Eat well and prosper

Its getting down to the wire...and the pressures on! Its cool to be training like crazy for the tiger challenge, demo and chinese new year, but crazy too! I feel the 'rush, rush rush' beat already-- its almost worse than christmas rush:) I have been learning a few things too. I was reading an older post of Sifu Brinkers about black belt grading--how on that day, everything we've done since our first step on the mats has helped prepare us for this day. And the part that twigged was everything we have put in our body(food wise) has also prepared us. I've been doing a TON of reading, research, seeing naturopath....its been the year of chasing health I think. Lately I've been doing a sugar cleanse kinda diet, to try and balance out my system (see if thats an issue) and its very low carb. As in no fruit, no grain, no sugar, barely allowed vinegar, and yes it SUCKS. What have I noticed? That as I try and train hard for these events, I'm drained, takes me alot longer to recover, can barely get into the stances in my forms without my quads screaming, and even my pushups are suffering. So...may not be staying this low any longer! But it came at a good time as I train for the Tiger Challenge, as I can get some hints as to whats not going to work. Now I can play abit and see what works for my body under this kind of stress--hopefully I will learn some things that will help me when I grade for black belt--how to have my body nutritionally ready as best I can, to recover, to have the staying power that I will need. Only time will tell...and the next challenge. Mud Race!