12-16-02

I am sick and tired of notdoin shit so i'm gettin off my ass and doin shit!

I want to go work some cardio right now cardio room doesn;t open till 12 and i havent slept yet and i wanted to work out before i eat shit!

tonight i'm goin to do some Jiu-Jitsu. hopefully my knee doesn't **** up.

mabye do some boxing before JJ. i will keep you updated.

Doc appointment on friday. wish me luck taht my knee isn't carear ending or in need of surgury.

OK my whole routine is shot to shit since i have been inactive for over 6 weeks.

i need some sugestionson how to get back on my feet.

burt training, stamina, toning, and weight loss is what i need to do.

take into consideration i got a knee injury.

Just got back form Jiu-Jitsu. I had a great time my cardio SUCK COCK! i was winded after ten min buti got back to normal after about 2 min sitting so not bad all in all.

its not BJJ its TJJ but the teacher understands i'm tryin to fight NHB so he is cool about it. i'm doin this till after winter break then i should be heading over to Marcelo Silveira's school.

but this guy saidi can train for free whenever i want!!!!

wtf happend to your knee? and why not try rollin around starting fromt he knees, but you can lay on your thigh. :?

the guy i fought swear to god weighed 310lbs i elevatored him and i guess it was just to much for my knee. the next day it started togive out so i went ot hte dog i got a cartledge build up ot soem shit i see a doc friday to get definate. my knee didn;t hurt while rolling so i guess its better than i originally thought it was (tahts good)

oh and my throws are ALOT cleaner now.

wierd i haven;t trained in 6 weeks and i'm doin better?!?!?!?

i was thinking about technique constantyl mabye that was it?

12-17-02

todays work out:
cardio- waiting tables for 3.5 hours.

i get to eat once a day if i'm luck for the next 3 weeks. i'm prolly gonna drop alot of weight :).

****in winter break with the closed cafateria.
and even eating just 1 time a day i'll be broke in no time.

No offense but you're the worst typer ever.

i know.
but you try typing when its colder in your dorm than it is outside (its 50 degrees outside) i can't feel my fingers so i dunno what i'm hitting.

I AM OFF THE INJURED LIST!!!!!

I saw my doc today he told me taht everyhtign appears o be intact and that i can go back to training as normal, worse comes to worse get an athletic knee sapport. if it still hurts in a month go back and get an MRI.

ok now I gotta come up with some cardio to do.

I think i'm gonna start burst training.

Yeah, sounds good Ben...will definitely increase your short term power

I'm working with one of the kids on my swim team. he says if i follow what he tells me I will drop the weight like its nothing! he wants to start by strengthening my base.

he says ishould do this for 2 - 4 weeks

3 - 4 sets of 20 these go together so back to back. Go through the list once then repeat.
Squats
Lunge
Jump Lunge
3 - 4 sets of 10 Jump Squat
Twisters

2 sets of 24 sprinters


2 min Bridges 1 min up 30 sec rest 1 min up
Crab Stance


5 sets of 5 Romanian dead lift



what do you think?

That looks good Ben...you will definitely improve your explosiveness, and also your acrdio will improve with it. SOunds similar to a lot of the PT I did when I was in the Army and they were some of the hardest sessions I have ever had

Keep us posted how it goes as I am sure some of us, myself included would consider such an idea.

seldom what do you think of this for like a daily or every other day cardio thing.

do the above with 15 - 30 of shadow boxing?

aside from helping my hands and getting me used ot throwin punches what does it help, cause alot of old school boxers were ripped and they never touched weights

Boxergenics just came int he mail!!!!

NICE ****IN GLOVES!

I need some ring time!

just got done with a1/2 hour of boxing and 1/2 hour if weights my shoulders are sore they are straining to type. I need to up my boxing time.

i realize my right legged kicks are HARD AS HELL, but my shins arn;t used to makin contact with other things, gotta work on that.

Some kid a hell of alot smaller than me challenged me to spar today, I told him its my first day back and to ask me on thurs or fri and i will do it. i think i out weigh the kid by 100lbs, so either he is really good,really fast, has HUGE balls, or doesn't realize how big i am.

got Jiu Jitsu at 7:30. its a fun filled night. hopefully my arms are less tired by then.

