Did flip training. Lot of side flips and barrel rolls across a block. Worked some good backs in the pit. Tried them on pad. Fear seriously affecting performance. Landed a few fronts from ground onto a 4 inch pad a few times before cooling down.
Feel good today. Core is a little sore. Flips don’t leave me very spent the next day anymore.
I’ve decided to start tracking diet on here. Usually my diet is decent-ish, but several days of restraunts often break that. Seeing if this will help.
Today’s Diet Thus Far
Water & 2 boiled eggs
Tomato Soup, Turkey Sandwich, chocalate cookie, hibiscus tea. (Panera Bread)
7 oz grass fed steak, chips and chipotle salsa, water
Throughout the day: soda, ice cream drumstick, stolen doughnut (not sure if that affects the calories, definently increases taste)
Yesterday
Training
Morning
Neg Dips/Arm Circles
3x1x10sec/3x10
Rows, body horizontal/twisting lat stretch
5x10/5x15sec
Push-up Plank/Running Man
4x24sec/4x5
Arms in hollow body/(forgot)
4x24 sec/4x5
Side Crunch/Elbow Twists
4x4/4x10
V-Ups/Hollow Hamstring Stretch
4x12/4x30sec
Evening
Jiu jitsu. Worked an odd fillet style choke. Class of all non competitors. Bodied everyone.
Food
Tomato soup, boiled egg, coffee/milk/water
7 oz steak, lots of peppers, water
Nuts.
Panda Express Bowl
7 oz bison steak, chips and salsa, blackberries, water
Misc: fruit snacks
Food
Tomato soup and water
Chicken fried steak and okra, I sweet tea (diner)
Chinese buffet. Dietary murder
Training
Jiu jitsu. Rolled 6 rounds. Killed one dude, got Merced by a purple belt. Exhausted
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Yesterday
Training
Deck Squats/Knee skiers
5x10/5x10
GHH/ToeTouches
4x4/4x5
Front split work. One of my best mobility workouts ever actually.
Diet
Chicken fried steak and okra.
7 oz bison steak, chips & salsa
Chinese buffet, stuffed my face
Today
Training
Parkour. Lots of flips and running. Working on standing back. So fucking close. Front flip dialed in.
Diet
Few bites of burrito bowl. Stomach hurt.
Burger with salsa, mushrooms, jalapeños. 1/3 of a tall choc shake.
Panera. Tomato soup and half a turkey bravo
Took two days after last post to do jack shit and wreck my diet. Last time seeing girl before heading across state. I don’t want to list the pharmacopeia we assaulted ourselves with, so listing diet also seems rather pointless. Just no it was bad.
Past two days
Two days ago
Handstand/Core/Thoracic stretching
Handstand work was real simple, same core work as last time with increased time/reps.
Diet was better, but mostly Panera bread.
Yesterday
Legs/Front Split
Deck squats, same as last time, but kept good form.
GHH/leg slides
Had hard time feeling it at first. Awkward ass excercises
Jiu jitsu that night. Open mat, killed some kids.
Diet, shitty.
Today
Just stretched a lot. So far, are a rice, sausage, and veggie casserole. About to eat my mornings ‘greens’ 
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Last training day
Evening jiu jitsu session, 45 minutes rolling with a brown belt. Got him with a modified leg trap off downward kaisigatame, and heel hooked. He got me…around 21 times…but who was counting…
Saturday/Sunday plans to train fell through, and a lot of old friends and fraternity mates showed up to tear apart my house for a proper Texas send off.
This morning.
Bulgarian Rows/Lat Twists
4x2/4x10
Neg Dips/Arm Circkes
4x2rx10sec/4x10
Push-up Plank/Running Man
4x48sec/4x10
Beginning of middle split workout.
Diet thus far
Water, Greek yogurt
Day after last post, two days ago
Sprint work. Warmed up, hit 10 60 yard sprints in 15 minutes.
Yesterday
Hollow body/rocking table
4x48sec/4x5 (failed at end of last two sets)
Side Arch/Elbow Twist
5x10/5x10
Thoracic bridge work
Moved to nm today. 10 hour drive. Didn’t train lol
Brighter note, Jackson-winkeljohn is in driving distance
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Finally got back in. Hit a boxing time across the street. Not real professional, a real ‘condition till u die and hit some pads’ ppl. But they had a few guys who looked sharp, so mebe an off day.
I moved somewhere a mile higher in elevation than home. HOOOOOLLLLYYY FUUUCK. Lifting weights in mexicos mountainous area was bad. Hardcore cardio/volume striking. Gahhdamb
Yeah, altitude is no joke! Once you acclimate to it though you’ll theoretically be at an advantage if/when you go back to a lower elevation.
Very cool about Jackson-Winkeljohn! Would love to pick those guys’ brains about training!
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I’m back. Getting everything coordinated for my TA stuff and classes has been hectic. Moved into a new apt, first time living alone.
After the boxing gym, I did a real light workout of just general moving. Yesterday I hit up winkeljohns public place, did wrestling for the first time, and a little bit of jiu jitsu stuff. All of it was basic, but drilled well and quick, coaches are very good. Class is fast paced with only 30 sec rest periods. Started seeing tracers but made it.
Today was striking. Footwork drills, little bit of back and forth partying, then two rounds of sparring. Erryonr is about 60-70% here. First guy was huge, like 6 4 270 huge. He landed about 6 Jan’s and a kick. I couldn’t get to his head but let him feel my shin about 5 times to the body and over and over to the leg. Sprawled a take down and reversed, but got up due to lack of energy and strength diff.
Second guy was shorter and moving real fast, but wide. He got me with a head kick once off a bend at the waist, but he didn’t throw to hard so I stopped it with forearm. Landed no punches. Kicked him cleanly in the head, and got a knockdown off a cut kick to the chest. Only landed jabs and a few light crosses. I was fucking ggggaaaaassseeed
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Took the day off. Intend to restart the gymnastic bodies stretching tomorow. Not sure how the strength work will fit into my schedule tbh
Side note, I took pains to convince the ppl at this gym I’m a natural lefty, so I can train southpaw. Iv worked on dual stance fighting a lot, but now I’m in a gym, I want to put my southpaw stance through the fire so to speak. I was going to give it a year b4 I said anything
Did hardcore stretching for the first time in a week
Middle split. Flexibility stayed surprisingly well
Pulled my hip last Monday doing turning sprints. Made it through class, and another wrestling class Wednesday. Mostly healed. Going to try to start working out in the mornings. Lack of physical activity this last week has been shyte
On the other hand, wrestling is fucking cool
Been a month since I posted. Grad school is great, but a lot. Been training At an mma gym pretty consistently. A lot of wrestling/kickboxing, little jiu jitsu.
Hip is healed.
Only activity besides mma has been gymnastic bodies stretching 2-3 times a week, and random workouts.
Have been practicing takedowns a fuck ton.
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