Snickers’ Schedule lately:
7am – wake up and drive Amy [me] to language group meeting
7:30-9:30am – weight training and ten 3min rounds of pad work (with Junior Mint)
10-12noon – nap time #1
2-4pm - boxing
5pm – drive Amy [me] to private tutoring
7-8:30pm – nap time #2
10:30pm – 10km run
11:30pm – bedtime
My Schedule lately:
6:20am – wake up
7:40-8:30am – language group meeting
10-12noon – nap time #1
2-4pm - boxing
5:30-6:30pm – private tutoring (Green)
11pm – 7km/10km run
12midnight – bedtime
With Snickers preparing for his big fight and consequently dieting and training like an animal, I too have been really working on my clean eating and training intensity. It's been going good -- great actually but I didn't realize just how much all this has taken a toll on me until I meet up for lunch with Cherry Pie.
I've never been one to finish all on my plate at a restuarant because of my usual 6-meals-a-day routine but today I came pretty close. I yawned as I chatted with Cherry Pie and she was quick to note that my bra isn't filled out anymore, to which I blushed, I love her honesty though. Although my energy levels is quite high considering the frequency and intensity of my daily training, I'm feeling rather unenergetic and unmotivated to do anything else but train.
When I'm not out training I'm usually at home taking it easy -- taking it real easy.
I have a lot of time on my hands but am so unmotivated to get up and meet friends, go shopping, play in the park, or even go to the movies. Getting up for anything beyond training is like pulling teeth in my world right now and if I had it my way I'd live in nothing but my Adidas training gear and boxing boots.
I'm trying really hard to support Snickers 110% but it's been really hard and demanding on me, not only physically but emotionally and mentally.
Today I got offered another fight but rejected it just like I rejected the other. It, just like the other, conflicted with Snickers' scheduled fight and being there by his side at his Philippines' fight is exactly where I feel I should be.
Being 110% supportive is hard! Heading out for a run or going boxing with him every day is nothing compared to having to watch Junior Mint drill him in the ring, push him beyond his limits, or constantly yell and hit him. It's hard to come home from boxing, us both super thirsty and hungry, and yet see him push himself to limit what he drinks and eats for fear of not making the weigh-in. When he's not training, he's sleeping, and when he's not training or sleeping he's eating or drinking very little. His tolerance level for stress is very low right now which, for those who know Snickers, know him for his carefree and easy-going attitude so seeing him stressed is quite odd.
This upcoming fight poses as a first for many things for Snickers. It'll be his first fight outside of Korea; his first fight with his new coach (Junior Mint); his first fight his grandfather and father won't be there for; and it'll be his first fight that I've been the sole supporter of. In the past it was his father who always cooked his meals, woke him up for training, showed up at training to give his two cents, and who did his laundry. Now Snickers lives with me and is facing a kind of Western world reality check with the fact that he now can't be so dependent on his father and has to function as an independent man and a husband. Of course I am here to take on many of those roles his father once did but things are a lot different for Snickers now and he's feeling the effects of it with his upcoming fight.
This time last week he weighed-in at 71.2kgs. Today he weighed in at 67.1kgs.
His face now looks so different and I can feel his hip bones rubbing against mine when I squeeze him tight.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What do you desire?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
One must desire something to be alive.
-- Margaret Deland
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