I can't seem to kick proper without a target so i can;t kick when i shadow box.

anyone else have that problem?

Yeah, I get that a bit...need a visual to kick at.

That kid is a ballsy ****er if he gives you 100 lbs straight out...teach him some manners:devil

i just hope he doesn;t K me TFO

Yeah, that could be kinda embarassing!

i've only been boxing for like 2 months tops but you know still he's gotta be 14

You are in a lose:lose there!

You beat him, everyone calls you a bully

he beats you...everyone calls you a pussy!

the kid is off his rocker i talked ot the trainer today, he says the kid has been commin for 2 years and has never hit the bags, just walks around and tries to get in the ring.

i might start sparring next week. i'm very happy about that.

i saw my old boss today she says i'm withering away, aparently my weight loss is noticable. thats good!

That kid needs a lesson by the sounds...but I don't think you should do it...a death on your hands is a tough thing to live with

Keep it up Slim!

weighed myself down to a slim trim 255!!! thats 5 more pounds i lost!

You are dissappearing dude! Keep it up

dude at 215 i will be completely ripped!

Originally posted by VulgarTheClown
weighed myself down to a slim trim 255!!! thats 5 more pounds i lost!
WOW............. 255. I need to roll with you. I am 220 down from 238. 195 here i come. :cool:

anytime bro

I wish. Fla is a long drive. I would like to train with all of you. That would raise my game.

any time you get a chance and your in the area no prob.

like i said i might move out to Long Beach and go to long beach state if i can get enough funding for school and a good gym (prefereably punishment) .

Well that wont help me any. Im in NJ. Thanks for the offer!

oh i thought you were in Cali, shit thats even better.

my grama lives in CT and i got cousins in NJ and NY.

Now were talkin!

I barely go up north though but if i do i will definately give yo ua call unfortunately i don't have a car to use up there.

45 min till Boxing.

today i start working with a trainer to get me ring ready.

Ok so today was quite tiring!

I go to box at 3 leave at 5:30 come home eat and check the net, then at 7:30 go to JJ.

I walk in and see this kid Bruno (Blue belt under Edson Diniz 145lbs title holder for absolute fighting and a member of american top team) who had come to my Judo class before and was messing with one of the Black Belts there.

anyway I roll with him for about an hour we talk about brasil and fighitng and which top team school to go to etc. etc. afterward he says he wants to take me to his school to introduce me to his instructor. says if i signed up i would get my blue belt very quickly around a month because i knwo all the shit he said. I was very happy about that.

i think I might have hurt my elbow when i was getting out of his armbar though. I'm gonna get some ice.

WOW I just kicked my own ass!

I started a bust training program today as soon as i got home from work.

Its only sapposed to take between 3 and 6 min to do, and holly shit it just kicked my ass i couldn't really finish even.

it consistes of

3 - 4 sets of 20 these go together so back to back. through the list once then repeat.
Squats
Lunge
Jump Lunge
3 - 4 sets of 10 Jump Squat
Twisters

2 sets of 24 sprinters


2 min Bridges 1 min up 30 sec rest 1 min up
Crab Stance


5 sets of 5 Romanian dead lift

Holy shit man give this a shot it sapposed to strengthen your base ALOT and really help with your burst ability.

keep up the good work, Ben. :)


reading your posts from above, if u are ever here (Long Beach, huntington beach area), you are more than welcome to train with us. :)

In the last post bust was sapposed to be burst.

anyway, I just finished another session I forced myself to do at least 3 sets this time. I still can't hold the Bridge for more than 45 sec So i'm gonna work on that.

Dogg, you like the workout session?

Its good as **** dude try it.

You = God. Me = suck.

I = God

I like that.

Why you think that?

If you got any questions you think i can hel pyou with just make a topic i'm here to help.

Originally posted by VulgarTheClown
WOW I just kicked my own ass!

I started a bust training program today as soon as i got home from work.

Its only sapposed to take between 3 and 6 min to do, and holly shit it just kicked my ass i couldn't really finish even.

it consistes of

3 - 4 sets of 20 these go together so back to back. through the list once then repeat.
Squats
Lunge
Jump Lunge
3 - 4 sets of 10 Jump Squat
Twisters

2 sets of 24 sprinters


2 min Bridges 1 min up 30 sec rest 1 min up
Crab Stance


5 sets of 5 Romanian dead lift

Holy shit man give this a shot it sapposed to strengthen your base ALOT and really help with your burst ability.

