The Martial Artists' Training Log

[bushido_man96]

7/13/2020

Strength Training

Squats: 45x5, 135x5, 185x3, 215x5, 215x5, 215x5.

Press: 45x5x2, 65x5, 85x3, 120x5, 120x5, 120x5.

Lat Pull-downs: 125x10, 125x10, 125x10, 125x10.

7/14/2020

Deadlifts: 135x5, 155x5, 185x3, 215x5.

Lat Pull-downs: 130x10, 130x10, 130x10, 130x10.

Triceps Push-downs: 115x10, 115x10, 115x10, 115x10.

[bushido_man96]

7/15/2020

TKD Class: 6:30 - 7:30 pm. Did some early bag work, lots of side kick variations. From there, we worked on some spinning crescent kicks with some of the high colored belt ranks, and finished class with some sparring.

7/17/2020

Strength Training

Deadlifts: 135x5, 155x5, 185x3, 220x5.

Lat Pull-downs: 135x10, 135x10, 135x10, 135x10.

7/22/2020

Strength Training

Deadlifts: 135x5, 155x5, 195x3, 225x5.

Lat Pull-downs: 140x10, 140x10, 140x10, 140x10.

I'm starting to feel the pressure in my ear build up again, and when I Valsalva, I'm starting to notice some light-headedness. My Meniere's is kicking up again, it seems.

MA Training

TKD Class: 6:30 - 7:30 pm. Worked the bag early, mainly punching combinations. Lots of jabs, jab/cross, and other combinations with hooks and uppercuts. Then we got to working on some spinning kicks and jumping/spinning kicks. We worked on some 360 degree round kicking variants, some spin hook kicks, spin heel kicks, and I did some jump spinning hook kicks. Spent a good amount of time breaking technique down for the students in the class. Finished with two rounds of sparring each, and a stretch.

[bushido_man96]

7/27/2020

Strength Training

Lat Pull-downs: 145x10, 145x10, 145x10, 145x10.

Triceps Push-downs: 120x10, 120x10, 120x10, 120x10.

Not training heavy right now, due to Meniere's. Hoping to be able to soon.

TKD Class: 6:30 - 7:30 pm. Black belt class. Pre-class, tried to stretch a little, and walked through three-step sparring 1-9. Also did a walk through of Choong Jang. For class, warmed up with Do-Kangs 1 and 2, then worked on Ho Sin Sool. We worked shoulder grabs (grabbing cloth, not just putting hand on the shoulder). The defense we did was coming across with an elbow strike, securing the hand, and twisting into an arm bar, then modified it to go into an S-lock, each time finishing to the floor. Then we modified it to defend a punch before addressing the grab, blocking/deflecting/covering while crashing down with the same side arm into the crease of the elbow, following up with a strike and driving them to the ground. Next attack was double lapel grabs, defending with the same elbow to cross-grabbing the wrist, then to arm bar/S-lock and takedown.

[bushido_man96]

7/28/2020

Firearms

Range Training: Got 5 hours of quality range time in. Shot duty and back-up duty weapons, rifle, shotgun, and bean-bag rounds. Went over use-of-force as well. Although I hadn't practiced in a while, I was still very happy with my performance. Just need to get back out and practice again!

7/29/2020

Martial Arts

TKD Class: 6:30 - 7:30 pm. T-shirt class, and today, it was a kicking class. I got through 6 stations, and each station had 5 variations of kicks. Station 1 was variations of front leg side kicks; station 2 was variations of front leg round kicks, station 3 was variations of back leg side kicks, station 4 was variations of kicking combinations, station 5 was variations on axe kicks, and station 6 was variations on crescent and hook kicks. The first 4 stations were done on Powerline bags, and the last 2 were done with clapper pads. I estimate I got in around 350 kicks. Finished class with a stretch.

[bushido_man96]

8/13/2020

Strength Training

Squats: 45x5, 135x5, 185x2, 185x2, 185x2.

Meniere's is really making it hard to train.

8/14/2020

Strength Training

Deadlifts: 135x5, 155x5, 185x3, 225x3.

Press: 45x5x2, 65x5, 85x5, 95x3.

8/17/2020

MA Training

TKD Class: 6:30 - 7:30 pm. Black belt class. Did Do-Kangs 1-4, 4 at an easy pace so I wouldn't get too dizzy. We also reviewed green belt forms, and did three-steps 1-12.

