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Con: No classmates or instructors to push you to give your all

I try to hit 1g of protein per pound of body weight. Not always easy to do, and almost impossible without supplementing whey protein daily. I think it works. I have a lot of muscle mass. Definitely trying to lose though. Always. I try not to go overboard with hi GI carbs and sugars and try to keep my fat intake up. It…

Of course! I love sparring!! The only time I ever feel defeated is things like poomsae and board breaking. It's up to too much opinion. Sparring though is fun whether you win or lose (except that time I lost to a green belt... I swear I won. I was a little upset at the judges). Next tournament is nov 11th in NYC. Time to…

It's not the first time I've sparred him :) This is sort of a rematch from a year or so ago, only back then he was the red belt lol. You get a lot of familiar faces at tournaments because the TKD community is only "so big". Just for fun, facebook "shared a memory" with me from two years ago, when I was just a fledgling…

I found another pic of me in their image dump I was standing around helping hold for board breaking Competitor is one of my younger classmates breaking a stack of 10 boards with a downward elbow strike.

They sell these branded belt racks at my school

Maybe the best part of the tournament, is that even though I put 40lbs back on, I still don't get treated like a "plus size" competitor anymore. During a conversation someone said something along the lines of, "we are all about the same size" and I was like, "wow"

Hah, it was just me and him, and just one round. Everyone else was a lower belt and got tossed in a different division. It was a great match though. It was a 90 second match, and when they called "45 seconds" we both looked at eachother like, "whoa only half way?" lol. Sparring is incredible. You can drop a day's worth of…

My work doesn't cover it, but our office building has a full private gym for only 10 bucks a month, and my health insurance will reimburse up to 200 a year towards gym membership. so basically free.

Will power is a limited resource :) It's definitely not infinite. Getting back on the horse is all we can do. It's not the first time I fell off, I'm sure it won't be the last.

I always hit my toe when I jump rope barefoot, and it hurts XD I'd rather jump rope than run though....

The heat and sweat makes the threads in the string expand, which makes the knot looser. Once its already warmed up the next knot will stay, but will sometimes be hard to undo if it cools off and contracts after class. Silly little science things. I have a couple of uniforms and i think the elastic stays up better.

No one has a butt on either side of my family, I was doomed haha. I have one of the most extreme cases of flat butt I've ever seen. After I lost weight was the first time I could ever wear pants without a belt because they could rest on my hips and not look ridiculous. Now that I put weight back on not so much, but still,…

Yes and no. It's never good to fight angry. Anytime I have seen someone fight angry they always lose. Anger clouds the mind. A good fighter is in control of his body and mind.

Its the motion of upvdown impact and my lack of a butt lol

I could do without the squat thrusts, burpees, and jumping jacks. Not because they are physically difficult, but because they make my pants fall down, then I try to pull them up, it snags the top of the uniform, and before I know it I look like I don't know how to dress myself.

You calling me weird? :D

Dragged my butt in tonight. TKD saves me from myself once again. Without my TKD fam I don't know what I'd do.

I've seen them sold as: Paddle Target Tree Paddle Target Stand Dueling Stand Sparring Tree Sparring Stand All will get different results on amazon, there's a bunch of variations/builds/etc. Sometimes they'll recommend one if you're looking at wavemaster products. The ones we have at our Dojang are numbered 1-6 and you can…

Lower weight typically means more speed. Higher weight typically means more power. It's usually the most advantagous to fight at the top of your weight class. So if for example welterweight is 130lbs-160lbs, weighing in at 159 would probably put you at the top end of both strength and reach in your division.

One of my old classmates (he got transferred in military), was an ex boxer, young, and super fast. He was the only person I ever sparred who's punches would legitimately count for points in sparring, and they were strong enough that you'd feel it right through the hogu. Some of my fondest memories are of sparring. Reminds…

Just have to comment on super man punches specifically: Those have long been an inside joke at our class, once in a while we'll throw a superman punch at eachother during sparring and we all start giggling like little kids. (We've also been known to yell out kamehameha and rasengen! XD)

I thought that only happened in cartoons. Wow. It sounds like it was malicious. What could they have possibly hoped to accomplish? Our grandmaster is 58 but im sure he could knock me out before I could blink. My instructor is just crazy which makes him dangerous. Im going to dare my class mate to challenge the instructor…

There's no real opportunity to do that currently.

Forms can actually be fun I think. I just get sick of them when we have to do them over and over every day. When you do forms right they are a hell of a workout too! So far in progress I've memorized (and help teach) gi choy, chon ji, do san, yol guk, and tae guk 6. Right now I'm learning Hwarang. Spelling is all phonetic…

I need to get something off my chest. TKD class has been a lot less fun lately. We have many new "special needs" students, and many new foreign low belts. Most of our classes lately have been either white belt basics, or getting in trouble b/c of the special needs kids. I feel held back because we are not practicing more…

Thanks for this. It was the closest to what I was looking for (study of macro intake during surplus), but sounds like their conclusion is that it is wildly dependent on genetic factors.

It bothers me greatly that judges will award points when I have clearly blocked the strike and they never touched my hogu. I look forward to the more fair scoring of e-hogus when I hit black belt. At my intramurals it's a game of "Who can wildly throw the most kicks". At governor's cup it's at least a bit more fair, and…

All of my friends are there sparring too lol :) Afterwards though everyone goes back to their own friends/family, and I go back home to my empty house of video games :P So I'm sort of left alone with my thoughts.

Humble bump. The best I could come up with was some NIHS studies on mice that said three groups all gained the same weight, but longevity was increased in one of them, no real discussion of actual body composition. (IE: It doesn't matter was the gist of what I got). A calorie is just a calorie, so if someone is over eating…