This Brazilian Jiujitsu is very humbling. On Tuesday night i rolled with a higher level white belt. He has been doing it for about a year and is a 4th degree white belt, his next step is blue. He has a bit of a size advantage on me, maybe 10 lbs. Within 15 minutes i had tapped out 4 times, 4 different submissions put on me. Each time the tap was harder to do, I am guessing that is a pride thing. Frustration sets in because you either tap out, or in 2 of those submissions i pass out, and the other two I am in the ER with some surgery coming my way.
The things he kept telling me to do is slow down, be methodical, abandon a move it is not working and breathe. Sounds simple enough.
So Thursday morning's class is fine, we really do not roll in the morning class. We have less time since we all have to go to work. But I got a chance to roll with a few blue belts and i am like a sponge at this point. I have no bad habits, I don't watch this on tv, I have no formal training. So after about 20 minutes and a few more tap outs I picked up a thing or two.
Last night was amazing. I got to roll with a big fella, about 350 lbs. He has been doing it since August. He was heavy. He new his stuff but i kept seeing where he was going with things and I was breathing and slowing it down. I tried a few things and it didn't work and I did not continue to exhaust myself on that. He almost had me in an arm bar but I was able to slip out of it. And then I had him. I had a knee on his right bicep, isolating his arm. Elbow pinned up under his chin pushing down on his throat. And my left arm holding down his left hand. And then it happened. My right arm slipped up under his left bicep and gripped my left wrist. and I pulled towards his ribcage with my right arm and lifted with my left arm. And then I felt it. His right hand on my calf slapping me. I just made him tap out. I survived 10 minutes.
That was an amazing rush. I am sore all over this morning from it. even more sore because I just finished a leg, core and cardio workout. But it is the best sore I have had in quite sometime.
Ian
Friday, November 9, 2012
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Sore, sore, and did I mention SORE...
This Jiu Jitsu is just, how do they say it in Italy, Awesome. But the side effects are a complete body soreness that I cannot quite explain. The day started out this morning at 4:30. I did not want to get out of my cozy bed. I really wanted to press snooze like 400 times. But alas, it is Thursday, and that means it is BJJ time. So I crawl into the shower, knees aching, elbows sore, hands feeling arthritic and my jaw hurts.
My knees are always a little achy in the morning, but then I get moving and they feel good. They feel a lot better than they did a year ago.
My elbows hurt because they keep getting bent the wrong way.
My hands are sore from having to have a constant firm grip on the person you are rolling with.
My jaw hurts from where a 270 pound man drove his knee into the side of my face to get leverage so he could bend my elbow backwards.
beyond the BJJ, I am still slowly training to take on the Lonestar Ironman in Galveston on April 7, 2013. So far the only thing that I have missed with my workouts is 1 running session last week, and running hills yesterday. I devised a workout grading system. I have to mentally grade myself in many things that I do in order to know if I am doing them well. So I have set a weeks worth of working out in a small notebook. Each entry is worth 1 point. So for this week Monday's workout was 17 activities. Bench press, cable triceps, side ab cable, front plank, side plank, running plank, reach across, incline, rope triceps, shrugs, sit ups, chest fly, overhead triceps, bench jumps and 3 5 minute sessions on the bike for 5 minutes in between sets. I do each of those things in 3 sets, and do them in 5 exercise rotations. I will ride the bike for 5 minutes, bench 12 reps, cable triceps each arm 12 times, side ab cable each side 12 times, plank forward for 30 seconds and do 15 reach across exercises. Then I will repeat in 10 rep and then 8 rep increments. Then when I finish the 3 sets, back on the bike for 5 minutes and head to the next cycle of 5 exercises. I only rest about 10 seconds between each exercise so it as at an aerobic pace.
So 17 points are able to earned on Monday. If I cannot finish or I do not do a set I lose a point. I have 52 points to earn this week. i have earned 34 so far. So I have an average grade of a 65.
It is my system and it makes sense to me.
I figure that at the end of the week if I am in a 95% or better it was an extremely good week. That is my goal from here on out is 95% or better. I f I am running a 95% in the last week of January i am registering for the Lonestar Ironman.
Have a happy Thursday.
Ian
My knees are always a little achy in the morning, but then I get moving and they feel good. They feel a lot better than they did a year ago.
My elbows hurt because they keep getting bent the wrong way.
My hands are sore from having to have a constant firm grip on the person you are rolling with.
