Been going to BJJ classes. will probably go twice a week but its expensive compared to the gym and i love the gym... wont be able to afford gym... its amazing to see how much ive forgot skill wise but i still remember gameplans and flows - i can see exactly what people are going to do, i know the counters vaguely, i know ive covered much of it before but cant remember how to do it!
Got back to the gym today after much reluctance gym owner got annoyed that i didnt come because i couldnt afford it. he said next time i should tell him my situation and he'd sort something out like delayed payment. nice great guy who cares about his customers. Put myself on version of my own program (thats on this site): http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120346 because after a long lay off, it seems like a good idea Overhead Variation 3x5 20x5 30x5 40x3x5 Snatch High Pull 3x5 20x5 40x5 60x3x5 Front Squat 3x5 60x3x5 Strength Exercise 3x5 hex bar DL 60x3x5 80x1x3 (ow hip, need to stretch more) Went for a walk up the big hill behind me (wanted to sprint but it was too slippy) with a 15-20kg container of water then practiced the three three drill simon posted with a kali stick. very difficult with my left. then tried some spear throws with the stick, trying to get it to fly straight (hard with a light stick). better on my left than right. tried to hit a tree from 10 paces. failed 20 times with my right, stick wont fly straight. then threw once with my left, perfect throw, tip hit the tree
Zaad, not everyone will be of the same opinion, but in my experience as an instructor all we want is to see you in class. Something can always be worked out in regard to the money. Glad you're back training.
Overhead Variation 3x5 20x5 30x5 40x3x5 (last reps was a grind) Snatch High Pull 3x5 20x5 40x5 60x3x5 (much smoother) Back Squat 3x5 70x3x5 Strength Exercise 2x8 Back Squat more 60x2x8 ow left hip again. i think im going to make sure i get up and get some breakfast yoga in from now on to help out that hip, the muscles muscles around the socket get massively pumped. i want to keep my backsquat around 10kg ahead of my front squat or at least more reps.
FWIW, learning all the stretching/warm-ups that ballerinas do really helped with my flexibility and preventing joint problems. (my major issue is shoulders popping out because I'm double jointed) Look for "ballet stretching" and similar terms on youtube/google.
ballet is awesome! will search the stretches My dad was a professional contemporary ballet dancer and had me do a lot of that stuff as a kid. Honestly the reason i think i had such good flexibility (plus good shoulder joint genetics) until i started to sit in chair for 8 hours a day.
Breakfast yoga is "da bomb"* just 10 minutes of sun salutations makes a massive positive difference to my ageing joints and the continuing tonic/phasic posture/alignment battle... Plus it's a readily achievable first goal of the day. Have you picked up/adapted a routine from a class, or are you learning from videos? *I am led to believe that this is a "yoof" phrase meaning "exemplary"
btw, a lot of the stretches are done at a ballet barre. If you don't have one, just use a chair or something like that. I've never needed them except for splits, but yoga blocks are helpful for stretches you can't reach. ETA: here's a really basic barre routine- [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A6c7bkzmQ8"]Ballet Barre Warmup - YouTube[/ame] when you're good at this, google around for more advanced shtuff.
Showing your age mate! nobody has said that since the 90's/early 2000's (Ali-G era) people my age used to say epic but i dont know what it is now. I'm prolly gonna find some ginastica natural videos (BJJ style yoga) on the youtube
I feared that may have been the case... Perhaps an appropriate riposte would be "whatevs"? Either way, good to you see you're back at the gym again, and you know that regaining old strength is easy compared to new gains Now just to save up your spare cash for some BJJ/JWT sessions...
Front squat 20x3x5 40x5 60x5 70x5 75x5 (last was a grinder, going to not push it too much higher next week or at all) Strength Exercise 2x8 Bench Press 20x2x8 30x2x8 40x2x8 45x4 Snatch High Pull 60x3x5 (didnt really feel like i was extending properly but the bar came high enough) Deadlifts 70x5 80x3x5
Overhead Variation 3x5 OHP (had to clean them up) 20x5 40x1x5 (misloaded) 42.5x2x5 Snatch High Pull 3x5 20x5 40x5 62.5x3x5 Front Squat 4x4 60x3x5 Strength Exercise 2x8 hex bar DL 60x2x8 70x1x6 (grip is crap now...) The hardest thing is not letting ego push the program.
Just fond out that my old lifting coach and team has got a load of new members. Which is great! Hopefully they finally get a uni club going which but i miss it. lifting with my coach, him dragging me to comps and keeping me to a schedule really did stop me doing something really stupid when i got depressed at uni. he was a great mentor and an awesome coach. i only hope i can find someone like that again.
Did some leg work in the gym, 3x10 stuff BSS glute bridges (2x10) weighted glute bridges 60kg lying single leg hammie curls top range single leg extensions (VMO death!) then walked around for a few hours. trying to stay active
Overhead Variation 3x5 20x3x5 42.5x3x5 (last few reps we difficult) Snatch High Pull 3x5 20x5 40x5 62.5x3x5 random 50kg clean to rack the bar. easy but caught it a smidge forward Back Squat 3x5 70x3x5 (need to do some warm ups before next time to get my footing right) Strength Exercise 2x8 Back Squat more 60x2x8 Did some weighted planks (5kg) with 45 seconds rest in between: 1 minute 30 seconds 20 seconds i want to get them up to 1 minute each next time. i suck at them now, which is sad because i was doing heavier weighted push ups just a year ago and squatting heavier daily 6 months before. but i did pull heaviest about 9 months ago when i did none of that so maybe things just go in cycles?
Overhead Variation 3x5 OHP 20x3x5 30x1x5 45x5 45x4 45x2 Snatch High Pull 3x5 20x5 40x5 65x3x5 Tried front squatting and deadlifting but patella tendon wasn't happy. Did some curls and shoulder stuff
Warmed up a lot with jumps ETC first. felt much better: Front Squats: 20x5x3 40x3 50x3 65x6x3 random 50kg clean, need to work on foot work. CHALLENGE: INDEX DEADLIFT 30kgx1 pathetic. it is difficult and i am weak. Then did shoulder work (3x10 weighted sun salutations) then 3x10 single leg top range extensions then 3x10 back raises with a 10kg plate
I think you're too hard on yourself to be honest. Like you said the challenge is difficult and you're not exactly a 7ft tall behemoth
my strength in general has disappeared. i find it hard to hold on the the bar with even light deadlifting and even harder to close the light gripper i have. moral of the story - dont stop lifting, eat properly (im down 4kg in one month and non of it is fat). i can only blame myself
