Thursday
630 am comp class at main school. 6x6 minute rounds with 1 minute in between. Brutal.
Friday
Leg Ext
3xamrap
Zercher Squat
3x20x135 - back was tight
Belt Squats
2x10x180
3x15x270
Kept a sissy squat stance for it.
10 calories on air bike while BiL did leg ext, then switch for five rounds.
Absolutely brutal. My quads were so pumped it was painful.
Both my and my wife’s family is visiting for a party we are hosting, so pretty nuts right now. Just trying to get work in.
Saturday
Today’s party today. Woke up early and got 50cals on air bike and 5 minutes in ice bath. Pretty sore and depleted. Ready for lots of food and chilling today.
I’ve taken last few days easy. Had a huge adoption party at our place and had fam in town. Lots of good food and time in pool. Food wise, I’ve made pretty good choices. No ice cream or outright sweets, but it has been more carbs than I’m used to. Weight sits at 240!!! I have a ton of leftover bbq that I’ll be going carnivore for rest of week before I head to Maine on Sunday. I’m going to try and hit competition class in morning and again on Thursday. Otherwise, cruising this week and enjoying family, time off work and just living.
Wednesday
First day of school for one of my kids. Got up early to take her, then breakfast with wife and other kids. Workout at 10 and pool at 11. I may never work again.
Clean off floor and press
10x135
5x155
5x175
5x175
Seated OHP
3x10x135
BB Rows
3x15x135
BB hang pulls
3x10x135
Cable Press and Cable Row
3x15/20
Bar holds and tricep ext
3x60 sec and 20 reps
Very jealous on this! I’ve tried to get up to the Origin Camp the last 3 years and it just hasn’t worked out. I hear the food is great. They do a huge lobster boil at the end.
La’
‘25 will be the year. Get the credit card ready. I booked on 9/2 and it was full by 10/15.
Thursday
Incline Bench
2x10x135
10x155
7x175
5x185
2x3x205
3x3x185
Cable Bench
3x10
Cable Flies
3x10
Cable Curls
4x10
Kind of a mirror day. Was feeling pretty good. Can tell I’m getting leaner as I’m way more vascular. Also weighing 228-235 between morning and before bed. I think added activity of swimming for a few hours and walking is helping. My body is responding to carbs very well. I’m not bloating up like I used to. Tomorrow is legs then gonna just chill until I travel. Don’t want to push to hard before a week of all day training.
Thursday night
My daughter had cheer practice, so I walked around track for about 1.5 hours. Kept a good pace of 4mph until final two miles where I dropped to 16.5 minute miles. Total of 5 miles.
Friday Morning
Made it to a spontaneous open mat. Good hard rolls with all purple and black belts. Didn’t finish any submissions, but I wasn’t really going for that today. Everyone knows I’m a guard player, so been working transitioning out of DLR. Was able to sneak a Tripod in as well as a DLR with near side sleeve to Rev. DLR sweep. I had been dreaming this up for awhile and somehow got it first time. Felt damn good to stand up knee on belly to a very good purple.
One of my team members just registered. I’m going to have to get on the ball and get signed up this week.
La’
Did you get signed up?
I’ll type out my thoughts today or tomorrow. One of biggest takeaways is I consumed soooooo much food and protein every day. Just from Molks alone, I’d have 300+ grams of protein (I averaged 10 a day). My weight Saturday night was 249lbs… and yet I’m somehow leaner than ever?
Camp Overview:
Instructors: Was disappointed at first as Jocko didn’t make an appearance this year. He was filming Way of Warrior Kid. We had some incredible names attend tho. There’s always the known folks: Liborio (Coral Belt), Dedeco (sick and didn’t attend), Dean Lister (one of coolest guys), Echo Charles, Alecksy, Formiga, Midgetsu, Birdman, etc.
We also had guest appearances from: Tim Kennedy (I rolled with him), Wander Braga and Buchecha
The teachings and instructors were top notch. Everyone is separate by belt and has their own mats. Each instructor is incredibly helpful, walks around to answer questions and stays afterwards to roll, take photos and answer questions.