This sounds pretty damn good Ben...I will try this out for sure and see how I go

do you know what twisters and sprinters are?

If you need i will explain

Sprinters I know, twisters I have a pretty fair idea...but if you could give a brief run down of what they are that would be cool

Yea please explain those two for me?

Sprinters - crunches BUT bring right elbow to left knee and vise versa

twisters - feet 6 inches off the ground shoulders 6 inches off the ground hold a weight (i do 10 lbs cause thats all i got) out in front of youwith both hands, twist to the left then the right with just your shoulder (its for your lats)

bridge - get on your toes & elbows. keep your body as flat as possible. works legs,lowerback, abs

crab stance - like back bend but instead of hands goin over head then go straight down from the shoulders. keep your hips as high as possible.

shweet deal thanks

Went to boxing today. It was a lazy day. didn;t feel worked out at all. I'm tryin to get them to get me ready for competition.

last night i got a call to go train with some kids for NAGA, I couldn;t go cause its rush week but i will go today

i might get some free training that would be cool

sparring in boxingshould start today

Free trainging is alwasy appreciated...if there is anyone reading this who wishes to let me train for free...holler

Just got back from my training with Edson Diniz (155lbs WEF champ) looks like I found the guy i wanan train under.

He said he would train me in Vale Tudo no problem BUT I can't fight till he says i am ready. (no problem here)

$100 a month 5-6 days a week no registration fee.

what do you think?

Just had the hardest Workout of my life.

2 hours of crazy CRAZY drills!

i lost 5lbs in this 1 class alone

Just had the hardest Workout of my life.

2 hours of crazy CRAZY drills!

i lost 5lbs in this 1 class alone

I was the only person in the building that didn't speak spanish or portuguese. i had to have people translate for me.

****in great

Originally posted by VulgarTheClown
Just got back from my training with Edson Diniz (155lbs WEF champ) looks like I found the guy i wanan train under.

He said he would train me in Vale Tudo no problem BUT I can't fight till he says i am ready. (no problem here)

$100 a month 5-6 days a week no registration fee.

what do you think?

I think its worth it

GGRRRRRRR no traingin today it got changed from 9 pm to 7pm and i couldn't make it. DAMN DOING LAUNDRY AT THE G?F's HOUSE DAMN IT TO HELL!!!

I pay 55 a month with four days a week.

Snap that deal up Ben, sounds pretty good. Especially as he is a credentialled fighter and will no doubt be able to push you in the right direction

dude i'm all over these classes like white on rice on a paperplate in a snow storm!

Very light day of training today cause Edson has to fight this weekend at XFA.

I'm only gonna be doin 3 days a week cause on tues and thurs he starts at 7.

Just got back from training.

Today wasn't so easy. It wasn't hard though.

my Judo throws suck I'm not aggressive enough.

Nothing today just some crunches and tristers

Did 2 hours of BJJ then went out with a nice young lady.

I got my ass kicked today up and down by a 250lb Judo player/body builder who does BJJ for shits and giggles (and is good at it). and by some FED who is 6'6". I was teachin him triangles (how to be more smooth and make them really affective) HOLY SHIT is all i gotta say.

Friday = no gi and i was told to bring my gloves :)

HAHAHAHAHA I AM SO ****IN EXCITED!!!!!

Today I rolled with a green belt ( never seen one in BJJ before but he was there) any way i schooled him pretty decent we were 3 to 3 when we ended BUT I would have had more but Edson said no footlocks (I'd of had him like 5 or 6 moer times).

anyway i got some killer mat burn and took off a big chunk of skin off my foot.

now good news Edson pulled me to the side said in 6 months i will be fighting NHB he said he will train me to be a champion no less!

I should be at 200lbs by then should start hydroxycut tomarrow i think and hopefully be shreded within the next 3.

I was so pumped i actually called my mom she was excited about it after i assured her i wouldn't drop out of school.

I don't mean to butt in to your journal but thats too cool.way to go man. good luck!!!

Right on Vulger, I am very happy for you

Started Ripped Fuel again today, last time it didn't go so good i developed agression problems. hopefully this time will be better.

