Pink Missions Update

Hello followers,
Apologies for lack of updates since my return from Thailand.

It was very much a shock to the system returning to the UK at -2degrees on 2nd Feb! Since then I have been trying to keep up with training in order to maintain the fitness levels and techniques learned whilst away. (this is much harder with lower temperature and working full time)

Having started a new job as a contractor IT Lecturer my efforts have been focused more on the delivery of lessons for 17-19 year olds, very challenging and very demanding on the energy.

However, things are looking positive and today the Pink Training Machine will embark on another 8 week training programme.

I'm hoping to find an opponent for my Pink Mission: Amateur MMA fight

I shall endeavour to share some fitness workouts with you, some will be short and sharp(and very tough), but hopefully these will be useful to those of you who also have full time jobs/ children and struggle to fit in good training sessions to increase stamina, burn fat and build on core strength.

Pink Mission #5 Sunday 22nd January

Today is a non training day! I now have 6 days before I fight on Tiger Muay Thai's BBQ Beatdown 44. This is a monthly fight show that Tiger hold at their camp.

Not sure who my match up is with as of yet but my training has now been reduced to 1hr private plus cardio instead of doing 2 classes each day.

Last night I couldn't sleep... I then start thinking about combinations and what if ? fighting scenarios with my unknown opponent...I'm sure this is mental preparation and happens to everyone but it does get annoying that the brain decides to do all of this thinking when you are actually trying to sleep.

I have managed to skip chess lessons!

Had a great day sunbathing it was nice to chillax beside the pool and soak up the sun.

Pink Mission #5 Fatima Pinto - Female Fighter

Today I was very lazy and had some sunbathing time by the pool instead of clinch training. This afternoon I had a gruelling chess lesson with Andy... To the point I was going to cry as I cannot remember all of the differing scenarios and tactics.... I let off some steam in a boxing 121 session at Tiger Muay Thai.

After training I noticed a fabulous looking and very strong, shapely Muay Thai female fighter. This lady did the most beautiful Wai Kru I have ever seen!... She was being filmed by a camera crew so I sat aside and watched them for a while. (I probably looked like a stalker lol) She was so friendly came over and spoke to me, we talked about training and she said she was from Norway, had 22 MT fights and was looking at fighting in MMA very soon too. At 33 years of age I think she looks amazing.

The camera crew were also lovely and I was very privileged to have a couple of snaps taken by them :0)

Every one... this is Me with Fatima Pinto - Muay Thai fighter from Norway fights at 51kg soon to start fighting at 55kg.

Pink Mission #5 Chantal Ughi

Every time I go to Phuket Top Team I see Chantal Ughi training who is a 3 x World Champion Female Thai Boxer.

 

She's awesome and trains so hard!

 

Here is some of of her background.

 

She was a filmmaker and model and switched to Muay Thai after becoming a high graded Taekwondo fighter.

 

Chantal has had 42 fights, 12 losses and 30 wins (12 by KO)

 

She has fought notable opponents such as;

• Julie Kitchen
• Carly Giumulli
• Jorina Baars

 

More info http://chantalughinakmuay.blogspot.com/

 

I have had the pleasure of meeting Chantal, chatting to her, and today...I was very privileged to have a photo with her too :0)

 

 

Pink Mission #5 14th Jan 2012

Today my leg was much better although I had an exhausting 121 first thing. My trainer decided we should spar and as always the Thai's will get the better of you with the kicks and punches, so... I got in close and went for clinching! ... as my trainer had never done this in any of my lessons he found it quite amusing how I quite happily neck wrestled with him and dug in the knees, we ended up doing this for about 20mins which used up all my energy for the rest of the session! I was so tired today and only lasting 2-3mins on the pads but it was warmer too!

There are photos below which are before and after shots :0).

At 4pm I decided to come back for the class, I've had to miss them all this week due to a knee injury and the risk of someone kicking it in sparring... Class was busy and went really well, we all did the full Wai Kru at the end too ... It's getting there... Me and choreography don't mix lol.

Training 10th January 2012

Today I had a 121 session as due to nagging injury in knee from last week I didn't want to risk further injury in sparring. My Trainer is called "Thai" makes it simple for me not to forget his name anyway lol.

Here is some footage of my session

Warm up combos/Technique

Pads
Muay Thai Session with "Thai"

I finished off with
1min punches on bag
1min uppers
200 Teep kicks
50 full sit ups
50 medicine ball drops on my tummy

Only a light one :0)

I then finished day off with a few light kettle bell squats in the weights room followed by a Thai massage... Which was amazing!

Pink Training Machine Diet in Thailand

Yes I'm on holiday but if you don't eat the right food you do not have the right energy to train or stay in shape! Some days it's 4-6 hrs of conditioning with the training sessions!

Breakfast depends if I'm training at 8am, if so then I have a protein shake at 7am ... If not, then it's oats mixed with watermelon, pineapple, banana and natural yogurt.

I would then have a protein shake a couple of hours later if not already had at 7am or the oats as above after training at 11am.

Late morning/early lunch
3 eggs scrambled and small fruit platter

Late Lunch - Chicken with basil leaves and a fried egg (no rice)

Mid-late afternoon
Protein shake

8pm Evening meal
Large chicken breasts served with carrots, broccoli, cauliflower and another small fruit plate - I sometimes like chicken with cashew nuts and spring onions too!

Drinks - 2-3 large bottles of water
1-2 coffees
Coconut juice
Watermelon juice
4 sachets of electrolytes

On Saturdays I will have a treat meal - maybe something with chips or just a chocolate sundae... Then back on to my proper food! ;0)