So much for a "light" week

Time till first tournament: 22 days

Strange how you can't tell how a week's training is going to develop until you get to the day of training. Even if you planned in advance for the week, wrote a schedule down and everything, it always seems to fall together in an unanticipated way. Guess it all really depends on how you feel at the time. I generally try to do what I can to push myself within the workout rather than try to accumulate successive days. This acts as a fail safe against overtraining while making the best use of the time I do have to train. So in this manner, I take each day and evaluate how fresh I am and what I could get out of a workout that day. Consistency is vital to success, but not at the expense of well-being. Since the earlier part of this week was light, I had much more energy left to hit it hard the rest of the week (with tangential benefits: stress relief and time off from physics studying).

Thursday night, I went to the competition class at GBMB, which was a solid hour and a half of fun times. I'm really trying to focus more on technique than strength during my rolling sessions, and the transition has not been easy, Though I can say that I have significantly more energy when I'm not wasting it throwing people around unnecessarily, I definitely have some holes in my game that I need to address as soon as possible. However, I am happy that these growing pains are happening within the confines of the school rather than in competition. As they say, "It is better to sweat in practice than bleed in battle."

Earlier tonight (Friday), I headed over to my old steady, CrossFit Mean Streets, for a little old fashioned punishment. Once again, I made my own workout. As I said a few posts ago, I am really becoming fond of the rower for cardio development (using it anaerobically in short sprint distances) and today's workout reflects that love. Sadly, my knee has been a bit stiff (more on that in a second), so I didn't quite get as much out of it as I wanted to. Such is life. Tonight's workout was:
Warm up
Dynamic warm up drills
500m row slow
WOD 1
3 rounds for time
1/3 mile run
10 KB swings (70#)

10 wall ball slams (30#)
10 sand bag front squats
Rest 15 min
WOD 2
250m row sprint (~1:35 pace)
50 side wall balls (20#, 25/side)
250m row sprint

As for my knee, it has been bothering me for a bit. Not painful, just stiff and doesn't feel right. I have had this issue for about the last two weeks. My guess is the constant pressure I put on my knees while grappling is causing an issue. Luckily, I go to a great PT/chiropractor who will hopefully take care of it today (Saturday) when I see him. For all those who need such services, Dr. Kleinbrodt is the man and does all kinds of magical things, such as ART, Graston, and chiropractic medicine. He is a sport oriented doctor, and helped me out a lot with a CrossFit related issue. He takes insurance too, which is a huge plus. Check him out at http://www.brentwoodspineandsport.com/

The rest of Saturday will be a rest day. Well... not really, since I will be studying all day. I guess it's body rest/mental work out. That will have to do. And now, to bed. Till the next post, everyone. Thanks for reading.