I feel kinda figity i dunno if its energy or if my body doesn;t like it.

I'm goin to box now 3:14. and i got BJJ at 7pm then i think i'm gonna go see Math Girl :) .


any of you use Ripped Fuel kinda stuff? what do you think?

Droping out of school is my mom biggest problem too. She yells at me when I say I train 6 days and week. Good luck with the ripped fuel, I'm going to start using metabolean for men soon. I hope it helps with the extra weight.

**** **** **** **** ****!!!!!

someone might as well shoot me in the ****ing face.

just last night i get great news Edson wants me to fight in a couple months he wants to work with me alot and get me really god. he wants to make me a champion.

Tonight I go to class and in ****ing practice of all the bull shit agains some other white belt that i was SCHOOLING i step over for and armbar and he rolls with me (no prob) but either I was to upright or the is to flat and I ****ED my shoulder straight into the matt and all i hear is a big "CRACK" i scream once just fro mthe shock. and i'm ****in out.

I"M OUT!

I'M INACTIVE FOR GOD KNOWS HOW LONG!

They all tel me itsno big thing it happens to all of us. So i'm like alright cool no prob. I start driving home and i nearly start crying it hurt so much then i start laughing.

I call my mom cause she lives down the street form my dojo and i go home she gives me ice and starts bitchign about my dad.

i don;t need to hear that! **** that shit!

i'm worried its broken and i'm not gettin it looked at cause well i can;t really afford it.

if this ends my carear I will KILL everyone i see.

Shit Vulgar, be careful with it for the next efw days. Ice it for 20 minutes every 2 hours for the next 72, check the bruising, if any, try to keep some movement in it. Hopefully you have just jammed a ligament which will sort itself out. Can you move your arm in a full range of motion? If so, you should be ok, I doubt anything major would be broken. BUt if this goes on, you should seriously look for a Dr. or at least an X ray

Went to the doc
and that stupid bitch told me to go to the ER and to think the last 2 times i went to the R they sad i should have gone to the doc first.

what an idiot.

a friend of mine sugested it was my rotator cuff.

i hope not.

i hear those are bad injuries and possibly dabilitating.

ok just got back from the ER I have a level 1 shoulder seperation I'm in a sling and I got a scrip (its slang in FL for perscription my spelling aint that bad) for vicodin.

if i do everything right i can be back in a week but i will most likely have to have a follow up with a specialist.

You'll be back in no time.

I just got invited to fight in GA at superheavy against James
Thorpe the 2002 GT super heavy weight winner or at 210 against the 2000 GT winner Raashad Khaaliq.

my shoulder feels a lil bit better. more sore than hurt so i decide to you know check my range of motion and give a little flex to my traps and as i flew i notice that my right trap pops right up but my left stays almost completely flat. this scares the shit out of me.


what is it?

i'm very worried.

i woke up at 9am felt wide awake and forced myself to go back to sleep till 10.

when i woke up took ripped fuel and then did 100 jumping jacks and like 50 situps and then took a shower.

I know its not alot but its something i didn;t have any extra time I got classes to go to.

**** ASS SON OF A BITCH!


I go to boxing and do good not much pain and i woked out for a good hour and went home.

went to BJJ practice first time since i got hurt and some inexperienced asshole ****ins slams me right on my ****ed up shoulder. we weren't even rolling! just ****in practicing escapes ON THE ****ING FLOOR! and he lifts me so only my shoulders and neck are on the ground and drops all his weight down!
(picture a powerbomb where the guy getting throwns shoulders didn't leave the floor)


and my shit made a ****ed up noise and then i was moving my arm and i can feel the bones in my shoulder jumping over one another!

FOR GODS SAKE! I SHOULD KILL THIS KID **** HIM!

kill ben kill
unleash the fury upon this dickwad

I swear to jesus when i get back into action that kid is goin under.


you know when your about to pass out and you see dots, thats him.

Wow man, that is ****ed up. I'd have to say this is the best journal in here. I really hope all works out for you, because way too many people get sidelined by injuries these days in every sport. The key is to just keep up training what you can and not lose hope of continuing what you were doing. Just think once this gay shoulder thing is over, you'll be a more experienced fighter, next time you're out you'll know exactly how to cope with it.

thanks alot luke.

