Candidate Journals

Went for a run today with Marcus. He wanted to find his baseline for how far he could run in 5 minutes and I tagged along. Focused on burpees, pullups, and stretches today so my upper body will for sure be hurting tomorrow.

We had our poomsae team class this morning where we did a ton of new stretching drills to help get higher and stronger kicks. Marcus and I also spent around an hour and a half recording our color belt self defenses for our students!

An easier day for requirements today. Mainly pushups, situps, and plank. I'm falling a little behind in self defense so that is the main goal for tomorrow. 

I completed my 5k today! I've been trying to work on my running stamina and today felt like a lot of progress had been made! In black belt class we worked on some color belt poomsaes and self defense. Afterwards I practice Koryo, particularly the side kicks and stretched to try and get some flexibility back!

Feeling good today. I focused a lot today on pushups, situps, planks, and stretching. Planning on running a 5k tomorrow!

Went on a shorter run today in preparation for a longer one tomorrow. I also spent a good deal of time working on my my dead hangs from the pull-up bar. Trying to get some bands so I can practice the real deal.

My first journal! The start of the cycle has been difficult, I was super sore from the pretest but was still able to get my requirements in. Going to get a few more sets of pushups and situps in before putting the baby to sleep.

Hello everyone. I hope everyone had a wonderful Sunday. Today, my family and I ran a birthday party for a 5 year old at King Tiger. I think it ran very smoothly for the three of us. After that, I went out to eat at a sushi and hibachi buffet and it was awesome!

Today I did the daily challenge and it was super hard! Started with my 4th dan poomsae and went down to 1st dan. The jump ropes were pretty easy but the air squats and pistol squats were killer on my quads. I will definitely be sore tomorrow.

Today I got to sleep in! My first class today didn't start until 11 so I had a great start to my day. It also started snowing! After class I went to King Tiger to help with a couple of classes before I went to crossfit. Death by thrusters was the WOD at crossfit and I will not be feeling my legs tomorrow, so that's exciting. After working out I went to tutor, which I do every Monday and Wednesday for two girls who are students at the Lake Norman school. Now, at 10:30pm, I am home and in the process of finishing engineering reading. This is part of my master procrastination technique that I'm pretty good at. I wish a great night for all those who are staying up late to read journals. See you soon. Natasya 

This is my first journal entry of my master's journey. Better late than never I guess. So, in honor of officially starting our new black belt journey, I have attached one of my favorite Black Belt pictures. :)