Fall 2026 Black Belt Cycle

Candidate Journals

King Tiger Tae Kwon Do Black Belt candidates blog daily about their journey: their thoughts and feelings, their struggles and successes; their pain and their encouragement. Follow along on their journey; words of encouragement are always welcome!

Rest

Feel beat down over the last 4-5 days.Need my Sunday to recoup a little.Only mow the grass and maybe a run.

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Black Belt Cycle

Maybe the start of the 10-week cycle for October testers will get me focused on entering my journals more often.Tired from a long week. 40% through our Summer Camp schedule :-)

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PMAA Weekend

Leaving for Nebraska tomorrow.Still need to put together a self defense presentation for Saturday.Lots of Thrusters yesterday, Owner training, and lots of sparring drills in class.

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One More Week

Gearing up for Summer CampGot to figure out how to schedule my workouts and runs during camp.Not sure I want to workout at 5:00 am

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No Spar

Found out yesterday that I will not be sparring at Kukkiwon Cup.I will be competing in Poomse, and then assisting with judging.Been working alot on endurance and conditioning.Going to try to keep up the sparring workouts.

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Murphy

2 miles run100 pull-ups200 push-ups300 squatsFelt great! Day after a 3 mile run with 45 burpees and 45 squats. Day after 3.3 mile run with 20 burpees.Worked out hard to counteract the long holiday weekend.

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Minor Pains

Getting through a little groin tightness, and a bit of strained abdominal.Quick Martial Fit workout last night. WOD later this morning.Day 12 of Challenge. The cleanse is over :-(

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Day 9

Day 9 of our 24 Day Challenge.Lost 5.5 lbs so far. Still looking for another 7 lbs.Great Crossfit workout yesterday, followed by mowing my yard.

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24 Day Challenge - Day 5

Doing great on the challenge so far.Doing the meal replacement shakes during the new cleanse phase. Want to get a few more pounds off before competition in the Kukkiwon Cup in a couple of weeks.

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Good Run

Slow pace, but got my longest run in recent memory in yesterday. Still way behind pace for my half marathon coming up in November. Taking a month off with my torn calf muscle really put me off. 6.5 miles yesterday. Next weekend 8?

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Just finis...

Just finished a 4 week paleo challenge. Pretty happy with it.Going to continue for the next month through my 50th birthday.

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Week one o...

Week one of Summer Camp is done.Hard, fun, hot first week.Have a lot (too many?) volunteer counselors.Struggling to find time for runs.

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