Training BLOG

[Oso]

4-7-03

Nada. Couple of things going on messing with my head.
Taught class.


Guile, no unfortunately not all muscle. No flab, I'm just husky

[Suntzu]

You gonna write the Ralek-esque recap? or should I?

[yenhoi]

My Typical week:



Every Morning: approx~ 6-7am

Stretch
forms
situps and other light conditioning
shadowbox
smash heavybag or tire w/sticks for couple rounds
shower & eat

Work for a bit, sometimes 4hrs, sometimes 6, sometimes 8! (OMG)

Monday night: Open training from 5-8 or 9pm

Tuesday night: Open roll night at local bjj acad, 6-8pm

Wednesday night: Train with teacher(class) 5-8 or 9pm

Thursday night: Train with teacher (class) 5-8 or 9pm

Friday night: Open training from 5-8 or 9pm. Sometimes go sparr randoms at school across town.

Saturday morning: Private with teacher 10-noon

Saturday afternoon: sparring.

Sunday: Lots of rest and food, little bit of training here and there, maybe catch a movie or go drink a little tequilla somewhere.

No weight training right now, lots of jumping rope and situps and getting punched and kicked and hit with sticks.

Just went to a Rick Faye seminar in Sacramento this weekend (4/5, 4/6) - badass.

[yenhoi]

Our silat is Bukhti Negara and of course Maphilindo (Guru Inosanto blend.)

[Chang Style Novice]

More news from wimpville - tried doubling the reps on my hindu squats last night (uh, to 100.) I made it to 70 but today I don't want to climb any stairs.

I was at 150 before I smushed my knee, dangit.

[joedoe]

stardate 20030408

45 minutes of cardio. I hate that rowing machine At least the view at the gym is worth it.

[Oso]

Good night

Stairclimber, 2 miles, 96 flights, 15:31, HIIT 1 min level 5/1 min lvl 10

Chest and Triceps tonight, first time in 6 weeks or so.

Flat, Incline, Decline, Tricep extensions, Fly's

did some stuff on a Hammer Strength machine called a 'Jammer'
couldn't quite figure it out, seems like you start in a horse and then lean into the grips and basically do a military press and finish leaning forward and extended. Anybody know this machine?

then I went to jujitsu class. Finally worked their standing joint lock flow enough that I have it now. Then did some sparring and got a busted lip and caught an accidental head smash to the jaw reel gud. very nice.

[halfling]

Date: today
gave blood, put a damper on my working out unless someone wants to give me a few red blood cells for the evening.

[SevenStar]

hey girl! where the heck have you been?

[SevenStar]

SevenStar's log. Stardate 20030408

Hit the gym - worked chest - 260 X 5 for two sets and 225 X 7 for two sets. ran 1.5 miles


In bjj, we worked transitions to mount and reversals to them. While rolling I tried several techniques that I've been working. I have to make a conscious effort to try something that I never use, so if I use and it's not successful, I'm still happy.

[Guile]

Did ab work. Ow.

[Jowbacca]

Midweek update so this thing don't die.

Monday
Hit the gym- did a good 40 min of cardio. Didn't realize how crowded it would be, didn't do circuit room.

Tuesday
Slept for about 18 hours straight. Must have been sick or something. Maybe just sick of stress & everything that's been going wrong lately. No training.

Wednesday
Made it to class 2 hours early. Did forms practise and loosened up. Did great for about an hour, til I tweaked my knee again. Took an hour rest and started class on schedule. Went slow on the knee. By the end of class it wasn't much of a problem.

Overall
Diet's in a sorry state. Not dealing well with my vices. Dog comes back today (she wore out her welcome). Need to find her a home. Sick of being stressed. If I survive the next few weeks, things will finally start looking up. Only 1 day off my schedule, so this week may turn out well regardless- we'll see by this weekend. Lots to improve for next week.

[Guile]

Ate Pizza.
Expanded the stomach.
Waist power

[Oso]

Really dang sore from chest workout tuesday. Must get into regular program again.

No real workout today, but I feel like I had one of those classes where I was really in the 'zone' with my teaching. Only 5 students, but my core group, and it was just a really good class, everyone training hard and sweating the whole class.



Seven, hope you don't mind but since we are of approximate size I'm using you as a benchmark -- plus, you're my hero, TKD chiks and all that real fighting

My usual chest workout is as follows, all on HammerStrength equipment cuz I train alone and my shoulders need the guided movement:

Flat Bench
Incline Bench
Decline Bench

I warm up with a set of 12 w/ 90 lbs (2-45's) on the flat
Then I do 3 sets of 12 w/ 180 lbs on each of the benches with a 60 second rest between each set.

Then I do tricep extensions a set of 12 w/ 60 lbs followed by a set of 12 w/ 40 then a 60 second rest.

Then I do a fly machine starting at 110 lbs to exhaustion, rest, 100 lbs to exhaustion, rest, 90 lbs to exhaustion.

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so, what do you feel I'm getting out of this sort of workout. If I can get back into regular I will still only really have time for one day a week on chest/triceps and another on back/bicieps and maybe another day on misc stuff.

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and what little bit I did on that jammer machine really pegged my front deltoids.


gonna do back and biceps tonight teach kids class and go to jujitsu class.

[SevenStar]

awww, shucks

for the chest workout, sounds like you're trying to gain size and strength. If you can knock out 3 sets of 12 though, you can jump the weight up 2 something that will let you only do sets of 8 - 10.

I'm going mainly for strength right now, so on the bench, you're doing way more sets than me. Here's what I do:

1 set warm up - 135 lbs. 12 reps

265 lbs X 2 sets

- that weight varies, as the I try to increase weight each workout until I find a weight that I can no longer get for 5 reps - that will probably happen today at lunch when I try for 270. I take about 3 mins of rest between those sets.

225 lbs X 3 sets

I'll do that for sets of 7 or so with about 1.5 - 2 mins rest between sets. I don't do flies, inclines or declines.

The soreness will happen because of the volume of work you're doing.

keep it up!