Easy day and notes

Morning

Cardio; 30 mins

Evening

The usual flexibility and balance work. Every night usually right before bed I will through on some meditation music and do my static stretching routine and balance work. The stretching part focuses heavily on hamstrings and also some yoga work for the back, etc. I also do a stretches for the chest and other areas that most people often overlook. My goal here is simple, to maintain and increase flexibility for grappling/fighting. I pride myself in my natural given talents, one being flexibility. I've just recently starting actually working on it. I've added in some yoga work at the end of my stretching routine that focuses on balance which also helps in fighting when it comes to stances and if someone catches one of my kicks or grabs a single leg on me. It can really do wonders for take down defense if you have great balance. My balance isn't bad, but its not great either so this is going to improve things a lot for me. I do quite a bit of work on one leg at a time, then after I'm done I switch to a balance board and repeat the same routine on it to make things harder.

I look forward to this routine every night, it relaxes my mind and body and helps recovery. Since I've started doing this I feel a lot better overrall. Usually it lasts 15-20mins or upwards to 30 mins, just depending on time and so on. I'm always studying and learning new stretches and things to add in and as I do I condense down and remove some ones I consider less effective. I'm always shooting for the biggest bang for my buck. Time is important!

- So today is kinda a rest day since I planned on doing a series of sprints or a barbell complex after work but didn't get around to it. I plan on watching the UFC replay of Penn fighting Sanchez and then after doing my stretching routine and calling it a night.

- I've recently changed programs I use to track calories to Fitday and figured I'd give it another shout out here. It is really a great program, I use the older version but they have v 2 out now so I might consider getting it in the near future. It is great so if you are in the market for something to keep track of calories, its the program to get.

- My calories are currently at 2500 or less. My weight is around 130 and since I dropped to 2500 or so I'm much leaner already. I really feel I carry a bit of a bloat to my stomach expecially the lower ab area and I'm not happy with it. However, I want to fight at 135 and should be working on building more muscle instead of cutting this long. So.. I'm not happy that I'm cutting but I want to get lean as possible before I start bulking. I will very very slowly bring my cals up and work on putting on mass that way this time. I want to walk around 140-145 and will stay there once I'm there just cutting 5-10lbs to 135. I'm afraid I wont be lean till close to 125 tho and I don't want to drop under 130 honestly. We will see I guess, I will drop a little under 130 but not far because its too far away from my goal weight. I didn't do the cleanest bulk last time though thats for sure, because I've cut from 141 and was hoping to be much leaner than I am at 130.