Summertime Is Not An Excuse

Classes Attended: 1 Regular

 

I think my idea of cutting back on classes was a bad one. In fact I'm pretty sure of it. I've pretty much told myself it's ok to slack on BJJ over the summer and my brain and body have gone into full slacker mode. There's a few problems with this.

For starters, I feel myself getting out of shape at a ridiculous rate.  And I don't like it. I haven't even had the courage to weigh myself since getting back from Hawaii and chances are I probably won't for a while. What I can say though is I no longer fit into my jeans and that's depressing.

Second, and somewhat related, I have a PT test coming up and doing less BJJ in the month leading to my PT test has never served me well.

Third, I've been feeling a bit out of sorts (for lack of a better term) ever since getting back from Hawaii. And for whatever dumb reason, I've been wanting to wait  until I felt more like my normal self to get back into my normal routines when what I should be doing is getting to those routines in hopes it'll help me getting back to feeling like myself.

Lastly, and most importantly, despite being a 36 (almost 37) year old white belt that has no chance at ever being able to call BJJ more than a hobby, I still have some goals within that hobby I'd like achieve. Cutting back how often I go to class (and then not even making that many classes) keeps me from those goals.

So I'm going back to my original plan of making at least three classes a week.  And if anything, I really need to be doing more (at least until my PT test). Summertime is not a good excuse to go to less class; if anything I should be getting all I can in now as I know I'll be pretty busy once school starts back up and I'll be missing a lot of classes while I sit at home banging my head against a wall trying to figure out how to do even the simplest math problems. Guess we'll see in a week how this trying to get back on track is working out.