The past week

To catch the blog up to the most logical starting point, I will begin when I earned my third stripe on June 7 and thus became eligible to be an advanced student. At that point, I had been training consistently for 5 months. Mind you, training time in BJJ terms is a lifetime and thus being in for 5 months is roughly akin to being a 5 month old baby. I am under the tutelage of Professor Rodrigo "Digo" Simoes at Gracie Barra Manhattan Beach in Manhattan Beach, CA. I also receive weekly private lessons from the assistant professor, Guilherme Cotliarenko.

During the week from then until today, I have trained four times. Three of those have been in BJJ, and one has been in CrossFit. At my current skill level, I feel that this training regimen will allow me to steadily get better while avoiding the pitfalls of overtraining and risking possible injury. I hope that as the summer progresses I can push that number to 5 training sessions a week, but my earlier attempts to do so were counterproductive.

Here was this week's schedule:
Monday: Rest
Tuesday: Fundamentals class
Wednesday: Private lesson working on double and single leg take down techniques
Thursday: Competition training class, which involves a full 1 hour conditioning class followed by a half hour of rolling. It's a pretty rough beat down but it definitely makes the other classes during the week seem easier.
Friday: Rest
Saturday: CrossFit workout of my own design done at my gym, CrossFit Mean Streets, on 2nd and Main in Downtown LA. The workout was:
Warm up
-250m row
-20 push ups
-250m row
-20 squats
-250m row
-20 sit ups
-250m row

WOD 1
3 rounds for time
- 5 man makers (35#DB)
-10 kettlebell swings (2 pood)
-1 lap (1/3 mi) with a heavy sandbag

WOD 2
Not for time
50 side wall ball throws (20#)
50 sledge hammer swings (16#)


Now, off to eat and do physics homework!

Justin