Blandy's training log for weight loss ( BJJ and conditioning)

[blandy]

Competed at the weekend for the first time at a proper competition as a purple belt, no one else registered for my weight class so had to make to with trying to squash little people in the absolute.

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Fairly typical poor first match from me, should ahve sent for the Hari Goshi I have bene working on at the start of the match rather than a piss poor sumi gaeshi.

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Should have finished the clock choke.

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Only match I feel I did fairly well in, should have finished the bread cutter choke from side control.

Fairly happy with Gold, got quite a few things to work on over the coming months though

[blandy]

Wednesday 4th March

Came early and did some wrestling work with a white belt that is competing for the first time in a no gi comp this weekend, rolled some no gi with him as well - rest of session was Gi.

Class started with 30 minutes guard apssing, winner stays on. For the technique portion of the class we covered basic guard opening, double unders pass or flipping them to turtle if they defend by making their legs heavy.

Free rolled for about 20 minutes at the end.

[blandy]

Saturday 7th March.

60 minutes on various cardio machines, kept my heart rate between 120-150 bpm

[blandy]

Monday 16th

BJJ

Instructor split the class into group of 3, we rolled for the full two hours doing 4 minutes on and 2 minutes off

[blandy]

Tuesday 17th March

60 minutes on various cardio machines, kept my heart rate between 120-150 bpm. Working on reducing my resting heart rate.

[blandy]

Wednesday 18th March.

Rolled about 30 minutes no gi before the class.

WArmed up with 30 minutes guard passing, winner stayd in three times and then swapped off.

Covered basic knee elbow escpase from mount and the foot lift/drag.

Rolled for about 30 minutes at the end end of the glass with Gi

[blandy]

Friday 20th March.

60 minutes on various cardio machines, kept my heart rate between 120-150 bpm

[blandy]

Saturday 12th March

15 minutes cross trainers

10 minute block of
pulldowns 112.5x10
split squats 10+10kgx5+5 reps
completed 3 rounds plus pulldowns and 5 left split squats

10 minutes cross trainers

10 minute block of
pulldowns 112.5x10
dumbell benchpress 20+20kgx6 reps
completed 5 rounds

10 minutes exercise bike

Shoulder prehab - 3kg+3kgx 3 reps each exercise

[blandy]

lazy logger.

Thursday 9th April

Open mat - rolled gi for about 90 minutes with a white belt jsut working what I was given. Went over some half guard stuff with him and paper cutter choke from side control. Drilled a ken-ken uchimata at the end.

[blandy]

Friday 10th April.

MMA class

Started with 20 mintues of no gi rolling, two people in the middle with fights coming up, fresh partner each minute.

Put on boxing gloves and did takedowns with strikes. First time striking in ages so felt a little strange, double leg of a jab/left hook was working well which was pleasing. Double legs don't work for me that well in straight grappling as I struggle to get my level low enough if my partner takes a more bent over stance. Need to work my job more and use my height advantage and need to remember to check leg kicks instead of just taking them on the thigh!