bushido_man96

You are exactly right! It's time to move out of the dark ages, and get pockets on gis! I do agree that they would be handy when getting to and from class. It'd be nice to be able to take the top off, put on a t-shirt, and then slip my phone, wallet, and keys into my gi pockets, slip on my flip-flops, and then walk to the car after class.

Your best bet will be to go check out schools on an individual basis, speak with instructors, and see which one offers you the closest thing that you're looking for.

Hey, welcome back, Alex! Good to see you!

8/1/2022 Strength Training Squats: 45x5x2, 135x5, 185x3, 225x1, 255x5, 255x5, 255x5. Press: 45x5x2, 65x5, 95x2, 115x5, 115x5, 115x5. Lat Pull-downs: 145x10, 145x10, 145x10. Hack Squats: 75x8, 75x8, 75x8. Squats felt much stronger today. Still getting soreness in the left shoulder pressing. Lat pulls were done with a narrower grip, and I like the feel from it. Hacks still going ok, just not much weight on it yet. TKD Class: 6:30 - 7:30 pm. Black belt class. Warmed up with Do-Kangs 1 and 2, and then went into Hoo Sin Sul. From our fighting stance, did defenses against jabs, haymakers, and crosses. Against the jabs, I really focused on parry and side step so that I was on the outside of the arm with good targets to attack and few of my own targets exposed. Did some parrying, and some parry/pass or brush/trap/strike sequences, but tried not to force it. Similar responses to the cross/rear straight punches. For the haymakers, I did more of a covering motion with my elbows (think "answer the phone"), and then worked counters from there. I don't like how that keeps me on the inside, though, and worked on some things to get outside. We finished with some work against "tackles," which I didn't prefer and I didn't think was all that productive, and then with bear hugs from behind. 8/2/2022 Strength Training Deadlifts: 135x5, 185x5, 225x3, 275x1, 315x5, 275x5. Barbell Rows: 115x8, 115x8, 115x8. Standing Dumbbell Press: 35x10, 35x10, 35x10. Didn't up the weight with deadlifts, but did a backoff set.

Am not familiar with the combatives course. I have taken a few of the GRACIE defensive tactics courses for law enforcement. How long is the course, what does it entail, and what is the rank you come out with?

5 seasons to start with! That sounds promising.

I never mind questions! I'm using a machine for hack squats. So far, so good, but if they start troubling my knees, I'll have to think of something else. Right now I'm doing rows from the floor, like Pendlay rows. You should feel them in the lats, and not the lower back. Make sure to set your lower back in extension, take a breath and hold it, then pull the bar off the floor and try to slam it into your belly. Doing sets of 8 right now, and don't think I want to go much lower than that. 7/29/2022 Strength Training Romanian Deadlifts: 45x8, 95x8, 135x8, 155x8, 155x8, 155x8. Bench Press: 45x5x2, 95x5, 115x5, 135x5, 185x5, 205x3. Barbell Rows: 110x8, 110x8, 110x8. Lying Triceps Extensions: 50x12, 50x12, 50x12. Feeling out the RDL. Got a good stretch in the hamstrings.

You could increase the density of the training, but first you should consider what your goals actually are, and determine if that is the variable to change or not. Very early on in structured strength training, not many variables need to change except load. Are you using a particular program?

7/28/2022 Strength Training Squats: 45x5x2, 135x5, 185x3, 225x5, 225x5, 225x5. Press: 45x5x2, 65x5, 95x3, 110x5, 110x5, 110x5. Lat Pull-downs: 140x10, 140x10, 140x10. Hack Squats: 65x8, 65x8, 65x8. Didn't wear a belt for the squats, and really noticed it, too. Lots of fatigue. Triceps got very sore pressing, too.

7/26/2022 Strength Training Deadlifts: 135x5, 185x5, 225x3, 275x1, 315x5. Barbell Rows: 95x8, 105x8, 105x8. Last two reps of the deadlift were floating away from my shins again. Set felt very heavy and slow. It's hell trying to recover. Adding in the barbell rows to get some more direct work on the lats.

After a long week of being sick with both flares from Meniere's and Crohn's, it felt good to finally get back to the gym. 7/25/2022 Strength Training Squats: 45x5x2, 135x5, 185x2, 225x5. Press: 45x5x2, 65x3, 95x2, 105x5, 105x5, 105x5. Lat Pull-downs: 120x10, 130x10, 140x10. Hack Squats: 45x7, 45x7, 45x7. Seated Dumbbell Press: 30x10, 30x10, 30x10. Squats didn't get heavy, but they were ripping my legs up from being off for a week. Will be a touch sore this week. Going to be adding in more focused back work going forward, too. Hack squats are for hitting the quads more directly. With the way I back squat, I get a lot of work on the posterior chain, which is very important, and it allows me to squat without stressing my knees out. The hack squat felt good on the knees, and I'll be adding weight as I get a better feel for the movement. MA Training TKD Class: 6:30 - 7:00 pm. Usually black belt class, but no one really showed up. There was an interschool tournament out of town this weekend, and several of the students had gone to that. It sounds like the school represented itself pretty well. I spent about 20 minutes going through basics, just moving, getting a sweat and the heart rate up, and just doing martial arts moves in general. Nothing high impact. Had a nice sit on the stretching machine prior to class.