FINALLY BACK IN THE SADDLE!!!

woke up (however late it was)

150 jumping jacks (3 diff kinds)
50 hard crunches
20 pushups
3 rnds of jump rope

went to boxing
did 3 rnds jumprope
1 rd speed bag
5 rnds heavy bag (100% first 3 rnds as much as possible but i punched myself out after the 1st. I need to get it to 100% for at
least 5 rnds)

walked a mile on the track (would have run but peopel were watching and i'm fat and no one wants to see a fat man jiggle)

worked my kicks for 3 rnds

Glad ur back in training

YES! Best journal on here is back in business.

how is mine the best? I just wanna know. thanks for the compliment.

OK today was yet again productive. I'm just gonna have to figure out how to keep this up once school starts again.

2pm
50 hard crunches
20 pushups
40 twisters (bike situps)
150 jumping jacks

3pm
3rds jump rope
3rds shadow boxing
3rds heavy bag (100% as much as possible)

3:45
1/4 mile jog
1/4 mile walk
total 1/2 mile (would have done whole mile but need to meet up with father at 6 so i had to cut everythign short)

4:00
light weights for shoulder to help strengthen again.

pull up/Dip machine 20 of each (i can't do one on my own yet so i use the machine SHUT UP! STOP LAUGHING!)

is this a good workout?

After a workout like that should i repeat my warm up of

50 hard crunches
20 pushups
40 twisters (bike situps)
150 jumping jacks

Best journal because its like a book, more like a story than a journal. everyone else's sounds the same almost.

word.

thanks

Just finished

20 pushups
150 jumping jacks
50 crunches
50 bicicly crunches
50 twisters

3 sets of 20 of these things on both sides
http://www.thefitmap.com/fitness/trainer/videos/sidebends.gif
picture the hand just hanging with a weight

now off to boxing 3:55pm

4pm - 5:40pm
Boxing
3 rds jump rope
4 rds shadow box
4 rds heavy bag

Tomarrow i start focus mitts and other stuff to help me get ring ready

weights

4 sets of 10

20lbs + barbell
http://www.thefitmap.com/fitness/trainer/videos/upright_barbell.gif

15lbs dumbells
http://www.thefitmap.com/fitness/trainer/videos/frontraise_db.gif

15lbs dumbells
http://www.thefitmap.com/fitness/trainer/videos/shoulderpress.gif

(edited for spelling and i put the wrong ammount of sets)

FEELIN GOOD!!!

6-6:20pm

ran 1/2 mile
walked 1/2 mile

6:25-6:45

cool down
20 pushups
150 jumping jacks
50 crunches
50 bicicly crunches
50 twisters

3 sets of 20 of these things on both sides

http://www.thefitmap.com/fitness/trainer/videos/sidebends.gif

picture the hand just hanging with a weight

should i break this 4 hour work out down into smaller parts?

That 4 hour session is going to be hard to keep going when you have other things to do. I would suggest breaking it up as much as possible. A morning session is always good, a seperate weight session in the afternoon will also be useful and you will find greater strength increases when done as a seperate entity to the rest of your training.

GOD DAMN IT!!!

I set my alarm for 10. I went to bed at 2:30 but couldn't sleep till 3:30. Woke up at 10 so tired i went back to sleep till 11 and did it again shutting off my alarm I finally woke up at like 1.

I ****ed up my schedule already and I ate when i woke up cause i went to sleep hungry. today is already ****ed up.

SHIT.

i only boxed today I feel like a lazy ****.

Today I ate and drank. Don;t tell me about lazy.

I am seriously. look at my last 2 or 3 days and look at today.

TERRIBLE!

evryone needs a rest day

NO REST ON WEEKDAYS!!

ONLY WEEKENDS!

no boxing or BJJ on weekends. rest then!

today i only got to eat 2 meals (so far).

meal 1
3 stalks of broccoli
chicken ceaser salad
meatballs

meal 2
2 grilled chicken breasts
salad made of lettuce,spinach,broccoli,carrots,green peppers



Todays workout......

BOXING
4 rds jump roap
4rds heavy bag
3rds shadow boxing
2 rds focus mitts

ran 1/2 mile
walked 1/2 mile

50 bench crunches
50 bike crunches
50 crunches
20 push ups

i forgot the

50 weighted side bends
and 50 squats

BJJ 9pm-10:30pm
techniques and drills

I got invited to go train or try out to train at the HQ for ATT.

like kinda like a try out to join the team.

