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Green Coffee Bean Extract

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on July 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Dr. Oz raves about this stuff. I don’t recommend the brand he is promoting because of the cost. I am trying to drop seven pounds. so, I am giving the green coffee bean a try. As per this Web MD website, in 22 weeks, you could lose 17 lbs without working out by taking a pill 30 minutes before eatting. I believe it inhibits the formation of cells into fat cells. The weight loss does sound to good to be true. I havent found any good articles in regards to side effects after all it is just a coffee bean except raw uncooked. I found this informative from Web MD, http://www.m.webmd.com/diet/news/20120328/green-coffee-beans-may-aid-weight-loss. The pill must have 45% or more of Chlorogenic Acid to work. The green coffee extract on the Dr. Oz show is for a 15 day supply. I don’t have the price but it could be $10 an up. So, it would cost over $100 for the full treatment. You can get a similar brand at Costco, $16, Diet Works, Green Coffee Extract, ” Clinically Tested Weight Management Formula.” 180 pills. It is a pill to be taken twice a day.

I dont need the full treatment. In the first week, I lost 1.5 lbs. My appetite was also suppressed. What is important to keep in mind, is that this is a 22 week program.

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Blue Belt Week 84, July 26, 2013 What does a golfer, plastic surgeon, and a Jiu Jitsu student have in common?

Posted in Jiu Jitsu, tagged , , , , on July 22, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Answer:  Small changes, or corrections, in a golf swing,  facial symmetry, and jiu jitsu technique have big gains in performance, appearance, and survival.

A few weeks ago, I watched a video on YouTube, motivational speaker, Tony Robbins, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nZcbIGlCQk .  Tony Robbins spoke about how small changes could have big gains.  Tony gave a few examples, the plastic surgeon and the golfer.  The first one, according to scientific study which has shown that beauty was a measurement, for example, the ideal distance from the top of the lips to the nose was 3 mm, just as an example.   So if a persons distance was four mm then the plastic surgeon would try to reduce the distance by one mm, which would be a very small measurement for a big change in personal attractiveness.

Tony Robbins also gave another example of a golfer not able to hit a ball with accuracy.  When the golfer was taught to adjusted the slope of the club by 1 mm, he was able to hit the ball with better accuracy. There was a flaw in the golfer’s swing that was corrected.

In the Fundamental class, lesson number one, this week, which felt like the 20th time,  I had missed a point in the steps.  In all, I made four mistakes, so I made four corrections to the techniques.  After class, I wrote down the corrections.

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Blue Belt Week 83, July 19, 2013 The Best Offense Is The Best Defense

Posted in Jiu Jitsu, tagged , , , , , , on July 19, 2013| 1 Comment »

Big gains in sparring development. The gains were NOT submissions, but defense from not being tapped out as often as previous sessions. I would say the development has to do with the advanced grappling class. When an opponent had me mounted and had their knees in the arm pits, I was able to shrimp out in order to get my elbows back down on the floor. Last time I sparred, I was tapped out a lot of times with the arm bar. Also, I learned a technique, from advanced grappling, to keep the elbows together on the chest and hands on the chin. That technique stopped multiple choke attacks.

This week I took the Advanced class which was taught by Professor Gui. During sparring, I was able to use the lesson on arm bar breaks to get a submission.

Back to fundamentals. I bought a new notebook. I plan to combine the notes from two other notebooks with the current lesson. I was trying to make a mnemonic device to help remember each lesson. I think this is the path to mastery. I believe I could get more out of my class time if I become more mindful. Mindful, being more focused, looking for details that I may have missed during previous lessons.

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Blue Belt Week 82, July 13, 2013. Back to the Fundamentals

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on July 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

At the fundamentals class on Wednesday, I was very rusty. I need to go back and apply myself to the fundamental program. My practice partner, a three stripe purple belt, made me humbled. Also, Gui noticed that I had fallen back. Most fights are won with fundamental technique. The advanced class was double the lessons of fundamentals, almost overwhelming. The Helio Gracie Tournament, a techniques tournament, is in October, maybe I should focus on that?

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Three Gates of Right Speech

Posted in Self Development on July 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

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Blue Belt Week 81, July 5, 2013

Posted in Jiu Jitsu, tagged , , , on July 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »

All the Valente Brothers dojos were closed this week for summer vacation, July 1 through July 8, 2013. It  is a fact that vacations prevent burnout.  I hope you had a good 4th of July!  What is the 4th of July in America?  That is when the US officially declared it’s independence from Great Britain, back then, that was the mother country and a super power.  We celebrated with fireworks, parades, and picnics.  Along time ago, this was the time of the year in my youth when we would stock up on Black Cats and bottle rockets.

For the holiday, I was in Millersville, Maryland, not far from where I went to high school in the late 80s.  I was about 45 minutes from District of Columbia, a.k.a. DC, the capital of United States, and 30 minutes from downtown Baltimore.  Anyways, I thought about practicing jiu jitsu at a local dojo, but quickly changed my  mind after looking over the web page.  It wasn’t strictly jiu jitsu.  It was a mixture of MMA, weight lifting, aerobics, and jiu jitsu.  Reading the description made me appreciate my school.  However, there was a great Gracie jiu jitsu school in Baltimore, but that was a 35 minute drive, so I didn’t do any jiu jitsu during the break.

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