Muay Thai Kickboxing: Day Three - "Pet!!"

meeting my trainer "Pet!" on the second day was the absolute BEST!!! i had the best of the best training ever both morning & afternoon.

i felt energetic, worked hard at my 85 - 90%, willing to learn, inspired and had a tonne of fun. i would rate it as 9.5/10 (this is for Tuesday 1st June 2010.)

after having an awesome day of training on Tuesday, i woke up at 4.30am, bouncing out of bed at 5am.... i was absolutely itching to train regardless my right calf had completely seized up.

"Pet" had such a kind, gentle, humble nature with a tonne knowledge and could speak better english than most of the trainers where this became a problem at times for others.

he had been fighting since the age of 8 years old and i cannot remember how many fights he said he was in.

he is powerful although he has put some weight since his fighting days.

we clicked & i admire him for his patience, humble nature, experience, good sense of humour and being a great trainer with a genuine smile & heart.

standing on the other side as a trainee and not a trainer.... i would like to think that i will take on board & learn from Pet's his kind, positive, humble nature, experience, patience, respect for others. what i had learnt & experienced from "the G*#@" is i do not want to be vindictive and have his type of energy..... which was negative.

the differences in trainers - different strokes for different folks

all trainers have their own beliefs as to how the form & technique should be and what they personally believe in. that's why we are called "PERSONAL" trainers.

i found this difficult at times when i had various trainers tell me to do it one way and another tell me to do it another way. in the end i decided to do what felt most natural and feel the kicks and punches instead of analysing everything as it started to do my head in and i was getting frustrated.

Day Three: morning & afternoon

1. same same routine but different day

morning session: worked at my absolute hardest trying to push to my 90 - 95%. successful training session - 9.5/10

afternoon session: feeling pretty lack lustre and hit a wall. described at 'the BRICK WALL' usually hits you on day three. also waking up super early didn't help my cause.