 Alright everybody, what is going on, welcome back, welcome back to another video and today number six of my Taiga Muay Thai Excursion, you can call it, my trip, my month long trip here in Phuket in Thailand, today's a Saturday, it's day number six, I didn't train today and that's my fault, I told myself I was going to but due to procrastination and talking myself out of it, psyching myself out of it, basically, I didn't go, so today's been up and down, you know, this was a similar feeling to that that I felt down in Melbourne in August when I went down there specifically for one goal which was to play football, American football for the first time and then on one of the first training days, I missed it because I overthought it, I thought no, I don't have the exact right equipment, I can't go down, it's like no mate, the main thing is that you show up, okay that's the main thing, as long as you show up, you can make something out of it, but that's just my overthinking and that happens sometimes and that's happened on this trip and it happened today, so I didn't end up going to training today, we did five days, Monday to Friday, I sort of locked that in yesterday and I thought well on the weekend I'll do what I want, do what I can, but basically I'm happy that I got those five days in and so today I'm feeling disappointed right now because I didn't go to training, Sunday it's closed, Sunday is a big day, we've got UFC Auckland with Dan Hooker fighting Paul Felder and we've got Deontay Wilder versus Tyson Fury, two, I'm going for Fury and I'm going for Hooker both by way of knockouts, now I did want to discuss my injury, my Achilles tendonitis that flared up on day number three, I pushed through that day, I did not want to go to training, I thought no, this is going to snap, I thought my Achilles tendon if I fucking push this it's going to snap, lo and behold you get into the training session, it does still hurt a little bit but because of what you're doing, because of what you're concentrating on in front of you, you know the pain goes away, now following those two sessions on the Wednesday I went and got some ice spray which is here, you guys saw me apply it to my Achilles tendon, I also got some anti-inflammatory medication, now I don't know if these are available in Australia but what I will say guys is I took one, oh yeah by the way I got a haircut too, so skin fade up to a number two with a clean shave, 250 baht guys that's $12.50 Australian, this woman in a barbershop was a woman, she took an hour to do my hair plus another 20 minutes to do my neck, my face and charged me 250 baht, I thought holy shit man this is the place, that would cost over 50 bucks in Australia absolutely, any day of the week, she took so much meticulous care with my hair and my beard so because of that I gave her a tip which is what you'll find yourself doing, if you feel like you get a really good service whether it be food or you know a massage or haircut or even just buying something in a shop if you get great service plus it's really really well priced you'll you know quite often give a tip it's completely up to you it's not expected but you can so I did in this case so we're cleaned up already for Monday morning and straight into it eight o'clock in the morning with a new week of Muay Thai so I'm pumped for that but what I was gonna say is that these anti-inflammatory drugs you know I was expecting them to give me a box of ibuprofen and if you're taking that stuff you know you can take six eight per day the pharmacist gave me these they said one per day with food and they were quite strict on that and I thought one per day one anti-inflammatory pill per day are you serious and luckily only took one and that's all it needed because I tell you what as of right now my problematic Achilles tendon feels brand new so I took one of those pills I use this probably about 10 times throughout the day it's nearly all gone and low and behold the next day my Achilles tendon felt great so not only did the pharmacist help me out and that's a recommendation I got before coming here doesn't matter if you're sick in the stomach you've got a headache you've got a physical injury walk into the chemist or the pharmacy on soy tide which is probably about 500 meters away from tiger walk in there tell them what your problem is they do speak English and they'll help you out you know what I mean and that's what I did I said look my Achilles tendon is killing me I want to keep training what can I do I actually asked for an ice pack they gave me the spray instead plus these so 24 hours later I'm really glad that I pushed through those two sessions because if I had of if I hadn't have trained and felt what it was like at the end of the training because it was actually really bad I probably would never have gone to the pharmacy and I may still be struggling with the effects of that so you know not only did I get two extra sessions done on a sore Achilles the next day it was completely gone I was like that's a fucking miracle anyways injuries yes that one's gone I do have another injury which is not your normal injury I will say it's one that I've had once before and I believe it's because I've got a very very bony tailbone okay it must stick out or something I'm not sure maybe I just haven't conditioned it because I haven't done much ab work but basically if I push through when I'm doing sit-ups past the point of pain and just keep going and going and going what happens is you know once I lose the strength in my core I end up just like falling backwards and then really having to use like my arms my legs to to to get that that force to bring myself back up for another another sit-up now back in back in November I challenged myself I thought okay I'm gonna do I'm gonna do 200 sit-ups per day for a month right I did it on day number one got through it it was it was one of the hardest things I've ever done okay my abs were sore for a week but that wasn't the problem I went to go and do it the second day I sat down I lean back and I could not even do it what had happened was a massive graze had developed at