A little insight?

[kaboom187]

Okay here’s my situation. I’m entering my competition season for jiu-jitsu, and I’m trying to get into peak shape for a tournament at the very end of April. Winner of the blue belt open division gets paid airfare and registration for the worlds, it’d be nice to earn my trip down there so i want to be prepared. My competition schedule would look like: March 15, april 28th, and June 5-8th (Worlds), and another local one on July 5th.

My goals are to continue increasing my strength, since I’m sickly weak. I also want to really work on my conditioning, mainly muscular endurance. I want to be able to push the pace. Currently, my conditioning is pretty decent, don’t really gas out unless we’ve been going for 20 minutes at a competition pace. But I really want to be able to be constantly moving and attacking, as right now I’m more conservative with my energy and only exploding when it is appropriate.

My current weekly schedule
Monday – Squats, Bench, Row
Tuesday- BJJ 2.5 hours
Wednesday- Squats, OHP, Deadlift
Thursday-BJJ 2.5 hours
Friday – Squats, Bench, Row *I’m doing a Rippetoe program, so these workouts alternate every week. I do change it up when I’m working around an injury. Right now I’m having some shoulder problems so I’m only doing front squats and deadlifts.*
Saturday- BJJ 2.5 hours
Sunday – Rest.


How do you think I should approach this?

My thoughts: I was thinking that I should shift a focus to 4 days of BJJ training, as I want to be sharp. I was also thinking of doing 4 days of bjj one week, with 2 days of lifting/conditioning, and then 3 days BJJ the next week, with 3 days of lifting/conditioning. This way I could get the best of both in, and work on both sets of skills at once.



Thoughts? Opinions? Derogatory remarks?