Black Belt Goal

My 2 year goal to attain 1 of the 101 HaganaH BlackBelts in the world

Awesome way to start the AM! Boot camp with Mike Lee Kanarek.

This year we have a great group and as usual MLK has mixed up given us our diet plans and instructions. Tuesday and Thursdays we are going 2 times a day. Two a days! This really puts a stain on nutritional requirement. My goal eat enough! No really I am trying to maintain 160 and continue down on the body fat. Looking to drop from the 7% I am at to that mystical 5.5%. It is really tough at this point and the diet needs to be spot on.

We started today with a 300 workout that really hit all body parts. Everyone survived but no one could hit everything on que. We all had to take a break in some of the sets. But it was bad ass. Great way to start the morning. I have to tell you though at 5AM in the shower I am thinking, “what the hell did I get myself into?” But, as always once we got going it was great. I did feel my legs in some parts and got real winded like at altitude. I guess the leg work was gassing me, combined with the fact that I am not used to working out at 6AM. After 12 weeks of this it should be no problem!

Business is going amazing. I am redoing both of my mine website and we are working on a total rebrand. It makes it so much fun to learn new things like Pay Per Click Marketing and Search Engine Optimization. I am really getting an education in both.

Life continues to move forward. I promise more updates as I continue to progress. Just loving it all right now!

Thank You,

I am back in Colombia again loving life but I wanted to do a quick post on the 4th of July. I was home in LaPorte Indiana and decided to run in our 5K. I did not train for the running just decided to run. The cool thing was I finished in 21:06. Did not hit my goal of 20:00 minutes but I did finish 11th overall and won the over 41 division. I also beat everyone over 30 so that was cool!

Will fill you in as we progress here in Bogota!

Ok I will be the first to admit this is TOUGH….

I am currently at 9% and starting to hammer away to get to 8%. My travel to Colombia hurt some but that is no excuse. I am working hard. Today for example I have FIGHT at 10:30 then I have BB3 Arms at 12 then Combat Fitness tonight at 7:30. My diet is pretty clean. I just need to maintain more consistency.

I am heading to Chicago for the 4th of July, then back to Colombia on the 10th of July for 7 days. I have decided to look for space in Colombia to open a small gym. That way I have no excuses.

Pretty pumped. I turned 41 this week, so it is all out peddle to the metal! I will post some pictures in 2 weeks

Keep up the good fight!

I am getting ready to head out to do some high altitude training here in Bogota Colombia. I arrived on Saturday night and had to take care of some business and I am know ready to get training. I have yet to find a MMA gym or boxing gym but I have found the worlds highest cross-fit facility. I am going to go on my search today for a boxing gym to hit some bags etc…

I have a week left and my goal is some hard core training. It is really hard to eat on my diet here. Everyone loves bread it is everywhere. I am going to focus on my training and do the best I can at my diet. When I get home in a week it is back to hard core HaganaH and Combat Fitness as well as working with Billy Beck III to get my body fat down. I am still in single digits but it is tough.

My cardio should improve it is really difficult at this altitude. I will follow up with some updates. Have a great week!

Going into the third week with Billy Beck III as you can see from the videos it has been intense. We have been working to get my shoulder where it needs to be and as Billy says bulletproof the body. I am heading over there now, because business got in the way this AM. Then I am off to Muay Thai to work on some striking.

This weekend I have the Combat Fitness Certification with Mike Lee Kanarek, James Cooper, and John Clarke. I know this is going to be an intense 2 days so I am getting ready physically and mentally. The diet that Billy Beck III has me on is giving me tremendous energy and I know I am going to need it all for this weekend.

The gameplan this week….

Mon – BB3 workout, Muay Thai
Tue – BB3 Active rest, Haganah, Combat finess
Wed – BB3 workout, Muay Thai Sparring
Thur – BB3 Active Rest, Haganah, Combat Fitness
Fri – BB3 Workout
Sat – Sun (Combat Fitness Certification)

Going to be a rough week, need to eat and sleep good! BUT it is going to be fun!

