Friday Class 04/04/08

Lim got promoted to blue belt Thursday morning. Congrats to Lim. He's been training for a long time and it's well deserved.

I had a good class. Felt pretty good, but I shouldn't have eaten that bowl of Lucky Charms. Ugh! We had a pretty good ab workout during warmups. We jogged to get warm, and then did some stretching.

The ab workout went like this:
x50 leg lifts
x50 side crunches (per side)
x50 hip ups
x50 V ups

Then more stretching.

Sparring was fun. Among others, I got to roll with Big Matt and Crusher. The highlight was reversing Matt. He was pretty surprised, which made me feel really good. Other highlights were getting back to half guard at one point and using the technique we just learned from under a loose mount to sneak out the back and reset.

Things didn't go quite as well with Crusher. He basically moved from position to position, as I would try to get out from under side control, he'd move into north/south. From there to knee on belly, then to mount, then to... basically wherever he wanted.

Today, I'm going to try out the basic MMA class with Bill. I haven't done any striking since joining Foster BJJ, and I sucked at it when I did it. So, this is going to be an adventure. I'm still trying to shake out of this weight plateau I've been on for months, and drop this last 10 lbs. Hopefully, varying my workout to include striking drills will coax my metabolism into letting go of this last bit of flab.

I'm also going to bake some protein bars. I eat an Organic Food Bar every morning. My day usually goes like this:

7am oatmeal for breakfast
10am bar for snack,
1pm lunch,
4pm snack before class (sometimes another bar, but usually a bowl of Cheerios or a piece of wheat toast with Peanut Butter)
7pm dinner.

The bars are spendy, and truth be told, I don't really like the bars I eat. I eat them because they're not full of sugar. They do have sugars, but the ingredients list for the Organic Food Bars is made up of foods that I recognize as... well, food.

Anyway, I have two recipes that I'm going to try today. I intend to make a pan of each, freeze them and then eat them in lieu of the store bought bars over the next few weeks. I'll post the recipes and a review in a few weeks, and let you know how it goes.

Also, if anyone reading has any suggestions, recipes or just tips about making these, let me know.