WolverineGuy

Go to Sams, and get a bag of frozen chicken breast...great source of protein, and cheap.

...sucks! I'm subbing for elementary today...yeesh, now I know why I stick mainly to middle school and high school. Some of the kids are genuinely nice, but most need some sedatives...NOW!

Jackhammer...oy...

Sano, on what do you base your opinion? Tyson hasn't fought a good fight against an actual contender in years. He's looked confused, out of breath, and generally overmatched in any fight where his opponent had a name.

I'm a very different person when I'm not training...very out of balance. I've been told this by several people, and all agree...they like me a LOT better when I'm training. Seriously, I'm grateful for everything I've gotten from the martial arts.

I think four is good, personally, as long as you're training outside.

Chest exercises don't make you punch better, punching makes you punch better. You need plyometrics!

There's a sticky about martial arts books in general, but I thought I'd start a thread specifically for grappling books. And heck, let's sticky it too! Books that have helped me a great deal (all are BJJ books, and all but one are from the same series...fantastic books they are) Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: Theory and Technique - Great beginner text for BJJ Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: Submission Grappling - No gi grappling Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: Black Belt Techniques - Jean Jaques Machado's unique perspective on BJJ (the guy's fingers didn't develop on one hand, so his technique is FANTASTIC Passing the Guard: Details and Techniques - 200 plus pages on passing the guard...VERY interesting read Go ahead guys, post some of your own!

Heh, I know I'm usually the one posting advice here...but I was wondering how many of you have similar problems: My elbow, a while ago, became a bit succeptible to hyperextension...never bad, but if I threw a punch to hard, it would twinge, and I'd cry like a baby(well, not quite like a baby, but you get the idea). About six or seven months ago (possibly more), I got locked in a funky elbow lock...similar to a kimura, I believe, only it torqued my elbow. I wasn't in it for long, but my elbow problems have increased exponentially since then. I can't straighten my arm out all the way...can't breakfall...can't spar because I simply can't straighten my arm out enough to punch without SEVERE pain. And before anyone suggests the doctor, no money, no insurance...which really sucks. Ok, discuss.

My last test was for my first dan...not breaking a sweat would be kinda the OPPOSITE of what happened.

I'm just a badass...jk I like Wolverine from Xmen, and I graduated from U of Mich.

Jesus, this is the oldest thread I've ever seen reopened...I don't even recognize half the names on it.

I guess I'm one of the few peole that shows off his tris. Call me silly.

Hey! Welcome back!

Rich, you beat me to it. Watch for hyperextension...that REALLY sucks.

What he said.

Heh...the mount is great. There are SEVERAL options here. Lots of people make a huge mistake of trying to reach out to your lapel and choking you from under the mount. Anytime you see a straightened arm, go for an armbar. In fact, the move warrants drilling so that you can snap up and lock it in quickly. If you see a bend in the elbow, go for a keylock. Lapel chokes are good, there are a few that can be employed easily...and a couple that involve grabbing the lapel and going for a positional change. Practice one or two of these things so that you get a feel for it...many different locks rely on common principles. Once you see openings for one or two, more become clear.

https://www.exrx.net The best kind of mass building exercises utilize compound movments; meaning that they target more than one muscle movement. For arms, close grip chinups, close grip bench presses. For chest, bench presses and pec dips. Overall these are really the only exercises you need: Chest: Parallel bar dips Bench Press Incline Press Legs: Squats (including front squats) Stiff-Legged deadlifts Calf-raises Back: Bent-over rows Chins Bent-legged Deadlifts (also a leg exercise) Delts: Military press Lateral raises Arms: Close-grip bench press Close-grip chins Everything else after that will help with definition, and perhaps getting over plateus. But these should be the core of your program.

Well, with arms, it is kinda hard. Small muscle groups tire quickly, that's why I train bi's and tri's on the same day. But my chest, for instance, I have to hit it from several angles to truly get results (I don't feel like I'm accomplishing anything unless I destroy a muscle group). Mind you, I know when to stop. Typical chest day includes one pre exhaust set with light weight and lots of reps (usually a superset of DB Flyes and presses), then: 3x10 Incline bench press 3x10 Flat bench press 3x10 Pec Dips With all of that, plus resting between sets, changing the setting on the bench, changing weights for different excercises, 10 minute warm up and cool down, that takes a little over an hour. Leg day, its impossible for me to keep UNDER an hour, but there are SEVERAL muscle groups I have to hit.

Good! Now that you're learning to control his balance, work to get to a more advantageous position. The guard is, in reality, a neutral position for both fighters (unless one of them really has no clue what to do). Work on a few different sweeps, as you will more than likely gain a full mount with a successful attempt.

We had a guy that was really into sparring...got really good too. He was about 6'1" or 6'2"...weighed about 240 or 250...big guy. Anyways, we regularly get black belts from other systems to come in and spar with us, one of which is a 5'6" 120lbs girl named Jessie. This girl has a black belt in kenpo (or kempo...not sure which)...lightning quick. The big guy liked to think he was fairly invincible because he was big and fairly good...so he matches up against Jessie... She threw a round kick, he leaned back to let it go by. She started to recoil it, then shot it back into a side kick, right into his jaw because he decided it would be a brilliant idea to come at her full speed. The side kick itself traveled about seven inches because she never brought it back, she just snapped her heel out at his jaw. KO in under a minute. Needless to say, he was a lot more humble after that. To his credit, when he came to and was told what happened, he said that was the coolest thing he'd ever heard of.

Ok, I'll correct you. You CAN work out heavy EVERY day for an hour. The key is to not work the same body parts every day. If you're doing a five day split, make sure you hit every body part once a week. My five day split is: Monday: Chest Tuesday: Back Wednesday: Biceps/Triceps Thursday: Shoulders Friday: Legs Every day I did about 20 minutes of cardio, and I hit my abs (abs can actually take an every day workout, but it's still possible to overtrain). The key to working out is to remember that your muscles don't grow when you're lifting, they grow when you're RESTING.

That's what creatine does: fills your muscles with water. I take: Whey protein, Creatine, Glutamine, Amino supps, flax seed oil, and ZMA. Good stuff.

Well, one thing to keep in mind is that when in the guard, you can control his hips. If I find that someone in my closed guard is successfully keeping space, I juke him around so that he has to use his hands to keep his balance. A smooth succession of sweeps and attacks from the guard will more than likely keep him from causing too much damage. Just remember, for him to punch you with any power, he has to have some sort of balance. He who controls the hips, controls the fight!

Flint Michigan: Lots of Hapkido and Tang Soo Do. Other than that, we have a little bit of everything...but I lost track of how many of the two I mentioned.