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

[blandy]

Saturday 23rd.

openmat

Couple of new guys turned up so my instructor asked me to take one of them through the basics. Covered the upa, double under pass, passing to mount and then cross collar choke. Rolled a bit really lightly at the end, mainly just getting him into positions to use those moves and giving him some resistance

[g5us]

keep up the hard work.

[blandy]

Sunday 24th February

Decided to mess around with a http://www.mtnathlete.com style work out.

3x Barbell complex (deadlift, bent over row, hang clean, front squat, military press, back squat) x 30kg

1.
Push press 55kgx3x3
Deadlift 75kgx3x3

One minute between each exercise (push press, deadlift, push press etc)

2. 3 rounds
Medicine ball slam x10
Dumbbell row 28kgx5+5

3. 3 rounds
24kg KB swing x8
Box jumpx8

[blandy]

Wednesday 27th February

BJJ Class

Warmed up with alternating sprints/animal walks/shrimping and callisthenics.

Covered collar chokes from guard, started with basic palm up cross collar choke, first hand in nice and deep behind their neck, pivot towards same side as the second hand, the hand goes in almost underneath their arm pit to stop them being able to block it, keep fingers and thumb together tightly to stop them getting caught on the gi, pull forward with your legs as the hand goes through and get a deep bite on their lapel, pivot back to centre, make sure the wrists are turned so it’s the blade of the forearm doing the choke.

Second choke was palm down, pivoting round like you were going for an armbar, this is shown on Braulio’s dvd.

Rolled 2x5minute rounds at the end, one Gi with Also and one no gi with Steve as he is fighting mma soon.

[blandy]

Thursday 28th February

Open mat

Rolled for about 90 minutes, mainly with Nick and a couple of rounds with Aldo. Nick is a new white belt, some sort of karate black belt that doesn’t really train bjj much. Any way he is pretty strong and completive so tried to focus on control and advancing position. With Aldo I pulled half butterfly guard as this is my favourite position to work through bottom and also one of the hardest to work on Aldo because of his weight, swept each time and then passed to mount, rear mount as he tried to explode out and then bow and arrow choke from the back to finish. Pretty much my competition game plan so good practice against some one that is pretty much as big and strong as I am likely to face.

[blandy]

Friday 29th February

No gi class

Warmed up with 30 minutes guard passing, caught a nice armbar-triangle-armbar combination.

For the technique portion we covered how to defend if your opponent traps your shin across their stomach to pass a butterfly hook and start to press on your knee and circle round. In each case we wizzered their arm and tried to turn on to our knees, we covered then sitting back into a triangle, shoot one foot between their legs and rolling them over for a knee bar, if the tried to circle their arm out of the wizzer then arm drag with the opposite arm and take their back.

Rolled for about 10 minutes at the end

[blandy]

Saturday 1st March

Open Mat

Drilled some attacks from open guard as your opponent stands to pass, coverd cross grip to omaplatta, switching to a tripod weep as they defend and then final switching to an armbar as they defend the sweep. This sequence is shown on Saulio's first dvd series. Then just drilled basic armbar-omaplatta-triangle-armbar from closed guard and had a light 10 minute rool at the end.

[blandy]

Monday 3rd March

Warmed up with running round the mat and various calistenics, burpees, knees to chest, push ups, sits ups etc.

Covered X-guard, switching to x-guard when your opponent bases out while defending a butterfly guard sweep and then a couple of different sweeps.

rolled 2x5 minute rounds at the end.

[blandy]

Tuesday 4th March

Yoga class - worked a lot on balancing moves.

[blandy]

Wednesday 5th March

BJJ - Instructor ran an interclub competition. Really good experience for people that haven't competed before, not a load of pressure like if you were to compete in a big competition infront of people. Every body was split into 4 weight catagories, weighed in, two mats on the go at once with some one refereeing. i've won the last 3, plus I compete a lot any way including really big competitons like the europeans, so this time I asked if I could referee instead. Was an interesting experience, big difference between knowing the rules and actually being able to interpret what is happening on the mat. There were a few scrambles were I thought one person came out the best, gave the points as best as I could and realised the other guy ahd got more points. No more complaining at competitons about the referee's for me