I went to BJJ on Friday. It was really fun. We mostly just rolled. We did work on a collar choke from technical mount. Then a bicep slicer from the same position, in case they block the collar choke. I guess it seemed like we just mostly rolled because I was like 20 min late to class. Ooops. I hate when I am late.
Anyway, I rolled for a good hour and 15 min. or so. It was just what I needed.
On Sat. I did the hard core class, which is specifically focused on the core muscles. By the way, I don't know how I have managed to get away with having such a weak core all these years. I really need to start working on my abs and such.
Kickboxing is after hard core and it was great this weekend. I did some light sparring with my buddy Jason. I think this is the first time I have done any sparring in about a month. I miss it. Although, after I got Jason in the solar plexis with a knee that put him out for a min. I had to work with John and I didn't miss sparring during that. John kicked me in each of my legs once and one of them still hurts. I need to do some more conditioning.
X-camp was pretty crazy. We did a shit ton of stations and I was tired as hell. The really hard ones were the burpies with a jump to a chin up, the #400 wheel barrow down the hall way and those damn ropes. It felt good to work out really hard though. I'm enjoying being back in the swing of things. Now I just need to get my weight back down. Especially if I am going to try to fight in Feb.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Sore as Hell
I cannot believe how sore I am. I did kickboxing and X-Camp last night. It was pretty rough but I still cannot believe the hurt I am feeling right now or how I felt last night.
Even thought it was kickboxing class I got to roll a little, with the mma gloves on. One of the fighters at the gym, Nick, is fighting on Nov. 20th. So basically everyone has to beat up on him. Hahaha. Lucky for me, Nick likes working with me, even though I am like half his size. He fights at 170 but he walks around about 190ish. With the way a lot of the fighters are there aren't consistently enough people to help Nick get ready, you know people close to his size. So anyway even though I'm like the smallest person there, the guys that are there are really only good for muscling him and don't know any technique on the ground really.
Nick alternated with a rather large man who doesn't have any ground, who was instructed to just try to hit Nick as much as possible, a pretty good Muay Thai guy, who only did stand up with Nick, and me, who basically got to be on the positive end of the worst case scenario and just try to ground and pound.
I was so gassed after the second or third time I went with Nick that it took me like a full 7 minutes to recover, meaning really start hitting the bag again. The people who rotate in on Nick just do the kickboxing class on the bags when not working with Nick. Anyway, I was dying. John kept asking me where my cardio was at and all I could do was shrug my shoulders and try not to vomit.
X-Camp didn't feel much different. We did a circuit with 9 stations I think. The stations were only 30 seconds each but when they are that short you have to do a full sprint speed pace the entire time. Then we ran stairs between the circuits. We did that 3 times.
The circuit exercises were: tire flips with jumps in and out of the tire after each flip, 2 handed kettlebell swing, power ball (slamming a ball back and forth over your legs while in a seated position, L pull ups, something like a curl over (it was some gymnast stuff), wall ball (just throwing the medicine ball as high up the wall as you can then squating), push ups on a suspended chain, and reverse flys on a chain.
Even thought it was kickboxing class I got to roll a little, with the mma gloves on. One of the fighters at the gym, Nick, is fighting on Nov. 20th. So basically everyone has to beat up on him. Hahaha. Lucky for me, Nick likes working with me, even though I am like half his size. He fights at 170 but he walks around about 190ish. With the way a lot of the fighters are there aren't consistently enough people to help Nick get ready, you know people close to his size. So anyway even though I'm like the smallest person there, the guys that are there are really only good for muscling him and don't know any technique on the ground really.
Nick alternated with a rather large man who doesn't have any ground, who was instructed to just try to hit Nick as much as possible, a pretty good Muay Thai guy, who only did stand up with Nick, and me, who basically got to be on the positive end of the worst case scenario and just try to ground and pound.
I was so gassed after the second or third time I went with Nick that it took me like a full 7 minutes to recover, meaning really start hitting the bag again. The people who rotate in on Nick just do the kickboxing class on the bags when not working with Nick. Anyway, I was dying. John kept asking me where my cardio was at and all I could do was shrug my shoulders and try not to vomit.
X-Camp didn't feel much different. We did a circuit with 9 stations I think. The stations were only 30 seconds each but when they are that short you have to do a full sprint speed pace the entire time. Then we ran stairs between the circuits. We did that 3 times.
