Good workout tonight.

The gym was very warm and it felt good to workout in the higher temperature.  I had to be near 80 degrees but there was a lot of air movement.   The EDT workout is hard but feels good.  Racing the clock really helps me keep my mind off the pain from the exercises.

15 minutes – superset:

Dumbbell curl – 14 x 30 x 5
Dumbbell triceps extension – 14 x 50 x 5

15 minutes – superset:

Side dumbbell raise – 13 x 15 x 5
Dumbbell shrug – 13 x 60 x 5

I need to increase the weight next time since I did more than 12 sets.

Good class.

We spent a little time warming up and then split up in to testing and done testing groups.

We spent a good amount of time working on basic stance training.  Now that most of the people that still need to test are all 5th kyu or above, the examiners are looking more closely at our stances and the way we move from stance to stance.  They are going to look more at our feet when we move to make sure our heals do not pop up  and are going to pay much less attention to the way we move our upper bodies and throw blocks or punches.

We also worked on kata.  My kata felt pretty good but my left foot is still not back to normal and is still sore.  I was able to perform a decent jump but I am still holding back until my test for now.

Class was good and we spent most of it working on some basics and kata.  We started out doing all katas from Heian Shodan to what we knew and it really warmed me up.

Our Sensei broke the poeple who needed to test in to a seperate group to help us prepare.  It was good to work on our kata we did some new things.  We did our kata in reverse and also mirror image.  It was really hard to do them but interesting.