I thought I’ve got 3 weeks to practice. After 1 week of recovery from Borneo Pangazou, finally went to gym to start training yesterday. My upper body has gotten weaker and I was still traumatised by the rope climb fails during the Pangazou event. The more senior ladies there at the gym freaked out because I don’t train enough. Everyone tried to help me with the rope climb technique which I find so endearing. I told them, okay, if I don’t show up to train at the gym you all can make a fuss and hold me accountable. They’re lovely.
Then I trained in the morning today and chit chatted with the guys there after a week of not training together, one proceeded to remind me that we’ve only got 2 weeks to prepare and suggested me what I could do. Love these guys, they’re like older brothers I never had. My coach also insists that I do all the planned workout for athletes.
At first, I was doing it to challenge my limit and the experience and feeling inside the arena is just undescribable especially when there are people I’ve never met who were rooting out for me. I guess I just love the adrenaline of challenging myself and the excitement from the crowds. Now, I’ve got to really train and master my skills, fairer fights for me and be respectful of others whom have trained so hard.
So the stuff I need to learn and practice for the competition:
- Pull up skills and endurance
- Toes to bars
- Rope climbs
- Double unders
- 5km run
Other than these moves, my strategy is to just skip or just attempt the moves that I could partially do. And then, I gotta lose more weights. I already lost about 2kgs from my usual 75-73kg range. Maybe I could do 70kg by next month. That or I gotta increase my upper body and core strength.
I’m afraid my body would become dysregulated and so stressed out again. For the next 2 weeks, really need to intensely train 2 sessions a day, watch my nutrition and sleep. At the same time working on my thesis. Let’s see how it goes with this strategy. Just got to stay disciplined. May Allah ease.