My favorites were Tim, EC and Buchecha. I was able to roll with both Tim and EC. Buchechas style and instruction was really cool to watch and listen to. He taught sweeps from DLR, with his mindset as opponents react.
Food: The food is really good. Far better than expected for a camp. I didn’t skip any meal because it didn’t look good, and I’m picky af. We had the classic ‘lobster fest’, but it was paired with Colorado beef and oysters. I ate 3 Lobsters and over 2lbs of beef, with 4 oysters. There are iced containers everywhere around the camp with Jocko Gos, Molk and hydrates. All free. I had 55 Molks while I was there. Essentially averaged 10 a day. One guy had 101. Also, every night they laid out a sandwich spread with cookies or brownies. My group all had at least 4 sandwiches at night (11p-1a).
Schedule: The schedule was super easy. Essentially 4.5 hours of instruction time a day, with open mats for rolling/drilling after each instruction. Morning was Gi (10-1130), Afternoon NoGi (3-430) and evening Gi (7-830). My day typically looked like this:
Wakeup - 745
Breakfast - 830
Gi - 10
Lunch - noon
Ice Bath and Lake 1245
Stretch 3
NoGi 330
Dinner 6
Gi 7
Open Mat at open air mat 9-11
Late night Sammies 11-1a
I can’t tell you how much food I ate. I was probably at 7-9,000 calories a day. The daily Molk alone was 300P and 1900 calories.
I also averaged 10 rounds a day. On Wednesday, it’s an off day for factory tours and relaxing. I did some relaxing, but spent 6 hours on the mats drilling and doing rounds. Ended the day with 22 rounds, some of which were 12 minutes.
Beds: they suck. Just get used to it. I brought an air mattress and did just fine. First night was rough, because my feet had to cantilever over the bed cap. The next day I found a screwdriver and took it off, so my feet could stretch out.
Misc: They clean you gi every day which is great. I brought enough rash guards for the week and just used daily laundry bag for dirty clothes. You really don’t need much for clothes. I wore shorts, but swapped out for swim trunks and a t-shirt every day in between.
They set up an origin store by the lake with discounts. Each day things become increasingly cheaper. I waited until Thursday to buy things and got 2 GIs for $50. On Friday, all pants were $25 and heavy sweatshirts were $30. Original pricing for those are $129 and 180. The risk is that they won’t have your size… but I’m a big dude, so no concern. I also picked up the camp rashgaurd for $16 on final day vs. $60. Pays to be an XL or XXL.
A lot of people filmed every session, I just took it in. At end of camp, they set up a google drive for people to put their videos in… Just a quick download and I have White belt through Black belt instructions.
There’s a ton more, feel free to ask away.
Goddamn dude: that sounds like Valhalla. You’ve got me sold, haha.
I’m pretty sure It’s as close to being a pro athlete or actor training for a roll, as it gets.
Monday
High Incline Bench
2x10x135
10x155
7x175
5x185
5x185
Same plane as above, row
5x10
Rack Scrapes OHP
3x10x135
Wednesday
Low Incline Bench
2x10x135
10x155
10x175
7x185
5x205
3x205
7x185
Same Plane Row
4x10 - 1.5 reps
Cable Flies
3x12
2x100 yard carries with 150lb ball
Was supposed to do a leg workout yesterday… I normally inject TRT into quad fat, but it’s been increasingly difficult. Had a call with Dr. last week and he suggested I inject IM into outer quad. Holy PIP! 2 days later and still lots of soreness. Once it subsides, I’m debating continuing in quads until I get used to it or just sticking to stomach fat.
With only a few more days left in the month, I’m very happy with progress this year. Weighed in at 240 this morning and leaner than ever. I’m not as lean as I wanted to be tho. I’ll post a photo later this week and get folks thoughts on next steps.
Any reason you don’t go for the glutes? That’s what I’ve done since day 1.
That sounds awesome! How many people per bunkhouse and how did the shower situation work out?
la’
Thanks for the write-up. Sounds fantastic!
