first amateur april 15th and 2nd one may date to be determined, fuck yes
Good luck, BigMike!!
What’s everyone been up to lately?
My schedule has led to a change in my training. Haven’t been able to make it to judo in roughly 6 months due to other obligations. However, I’ve been training in… something… on my free night of the week. We’ve been doing a mix of striking (hands, elbows, knees, feet), wrestling, jiujitsu, judo, sambo. I’m hesitant to call it MMA because that’s not how it’s being billed. But I’m digging it. We’re padding up and sparring pretty hard. The only thing we’re leaving out right now are head and groin kicks, but everything else is pretty much fair game.
We’ve also been working on armed combatant drills… how to neutralize a knife attack, disarm someone with a knife or a gun, etc. I’m pretty sure this will ultimately result in me getting stabbed or shot.
I am planning on getting back to judo in the next month or so and feel like the stuff I’ve learned lately will have improved my judo.
To begin with:
I usually go for a 6 mile run when I wake up, about 6 out of 7 days a week. 2 of those 6 days (or 4) will be repeated sprint intervals over the 6 mile loop. (during this loop theres a giant tree branch I use for pull ups or chin ups) Some-times I will use a 20pound weighted vest and weighted heavy bag gloves and I will jog/shadow box this loop, when I am too tired to jog/run I will walk forward shadow boxing. I want to get into the habit of always being able to punch, get used to always moving forward even at exhaustion. (In deep winter this might be hiking/jogging through knee/waist deep snow (once it falls) with a 20pound vest/some log of driftwood).
I usually get home and go to sleep for about 2 hours after this.
3 days a week or 3 days out of a 10 day cycle I do “The Look of Power - Ken Leistner” I think it’s a pretty killer weight routine for anyone into combat sports. (check it out). I try to do a lot of the upper body movements on a “thick-bar” (this will lower the total amount you can lift but give a fuller workout to the tendons/ligaments and grip in most exercises)
4-5 days I try to work the heavy-bag (depending on bruised knuckle recovery) after the heavy-bag sessions I try and use the speed-bag for about 20-30minutes. I usually hit the mantis mitts on the day’s my knuckles are too messed up to use the heavy-bag, I try to focus on using some combos, dodging and ducking a lot of “strikes” by the mantis mitts, this is exhausting esp with a 20pound vest and weighted gloves.
outside of this I use the skipping rope about 3-4 days a week, I usually use it as a “warm-up” to sledge-hammer work doing 3 minute rounds with 1 minute breaks in-between, I try to work-up to 12rounds on the skipping rope. (I find this brutal on the calves, abs, every-thing) after that I do about an hour of sledge hammer work, 2 hours on the days I don’t use the skipping rope. (I usually use the sledge or maul every-day either to split wood to just conditioning work)
I do 1 ab day a week, dedicated to just blasting the abs. (I find this is necessary to improve my sprinting/running as the legs will naturally develop a lot more from running, but during the most intense sprint intervals your abs will get ripped up, and they can feel like hammers beating on them causing you to stop prematurely. So i try to work my abs ability up to par with my legs).
I try to shadow-box for about 30minutes to an hour every-day. there’s a lot of stuff I do I probably haven’t mentioned. I don’t train in a gym with a lot of other people or equipment, just a lot of general physical preparedness, heavy-bag, speed-bag, mantis mitts, etc.
bike rides in the vein of “cyclo-cross” pick a “loop” 3-6 miles, bike it as fast as you can, get to some treacherous areas, jump off the bike, throw it on your back and run, get to a safer place, on the bike, ride. doing this for 1-2 hours at a hardcore pace is killer on the cardio esp. After doing that I found my cardio for running jumped enormously. just how far I could run without my breathing starting to catch up. for example, pick 1 hour, see how many times you can do the loop in this one hour, race yourself. try to get way way faster and do way more loops within that time-frame.
It’s just some fun-shit to do as well. esp if you want to drop some weight for a leaning phase. Though it might not have much cross-over to fighting directly.
I do two “grip” days in a 10day cycle as well. Where I spend about an hour or so doing side levers with a sledge, front levers, plate curls with the wrist, variety of wrist curls. I add some “dinosaur training” through-out the week randomly, trying to lift/heft awkward objects like barrels, logs, odd shaped rocks, etc.
Like Bruce Lee pointed out years ago, martial artists spend too much time on “skill” and not enough on the physical conditioning/preparation it requires to use those skills in the real world against another conditioned human.
“Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.” - Bruce Lee
yeah, because Bruce Lee was the perfect example of an athlete and not an actor, i remember watching all those videos of him dominating in whatever modality he competed in.
This Hype train must be derailed
[quote]kaisermetal wrote:
yeah, because Bruce Lee was the perfect example of an athlete and not an actor, i remember watching all those videos of him dominating in whatever modality he competed in.
This Hype train must be derailed [/quote]
I don’t know, kaiser. I mean Bruce Lee did beat Chuck Norris when Norris was a world champion. Ripped out his chest hair and choked him the fuck out. Pretty badass, really.
Norris didn’t have any facial hair at the time, however, so his power level may have been reduced. Hard to say.
I think I’ll just leave this here.
Edit: Could not get it to play. Someone better with these forums than I can probably fix it. Here’s the link in the mean time
[quote]grayman19 wrote:
I think I’ll just leave this here.
