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Welcome Kimberly Jones to our little fitness family!

For your cheat day!

Much like Chicken Saltimbocca, this is chicken smothered in Parmesan cheese and rolled with mozzarella and prosciutto and baked in white wine.

Categories: Lunch, Dinner, Low Carb, High Protein

• 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
• 1/3 cup white wine
• 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
• 4 teaspoons butter
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 pinch black pepper
• 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
• 4 ounces thinly sliced prosciutto
• 10 ounces sliced whole milk mozzarella cheese

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
2. Pound chicken breasts flat, and lay them on work surface.
3. Sprinkle liberally with Parmesan cheese on both sides.
4. Place a pinch of minced garlic and 1 teaspoon butter in the center of each breast.
5. Cover each breast with a layer of prosciutto and mozzarella cheese.
6. Reserve some of the prosciutto to place on top of the chicken.
7. Roll up each chicken breast, and secure with toothpicks.
8. In a 9×13 inch baking dish, combine white wine and olive oil.
9. Arrange chicken rolls in dish.
10. Place a small piece of prosciutto on top of each roll, and sprinkle with pepper.
11. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until chicken is no longer pink, an juices run clear.

Hey Everybody! I want to welcome two new Athletes to our Boot Camp family. They are:

Lindsey Lee

Neenah Saucedo

When you see them in the gym tomorrow, help them warm up!

Do you???

Almost on a daily basis, I need to remind my Athletes and Fighters to breathe. Sound funny? It might, if you aren’t exerting yourself to the nth degree. If you are giving 100% to your squats or burpees? How about if your training partner is putting the body triangle on you? What about in the middle of a 5 minute round of knees on the bag?

For many people, breathing seems to be the hardest part of exercise to grasp.  While proper breathing is very important, it doesn’t have to be complicated or confusing.  The most important thing to remember when it comes to breathing is DON’T hold your breath.  Holding your breath can lead to elevated blood pressure during your workout routine, which can result in dizziness or even fainting.

 Here’s an easy way to make sure you’re breathing correctly while you workout…

 Exhale on exertion.  That means breathe out while you’re lifting the weight and breathe in while you lower the weight under control.  For example, if you’re performing the kettlebell swing, you should exhale as you lift the weight upwards above you and open your hips, then inhale as you lower it back down.

Another example is that of striking. You should exhale as your strike and inhale upon covering. If you are being hit, exhale forcefully upon impact.

By following these simple breathing techniques, you’ll not only perform each exercise more effectively, you’ll also be more comfortable while you’re working out.  And that makes for a more enjoyable fitness experience, which will ultimately lead to better, faster results.

Until next time, breathe!

What You Need:

4 red snapper fillets (4 ounces each)

1/4 c fresh lime juice

1 T fresh lemon juice

1 t chili powder

1 plum tomato coarsely chopped

4 green onions, sliced in 1/2 inch lengths

1/2 c chopped Anaheim pepper

1/2 c chopped red bell pepper

cilantro for garnish

Place red snapper in a shallow baking dish. Combine lime juice, lemon juice and chili powder in measuring c. Pour over snapper. Marinate 10 minutes, turning once or twice. Sprinkle onions, tomato and peppers over snapper.

Cover. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or just until snapper flakes in center. Let stand, covered, 4 minutes before serving. Garnish with fresh cilantro.

A quick welcome to our newest athletes… Please welcome:

LaSondra Jones – Boot Camp

Danielle Busque – Kickboxing and Boot Camp

I was training my son in Standing Grappling and Ground fighting just a few days ago and my youngest said, “It’s too hard, can you show me something else that is easier?” Of course, I gave him a hard time about it and continued to drill and drill. Later on, I sat him down and shared some of my life experiences where having a “Don’t give up” mental attitude literally saved my life. So, I thought that this thread might make a good blog post. Let me know what you think. I look forward to your comments and tweets.

Here it is:

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.  – Aristotle

How many times do we tell students “don’t give up”, but do we practice this mindset ourselves?  When a challenge comes along and we don’t get it the first time, we should keep trying for at least one hundred times.

I have not failed 700 times, I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work
~ Thomas Edison

Think how successful we would be if we always did things one hundred times before we even thought about giving up.  If this was put into our life at work, home and in martial arts, think of the things we could achieve.  we might not even get there after one hundred times but think how much better we would be than just giving it one chance and then saying “l can’t do it”.

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
Lewis Carroll

The human quality of perseverance is very important. Often people with physical talent fail because they lack perseverance and motivation, they should instead be like the proverbial boulder and just know we can achieve whatever we want, as long as we keep taking action and learning we can only go forwards and progress.

Repetition is the mother of all skills.  To do a technique once and expect it to work for us is not true in the slightest.  To really understand the technique and its concepts we have to do it until the line of familiarity and the root movement is in our subconscious.  It can be done anytime anywhere without even thinking about it.

You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning Karate is not very different from learning a dance. you will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do – Gichin Funakoshi

Think how many times we do a jab in our training more than say a difficult kick, the jab is repeated far more times as the difficult kick will work in a real situation.  It’s repeated time after time so that it will work for us in situations and we become very comfortable throwing it.

Given enough time, any man may master the physical. With enough knowledge, any man may become wise. It is the true warrior who can master both….and surpass the result.
~ Tien T’ai

When we have developed all of our combative skill sets ensuring that we adhere to the six attributes then our techniques will become technically sound and we will develop our tactical or strategic skills to become an excellent martial artist.

The obstacle is the path
~ Zen Proverb

Until next time, Let’s Get Training!

jim

Great Effort Tonight! I’m proud of everyone that braved the arctic cold to come crush a killer cardio core workout.

I want to welcome the following Fighters to our family:

Brandon Bailey – Self Defense and BJJ
Ryan Bailey – Self Defense and BJJ
James Hopwood – BJJ