[quote]nvh95 wrote:
Truly - I have no idea how that will work. I think they’ll have it in their heads what they want to do and just see how I react. [/quote]
Yeah, you’ll have to let us know how it goes. Picking random fights and escalating them to violence and then de-escalating them would be interesting though.
Oh, I’d like to work on increasing my strength so adding more weigh to the bar when I lift.
No rice because you can’t or you won’t?
[quote]borrek wrote:
I took an old gi top and sewed it up to make a bag that I put sand into. Its versatile because I made 2lb sand bags that I can use to load it up as much as possible. I like to do one handed cleans by gripping the lapel or also a two handed clean into squat/push press. I’ve found my grip in class is almost unbreakable now between that and heavy deadlifts.
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That’s actually a really good idea! I’m going to have to file it away for a time when I have old gi’s to be ripping up.
[quote]downwardog wrote:
Bah! That’s no gi! sweaty and slippery as all get out.
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Yeah it’s incredible how different no-gi is just due to the sweat factor. With a gi on I can keep my closed guard wrapped up pretty tight, no gi my legs slip right off.
I think I am going to have to get shorts though, I was wearing pants and the first guy kept grabing them. If he’s going to bare skinned and slippery, so am I!
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
Hope your day is better![/quote]
Thanks! I’m sucking it up and making it better. We create our own realities.
Everything is manageable, and since I dumped my problems on you I will dump my solutions on you too (though I did manage to get NaOH on my jeans, not a solution you want dumped on you!).
I’m tight, why am I tight? I do none to little soft tissue work. How is that fixed? I’m going to foam roll and incorporate the tennis ball when needed. Post work out, post shower seems to be a good time to do everything. My traps get really tight though, so I’m going to do those after I wake up too.
I’m really close to my upper limit of how much lab time I can put in with out going insane. So, I’m going to be a little less overprotective of my experiments and make my undergrad do more. Other than that all I can do is try my hardest and hope things work out.
I’m just going to aliquot out servings into a bunch of little baggies and keep them in the car. If I get pulled over, it’ll make it interesting.
Arm barred - defensive bumps! I’ve got hips, and must buck them each time. I also need to work on escapeing side control more, I can elbow escape in my sleep now, escaping side control is next!
The RNC is a different story. I don’t know what’s wrong with it, drilling it’s fine. Rolling though it’s terrible. I hade the kid flat on his stomach with my arms in the right places and it just wasn’t working. I held him there until the buzzer went off, but I know he chokes, I just couldn’t get it in the actual fight. I’ll ask coach to watch next time I find myself there.
I don’t know, I’ll tell the story later. I’m over it. I think I’m just going to adjust my standards. Everyone’s always trying to set me up with ‘this nice Indian doctor I know,’ I going to start letting them.
I took a girl day today. I left the mess that is lab early, and went and got my eyebrows done. They had a massage opening right after, so I took that too. I lay down on the table, she touched my neck and then asked me if I was still able to move it. I’m just that tight. She spent the hour on my neck, and upper back. Apperantly it was one big knot. She got a lot of them out, but now there are still a few I can feel in my neck/traps.
I’ve been ignoring the aches too much. Pain is there to tell us something is wrong, and I haven’t been listening. She actually scolded me a little and told me to take better care of my body. She also didn’t deal at all with my hips and legs, which have also been making their presence known. So, I guess the whole more foam rolling/tennis balls idea of this morning was spot on.
I may do some mobility drills later, but no real training today.
Today’s Macros: 160/60/92/1754
[quote]pch2 wrote:
I lay down on the table, she touched my neck and then asked me if I was still able to move it. I’m just that tight.[/quote]
Don’t you love that? I had a massage and he asked me how long it takes me to stop limping in the morning. I’m all “whah” and he’s all “your right leg is a rock from glute to calf.” Its kind of confusing because my right leg is my strong leg, and I’m more flexible on that side too. Somehow you can be more flexible and tight all at the same time…
[quote]pch2 wrote:
No rice because you can’t or you won’t?
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Won’t. Gotta hit my macros, but gawd I miss it… I’ll console myself with the knowledge that no matter what I’m not eating cottage cheese. That stuff just makes me shudder.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
I’m tight, why am I tight? I do none to little soft tissue work. How is that fixed? I’m going to foam roll and incorporate the tennis ball when needed. Post work out, post shower seems to be a good time to do everything. My traps get really tight though, so I’m going to do those after I wake up too.
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I might have mentioned this to you before, but after the tennis ball gets too easy, switch to a lacrosse ball, or the TP massage ball I’ve talked about in my log.
I tried using a softball for a while. Bad idea.
That thing is a rip-off, IMO.
Foam rolling is ineffective on the glutes/piriformis/hamstrings/QL. Use the lacrosse ball there.
[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
TP massage ball I’ve talked about in my log.
That thing is a rip-off, IMO.