Edit: Could not get it to play. Someone better with these forums than I can probably fix it. Here’s the link in the mean time
“Floyd Mayweather: Success. How Bad Do You Want It? - YouTube”[/quote]
Just highlight the entire address bar at the top of the browser, right click…select “copy” then paste it into your post on T-Nation by right click “paste”. This is my luddite(Me not you. You have to be more techno savvy than me. My fear of technology makes FightinIrish seem like Bill Gates.) description for Internet Explorer.
Hope this helps. I try to earn my keep round these parts.
Regards,
Robert A
Wow, This is the first time seeing this thread…probably because it is old.
Was doing Krav 3 days a week and Lifting on my off days. Schedule changed and started lifting more.
Now I have changed MA training entirely and do BJJ nogi on Mondays and Muay Thai on Wed. I am doing 5/3/1 four days a week and making solid progress. I will be getting back into training more as several partners have fights coming up and I plan on getting back in the Octagon after the first of the year.
As I tye this it sounds so boring and wonder why anyone would care, but It is interesting to see what others are doing and have been doing. I might post some logs here if anyone wants to keep this thread alive.
I’ve been just chilling out since my last fight, i pretend to get back on at least nogi on tuesday and wrestling on friday besides the 4 days of lifting that i am already back and some cardio/sprints
Feeling kind of burnout since last fight
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
[quote]kaisermetal wrote:
I’ve been just chilling out since my last fight, i pretend to get back on at least nogi on tuesday and wrestling on friday besides the 4 days of lifting that i am already back and some cardio/sprints
Feeling kind of burnout since last fight[/quote]
Porque?[/quote]
Since he is Japan is should be Nande?
http://www.flowrestling.org/coverage/236417-Iowa-Hawkeyes/video/289484-Raw-Hawkeyes-Practice
Nice way to start you day.
Nice video- I have been in that wrestling room.
more then a few times.
Tom Brands was a super stud
so was Terry Brands
shhhh I wrestled with his brother 2x shhhhhhhhhhh
someone has to be on the other end of those 150+ wins
right?
here has been my last few months
A shit ton of travel for work
training around this knee and ankle, and hips and shoulders,
and neck that no longer turns and …
just started front squatting again
mostly its been
Lots of cleans
lots of pulling
Lots of PVC and LX ball work
NO rolling or judo to speak of.
conditioning catch as catch can for now.
I haz a log
and I haz vids
so you can see how old slow people train
and you youngins can see how important matching training attire is
shit here is the uglier knee pic.
lil bit of what appears to be osgood slotters not patella tendonitis
Im liking the Air Hump exercise. Seems practical for jiu jitsu or Judo.
don’t know what to say about that knee it looks bad to me.
Yeah, looks like a natural fit. Half the things you do with your legs in sub grappling involves bridging like that. I think I’ll put this in my leg day and see how it goes.
No shame losing to frakkin future Olympian. There’s a vid on youtube highlighting their careers. Hey maybe you’re in it. Let me see if I can… ah there it is:
And damn, that knee looks nasty. I gotta start protecting mine while rolling.
The glute bridge or air hump is great for all sports it crushes the pchain
And gets those glues and hams strong
You can peep that whole channel it’s mostly my lower body training
I try to video some stuff when I can remember.
As for my knee its manageable I just add to the growing things not to do ,
Or to periodize how heavily I rotate some movements or training elements.like jumping
Can’t watch that vid on an iPad will watch it later.
The early 90’s til around 96 was kind of a little golden era for American wrestling
We were very dominant internationally then.
Went to Muay Thai last night. Went early to get in a good warm up. Wanted to put in some extra time since I missed my squat day in the gym. Before class started ended up rolling with another guy who is a blue belt, good slow roll really trying to feel him out and work some technique.
Class consisited of lots of running and pushups then got onto some punch and kick combinations working back and forth with each other, then moved to some focus mitt work working the combos at full speed. Then moved to some Kicking drills, trying to develop max power in every kick. From there went into some 1 minute rounds of sparring moving around the room changing partners I think we did 5 rounds.
After class was over a group of us stayed and continued sparring with takedowns and ground work. After three sessions I was bombed I tapped one other guy on the ground but I tapped twice with other people. Everyone is a damn blue belt in Jiu Jitsu there! My stand up game is still pretty good but I been doing lots of weights and my breathing and stamina is suffering. Time to start getting back in fighting shape.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
[quote]kaisermetal wrote:
I’ve been just chilling out since my last fight, i pretend to get back on at least nogi on tuesday and wrestling on friday besides the 4 days of lifting that i am already back and some cardio/sprints
Feeling kind of burnout since last fight[/quote]
Porque?[/quote]
I guess fracturing my nose in 7 places didn’t went that well and i still don’t feel, how can i say, satisfacted to be back to most stuff, so i’ll just enjoy the end of the year and go slowly back, just enjoying each training session without putting pressure of training like a madmen, just when i was younger and went to each training session expecting something new and enjoying it and not seeing it like a job.
[quote]Ranzo wrote:
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
[quote]kaisermetal wrote:
I’ve been just chilling out since my last fight, i pretend to get back on at least nogi on tuesday and wrestling on friday besides the 4 days of lifting that i am already back and some cardio/sprints
Feeling kind of burnout since last fight[/quote]
Porque?[/quote]
Since he is Japan is should be Nande?[/quote]
unfortunately i’ve moved back to Brasil, but you can still ask nande =)