84,6 - getting it together

My schedule is messed up. Biggest hindrance is work and next is babysitting. First kills day light and second takes all the evenings --- BUT I see light at the end of the tunnel. (Hope it's not a train:-) I've been watching 1 hour lessons on BJJ and I think I'll keep it up. I've also started to drill the same lessons I've been watching to get more understanding. Drilling is insufficient. I can't get to the mat enough. It's difficult to match times with partners and also to find a free mat to practise on. One of the processes I've signed my self is to make a new game book. (Or make my first real one:-) I've started from standing up - and lot of my play comes straight from Ribeiros Revolution DVD. I'm just modifying it a little to fit me.

So idea is to study, if I don't have an opportunity to drill and do cardio and legs every second day.

84,3 - should not have lunch in school

Having a big lunch is not good for my diet. Today is a low intensity day - I did plan a cardio workout, but looks like I'll do it by driving a car...

83,9 - omegawave is working

I did my first measurement on omegawave. Rest hr was 39 and I am ready for intensive workouts. BUT I am babysitting... and also tomorrow. No problem. Time will come and I'll get to workout and test the monitor more:-)

83,0 -recovery and waiting for delivery

On Thursday my Omegawave recovery monitor has been send to me and today it might be delivered. If post is on schedule. Today is a full day at work and babysitting after it so no physical activity.

Hope I can produce some mental activity- and watch some BJJ clips during my working day.

My last Aikido class was today

I've been taking a basic course in Aikido and today was my final day. We've been iåntroduces all the techniques needed to graduate 6kyu. I'll skip it and concentrate more on BJJ or maybe I'll go back to Judo.

83,7 - Mixfit and Aikido

I'll do mixed martial arts fitness workout today - it's grappling, boxing and functional gym workout. In the evening I'll practise Aikido techniques.

I'll try to redo my "gamebook" for BJJ - thanks to Shanny's suggestion. I'll start doing it step by step. First idea was just to write down all the positions and figure out what I want to do, but what's the rush - why not do it well.

I'll start standing up - that's how the match starts:-)
First question is what is important to recognize. What are the main elements of stand up game? Is it grips, opponents posture, distance, movement - like pushing pulling or just following your lead?

To I need to make different plans for open stance and close stance? If my opponent is leaning forward? Or dancing a fair distance a way from me so that I can only grip his leave? Or pushing and pulling and trying to break my balance?

Working on this...

84,1 - Ribeiro in garage

Today I'll try to do Ribeiro's Revolution DVD - 1 lesson with a partner. I don't know if the DVD is designed as a training guide or a lesson plan, but I'll find out. I'll do some takedowns and slow roll for warm up.

We did mount from the DVD - did not get a lot of techniques done, but drilled some variations and combinations. I think it worked very well, Warm up was slow roll and cool down slow roll a little tighter.

Next time we'll slow it up more, but keep the tightness and detail of the techniques. 

84,2 - PAP lower body - Movie - BJJ

I did my morning workout for legs and next is a movie with my grandchild. If all goes well, I'll catch the evenings BJJ class. Very excited about Saulo Ribeiros DVD about BJJ.

84,5 - second recovery

I'm still feeling tired so a second recovery day is needed. I need to get my technique training in order. I've been watching instructional videos but I know that all techniques need to be drilled - and also tested during rolling. I'll take a nap:-)

83,6 recovery

I ordered a new device to follow my training ... An omegawave monitor that measures training potential or recovery from prevous workouts. And I'll be rolling tomorrow:-)

83,6 Family is growing

I'm babysitting my grandchild this week so I have only monday and friday mornings to roll. No one wanted to roll today, so I'll go skiing. Sunday was a nice day. I got a new grandchild and maybe two new members to my Sunday mixfit sessions (my garage). I'm not doing gjj at the garage, but more like mixed training with a focus on bjj.

Warm up for Sunday

recovery day

83 - bjj open mat and legs

Yesterdays BJJ was hard - hard for me. I had problems recovering - maybe Aikido in the evening help. It has very low intensity yesterday. Today I'll roll for 90 minutes and do some boxing after it (Crazy monkey -style) and in the evening I have my leg routine. I think I'll do P90X2 PAP Lower again. (Don't have to think, just follow instructions from DVD).

I'm still feeling a little stiff today and today will be 2 - 3 harder workouts than yesterday. I need to make Saturday a recovery day. Muscle grows when you are resting! Workout is just a teaser for muscles, but rest and nutrition are what helps muscle to grow. (Have to remember this and let them get bigger...)


I tried to do the pass on the video. On the first attempt, my opponent did a sweep. I did not have a good base. My legs were pend and not enough pressure to his thigh. Next time I'll be more careful.

83,7 - no legs today

Focusing on legs means legs every other day - or three times a week. Today I'll be rolling Bjj in the morning and doing Aikido in the evening. Tomorrow is a leg-day, but with some adjustments. I need to do legs at home in the evening. It's not ideal, but... that's the way the cookie crumples.

84 - focus on legs

I've been kind of working my legs for some years. BUT not really... Now I'll do my workouts, but do first my leg workout and schedule my week so that I'll get 3 lower body workouts for every week. One of the workouts should be hard! Program like 5x5 was good and I'll continue it when my back gets better. Maybe in 2 - 3 weeks.

Recovery day is a "must"

I'm doing Aikido, BJJ, Gym and Cardio. Some kind of goal is to do 3 workout each in one week. That's 12 workouts - in six days. One day has to be a recovery day.

I need to start buying sports tape otherwise I'm not keeping in one piece: wrist and knee are the worst, but back is also sending Morse signals to slow down.

Yesterday I've managed to not exercise! It's good. Today I can start my new leg routine with P90x2 pap low dvd workout. (And if all goes well, I'll be at Bjj class in the evening.)

83,3 - checking my scale

Today is my first check to see if my intermitten fastening is working. Plan is to lose fat, not muscle. It's not quite exact as I'm not going to the same inbody scale as first time, but this is free:-) Other factor is that I've only done the program for 5 weeks since the first measurement. Not much can happen in 5 weeks - well fat can burn, but can one grow muscle so much that it can be detected in a inBody measurement. We'll see:-)

Looks like my program works! I've lost 3,6 kg fat and gained 300g muscle during 5 weeks. Muscle gain is in legs and 300 in each. I know that it does not add up. 300g + 300g = is not 300g but that's what the paper says:-)

Conclusion is that fat is 14,8% now and it was 18,8%  earlier and muscle mass has not decreased!
I think I need about 1 kg muscle mass for each leg and I have 2 kg mid body fat to lose. So just drop the belly to legs and turn fat in to muscle tissue:-)

And InBody had my weight as 82,6 kg and at home it has 83,3.

83,9 - tommorrow inBody

Today I'll go rolling BJJ in the morning and Aikido in the evening.

BJJ-drills-sunday Mixfit

BJJ-drills-1 - Vidéo Dailymotion