Ate food.
eggwhite omlet w/ small ammount of cheese

chicken taco
diced up chicken with some salsa and a bit o cheese

You eat very little... that's scary...

should i eat more?

BOXING
4rds jump rope
4rds heavy bag
2rds focus mitts
2rds speed bag

ran 1/2 mile
walked 1/2 mile

DINNER
Salad (Lettuce,Spinach,Broccoli, Coliflower, Green Peppers, Deli Turkey LIGHT Italian dressing)
2 Hamburger Patties

BJJ 7pm

I didn't go to BJJ.

I was on the phone dealing with frat shit till 7:30. practice started at 7 and its a 1/2 hour drive so it would have been a waste.

8am woke up
8-8:30 GLOBALMMA.net

8:30 cardio warm up
50 bench crunches
50 bike crunches
50 crunches
20 push ups
150 jumping jacks
3 sets of 20 weghted side bends

after that
run 1/2 mile
walk 1/2 mile

eat breakfast

Egg and cheese crousant w/ sausage patty
Grits

I'm no expert, but I know that unless I stuff my face, I get exhausted from training and get sick. 6 meals a day for me.

Since beginning of Febuary I've been on somewhat of a diet. During the week its very rigid, 5-6 meals a day, all very healthy, no sauces, excluding light dressings when I need it... Keeping in mind "6 meals" doesn't mean 6 huge meals, its more like 3 average meals and 3 healthy snacks. But on weekends I totally let go and have enough beer, and whatever fast food I can get my hands on. Despite how shitty the diet is on the weekend, I've lost some weight from my usual winter pattern of eating everything under the sun. Gone from about 210 to 195 or just below 200. That's not bad considering how little exercise I have been doing minus the past week. Whether this works for me just because I'm only 16 and my metabolism burns like furnace, I don't know. But 6 meals a day works ****ign wonders. Also not eating after 8, and minimizing carbs after 4 helps a lot too.

i wish to god i could eat 5 or 6 times a day.

I don't have the hunger cause of the ripped fuel and i don;t got the time between class and work and training.
It wouldn;t be that bad if my stomach was stronger but i got stomach problems that force me to have between 1/2hour and an hour after i eat to be sick.

I am starting to think mabye 3 decent sized meals and 3 protein shakes. but no way i could eat 6 meals.

I get stuffed for hours on what i eat as is.

OH YEAH
Lunch was
salad (turkey, lettuce, spinach, coliflower, broccoli, green peppers light italian dressing)

8 cubes of honeydew
8 cubes of cantelope

2 glasses water
1 glass ice tea

Oh and i cut carbs pretty much totaly out after 2.

but i eat after 8 pm cause i'm up much later than 8. i get out of work at like 7:30 and then train i don't get a chance to eat till 10 or 11.

Tonight i was at BJJ

we get to practicing. sparring from the knees. NO PROB.

They put me with this dude i never seen before so i'm like ok he is new i'm not gonna go all out. i take his side he pushes into me i take his bac kand imediately go into armbar. i get the armbar but i can;t finish it his knee is blocking his hand and we are against the wall. I let the arm go and grab an ankle I notice i got no grip strength in my left hand (my left shoulder is the one thats hurt) i can't ****in jack the ankle! so i try and switch into kneebar he blocks a and gets a neck crank/crossface and due to my position i couldn't get out I tap.

Turns out he has bee ndoin BJJ under Carlson Gracie Jr. Student for about 3 1/2 years and under Edson since august.

should i be happy or pissed about my performace there?

I was super ****ing pissed!

I then go with Andrew a body builder who has been doin Judo god knows how long and BJJ for at least a year and a half.

I'm gassed cause it seems once i get subbed i just gas cause i'm pissed. he toyed me around kept gettin north south position I suck on bottom of N/S. But this guy works with me and puts the pressure on leaving openings to teach me how toget out so its cool buthe talks shit which makes me madder and I gas more.


I then roll with a Purple belt andhe schools me no Questions Asked.

I roll with Andre again and its more even but he is pissed cause i wouldn't go into his guard.