I don’t know Echo Charles. I’ll have to look him up. Tim Kennedy always amazed me with his grappling. Apparently Danaher used his escape from Roger Gracie’s back mount as one of his signature moves to teach students. Eager to hear anything you have to say about him and the experience rolling with him, He’s not an especially big guy, is he?
Also loved to hear that Buchecha was there. I think I heard something about him returning to grappling competition?
Each cabin is different. Mine had capacity for 8, with 5 people. Some are double cabins and others are smaller like mine. There’s lots of capacity at the facility. According to Pete, the limiting factor is cafeteria and mat space.
Shower wise, we had two showers in our cabin and two toilet stalls. The water is warm and plentiful. It’s definitely a Sumer camp facility, BUT if you look up camp Laurel, the tuition for six weeks is north of $17,000. It’s on the very nice side for a camp.
He is Jocko Podcast co-host. Not so much a famous BJJ Practitioner, more a personality. Super chill guy.
He’s a beast. He’s not tall, likely around 5’10 and probably weighed around 205-210. He uses his weight very well and is relentless. An excellent wrestler. I was in his knee shield and fought for his undertook. Didn’t take long for him to wrestle up and pass my knee shield by smashing. His pressure is unlike anything I’ve felt. He then toyed with me and asked the crowd watching if he should finish me via smother choke. I just kept fighting for a breath and fought off wrist locks. He eventually took all the slack out of my body, pinning my arms. With 2 seconds left, he put his shoulder over my mouth mid breath. I tapped and bell rung. By no means did I survive 4:59 seconds. He mercifully allowed me to continue fighting. At the end of the roll, he just said ‘good shit, you fought hard’. Mind you, this was his 6th round in a row and there was a long line after me. He just kept going, no break.
ya, I believe this is right. He immediately left and I saw him with Gordon Ryan on Instagram. He’s incredibly technical. I’d love to just Q&A him in a flow roll as he processes movements and responds. Compared to Kennedy who is a dog with a bone and gets what he wants. I’m positive Kennedy is technical, just not his style. He wrestles up to a dominant position and steals your desire to live…
Also, being a black belt you might wonder if it’s worth it at your level. I can’t speak personally to it… but, I made friends with a newer black belt who got a ton out of it. There is a blackbelt specific mat with teachings and Q&A. He loved the instructions. Not so much learning new things, but refining technical abilities and refining techniques.
Forgot to mention, Leo Viera was there too. He also was an incredible instructor. Tons of great info and tips.
FWIW, scar tissue. I rotate subq, right glute, left glute, subq belly.
I think some dudes overthink it.
My doc doesn’t like patients doing this on their own. Simply because of number of nerves in area. Probably not a big deal, considering this is where majority of people inject. I’ve always found SubQ easy and painless. I might give it a ‘shot’ next time.
I have rotated L quad, right Quad, Left handle, right handle all SubQ.
Just a rant, take it for what it is worth.
I was on with a clinic at 140 a week, started at 120. Went every week and they shot me up. Also got HCG and ADex. E2 was all over the place, emotions followed.
Got my PC to write me a script for 140mg a week and I injected myself - big deal in NY at the time, No HCG, no Adex. My test was always 640-650 at trough.
Moved back to Oregon, didn’t have a provider, went without for about a year, got tested again, 280 or so, got a script for 125mg a week, no refill so I went UGL and have been UGL for the last five years or so. No blood tests, no check ins, no BS. I pay about $45 per vial (insurance was $5) and I shoot subq sometimes, IM others. I don’t notice any difference. I prefer IM as I have no PIP at all in my glutes. Subq I sometimes get a bruise/bolus.
No HCG, my balls are small, don’t care. No Adex, no blood tests, no bs. Sometimes, when I know I have a few good weeks of lifting and eating in fro
nt of me, I blast at 250mg and shoot twice a week at 125mg ea - I know, crazy!
A lot of dudes get wacky on it, obsess over it. Me, it’s like creatine - nothing but a thing.
Do what you want, eff everybody else.
Health wise, you are much better on it than off.