The circuit exercises were: tire flips with jumps in and out of the tire after each flip, 2 handed kettlebell swing, power ball (slamming a ball back and forth over your legs while in a seated position, L pull ups, something like a curl over (it was some gymnast stuff), wall ball (just throwing the medicine ball as high up the wall as you can then squating), push ups on a suspended chain, and reverse flys on a chain.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Open Mat
I went to the open mat that Shawn has on Sundays. There were 7 of us there. I was the only chick of course but the guys there today were all people I like to work with so it didn't really matter.
I got to roll for about an hour and a half. I rolled a few times with Nick. He's a pro fighter and he has a really good ground game so I really like rolling with him. He catches me with stuff that I don't usually see. It's good to change it up and roll with someone who isn't a jiu jitsu practitioner. He hasn't spent too much time in the gi. He still knows so much that I know I will get tapped a number of times whenever we roll. I feel like I learn a lot every time we roll.
I also got to roll with Anthony a couple of times. He's one of the other amateur fighters at the gym. He's gearing up for a tournament in Dec. that's taking place here in KC. He wants to get his blue belt so he's working pretty hard. I like rolling with him because we have trained together for long enough that he knows pretty much exactly how rough he can be with me, without hurting me but giving me a really tough time.
There were two newer people there that I rolled with. It's nice to work with the newer guys, as long as they don't just try to crush me, because I get to see which moves I am really proficient at and which ones I have to drill some more before I can try them on a more advanced person.
I am still up in the air about whether or not I am going to participate in the KC Grappling Challenge. It's the tournament that Anthony is going to do. It's on Dec. 4. I am not sure if I want to pay $60 for probably 2 grappling matches. 1 in the gi and 1 no-gi. I think it will be good to have as many people there representing our school as possible but $60 smackers is a little steep for me right now. We will see. I'm just going to keep training. I like being back in the swing of things.
I got to roll for about an hour and a half. I rolled a few times with Nick. He's a pro fighter and he has a really good ground game so I really like rolling with him. He catches me with stuff that I don't usually see. It's good to change it up and roll with someone who isn't a jiu jitsu practitioner. He hasn't spent too much time in the gi. He still knows so much that I know I will get tapped a number of times whenever we roll. I feel like I learn a lot every time we roll.
I also got to roll with Anthony a couple of times. He's one of the other amateur fighters at the gym. He's gearing up for a tournament in Dec. that's taking place here in KC. He wants to get his blue belt so he's working pretty hard. I like rolling with him because we have trained together for long enough that he knows pretty much exactly how rough he can be with me, without hurting me but giving me a really tough time.
There were two newer people there that I rolled with. It's nice to work with the newer guys, as long as they don't just try to crush me, because I get to see which moves I am really proficient at and which ones I have to drill some more before I can try them on a more advanced person.
I am still up in the air about whether or not I am going to participate in the KC Grappling Challenge. It's the tournament that Anthony is going to do. It's on Dec. 4. I am not sure if I want to pay $60 for probably 2 grappling matches. 1 in the gi and 1 no-gi. I think it will be good to have as many people there representing our school as possible but $60 smackers is a little steep for me right now. We will see. I'm just going to keep training. I like being back in the swing of things.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Going Through the Motions
I am going to be starting my new career as a lawyer in a couple of weeks. I have been spending a lot of time trying to relax and have fun.
I feel like I have just been going through the motions with my training lately. I have only been working out 1 time a day recently. Which to a normal person I think sounds like a good amount. I have been trying to get used to it, especially because that is probably what I will be doing after I start work.
Last night I started to feel like I could train for a fight again. Before that I had just been feeling unable to devote that much of myself to training again. I think the let down after my fight has finally started to wear off.
I suppose I am going to head to the gym now to do the mid-day traditional class. I wish I could train in the gi more often.
I feel like I have just been going through the motions with my training lately. I have only been working out 1 time a day recently. Which to a normal person I think sounds like a good amount. I have been trying to get used to it, especially because that is probably what I will be doing after I start work.
Last night I started to feel like I could train for a fight again. Before that I had just been feeling unable to devote that much of myself to training again. I think the let down after my fight has finally started to wear off.
I suppose I am going to head to the gym now to do the mid-day traditional class. I wish I could train in the gi more often.
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