I guess I should be posting here too.
seeing as how I follow along wuite a bit
Im on one end of the 35+ bell curve…
37 and just starting to feel it.
Basically I am learning to train in an adult body…
yeah might be a “young” adult but I have to do far more for active recover, and mobility then before.
And all manner of tweeks pops, cracks etc make you slow down and listen.
I live over in the combat forum- college and post college wrestling and Judo for years, and those guys have some interesting thoughts
on training.
So at 37, Im still healthy, strong etc, but I am slowing down
I cant compete anymore, and any Judo juijitsu is for fun
wrestling is easily 15 years past to.
I blog in my profile if you like
but basically I try to get two good strength days
with one or two if I can conditioning style workouts in
I guess I can do some stats to
Pretty healthy although a little banged up too.
neck , hip and low back issues, nothing too painful.
5’7" maybe 5’6"
175 pretty lean
the big three,
squat 315 ( low enough but ugly)
deadlift 395 four hundred is just that far away
bench 245 or close
I really realy dislike to bench, and stick to dips or db’s
I look on the young side too, semi clean living
and really I did not go through puberty till like 22, or 23…
(wrestling will do that)
so I am wondering If I will have some hormonal stuff later on.
I know I will have liver and kidney stuff, again wrestling will do it.
And for the guys on TRT or other treatments
thanks for posting, and sharing that is kind of personal info that is well kind of hard to hear about elsewhere
Welcome KM. I’ve learned lots reading your posts over on the Combat Forum! My hubby was a pretty good wrestler back in the day. Well, very good. He coached the little tykes at his HS alma mater for a couple of seasons, but then his schedule got too nuts to continue.
Kinda hard to give that much of your time when you don’t have kids of your own. His knees are pretty shot. Shoulders too. Who knows what’s to blame after years of football, wrestling an/or lifting?
He still lifts 2-3x a week and does a little elliptical now that he’s in his mid-to-late 40’s. (Hates running. Probably a side effect from his past.) He can still eat/drink anything he wants and his weight seldom changes. (5’9"/180) I can’t believe how much he can still eat at his age. (Jealous)
I don’t bench either … I’m a better dipper for sure!
I think you’ll like it here … it’s great bunch of guys!
I work with a guy who was an all american wrestler in high school, dropped it in college (he got an academic scholarship to UT and decided not to ever have to make weight again).
We’ve talked a little, I only wrestled one year. Making weight was the hardest thing.
Though right now I’m appalled at how weak my neck has gotten. I used to be able to bridge with another guy on top of me, against a figure four (had to do that in a meet once, broke free and chased the guy for the next seven minutes until time finally ran out).
Now it seems that the weight I can move with my neck (and am still sore from) is a lot less.
as for wrestling and Judo I played Judo as a kid through hs… Wrestled in HS
then DIV II jr college,
then DIV I eventually
and beyond and I was OK.
I did get to go the OTC in Colorado springs
both to train, and to be a training partner
for someone going to Barcelona in 1992.
And really I was nothing special, just had good coaches and did the work…
and made people look bad. All the time.
Now I get DOMS like crazy
got all kind of crap like tendonitis.
that is a killer
Tendonitis has been the death of the pull up
wow, lots of old judo players here. I played in HS and College, but was never a “somebody”. I did get a 3rd in a tournament my senior year in HS (1981) and got to train at the OTC just prior to the CISM games (military olympics).
All the branches of the service had their teams there. I hung out with the guys from the Marine Corps team. Its prolly their fault I joined the Marines later that year.
I was a big kid, but not very good, and everyone over 150 lbs enjoyed throwing me all over the county. like working out what a big sandbag, i guess…
John the OTC was special…
learned a ton and got to wrestle some of the
best in the country and get my ass beat.
So yes I was a sand bag too.
But if any one wants more detailed info
about the OTC… let me know.
I was not great, just had great coaches
and wrestled on great teams.
Elaikases Im sure he is not the only one like that.cutting weight is just another part of it to master
Its awful. I am still fucked up with food, body image etc. getting on a scale for times a day will distort your perceptions a bit
and take a toll on the body.
I did not go through puberty till my early twenties.
By college it was par for the course
I cut 12 lbs twice a week for a while
then managed to get it to 6.
A few times cut far far more closer to 20-
for a tournament.
this is on a 142 pound body cutting to 130,
125, and yes 118.5.
I went where my coaches needed me, and yes where I could start.
Post season I would compete around 140 or 150
so yes 119 or 54kg was not so cool.
Eventually its easy- just another thing to do
I ended up doing more roadwork-so I could eat more Basically I had to double it.
So that put met at 10 to 13 miles 6 days a week in the am.
I think thats pretty typical for anyone close to the top.
Or who is crazy.
In 1991 I ran the NYC marathon ( 3.46.xx) and
wrestled in a match that tuesday…
so yeah a little nutz.
Welcome. Looks like you’ve been keeping in shape. Read an article once about some of the problems caused by kids trying to make weight in HS wrestling. I wrestled at heavy so didn’t have to go through the spitting and sweating. Guess I can claim to having competed at the OTC also. Prior to being the OTC in Colorado Springs it was Ent AFB. Around '77 or '78, before they had finished building converting it over, compete in a T&F meet there against the PRC.