I go with the purple belt again and sneak in a nice ****in kneebar and i had the shit but he got out and tok my back!!! choked me out and thats how we ended the night..


I am SOOOOO PISSED about how i did and i feel like i'm below my par especially if i'm gonna go to train with Edson's trainer in basically full MMA rules training.


keep in mind this is tops my 3rd week of straight BJJ training.

GGGRRRRRRR

Since yesterday I have had a bit of pain in my left forearm and my hand has been basically completely numb all day so far.

today there was
no early mornin wake up. :(
no mornin run.

I go eat lunch now at 1pm

ate chcken ceaser salad, like 20 frnch fries, and 1 chocolate chip cookie. I shouldn't have but they loked so good.

BOXING
3rds jump rope
5rds heavy bag drills (working left hook, 1,2 combo's, and 4 shot straight combos)

3 sets (on each side) of 20 weighted side bends
50 bench crunches
50 crunches
20 pushups

I went to BJJ tonight

was just me, Edson and Kevin

so me a purple and a black belt

we worked no gi

take downs

guard and side moutn

then 5 min nonstop sparring with everyone.

I did pretty good on the take downs

but i was terrible on the floor tonight.

that made me angry.

but it was a laid back night so i wasn;t that agrivated.

Edson told me i am not agressive enough. but it is very good that i look for technique cause most people my size don't

so i just goota up my wind and be agressive non stop.

I trained last night and Edson told me i was to lax. That when i got tired i just didn't try.

I went home and did some crunches and side bends and some shrugs.

I woke up to my sholder really ****in hurtting!

I wnet to practice anyway. and went toe to toe with a brown belt for quite a while, achilies locking him (he got out and mounted me) I escaped his armbar and went to a pass into kneebar to which he twisted out of into heel hook when Edson stopped us saying I can't do foot locks till i'm brown or black belt. (gggrrrrr). I then somehow got his back and put on an armbar of my own to which he ascaped and I then went into triangle and time ran out.


I then got 3 stripes on my belt at the end of class.


i gues i did pretty good.

Holy shit you;re good. Keep it up YOU could be John Wayne.

Did that statment have some hidden meaning?

how could i be john wayne?

I wast just rambling that because Full Metal Jacket is a classic movie. But seriouslly, you're a ****ing natural if you're doing so well training with these advanced people

I hope i'm a natural. It would definately help.


OK TODAY!!!!

I felt as if i was just laxy at boxing.
4rds jump rope
2 1/2 rds shadow box
3 rds heavy bag

weight lifting
3 sets of 10 with 65lbs Upright Rowing

3 sets of 20 with 15lbs Dumbbell Press

I'm over my fear of bench press i think!!!
1 set of 10 benchpress with 135lbs
and 1 rep bench press with 225

**** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


**** all this shit!


I keep ****in up.

I must have ****in tapped to a key lock 7 times tonight!

Jesus ****in Christ! WHAT THE ****! I go from doing really ****ing good to being a complete **** up!!!1

I don;t ****in understand this shit. I do really good i ****in keep my wind i get alot of sub attempts i get a sub or 2 and today i ****in get the shit kicked out of me.


IT MAKES NO ****IN SENSE! I DON;T UNDERSTAND THE SHIT! WHAT THE ****. SICK AND TIRED OF ****ING UP **** **** **** FUC LIHGUK;GB;soiUSRADTH\U9ERQ]97JOA'TDAKGE7NITUM'B rOuvou

thats the spirit! but really everyone has bad days....

One time I was Rickson Gracie, and I had a bad day.

keep up the good work Vulgar.

BOXING
treadmill 60 min walking 3.64 miles

3 rds jump rope
3 hard rds heavy bag
3rds fast bag (not speed bag the other one that wobbles)

TRACK
jogged 3/4 miles
walked 1/4 miles

is this to much running for a 2 1/2 hour period?

what do shin splints feel like?

BJJ tonight was EXCELENT!

I was so pissed that i got my ass kicked moday that i kept yellin at myself in my head to keep pushing keep goin. and i was super stubborn to myself.

I did quite good i do say,

So i started off rolling with Edson. I surprised the shit out of him a couple of imes escaping 3 triangles and an armbar. not to mention improving my position on him a couple times.

next i went with a purple belt who's name i dunno how to spell.
I tapped him with a heel hook he tapped me with achillies.