Foam rolling is ineffective on the glutes/piriformis/hamstrings/QL. Use the lacrosse ball there. [/quote]
Have you used it?
I’ve been using it for two weeks now and it’s drastically improved my piriformis. More so than when I used a lacrosse ball.
EDIT: I don’t mean this as an attack. I’m simply pointing out that it’s worked for me.
Do you think it’s too expensive for what it is? I’m curious as to why you think it’s a rip-off. You can PM me so we don’t continue to hijack Pch2’s log. Or you can comment on it in my training log.
[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
TP massage ball I’ve talked about in my log.
That thing is a rip-off, IMO.
Foam rolling is ineffective on the glutes/piriformis/hamstrings/QL. Use the lacrosse ball there. [/quote]
I’ve realized I just squish the tennis ball when going for hips/thigh areas. Some one recommended a dog toy ball since they’re harder, would a lacrosse ball be better than that?
[quote]pch2 wrote:
PRCalDude wrote:
TP massage ball I’ve talked about in my log.
That thing is a rip-off, IMO.
Foam rolling is ineffective on the glutes/piriformis/hamstrings/QL. Use the lacrosse ball there.
I’ve realized I just squish the tennis ball when going for hips/thigh areas. Some one recommended a dog toy ball since they’re harder, would a lacrosse ball be better than that?[/quote]
Yes, a lacrosse ball is better than a tennis ball. I’m not sure about the toy dog ball since I don’t know what it’s like. Tennis balls have too much give to them. I think they are fine when you just start out, but you’ll quickly want to switch to something else that doesn’t have so much give to it.
I’ve tired a baseball and softball and I think they were too hard. It seemed to aggravate my piriformis.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
PRCalDude wrote:
TP massage ball I’ve talked about in my log.
That thing is a rip-off, IMO.
Foam rolling is ineffective on the glutes/piriformis/hamstrings/QL. Use the lacrosse ball there.
Have you used it?
I’ve been using it for two weeks now and it’s drastically improved my piriformis. More so than when I used a lacrosse ball.
EDIT: I don’t mean this as an attack. I’m simply pointing out that it’s worked for me.
Do you think it’s too expensive for what it is? I’m curious as to why you think it’s a rip-off. You can PM me so we don’t continue to hijack Pch2’s log.[/quote]
It works, no question. It just doesn’t last very long and deforms completely out of shape after awhile. At $3, the lacrosse ball is hard to beat.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
PRCalDude wrote:
TP massage ball I’ve talked about in my log.
That thing is a rip-off, IMO.
Foam rolling is ineffective on the glutes/piriformis/hamstrings/QL. Use the lacrosse ball there.
I’ve realized I just squish the tennis ball when going for hips/thigh areas. Some one recommended a dog toy ball since they’re harder, would a lacrosse ball be better than that?[/quote]
Lacrosse ball works best. You can control the pressure by using it against a wall instead of on the floor underneath you.
[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
PRCalDude wrote:
TP massage ball I’ve talked about in my log.
That thing is a rip-off, IMO.
Foam rolling is ineffective on the glutes/piriformis/hamstrings/QL. Use the lacrosse ball there.
Have you used it?
I’ve been using it for two weeks now and it’s drastically improved my piriformis. More so than when I used a lacrosse ball.
EDIT: I don’t mean this as an attack. I’m simply pointing out that it’s worked for me.
Do you think it’s too expensive for what it is? I’m curious as to why you think it’s a rip-off. You can PM me so we don’t continue to hijack Pch2’s log.
It works, no question. It just doesn’t last very long and deforms completely out of shape after awhile. At $3, the lacrosse ball is hard to beat.
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Fair enough. I’ve only had it for two weeks now, so I guess I haven’t had it long enough to notice that. I will admit that I was wondering about it’s durability once I started using it though.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
I’m tight, why am I tight? I do none to little soft tissue work. How is that fixed?[/quote]
Too easy.
I was just playing and took a picture of my back and compared it to one from right after I did the V-Diet in March. I’ve gained 5lbs since then, and it’s been really bothering me. I feel a little better now, because I think some of it must be muscle even though I don’t feel like I eat enough to be gaining mass.
I tend to have three or four really low energy days a month. I’ve accepted it as part of being female, and no longer try to just barrel through it since that never ends well. So, BJJ this week was just learning skills. No post class rolling.
We’ve been working on permutations of side control lately, and then going for 5 min rounds with a min rest for three rounds. The only highlights are that I manage to not get submitted now, and that yesterday someones rough gi managed to scrape some skin off of my eye lid.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
I was just playing and took a picture of my back and compared it to one from right after I did the v-diet in March. I’ve gained 5lbs since then, and it’s been really bothering me. I feel a little better now, because I think some of it must be muscle even though I don’t feel like I eat enough to be gaining mass. [/quote]
it looks like your lats have developed a little more. probably from all of that pulling in BJJ