Cimmerian Redemption

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Misc training with partners up in MA.

~2 hours.

Warm up: 3-4 rounds of Bas Rutten all around workout CD. Love that Bas.

Complex:

Single arm 24KG KB Swing, into clean & press, into snatch. 5 one side, 5 other side. 5 minutes straight out.

Rest for a few minutes.

24KG KB turkish getups, 5 minutes straight out, alternating sides.

Rest for a few.

Thai pad strike drills, 1-2, 1-2-3, 1-2 defense, knee block combination. A few 2 minute rounds.

Neck clinch drills, never done this before, a few 2 minute rounds.

Sanbag complex, 80lb bag:

Clean&Press, Slam, Shoulder, get down, floor press, get up, slam. Repeat but shoulder to the opposite side. all that x5. I love this drill.


Done, we wanted to go have monte christo's and beer.




EDIT: Friday 3/14 I repeated the numbers from last week, due to my failure, and got the squat 300x3 feeling stronger, crossing my fingers for the 300x5 squat tonight (monday)

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5x5 Week 20 Begin

SQUAT

Misc warmup.

5x180
5x210
5x240
5x270
5x300 (FUCK YES!)

Fuckin nailed it, after my failure last week. It took everything I had, but I got the reps. 4th rep was a bit shakey, my left side wasn't coming up, but I forced it through. Held the weight on my back for maybe 5-10 seconds before attempting the last rep, breathing and thinking to myself holy fuck I WILL NOT FAIL this last fucking rep. I think my body was in mild shock afterward for like 20 minutes, but it was worth it.


BENCH

5x145
5x170
5x195
5x220
5x245

My shoulder is pissed at me this morning, I think I'm going to hold this at 250 for a bit after this week.


BOR

5x145
5x170
5x195
5x220
5x245

These were hard but fine.


DONE.

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Jujitsu at the hombu Dojo.

~20 minutes warmup, ~40 minutes newaza ground techniques, ~30 minutes free newaza starting from the ground.

I still get tooled, but it's getting better. I think I perform better in newaza from standing. But I'm so new that I'm just like whatever and stop analyzing, and learn from every situation.

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5x5 mid-week 20.


SQUAT

Misc warmup.

5x180
5x210
5x240
5x240


CHINS/PULLUPS

5xpullups
5xchins
5xpullus
5xchins


PUSHP

Misc warmup.

5x110
5x130
5x150
5x165
5x185


DEADS:

Misc warmup.

5x135 (additional warmup)
5x200
5x235
5x270
5x300
5x335

335 was nice and rough, I need to start doing some GM's or something to reinforce lower back stability.


Done.

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Jujitsu at the hombu Dojo.

~30 minutes warmup/conditioning. ~30 minutes weapon defense (gun stuff, I loved this), ~30 minutes Atemi Waza and Jujitsu techniques.

Hurt my right shoulder during the warmup. I'm landing too much on my shoulder rather than pulling it through completely during forward rolls. I hope it doesn't take forever to heal up, as it's going to effect my workouts too. Grrrr.

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5x5 week 20 end.


SQUAT

Misc warmup.

180x5
210x5
240x5
270x5
305x3
240x8

Done and done, took nice rests and got all the reps.


BENCH

Misc warmup.

150x5
170x5
195x5
220x5
250x3
195x8

I was a bit nervous about these, as my shoulder is still fucked from rolling wrong in jujitsu, but I was able to bang it out w/out pain in the direct pressing motion. I actually felt it more in my opposite shoulder, which has been "injured" for a while and is mending slowly.


BOR:

Misc warmup (mostly standing GM's and back stretches)

150x5
170x5
195x5
220x5
250x4
205x8



Done.

This brings my 5x5 program to a close for now. I'm happy with it, I'm going to try and squat 315x1 this coming wednesday, which will be a personal best by FAR, and I'm confident that I'll get it. I'm switching over to a more conditioning centered routine to go along with my jujitsu training, with one day a week for heavy lifting (deads, squats, etc). We'll see how it goes. I'll likely do this for a couple/few months and see how much of my remaining flab melts off then see what happens from there.

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1 minute of fast jumping jacks to get the heart moving a bit.

Misc stretching.

100 Knuckle Pushups - 9:05 <- horrid, this will improve or I'll die trying.
100 Standing Squats - 5:16 <- horrid, this will improve or I'll die trying.
20 Pull ups - 7:18 <- insanely horrid, this will improve or I'll die trying.
20 Chin ups - 7:59 <- insanely horrid, this will improve or I'll die trying.
50 Crunches - 2:01 <- bleh, this will improve or I'll die trying.

Complex:

BOR/Power Clean/Push Press w/135lbs on the bar, for 5:00. Managed x16. This will improve.


Done.

Threw these things together and figured I'd work on them for time until I come up with something better and get used to working out this way. I'll still have a heavy lifting day on Wednesdays, deads/squats/etc, probably tripples, etc. It should be interesting.

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Jujitsu at the hombu Dojo.

~30 minutes of "warmup" hell. ~40 minutes of Jujitsu technique, mostly Ogoshi's. ~20 minutes Newaza techniques, shrimping and choke escapes.

Warmup tonight was vicious, more pushups than I've done in a while, I'm glad I changed around my M/W/F routine, this should get easier.

Took a lot of hard Ogoshi's, some nice bruising will result, but that which does not kill you makes you stronger.

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Was supposed to be heavy lifting but I said naw and rested instead. Hadn't been getting nearly enough sleep in recent days and I figured I'd be better served letting my body rest up and getting to bed early. There's a lot to be said for this, specially at my ripe old age!

Though I did eat a bunch of dark chocolate that I had layin around, I figured hell why not jack the relaxation to the next level and indulge a bit.

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Jujitsu at the hombu Dojo.

~30 minutes warmup, calisthenics and rolling drills. ~30 minutes technique, weapon defense (gun, stick, and knife), ~30 minutes free newaza from the ground.

I went twice during newaza for 5 minutes each time, it had been a couple weeks since I had done this last, and got tooled hard, but thats where I learn most and get the most out of it so it was alright.