DAILY WORKOUT BY KASHEEM PETERSON




Bio:

Greetings my fellow readers. My name is Kasheem Juan Peterson. I was born in 1982 in Brooklyn, NY. I relocated to South Jersey as a pre-teen to take advantage of the benefits my family saw in suburban socialization and the school systems. I immediately found a love of sports. I became infatuated with football and played from early adolescence to high school. I attended Overbrook Regional High School. I wrestled and won a State Championship for football my junior year. I tried to be a rising star, however, I needed an edge over my teammates and opponents to gain a scholarship. The JROTC Program recruited me and off I was giving 100 percent to competitions as an athlete/cadet and student. My work ethic and passion for it all awarded me acceptance and a scholarship to the Citadel Military Academy in Charleston, South Carolina.

It was then, as a cadet, I learned what life was about and how one must endure so much to get so little. I befriended a young lady who was a model. I was giving her support and company one day to her agent one day when he expressed an interest in me and shared his aspirations. Somehow, he persuaded me to audition for a movie and attend several photo shoots. My diligence paid off and I humbly accepted a role in "Radio" with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ed Harris. Sony Pictures gave me the opportunity of a lifetime. Now I was a simple kid from Brooklyn eating at the same tables with models and prestigious actors. My parents bestowed in me the principles of humility and faith.

I made internal efforts to find balance and maintain focus, however, I became a tad bit distracted. My distraction let me to relocate back to my parents in South Jersey. It was then that I, under the council of my father; a devout Theologian/Pastor, got back on the beating path of academia. I completed my Pre-Law curriculum and attained a B.S. of Political Science from Widener University.

While on that beating path, I became friends and a training partner to one of the highest ranked middleweight fighters on the East Coast. This gentleman and I trained for several hours a day, hung out and worked together. There I was once again, entangled in the world of sports and athletics. I began to portray such a confidence that I pursued other contracts and interests in modeling. I began with run-way shows, commercials, industrials, and so on. Upon completing an industrial video production for GlaxoSmithKline, I began to attend my training partners fights and I visualized myself doing the same. However, I dismissed the notion immediately for the sake of modeling. At this point, my friend/training partner became a blessing in disguise. He signed me up for a local exhibition match, in which I gained experience and confidence in my training. One month, I met Ed Hsu and fell in love with MMA. From that day on, Combat in the Cage, became a platform for me. Some would consider fighting to be an inexplicable horror for a model, but I consider it to be an avenue to success and my pursuit of happiness.



Introduction:

In life, we all have different things that motivate us. Some use these extenuating factors to become the catalyst to their demise and others use them to accelerate the "progress rollercoaster." I wake up every day with the intent to alleviate any negative energy and fill myself with great thoughts as I strive for excellence. I believe that every step, day, or workout, to say the least, will ultimately be the component in the exponential product I wish to be.

There are four essentials in my workout plan, the physical workout, mental nourishment, a complimentary diet, and rest. Each of these essentials requires equal discipline, time, and effort. These elements constitute my existence. The harmonious blend of these factors is my recipe for success.

It's all about the approach and my attitude which sums it up. Whether I am boxing, doing Muay Thai, getting BJJ instruction, or conditioning, the goal is to absorb and retain something so that each day I become more polished into the fighter I need to be and the fighter people want to see.

Every workout should have some type of mental preparation. To nourish your mind, you must redirect your focus. You must know exactly what you want from this workout, how it will be conducted, and how this form of training will transcend into your performance. After you are focused and mentally prepared to put in work, warm up and stretch thoroughly. Scientists say that an adequate warm-up should be 15-20 minutes, which would warm your muscles, promoting elasticity and oxygen retention and distribution. Take your time with whatever it is that you're doing and it if calls for speed or explosiveness, do so giving your body and mind adequate intervals of rest to recover.

So now that you have applied such pointers to your regiment, its time to feed the machine. Seek balance in your diet, as well as your exertion and rest. What can you do in life without purpose and balance? This interrogative is rhetorical by nature. For all we know, that without those two essentials, we can do nothing but fail. Failure is not predicated by outcome. I deem it to be the lack of balance and purpose.

So, in summation of this intro, it is imperative to first find purpose and balance in every element of your existence. As an ever evolving species, we must learn about ourselves before anything else. Subsequently, after learning ourselves, we must learn to incorporate balance and seek purpose so that we can ultimately know our motivations and use them in our pursuit of happiness.