Week 3 of being back to my Muay Thai gym is officially in the books. I had exactly 6 months of break from Muay Thai, 4,5 months from exercise at all. How it feels to go back after such a long time? Friggin’ good!! And VERY difficult! I was so anxious to go back to my first training, I was pushing it off for 2 or 3 weeks, but I promised myself I’d be back in May, so I had 31 days to fulfill this promise And I did it! >>Digression. A lot of years back, in winter, me and my two best friends who lived close by were planning to start running in the spring. So as March comes around the two of ..read more

I’m on a break from Muay Thai since November. Yeah, it’s been over half a year. When I put it like that I can’t belive it. I miss it badly, but at the same time I feel as if I don’t really have a place to go back to. I will be starting off again from the beginning. And that’s okay. If you wonder what I’ve been up to since my last post, at first I was sick. Then started to get a little bit better and I keep it that way until now. Oh and I got a new tattoo and my mom is not talking to me anymore (I am an adult and I live on my own, for the record). I started working with a nutricionist and train ..read more

It’s been 3 months since I’m sick all the time and can’t work out. Now I have sinus infection and I finished taking antibiotics yesterday…but I still feel the infection. In the meantime, my Grandpa got sick and was staying at the hospital, getting worse and worse and he was finally brought into a elderly care home on Thursday. Because I was sick I couldn’t visit him at the hospital, so when I went to the care home on Thursday when he was brought there, it was me seing him for the first time in 2 weeks and his condition was tragic. When I last talked to him we were talking, now I was ..read more

It’s been quite a while since I last wrote here. Since then, my Muay Thai training and conditioning was just all over the place. Once good, then bad, then even better, just to get worse again. It’s not yet a 2016 summary blog post, I’m not quite sure yet if I’m gonna do one for now. I wanted to share some thoughts I’ve came up with during the last few months. Part of it I had already written in October, part of it is fresh. What I learned through those past months is, that you need to step back from what you love, what’s your life, to see what needs improvement. To see that things that you tho ..read more

I had the pleasure to join the third gala organized by Ladies Fight Night – a promotion focusing on female fighters!! It’s something totally unique in Poland, and from what I hear also in Europe. The promotion organized a mix of K1 and MMA fights, with a little surprise this time – the fight of the night was a Muay Thai full rules 5-round fight! I already enjoyed this kind of “mix” of styles when I went to the FEN10 gala in Warsaw in March – it’s another young Polish promotion that features K1 and MMA fights. So this was not something totally new, but I just LOVE that LFN made it into an all-f ..read more

I’m one of those people who know that you need to take care of yourself, but I always do it at the very end of things to do. Or don’t do it at all if I don’t have the motivation, time or money. So only after something happens, I try to un-do it by taking care of myself. My severe back pain Since February I’ve been experiencing extreme back pain that was returning to me every few weeks and was holding on for a few weeks. After the first one I thought I won’t be able to endure living like that if it doesn’t ease up, but fortunately it did. Every next pain that came was not as strong as the ..read more

I know, life is a sine wave of good and bad things that happen to you. After training diligently all April and kinda feeling like I’m getting back in shape, everything went wrong again. May was a disastear. Every week I injured something new. It started at the beginning of May when I fractured my little toe – it’s probably broken, but I didn’t see a doctor or do a MRI. So, I was sitting out training for a week. After a week and a half my friend (who is a nurse in the “real” world) was sweet enough to tape my – still incredibly hurting – toe and I participated in the training class ..read more

It doesn’t get easier, you just get better Never did the meaning of these words resonate with me like right now. After taking a break for 2 months because of my health issues after I came back from Thailand, I was feeling like I went back to the very beginning with my conditioning, strength, technique, overall feeeling. I struggled through every training, every minute. I was all covered in sweat by doing simple exercises during a fitness stretching class. I mean you do warm-up a bit during those, but I was totally sweaty, not slightly warmed-up! And this was the easiest fitness class avai ..read more

Yeah, literally rolling. In my 6 weeks off training I gained a round 6 kg, which made me even more round, so I feel like I’m rolling, not walking. I don’t really care that much about it, but I also feel no motivation to eat clean and shed those additional kilos. I know it’s dangerous coz they will stay with me otherwise, but I just can’t bring myself to eat clean, it hurts me too much to endure it right now. So…I let it go and eat chocolate. I’m so bad. Well, 6 weeks off any kind of physical activity, taking lots of meds and antibiotics made me pretty useless in the gym. My conditioning ..read more

It’s already been almost 2 months since I’m back from Thailand, but the whole adventure has left a lot of memories. I wrote about most of them in my previous blog post ? There are some things though that I haven’t mentioned, but in retrospect they really messed with what I was used to. 1. Water in the toilets The fact that the water filled up the toilet as if it were overflowing REALLY freaked me out at first!!! When I went into the first toilet stall on the airport I was sure the toilet was broken and will spill over any moment!! 2. Walk-in showers with no seperating walls So I’m used to sho ..read more