the top of my tailbone and that's because of the way that I was you know slamming back into the ground pulling myself up slamming into the ground pulling myself up and obviously the way that my shorts rubbed on my tailbone created this massive graze and that took about a week to heal if not two weeks now what's happened is we did 50 sit-ups and I was already so tired from it from the training beforehand this was probably at the end of the session we did 50 sit-ups with the partner I couldn't stop I had to keep going by the end of it I thought yeah that's okay you know what wasn't too bad okay I jump in the shower and I get home I've done it again I've done it again I've grazed my fucking tailbone on the opposite side that it happened last time so I don't know what what's up with my fucking tailbone I don't know what I don't know what happened anyways I can't do more than 50 sit-ups at the moment without grazing my tailbone so what happens it's a it's an open cut and you know until it closes and heals over properly it's not the nicest thing to imagine but it is the injury that I'm working with right now so if they say we're doing sit-ups which they have done since I've had the injury I still do them but I do them on one ass cheek okay literally I'm I'm having to come up on an angle you know they're probably looking at me like what the fuck are you doing but hey I'm injured anyway it's not gonna slow me down with any stand-up stuff any push-ups you know cardio fitness work things like that's not gonna stop me so that's okay what else we got to talk about I did have a bit of a list here right I found my favorite healthy eating restaurant here on soy tide you know I wouldn't be going there every night but there have been times on this trip and in plenty of times in the past when I've traveled Southeast Asia especially when I was training you know hard in the gym over 100 kg is trying to maintain my muscle mass it's very hard to find big portions of protein or quality protein without you know being in a curry or you know it might be covered in some sort of sauce or something like that look if you want just clean protein and actual good-sized I mean if you buy a chicken breast in some places it could be fucking tiny I don't know what they feed these chickens or you know in fact maybe these are normal chicken size and we get chicken breasts that are so huge back in Australia because they're all pumped up with hormones but regardless of all that there's a place on soy tide which is the street that all the Muay Thai camps are on and it's called Ali's barbecue it's right at the end of the street you'd have to go past pretty much every single other shop and restaurant and you know accommodation to find this place it's called Ali's barbecue they cook your meat on-site to order and so when it comes to getting you know extra protein in your diet you can order things like a boiled egg or a fried egg you can order things like a chicken thigh or a chicken breast for the last couple of nights I've eaten probably one or two meals throughout the day I felt like at the end of the day shit I probably haven't you know had enough protein I'm looking to get at least 100 grams a day here probably 150 if not 200 so last couple of nights I've come to the end of the night I haven't really had that much protein I've gone to Ali's barbecue I've ordered two chicken breasts there's 60 bar each that's $3 they come out grilled to perfection they're absolutely beautiful a little bit salad on the side and you've got yourself like a hundred grams of protein just like that for $6 with a bit of salad so that my friends is my way of upping my protein intake per day whilst staying here near tiger now normally I probably would have I guess a protein shake I was gonna buy a tub of protein powder which I may still do but I'd much rather eat food and if I can get chicken breasts cooked like that for that price with you know no frills that's what I wanted you know when you want protein you just want protein when you're fucking training the gym and you know how important protein is to muscle maintenance which is what I'm doing whilst I'm here you want that protein and you know you don't want to cover in sauces and in a big salad or in a big fucking pasta meal or something like that you just want the protein right there and that's what you get that Ali's barbecue so that is my recommendation and I'd have to say that that would be about it so that is day number six for anyone following along we're here for a month today has been up and down to be honest mentally because I missed that training session and you know Sunday would have to be the only day that I'm gonna be okay with with not training because Tiger Muay Thai as a as a complex is shut so that is it guys as of Monday we'll be back I feel like I'm probably gonna have my second private Muay Thai session on Monday so I'll take the camera down for that we'll discuss the winners of the two fights that are on this weekend so yeah tomorrow's gonna be a great day man day off training big coffee to start the morning and we're straight into the UFC and following that we got Wilder Fury fuck oh my god I cannot wait guys I've become a massive massive fight fan over the last four years it's slowly slowly been building and you know I couldn't be more into fighting right now boxing mixed martial arts kick boxing I'll watch it all and you know I'm a super fan I'm an absolute super fan I watch every single press conference I watch every single interview and here I am guys in Thailand smack bang in the middle of fight street or fighter street which is so I tied that's the street that all of these fight camps are on including Tiger and I'm I'm pretty sure that tie-e'd means fighter so soy means street tie-e'd means fighter fighter street that's the street that I'm training on all I can say is try it out for yourself it's pretty sweet that street has got to be one of the most awesome streets I've ever seen it is just packed with fitness food fighting and cheap accommodation so with all that being said guys have a fantastic day and I'll see you in the next one peace out