Your Karate is shameful! (Lifting & Fighting log)

Jake Martin · 06-28-2008, 10:47 AM

I've finally stopped being a lazy dipshit and have decided to run an online log in addition to my paper log. It'll be as much for my own notation as it is for others to read - I type much faster than I write, and this'll give me some reflection time before I actually write down my thoughts on training (which I rarely do, I usually just log the workouts).

My goals right now are gaining strength, while also continuing to work my skills and conditioning. A tall order. I eat a lot of food...but I should probably eat more.

6'1, weighing in at 190 at the moment. I'm a Karateka/Kickboxer but all of my 3 fights have been amateur boxing, so I guess that makes me a boxer by trade. Right now I'm managing a kickboxing gym that's opening up fulltime in September. July/August we run a very limited schedule...but I've still been laxing in my skill work because of it - not from lack of time, but lack of effort on my part.

I'm currently working towards Krav Maga certification, as well, so I can run that program at the gym. Lots of stuff on my plate, plenty of time to do it - but can I stay motivated? OH GOD I DONT KNOW WAAAAH

Anyway...without further adieu, the logging starts NOW.

kaboom187 · 06-28-2008, 10:49 AM

doesn't seem to be working.

**King Kabuki** · 06-28-2008, 10:53 AM

BTW you should have your Fighter tag this weekend.

Jake Martin · 09:23 PM

Friday 6/27 (starting yesterday as I just switched up my lifts, following Urban's template)

AM:

Dips - 25x5, 40x5, 75x3 (and my dip belt broke here...)
supersetted with
elevated clap pushups - BWx3,BWx3,BWx5

DB Bench - 70x10, 80x8, 80x8
supersetted with
DB Row - 60x10, 60x10, 60x10, 60x10

Face pulls - small band x 15, x 15, x15
Standing DB Calf Raises - 140x15, 160x12, 180x12

Aaand..that's that. My row weight was pretty low and I was surprised. My dip weight was pretty low because I started too light, then my fucking belt broke at the end of my last set. I'm in the market for a new one, anyone got any recommendations?

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PM: On my own for skill training tonight..

Skipping 1x3m
Shadowboxing 2x3m
Heavy Bag 3x3m (working on 1 combination per minute of each round. Last 30 seconds is free for all)
Shadowbox 1x3m

I had originally planned to do 8 rounds, but I was fucking wiped. It's been a while since I've trained in my garage and the heat sapped my will like nothing else. I need to focus on my shadowboxing more, as movement has always been a big problem for me. Also, head movement, head movement, head movement.

Jake Martin · 06-28-2008, 10:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by King Kabuki

BTW you should have your Fighter tag this weekend.

Sweet. Thanks for the help with the thread, KK.

**King Kabuki** · 06-28-2008, 11:01 AM

You know the kid Don Juan who whooped my ass last week is from St. Louis, so is my stablemate Jimmy Strohl. And so is former Gymmate Deandre Latimore who wiped the floor with Sechew Powell.

Mussurah's got some pretty wicked fighters in them parts.

**mschatz** · 06-28-2008, 11:10 AM

Right on Shoto. Welcome.

Jake Martin · 06-28-2008, 11:48 AM

Saturday 6/28

Okay, today is a conditioning day. Fun times. So I made up my own circuit, an experiment in using ab-heavy work for conditioning. Wasn't sure how taxing it would be, so I set it for a max repetitions in 15 minutes.

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10 Ab-wheel burpees
10 Sandbag overhead throws (throwing it behind my back), 75lb weight used
10 midkicks per/side

Rest as needed.
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# completed: 4
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It was a lot harder than I had anticipated, I could've gotten five, but twice my sandbag's clip pulled apart and the mini-bags of sand came rolling out, so I had to quickly shove them back in and continue. Lost just enough time (imo) to not make that last complete run through.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mschatz

Right on Shoto. Welcome.

Thanks for the nudge in the right direction, it only took me two months to actually get around to starting it

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Quote:

Originally Posted by King Kabuki

You know the kid Don Juan who whooped my ass last week is from St. Louis, so is my stablemate Jimmy Strohl. And so is former Gymmate Deandre Latimore who wiped the floor with Sechew Powell.

Mussurah's got some pretty wicked fighters in them parts.

Yeah, St. Louis has a really kickin' fight scene. Kansas City and Springfield (my home town) are the only other two close centers for fights, and they both pale in comparison.

Jake Martin · 06-30-2008, 09:11 PM

My internet has been down since Saturday evening (two hours prior to Pacman/Diaz, so I missed that...) so I am typing this by leeching my neighbor's unsecured internet. Thanks, linksys router!

Monday 6/30

AM:

1ARM DB Snatch - 40x1, 60x1, 80x1, 90x1, 100x1

Squat - 150x15, 150x15, 150x15

Bulgarian Split Squat - 80x6, 80x6, 80x6
supersetted with:
GHR - BWx8, BWx8, BWx8

Calf Raises (from floor) 160x15, 160x15, 160x15

My high rep squats are still pathetic, but up quite a bit from when I started focusing on them. Still putting 5lbs on every squat day. Pretty stoked I can still hit a 100lb single arm DB snatch, as I did my St. Wilhelm vid with that a while back - my form is a hell of a lot better now, no pressout.

Mid-day:

Wrist & Neck work

PM:

Sparring. Technique sparring, two of us alternated in and out every 2 rounds for a third person - he stayed in every round, he got his ass worked. He did a silly number of rounds, but got breaks every 2 as he'd sit out and myself and the other guy would go at it.

My lead leg took a beating, but cryogel is working its magic right now. I managed to land a triple kick (TKD style) AND an axe kick tonight, which meets my quota for throwing unorthodox stuff and makes me very happy that I could actually land them.

All in all lots of progress. It was also fun watching the guy getting most of the sparring work develop over the course of the rounds - by the end he was exchanging and getting his range, where at the beginning he was always too far out or too close.

I'm teaching my first private lesson tomorrow morning and we have our first two group classes to run tomorrow night...fun! Pics of the new gym to follow in a day or so.

Jake Martin · 07-02-2008, 12:58 AM

Tuesday 7/1

AM:

Ran 1.8 Miles

First time running in a while, have a nice 1.8 mile distance behind my house. Decent hill there as well. Felt pretty good, gonna try to routinely do this after a leg day to help recover.

Mid-Day

Core circuit

PM

Had our first classes at the new gym, I assisted the boxing class that ended up being a kickboxing class because that's what everybody wanted to do.

Got 3 rounds of hard padwork in with my trainer afterwards. I can already see how this teaching thing is going to interfere with my own training. Gotta work hard to make sure I don't slack off.