Training Camp @ Core This Week for Grand Prix Daytona Father's Day Weekend

The team trained for 3 hours this morning and will do an hour of training tonight.  It was a hard training with lots of drills.  T came home sweaty and exhausted which is a good thing.  He will shed the two pounds of weight he needs to lose and then some with this training and him eating clean these next two weeks.  I love T being in a place where he doesn't need to cut to lose weight.  He just needs to eat clean and he gets there naturally.  If he can't get to the weight he needs to be by doing this method of healthy weight loss then he will just move up a division even if the fighters are giants in the field.  After what happened with him last summer that hospitalized him and we could have lost him from that one event we are determined that we will never be in or put in that position ever again with our son.  He does everything in a healthy way or not at all.  That is not up for discussion.  We live and learn from events that happen in our lives and this was a big and almost deadly learning curve for T as well as us last year.  He had no idea what he was doing to his body back then and neither did we until we found ourselves in a situation with him that could have taken him from us.  Let me just say that nothing, and I do me nothing, is worth paying that price.  Winning for high level elite athletes is crazy important to them and because it's important to them it's important to the parents as well but you also have to keep things in check realistically.  It was a hard lesson learned and one I never wanna go through again or see anyone else go through.  I will be the first to say go for your goals with everything you've got.  Give it your absolute best shot and leave it all out on the mat, court, or field.  At the end of the day, though, that's all you can do. BUT, big but here, doing it in a healthy way is so vitally important!!!  So glad T is enjoying his training and replenishing and recovering when he's not.  He's putting back in what his body needs for strength and vitality.  He feels like he's turned a huge corner and feeling stronger and healthier than ever too.