I let it all happen and now its time to quell the downward spiral. Lots of
things threw me off course and not having any one or anything to keep me
focused really set me up for a self-inflicted fall from grace. I now sit in a
situation where I have to kick start my training and really rework what I was
doing.
It was easy to stay in shape a bit 20 plus
years ago when I was working out 2 times a day, eating clean and even if the
work outs were not 100% engaged, I was doing something physical twice a day. Fast
forwards to 2025 and I sit for a living working on my phone, be it at home or
in the office. We eat See food…you see food you stick it in the eat hole. Now
lots of things also contributed to my downward spiral, like loosing my Sensei,
loosing my mom, my work and just getting old. But now I have arthritis in my hip,
im heavy and not in great physical shape, so its time to put the old challenge
back into effect and roll out what I am going to be doing to get my ass back in
shape and keep a few promises I have made to my Sensei before he died.
Now lots of things have come up that are positive
for me too. My wife and I share the same
bad hip and she seems ready to be in better shape and get rid of some weight as
well, but she has said “I don’t want to know what you are doing….just do it”,
which I interpret as “Don’t bother me with your plans, just do it”. I over plan everything, but I also do some
smart things like this blog back to being a Karate athlete…at 52…or at least a
beter rendition of an old warrior. And I also found a new mentor a few years
back. I moved our little rag tag team of Karate clubs under the SKD and was
lucky enough to find myself under the tutelage of Sensei Don Sharp, the Sensei Sharp,
whom I have the utmost respect for and honestly….Sensei D would be happy that I
found him.
Some bad habits I want to get rid of….first
off is my sitting all day, I want to get up and walk around a lot more. Second
I need to get back to the painful but positive morning workouts, and I will get
into that with a different blog, which you can expect more of. Third…when I teach, I want to do more than
just walk around correcting and pointing out things to people! I will be doing
a pre class warm up and work out along with doing parts of the class with the
students.
My health is to damn important, I have kid that needs my help with life and a family
to support so this is my notice to the world, the either and gods that are
listening, as of the 1st of January the new training program and
goals are in play and its time to embrace the grind. I will be posting updates
monthly along with random blogs about training as well.
Here is to a much more successful 2026!
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