The week in review

Days till tournament: 14

So the this week's training has been up and down in quality due to Tuesday's physics final, but luckily I managed to at least get the quantity I wanted. Four days in a row is not an ideal schedule for me (I prefer 5 days with mixed rest if I can get it), but since I went home for the holiday there wasn't much opportunity to do anything else. Here's how it all went down:
Monday: BJJ
Went to a fundamentals class. Since my mind on my physics test, I wasn't totally in the game and I got swept up and down the mat repeatedly. Not happy about it, but it gave me some motivation to push it for the rest of the week.
Tuesday: CrossFit
After taking care of my physics exam, I headed down to CFMS for my buddy Mark's last day coaching. He's off to be a big time Navy officer, so I wish him the best of luck on that. Being pissed off about Monday's mixed performance, I decided to do the programmed WOD instead of my own. I needed a bit of competition to really get me fired up and push me even further. The workout was run 2 laps (~1000m), do 30 muscle ups, and run another 2 laps. Managed a time of 16:26, second best of the day. Definitely happy about the result, especially considering the skill-intensiveness of the movement involved.
Wednesday: BJJ
Sadly, I was unable to do a private session this week so I went to the regular advanced class. Did pretty well, definitely seeing signs that I am improving. We did a lot of work from the mount position, which has been helpful. I have been really working on my arm bar from different positions lately, so getting some dedicated position training from the mount gave me some time to get that going. Long way to go till it's really solid, but I've been able to have success with it a few times recently so hopefully that trend continues.
Thursday: BJJ
Because I didn't get to GBMB by 6, I was unable to take the conditioning class in full. They had odd numbers so I hopped in on the last 20-25 minutes of it to even out the numbers. Proved to be an excellent warm up, which was a nice tangential benefit. I did 30 minutes of rolling and fundamentals class after. I like doing the fundamentals classes from time to time because it gives me a chance to share what I've learned with the newer members. While I am hardly even a baby in BJJ terms, it's nice to be able to help them get better by simply sharing the small number of lessons I've learned.

I hope to get in one more workout Sunday, then take Monday off for the holiday before hitting it hard again come Tuesday.

In other news, I got a new gi for competition (somehow, the idea of competing with my training gi that has my name written on the collar just doesn't sound appealing). I'm excited to wear a gi that doesn't vaguely smell like old sweat and isn't an ever darkening shade of pale yellow. Plus, I have to look fresh in the competition photos!

Until the next post, keep training hard everyone.