Sigh.. too much.. I did too much again. Let's see.. ALL that I did was:
Arrived an hour early for Kyokushin class. I brought my Bo with me on the bus again. This time the bus was far more crowded. I had to go stand at the back of the bus. Two gentlemen sitting on the farthest back seat ( the one that stretches across the width of the back instantly moved over) The older gentleman said teasingly to the person next to him "We'd better make room for her! We don't want her to use that thing on us!" I must have blushed a few colors as I sat down saying "Oh.. I'm nothing to worry about, tame as a kitten." But the man's comment had quite an effect on the crowded bus as so many people turned to look at what he was talking about, and suddenly noticed that I was carrying a Martial arts Bo, then they did a double take looking at me with shock in their eyes. Note to self: Rush hour travelling with a Bo staff on a bus.. be prepared to get noticed.
Spent my early hour in the back parking lot of the Dojo practicing with the staff:
Did usual warm up
Focused on basics by doing each tsuki motion 20 times in front stance, and worked on the position of my hands during the strike.
The children arrived early for class, and were getting pretty antsy. So I put away my staff, and encouraged the kids to jog some laps around the building until Sensei arrived.
Trained in the first children's class, trained in the second children's class, trained for an hour and half Adult's class.. and THEN the Kata portion started.
I performed:
Taikyoku Sono Ichi (Omote, Ura, Tate)
Taikyoku Sono San
4 of the kicking kata Sakugi Taikyoku Sono Ichi, Ni, San, and Yon.
I was heading into the 5th hour of training. Then all of my muscles started shaking, I felt the weakness, and darkness gathering at the base of my brain. Sweat was filling my eyes. My glasses were fogging. I was overheating. My mind screamed "NO! NOT NOW! NO! NO! This is when we train in Kata. I can keep going.. I know that I shouldn't but I can! I promised my husband that I wouldn't keep going when I overheat. I have to stop.. NO! NO! NOT NOW!" I forced myself to go down into seiza, now my eyes were filled with tears instead of sweat. I ended up laying down on the ground with my feet in the air to try to recuperate. I had to cool down. I had to allow my body to let the heat escape. All of the various coverings on my body, the shin pads, the protection, the T shirt, and Gi material did not allow for much heat exchange. I could feel my head, hands and feet just burning with extra circulation as my body channeled the heat to where it was possible to cool things down. It took 12 LONG minutes.
Then I was able to move again. I was normal again. I was "Me" finally.
I rejoined class and did:
Pinan Sono San ( 5 times)
Pinan Sono Yon ( 5 times)
Pinan Sono Go ( 5 times)
Sanchin (3 times)
Gekisai Dai (5 times), Gekisai Sho (5 times), Yangstu (4 times)
Tsuki No kata ( 3 times)
At the end, I snuck in Bassai Dai ( Just once..)
I need to feel the different power lines of Pinan Sono Yon, and Go. Right now I'm far too Shotokan centered. Must work on understanding Kyokushin "accent".
I'm a little sore today from all of the extra training during the week. Not WICKED sore.. but sore enough that I can feel that I truly applied myself.
I do feel frustrated at the fact that I overheated. It's SUCH a pain! It's not that I do not have the energy to continue training, it's that my body is suffering from over heating. Once I cool down, I can train just as hard again. What a frustrating place to be.. to know that you have all the energy within you to do what needs to be done, but to have to wait until your body cools down and allows you to use it. I remember feeling the same way when I owned this old car that would overheat. You would have to pull to the side of the highway, and watch that thing sit there, and "cool" down before you could continue your trip. ARGH! Most of the time it wouldn't act up.. but give it the right conditions, and boom.. There wasn't much we could do to help the car. We just had to wait until it set itself right again. I was able to go out and buy myself a better car, but I can't do that with my body. This is what I have to work with, and it is hereditary in my family that we overheat, and faint. I've seen my brothers, sisters, and parents struggling with this problem. I believe it is linked with the thyroid gland. I have had thyroid problems in the past. Underactivity. I'm going to research which foods that I can eat which will stimulate, and help my thyroid to become stronger so that I do not overheat so much.
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Foods that help with Thyroid
"Follow a diet with at least 50 % of the foods being fresh, and organically grown to rebalance and establish a better metabolism. The enzymes from live foods help the body to maintain proper metabolism. Foods that heal include sprouts, salads, raw vegetables, and thermos cooked grains to retain enzymes which heal and feed the glands.
Eat foods rich in vitamin A, such as yellow vegetables, eggs, carrots, and dark green vegetables. M.U. Tene is concentrated Beta-Carotene, the precursor to Vitamin A and one of nature's most powerful antioxidants.
Iodine rich foods that nourish the thyroid are: fish and sea vegetables such as: arame, kelp, dulse, hijike, nori, wakame, and kombu. Seaweeds are very nourishing to the glands.
Zinc and copper are important in helping the body make thyroid hormone. Foods rich in zinc include: beef (range free), oatmeal, chicken (range free), seafood, dried beans, bran, tuna, spinach, seeds, and nuts. Foods rich in copper include: organ meats (range free), eggs, yeast, legumes, nuts, and raisins.
The amino acid tyrosine is helpful. Tyrosine is found in soy products, beef, chicken, and fish.
Black and red radishes have been used by some doctors in the old Soviet Union as accepted medical treatment for hypothyroidism. Raphanin, the main sulphur component in radishes, is chiefly responsible for keeping the production of thyroxine and calcitonin (a peptide hormone) in normal balance. Seeds and nuts, seed and nut milks, vegetable juices (celery, parsley, small amount of carrot, Swiss chard, wheat grass) and plenty of green drinks containing chlorophyll for healthy blood are helpful. Earth's Harvest is a blend of three micro-algaes that are a rich whole food source of chlorophyll."
Taken from
http://www.naturalways.com/thyroid.htm
Hmmm.. I'm following most of the above suggestions,already. I could look into, and experiment eating seaweeds, and increasing access to seeds, and radishes.
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