[bushido_man96]

9/2/2020

Was having a pretty good day today, so I didn't waste it.

Strength Training

Squats: 45x5, 135x5, 185x5, 185x5, 185x5.

Press: 45x5x2, 65x5, 85x3, 95x5, 95x5, 95x5.

TKD Class: 6:30 - 7:30 pm. T-shirt class. I did my form, Choong Jang, 3 times, and did a very little bit of bag work, and some light stretching. I helped the kids with some kicking techniques, and then switched them up to doing jab and jab/cross combinations on the bags. Finished up by running them through colored belt forms at my count (white through high blue), and then one-steps (white through high green).

[bushido_man96]

Back to document my latest bout of inconsistent training.

9/16/2020

Strength Training

Power Cleans: technique review and position drilling, 75x3, 75x3, 75x3.

Jerk: 75x3, 75x3, 75x3.

Power Clean & Jerk: 75x3, 75x3, 75x3.

So, assuming I can ever get back to being able to work out frequently (like on a schedule), I want to work more overhead pressing work into my routine. I bailed on the Power Clean some time ago, because I had trouble with the rack position, and I seem to have terribly long forearms compared to the length of my upper arms, which makes racking the clean a nightmare. And, my knees didn't respond well to the exercise, either. But, I'm giving it another go. I spent the first part of my workout doing basically a remedial of training myself how to do the power clean, working from the top down, and focusing on the jumping portion. Then I added some weight and did some sets. I'm hoping I can do this explosive exercise more often. And so I thought, "why not add the jerk for more overhead work?" So I went to the rack, did a few sets of the jerk from the rack position, focusing on getting the split down, and then stepping back to parallel. Then I put it all together. And now my knees hate me.

MA Training

TKD Class: 6:30 - 7:30 pm. T-shirt class. I did the first three stations of our kicking class layout on the heavy bag, then the students and I did some double kicking (touch the floor and go style), and then changed them to "repeat" or "consecutive" kicks. We did front/round kicks (to one bag), then round/side kicks (to two different bags, the side kick going to a bag at a 45 degree angle from the round kick target), and lastly, front/side kicks (front kick to a bag in front, then side kick to a bag directly behind). Finished with a good stretch.

And now my knees hate me.

[bushido_man96]

9/19/2020

Strength Training

Squats: 45x5, 135x5, 185x5, 185x5, 185x5.

Press: 45x5x2, 75x3, 95x5, 95x5, 95x5.

Power Clean and Jerk: 80x3, 80x3, 80x3.

Stretch

I don't usually mention this, but I'm not usually working out alone. I'm training and coaching my youngest son on the lifts now, and he's been doing for quite some time now. He was my workout partner, and I coached him through squats, press, and deadlift. After all done, we sat and stretched together. He'd never really done stretching quite the way I do, so it was fun to talk him through it.

[bushido_man96]

9/21/2020

Strength Training

Squats: 45x5, 135x5, 190x5, 190x5, 190x5.

Press: 45x5x2, 75x5, 100x5, 100x5, 100x5.

Deadlifts: 135x5, 155x5, 185x3, 225x5.

Performing the Valsalva maneuver really does affect my ear. I'm hoping my body can adjust to this. Meniere's is making things difficult on me. I didn't end up having an episode of vertigo, but the constant Valsalva seemed to build up the pressure in my ear, and it made my head feel...different.

9/22/2020

Firearms Training

Range day at work, so a good time was had. No qualification shooting, just practice and some drills. We shot a course knocking down pepper-poppers in competition, the last shooter had to shoot a balloon. The drill was also done with dummy rounds to work on clearing malfunctions. We also shot the same course with the weak hand, clearing malfunctions along the way. We also did a flight where we had to reload with the weak hand. After all that, we had a little fun and shot a 9mm rifle platform that was really sweet to shoot.

I could tell I hadn't shot in some time, but I felt really good about my shooting, and felt like the practice from before had helped a lot.

[bushido_man96]

9/23/2020

Strength Training

Squats: 45x5, 135x5, 155x3, 195x5, 195x5, 195x5.

Due to what time I got off work, got my son picked up, and got to the gym, I didn't have much time to get my whole workout in before class started.

MA Training

TKD Class: 6:30 - 7:30 pm. T-shirt class. I worked the bags a little bit, but spent a lot of time working with a younger student on technique work. I did go through Choong Jang once, and went through the twelve three-steps we have.