SimonAdd's Jiu Jitsu and Lifting Log
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My scales were broken this morning (at least I hope they were, they were telling me I'd gained 30kg overnight then giving me error messages!) Hopefully it's just the batteries.<br />
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My lifting programming has been a bit haphazard lately; up until a month ago I had been doing a strict 3x5 with linear progression. I’ve stalled out 3 times on most lifts now and for the past few weeks have just been playing around with lower rep/higher weight stuff.<br />
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I'm going on holiday on 22nd September for a week and once I come back I'm going to start Jim Wendler's 5/3/1, which hopefully will give me a bit more structure while allowing me to prepare for my BJJ tourney a month later. This means that over the next couple of weeks I’m going to attempt to set new 1-rep maxes for all the big lifts, starting tonight with the overhead press.<br />
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Jiu jitsu-wise, tonight’s goals are to work on armbars from guard, standing guard passes and cross-collar chokes from mount (the latter suck to be on the receiving end of, I’m feeling a bit sorry for my training partners). -
Ain't that the truth. It's that very painful fact that prohibits me from being allowed to buy supplements by the wife....<br />
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Mrs MN5: We don't have money for that shit, not like you're a bodybuilder or powerlifter or getting money for it....<br />
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MN5: Yeah but I like getting stronger !<br />
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Mrs MN5: Why ?<br />
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Haha I get the same grief from the wife. She was having a go at me for having 4 different proteins on the go the other day:<br />
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Mrs JK - why do you need all that stuff? Do you think you're a body builder or something?<br />
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JK - Or something....(also whilst walking away) -
Been a few days since I updated this. I had a crappy week last week, worked late a lot and only made it to BJJ once (on Thursday) and didn't lift at all.<br />
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I went surfing over the weekend though and barring some twist of fate I'll be squatting, benching and jiu jitsu-ing tonight. I expect to be sore tomorrow.<br />
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Jiu Jitsu goals for tonight remain: armbars from guard, standing guard passes and cross-collar chokes from mount. -
[b]Tuesday 18/09/12[/b]<br />
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Bench<br />
1x 90, 95, 100, 105kg (new 1 rep max. Very happy with this, as I was aiming for 100kg. But that flew up, so I thought I'd go for 105.)<br />
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Squat<br />
3x3 107.5kg<br />
1x 115kg (this isn't a true max as I definitely have more in me. I didn't want to push the squats too much today though, as I had already set one PR, haven't squatted in a couple of weeks and still had BJJ to come).<br />
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Chins<br />
4x5 bodyweight<br />
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1.5hours BJJ<br />
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Got all my goals and did pretty well rolling with some guys who usually smash me.<br />
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All in all, a great day! -
Weight this morning: 86.8kg without a gi, 88.7kg with gi.<br />
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Only 0.4kg to go! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/good.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':good1:' /> In truth, I want to undershoot it by about a kilogram or so, to make sure I can have a nice breakfast etc on the day and not worry about being over by 0.1kg or something stupid. Plenty of time to lose ~1.5kg though.<br />
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Deadlifts, Overhead Press and BJJ tonight. Goals for BJJ are triangles from guard (I suck at these), flower sweeps, standing guard passes and arm-triangles from the top. -
[B]Thursday 20/09/12[/B]<br />
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Press<br />
1x60, 65kg<br />
0x70kg<br />
3x3 60kg<br />
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This brought me back down to earth. I had estimated I was capable of putting 75kg overhead but I couldn't even get 70. Seems that I'm weak at the bottom of the movement.<br />
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Deadlifts<br />
3x3 150kg<br />
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1.5hours BJJ<br />
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Rolled with some higher belts, good learning experience though it does nothing for my ego. -
I'm back from a holiday in Turkey. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I kept up neither my diet nor exercise while there. Instead, I drank beer, snacked on ice creams and lazed by the pool.<br />
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Bodyweight this morning was 87.6kg, so I've put on 2kg. A bit shameful, but hopefully nothing I can't lose again before the 20th.<br />
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Today is squats, bench press and BJJ. Goals for BJJ are guillotine and triangle chokes, from any position I can hit 'em! -
[u]Tuesday 02/10/12[/u]<br />
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Squat<br />
3x3 107.5kg<br />
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Bench<br />
3 x 92.5kg<br />
3, 3 x 90kg (all done with a pause at the bottom, powerlifting style. Much harder like this!)<br />
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Chins<br />
3x5<br />
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1.5h BJJ<br />
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Worked on a side control escape and a back take/sweep from half guard. Felt a bit rusty rolling, it's amazing how even a small time off dulls your technique. -
[u]Thursday 04/10/2012[/u]<br />
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Press<br />
3x3 60kg (pause at the bottom)<br />
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Chins<br />
4x5 bodyweight<br />
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1.5h BJJ<br />
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[u]Tuesday 09/10/2012[/u]<br />
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Squat<br />
3x3 110kg<br />
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Bench<br />
3, 3, 2 x 92.5kg (pause at the bottom)<br />
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Chins<br />
4x5 bodyweight<br />
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1.5h BJJ<br />
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[u]Thursday 11/10/2012[/u]<br />
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Bodyweight 84.6kg this morning<br />
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Glute ham raises<br />
3x5 bodyweight<br />
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Press<br />
3x 62.5kg<br />
3, 3 x 60kg (pause at the bottom)<br />
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Chins<br />
4x5 bodyweight<br />
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1.5h BJJ -
Less than a week to go before the tournament and I'm nervous and excited in turns. We have 3 blackbelts visiting from Brazil all this week, so I'll be training as much as physically possible. We had an excellent session yesterday, I rolled with a female blackbelt who can't have been more than 50kg but she was absolutely toying with me. It really drives home how effective this martial art is.
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On my way to the tournament now. I've had a great week of training and my weight this morning with a gi is 86.4kg so I have a couple of kilos to play with.<br />
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My first match is at 5pm, I'll let you guys know how it goes (hopefully with videos). -
Right, I've been pretty poor at letting you all know what happened, so I'm sorry about that. I was waiting until I had videos of my matches, but it doesn't look like they'll be up for a while so I'll give a brief description.<br />
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I made it into the second round of the tournament, winning my first match by arm-triangle. It went pretty much to plan; I wanted to be in top position, looking to pass rather than playing guard. I was most worried about getting there, though, as takedowns aren't my strongest area. Luckily though, my opponent pulled guard. He threw up a rather sloppy armbar attempt, which allowed me to pass into side control, then get mount, then get the choke.<br />
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In my second match, I was doing pretty well for the first half of the match but about halfway through we went out of bounds and re-started on our feet in the middle. From there, I got taken down and spent a long time in quarter-guard, trying not to get mounted. Right at the end of the match, he managed to take my back for 4 points and the win. I was pretty disappointed with my performance in this match, but it's good experience and all in all I had a great time.