My jaw hurts from where a 270 pound man drove his knee into the side of my face to get leverage so he could bend my elbow backwards.
beyond the BJJ, I am still slowly training to take on the Lonestar Ironman in Galveston on April 7, 2013. So far the only thing that I have missed with my workouts is 1 running session last week, and running hills yesterday. I devised a workout grading system. I have to mentally grade myself in many things that I do in order to know if I am doing them well. So I have set a weeks worth of working out in a small notebook. Each entry is worth 1 point. So for this week Monday's workout was 17 activities. Bench press, cable triceps, side ab cable, front plank, side plank, running plank, reach across, incline, rope triceps, shrugs, sit ups, chest fly, overhead triceps, bench jumps and 3 5 minute sessions on the bike for 5 minutes in between sets. I do each of those things in 3 sets, and do them in 5 exercise rotations. I will ride the bike for 5 minutes, bench 12 reps, cable triceps each arm 12 times, side ab cable each side 12 times, plank forward for 30 seconds and do 15 reach across exercises. Then I will repeat in 10 rep and then 8 rep increments. Then when I finish the 3 sets, back on the bike for 5 minutes and head to the next cycle of 5 exercises. I only rest about 10 seconds between each exercise so it as at an aerobic pace.
So 17 points are able to earned on Monday. If I cannot finish or I do not do a set I lose a point. I have 52 points to earn this week. i have earned 34 so far. So I have an average grade of a 65.
It is my system and it makes sense to me.
I figure that at the end of the week if I am in a 95% or better it was an extremely good week. That is my goal from here on out is 95% or better. I f I am running a 95% in the last week of January i am registering for the Lonestar Ironman.
Have a happy Thursday.
Ian
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Election Night
I think i am just going to Secede. That is all I will say about that.
My hip is sore. My right shoulder is sore. My left elbow is sore. They are all sore like they have been hyper extended. Oh, and I just noticed my right foot is sore also.
But what an awesome activity this Jiu Jitsu is. I finished 2 classes today and rolled for my first time. Rolling is the actual wrestling/grappling/fighting thing that we do. I rolled with a couple of different partners of varying degrees. This sport is very humbling. Tapping out because you are beat is done voluntarily. As long as you can take the pain and you are conscious you can keep going. It is exhausting.
I did a great workout yesterday as well, and have a great workout planned tomorrow as well as some hill running planned.
The hill running is like the bayous I used to run in high school football. Down at George Bush Park there are some great big, steep and crazy hills trails, about 50 feet long or so at a 45-50 degree angle. I just plan on doing them until I want to throw up. That is usually the point that I know I should stop.
Then on Thursday I have a Jiu Jitsu class in the morning and the evening, then a traditional wrestling class in the evening as well. That should be interesting.
I cannot wait until December when I can start working the bike back into the routine. I already know that first ride back, planned to be about 25 miles, is going to absolutely hurt.
Happy Socialist day!!!
ian
My hip is sore. My right shoulder is sore. My left elbow is sore. They are all sore like they have been hyper extended. Oh, and I just noticed my right foot is sore also.
But what an awesome activity this Jiu Jitsu is. I finished 2 classes today and rolled for my first time. Rolling is the actual wrestling/grappling/fighting thing that we do. I rolled with a couple of different partners of varying degrees. This sport is very humbling. Tapping out because you are beat is done voluntarily. As long as you can take the pain and you are conscious you can keep going. It is exhausting.
I did a great workout yesterday as well, and have a great workout planned tomorrow as well as some hill running planned.
The hill running is like the bayous I used to run in high school football. Down at George Bush Park there are some great big, steep and crazy hills trails, about 50 feet long or so at a 45-50 degree angle. I just plan on doing them until I want to throw up. That is usually the point that I know I should stop.
Then on Thursday I have a Jiu Jitsu class in the morning and the evening, then a traditional wrestling class in the evening as well. That should be interesting.
I cannot wait until December when I can start working the bike back into the routine. I already know that first ride back, planned to be about 25 miles, is going to absolutely hurt.
Happy Socialist day!!!
ian
Sunday, November 4, 2012
I am still sore
Seriously. It is Sunday. It is 9:13 at night. I have to start it all again tomorrow? What the hell?
Jiu Jitsu is just an insane activity. I swear that I almost threw up out of exhaustion on Thursday evening. I have 5 sessions this week, and I hope I can make it all the way through. I am going to mix some new runs in as well. I am going to do some hill running. I have a very steep hill at George Bush Park and I plan on just doing as many reps as I can this Wednesday and Friday. That all along with 3 workout sessions and 1 traditional wrestling class, and come Saturday night I will be just about dead.
Now it is time to unwind with some walking dead since 4:50 is going to come really quick tomorrow morning.
Jiu Jitsu is just an insane activity. I swear that I almost threw up out of exhaustion on Thursday evening. I have 5 sessions this week, and I hope I can make it all the way through. I am going to mix some new runs in as well. I am going to do some hill running. I have a very steep hill at George Bush Park and I plan on just doing as many reps as I can this Wednesday and Friday. That all along with 3 workout sessions and 1 traditional wrestling class, and come Saturday night I will be just about dead.
Now it is time to unwind with some walking dead since 4:50 is going to come really quick tomorrow morning.
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