Juice Fast: Day 16

Past half way!

Woke up feeling very good; usually I'm pretty slow on Tuesday mornings because Monday is such a loooong day. This is a nice change.

Juice Fast: Alternate Cleanse. Lots of green, with strategically placed flavors of lime and ginger. Nice!

Today's Training: I have a student away, so it's another day when I can do split sessions. Always good  as it lets me get in more quality work with adequate recovery.

Strength Training:

StrongFirst Mobility Warm Up

Turkish Get Ups: 2 x 5 left/5 right with 24 kg/53 lb kettlebell

Zercher Squats: 2 x 5 with 115 lb barbell

Double Kettlebell Rows: 2 x 5 with 28 kg/63 lb kettle bells

Ab Work: Hanging Leg Raises, 1 x 10; Windshield Wipers, 1 x 10; Front Levers, 1 x 5 with 3 sec hold.

Skill Training:
Skip Rope, 3 rounds
Bag Work, 36 minutes of :30 hard work on the bag and :30 shadowboxing for recovery.

Music: Metal! Pantera, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Slayer...it was very good bagwork today.

Today I start posting about my students: our training, what they do, odds and ends I think are interesting about them. This gives more info about what my day is like, as well as including info on people who I find far more interesting than me!

Marc Meyer

Marc is without a doubt one of my favorite students. He's been training with me for almost 8 years, works hard (and therefore gets great results; his wife/business partner and doctor are amazed), never complains, is a great person and an extremely interesting guy. Marc also is not exactly who one would expect to be training with me. We started training  in his mid 50s, he had no martial arts or strength training background, yet has found a real love for the training, applies himself every time and continues to improve. I get so much more pleasure out of training someone like that than someone to whom it comes easy and doesn't have to try.

Today's Training:

Directed shadowboxing: 2 rounds

Padwork: 4 rounds

Bagwork: 2 rounds

Kettlebell Swings: 5 x 5 left/5 right with 16 kg bell

Double Kettlebell Complex: Clean, Squat, Press, for 10 steps x 4 with 14 kg/31 lb kettlebells

Finisher: alternating swing ladder 1,2,3,4,5 with 16 kg/35 lb bell

Ab Work: leg raises, 3 x 10; planks for 15 sec x 3

In real life Marc is every bit as interesting. He's a father, husband, author and the head chef/co-owner of three great restaurants in New York City: Five Points (no relation to our gym, just another nod to the history of the area), Cookshop and 100 Acres.  He has a real concern for food, sustainability and the environment. Marc works hard to source his menus locally and organically,  frequenting the greenmarket as well as working directly with family farms and livestock ranchers. He's an amazing chef, and manages to graciously and deliciously accommodate my plant-based restrictions any time we visit one of his establishments. Marc also managed to combine two of his passions, muay thai and cooking. In his early 60s, he recently travelled to Northern Thailand to train daily in muay Thai with our friends at the famous Burklerk gym -- and to cook signature Thai dishes with Arjan Burklerk's wife, Ms. Pook, who also happens to operate her own restaurant at the night market in Lamphang. Pretty cool. 

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