We have started the video series with Billy Beck III. In this video we discuss setting my health and fitness goals and what I am to expect over the next few months.

Today was a tough workout and we are just (JUST) getting my body ready for the next phase! Have an amazing day and enjoy the video!

Well I finally did it! I went to get an MRI on this shoulder that is just driving me crazy. Headed over to the clinic, plopped down for a 30 minute $400 magnet bombardment. I actually fell asleep, but don’t tell anyone.

That was last night, today I visited Dr Joe and as I was there the results came back – I have hypertensity in the superolaterial aspect of the humeral bend. NO TEARS! – The report goes on to ask – Has there been unrecognized or unreported trauma or involvement in a repetitive microtraumatic activity. DUHHHHH LOL right. I guess one too many left jabs!

Still going to brace during sleeping, 2 chiro appts a week, 1 massage a week and I am now adding acupuncture. Working on getting the inflammation down and I will be ready to rock and roll again soon.

I guess I did not need the MRI, but I feel much better having done so. Tomorrow AM back at it with Combat Fitness, braced and nothing above my head. I still have 3 good limbs to work out with!

I hope all is going well for you. We launched the new Glossinger site – www.glossinger.com. The tour page is almost done, going to hit 24 cities all over the next 2 years. I hope I see you on the road. The dates will be getting finalized soon!

Have a great one!

Just a quick update have been working hard, eating like crazy. I have upped my protein intake and am starting Serious Mass today to add 1000 calories. Making the shake right now.

Combat fitness is tonight and I am toning like crazy. Shoulder is still having a tough time, Dr Joe gave me some Chinese Herbal Patches I wear 2 days on and 1 day off. These bad boys are around $60 a piece, but I am in my second day and I think they are working.

I am still not lifting above my head, and have stayed away from too much steel, LOL weight lifting, but if my shoulder keeps getting better I may be back next week.

Off to drink a 1000 calorie shake and eat some peanut butter. I will try to document my food intake better here. Just a note we trained at John Clarke’s gym at www.haganaheast.com had a great workout over there. He is doing 2 combat wrestling certifications this year and I would suggest everyone in martial arts check it out. Awesome stuff. I will post more here. I am going to do 1 in the middle of the year.

I have the Joe Lewis Seminar this Sat, Combat Fitness Cert Coach, April 2-4 and my HaganaH Instructor April 22-25 so I will probably do John’s middle Cert and that will give my shoulder some time to heal.

Have an amazing day!
JB

Well the shoulder has been acting up and I have VEGAS next week an our annual conference. I had to make a decision on how to handle this shoulder so for the first time in my life I went to the Chiropractor. The good thing is was not just a Chiropractor but it was actually Dr. Joseph Bogart. Why is that important? Well Dr. Joe is also a HaganaH practitioner and I probably would not have gone if it was different.

I have to tell you I am feeling better, what we found is the shoulder is way out of position and is causing some issues so we are doing some treatments and some physical therapy on it. It is crazy because we also found some issues with my left hip.

When you train this hard you start to learn you need your team around you. Doctors, Trainers, Massage Therapists, etc… I am truly learning how to take care of the machine.

I took some time off this week to work out the shoulder and will be back at it in the morning when I hit combat fitness. If you are in this area Dr Joe is awesome his clinic is in Parkland – Parkland Chiropractic

Next week it is out to Vegas to train going to be awesome!

Took Friday off – today we had a bad ass leg workout! Did the Gengis Kahn! Lots of cardio and a lot of burbees…. tons of medicine ball workouts.

Still hanging around 155, 3rd day with the additional 1100 calories from the serious mass shake and I am eating more. It is also 5K time and I am looking to do a sub 20 minute 5K. Will post results when I find one to run in!

Loving life, many things coming – been working hard on MorningCoach.com this week, but will have tons of updates next week!