7/15/2022 Strength Training Bench Press: 45x5x2, 95x5, 115x5, 135x5. Triceps Press-downs: 50x12, 50x12, 50x12. Been a slow week. Not been feeling well. Crohn's and Meniere's flaring up. 7/18/2022 Strength Training Squats: 45x5x2, 195x5, 225x1. Press: 45x5x2, 85x5, 105x5, 105x5, 105x5. Hack Squat: 45x10, 45x10, 45x10. MA Training TKD Class: 6:30 - 7:30 pm. Attempted to participate in class today. I wasn't feeling the greatest, and Crohn's was really hitting hard; lots of cramping and all the issues that come from that. I spent the first portion of class speaking with a young gal that it sounds like is going to be a student of ours when the next semester rolls in. She's a Kukki TKD student, so we talked a little shop back and forth about class, teaching, approaches, etc. We had a good conversation, and I think she'll enjoy it here with us. She's a third dan already, which is really great, too. She understands that she'll have to start over, and seems all good with that, too. I went in for the last half of class, and helped with some forms and technical work. 7/18/2022 I was supposed to be at our second Aikido/TKD combined class, but I had a really bad Meniere's flare up, and ended up being in bed all day. Really upsetting. It got so bad that I had to come home the night before from work. I think it must be from my body trying to adjust to night shift.

Hmmm....not sure I'd enjoy that as much. I like Jackie Chan, but I really didn't care for the new rendition.

7/7/2022 Strength Training Squats: 45x5x2, 185x5, 225x3, 315x1, 330x5, 330x5, 330x5. Still having shoulder pain, but able to keep the squats going. 7/8/2022 Strength Training Deadlifts: 135x5, 185x5, 255x3, 330x1, 365x5. Deloaded this week in preparation to give 405 another shot next week. 7/11/2022 Squats: 45x5x2, 185x5, 280x3, 335x1, 370x3, 370x3, 370x3. 7/12/2022 Strength Training Cleans: 95x3, 115x3, 130x2, 140x3, 140x3, 140x3, 140x3, 140x3. 7/14/2022 Strength Training Deadlifts: 135x5, 205x5, 285x3, 365x1, 405x4. Press: 95x5, 95x5, 95x5. So, good news/bad news on the deadlift. Only pulled 4. Rep didn't break from the floor, and reps 3 and 4 were pretty ugly, with the bar floating away from my shins (probably need more lat work). The good news....405 for 4 is still a PR . Getting back to pressing. Still some shoulder pain. Going to try to work through it. To go along with everything else, I'm switching over to night shift, and trying to sleep during the day. Sleep has not been great, so recovery during this two-month period might cause me some issues.

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1. Passing my first black belt testing, back in 1994. 2. Getting together for a weekend of training with my friend, Bob, or as you all around here know him, sensei8. 3. Getting to attend a week-long law enforcement defensive tactics instructor certification course taught by Royce Gracie.

7/1/2022 Strength Training Deadlifts: 135x5, 205x5, 285x3, 315x1, 365x1, 405x2, failed rep 3. Bench Press: 45x5x2, 115x5, 135x3. Only got two reps on the deadlift this time. Also tried working the bench up a little bit. Still bothered by pain in the left shoulder. 7/4/2022 Strength Training Squats: 45x5x2, 185x5, 260x3, 330x1, 367.5x3, 367.5x3, 367.5x3. Press: 45x5x2, 85x5, 95x3, 140x5, 140x1. Still fighting shoulder pain. 7/5/2022 Strength Training Cleans: 100x3, 115x3, 135x3, 135x3, 135x3, 135x3, 135x3.

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That's some good looking sparring. That would be fun to do.

6/28/2022 Strength Training Clean & Jerk: 95x3, 115x3, 125x3, 135x3. Deadlifts: 185x5, 235x3, 300x1, 340x5, 340x5. 6/30/2022 Strength Training Squats: 45x5x2, 185x5, 225x3, 315x1, 330x5, 330x5, 330x5. Press: 45x5x2, 85x5, 95x3, 125x5, 125x5, 125x5. Stretch: hams, quads, glutes.

I'd like to know, too. I'd love to have another good MA book on the shelf.

I think you make good points, and in a perfect world, it would be this way. But there are scheduling constraints to consider, how many students are actually available to the school, and things like this. I'd love to own a school that had 30 consistently training adults, 30 kids between 5-8, and 30 kids between 9 and 13. It'd be super easy to validate having three classes per night. But in some areas, that just isn't the case. If I've only got 12 or 13 people that train consistently, it's not as productive to hold two classes of 6 people. But as I mentioned, I do agree with the points you have made.

I agree that customer retention is very important to the success of a business. However, current customers were once new customers.... I think in the Martial Arts business, it's more difficult than just retaining current students. If we could retain 100% of our students for the duration of the school's life, then that would be great. However, life gets in the way, and makes this difficult. I would like to see if there has ever been a study done on the average live an MA student. I would guess it's pretty low; between 1 and 5 years. With all that said, I do agree that focusing on student retention is of paramount importance; especially if you have a number of students that are already bought it. However, to keep the school open for these students, keeping a steady influx of new students only benefits them.

6/20/2022 Strength Training Squats: 45x5x2, 185x5, 260x3, 330x1, 365x5. Press: 95x5, 95x5, 95x5. Tried to do some lat pull-downs, too, but had quite a bit of pain with them. Just one heavy set of 5 on the squat. 6/21/2022 Strength Training Deadlifts: 135x5, 185x5, 235x3, 300x1, 340x5, 340x5. Skipped pressing due to shoulder pain. 6/23/2022 Squats: 45x5x2, 185x5, 225x3, 315x1, 330x5, 330x5, 330x5. Deadlifts: 225x3, 280x3, 360x1, 405x1, then three fails. The 405 deadlift did not go well. Scheduled for a set of 5, and I did 400 for 5 previously. After the first rep, I could break the bar off the ground, but that was as far as it got. 6/27/2022 Strength Training Squats: 45x5x2, 185x5, 260x3, 330x1, 365x3, 365x3, 365x3. Press: 45x5x2, 85x5, 95x3, 120x5, 120x5, 120x5.

Congratulations, Zaine!