The Martial Artists' Training Log

[bushido_man96]

Hey Bushidoman... glad to see you still posting your training. I have been insanely busy, still training 3 to 4 times a day and teaching 40 to 50 hours a week. I am going to try to post some of my current lifts and training routines soon.

Hey there, James! Good to see you back.

6-20-08

Tried to do 3 pull-ups, 2 sets.

6-21-08

10 push ups on parallel bars.

3 sets of 3 attempted pull ups.

[tallgeese]

Focused on grappling today.

15-20 min of working on sweep series from guard and counters

25 min of free rolling

20 min of striking work from the ground. 2, 5 min rounds of drills. 2, 5 min rounds of free work.

Quick leg work out to close out day.

[tallgeese]

5k run

Light chest and tri's.

Wrist is sore from yeasterday, I think I flared up an old injury.

[bushido_man96]

5k run, eh? You're the man!

6-23-08

Chest/triceps

Bench press: 155x10, 205x6, 215x4

Triceps press down: 90x10, 105x8, 6

Back/shoulders

Hang clean and jerk: 105x5, 6, 6

Abs

Decline crunches: 3x15

Treadmill: 30 minute walk

[bushido_man96]

6-24-08

At the park: Po Eun hyung twice. Did some kicks on the balance beam, too. Push ups on the parallel bars: 10, 12.

[tallgeese]

Big class night.

Standard warm up.

25 min of working though attack combinations from the guard (unfortuanalty I spent most of th is time teaching/coaching)

5 min of 30 second drills to work escapes from negitive positions (finally, I really get to start playing)

30 min of free rolling.

30 of mma sparring, ground only. Finished with a round robin for 5 minutes.

Finished with 3 min round of MT rules kickboxing.

The wrist is still bugging me, might have to take it easy tomorrow. We'll see how a nights sleep treats it.

By the way, bushi, I didn't say that I liked that 5k in the least .

[tallgeese]

crossfit (modified) for today:

3 rounds of

75 lb. thrusters - 1 min

75 lb. sumo deadlift high pulls - 1 min

box jumps - 1 min

75 lb. push press - 1 min

Treadmill sprint - 1 min

one min rest between rounds

promptly collapse

Cooled down with 10 min of knife work in the air

[bushido_man96]

hehe, well played, tallgeese!

6-25-08

Treadmill: 15 minutes. It isn't the 5k, but its a start!

[tallgeese]

Ran about 1.5-2 mi. hard to tell any closer than that, road run.

Short back/bi's

[bushido_man96]

6-26-08

Little Lyons class: 5:15 - 5:45. Assisted with this class today. We focused on Balance for their stripe, and the kids worked pretty hard.

TKD class: 6:00 - 7:00. Taught this class today. After basics, I worked with the students on the twist kick, and they were getting the hang of it pretty well. There was one blue belt kid, and the rest were black belts. The black belts got lots of forms work in, and then after one-steps, I worked on some self-defense drills with them.

We started by doing some action/reaction drills by having them take their belts off and hang them on their shoulders. Then, they would switch back and forth trying to grab the other's belt. This showed them how hard it is to react to someone who takes action first. From there, I moved into some simple work with keeping distance, putting up the fence, and then noticing factors that could lead one to use a pre-emptive strike. It was a pretty good drill for them.