He complimented me on my explosivness and speed.

then I went with a blue belt. complete stailmate for the whole 5 min. just from position to position to sub attempt to sub escape over and over and over.

Then I went with this other dude. He is lazy and i wanted to rest. I was goin easy on him then he took my back and so I do my best to just not get tapped and to hold on to my energy.he nevertapped me but i was having trouble gettin out.

Then again i went with the blue belt and he tapped me once to RNC.but it was after 41/2 min.

i was complimented by all my opponents. I did quite good today i think. I need to keep this up. REST IS FOR THE WEAK!

Good job man, having had a nasty case of shin splints a year or so back, it feels like a soreness, but more than that. If you keep pushing it after you;ve felt the painf or a while, it almost takes energy out of you, and you feel fatigued. At least that's how I felt. Just do 3 sets of 30 second calf stretches a few times during the day, and ice them after your exercise your shins. It really helps.

Yeah thats def how i feel.

ICE. i can do ICE.

BOXING
4rds jumprope
5rds heavy bag
3 1/2 rds shadow boxing
3 rds fast bag (reflex bag? its for hand eye cordination)
2 rds speed bag (i got frustrated and gave up I HATE SPEED BAG!!!)
2rds focus mits

TRACK
Jog 3/4 mile
walk 1/4 mile

Jesus christ.

You know that huge ****in body builder i always talk about that kicks my ass all the time.

wel we were doin some striking today at BJJ. you knwo starting up Vale Tudo training, anyway on the left is a boxing glove for jabbing the face, the right is a vale tudo glove for body shots, and we can knee and kick standing up.

when you get to the floor open palm strikes to the head or with boxing glove. no knees no elbows etc..

me and the bodybuilder and standing in the 3rd round and i hit him with a solid ****in leg kick (that was baout all my offense 1 ****in kick). and he stops looks at me and goes "Holy Shit Bubba that ****ing hurt." i give a smirk and go back to business. I noticed he doesn;t block the leg kick si i go for another he rushes and body locks me, under/over hooks me and rockets a knee up somehow i block it with my elbow, he then THROWS me to the ground and starts hitting me with almost his ful strngth. he is ****ing PISSED. wailing and wailing and wailing.

Edson is yellin at me do not stand still.

like i want to sit there and get hit. you got no idea how strong this son of a bitch is. he can trow me clear across the Dojo without trying. ****ING STRONG!

My this time i must have taken 30 or 40 shots to the face/head.
he takes my back and goes for RNC. i put my head down,he jacks my head back gets his arms in and doesn't goke mebut picks me up off the ground while he is sitting on me just stretching my neck out and ramming my adams apple into my neck.

i tap Edson goes get up finish round. I say **** that. takes me almost 6 min to breath normal again. I WAS WEAZING AND I DON:T EVEN HAVE ASTHMA!

mother ****er gets a little hurt and goes insane! shit if i was that i woudl kill everyone i train with. The dudes that broke my nose, sepereated my shoulder, popped my wrist, seperated the bones in my knee.

Cmon a solid leg kick does not equate attempting to kill someone in training.

BOXING
4rds jump rope
5rds heavybag
3rds speed bag (GOD DO I HATE SPEED BAG)
3rds double end bag (previously refered to as "fast bag")

wierd footing drill
constant punching drill

3 sets of 10 65lbs standing rows (to strengthen my shoulder)
3 sets of 15-20 15lbs dumbell press (to strengthen my shoulder)

3 sets of 10-15 20lbs Dumbbell Concentration Curls
3 sets of 10-15 20lbs Dumbbell Kickbacks

TRACK
jogg/run 3/4 mile
walk 1/4 mile

my shin hurts like hell else i would have finished the mile running not walking.

WHAT THE ****!

that mother ****er!

He said i got no heart.

If i got nothing else I have ****ing heart!

That my biggest asset my god damn HEART!



There is by far a huge diff between not having heart and trying to not get your face pummeled.

he acts like i don't even ****ing try!

**** HIM!

I HAVE BEEN DOIN THIS SHIT LESS THAN 2 MONTHS!! The guy i'm fighting has been doin this shit 1/2 his life at least!

and i'm expected to house the ****er even though i'm at a 20lbs weight disadvantage not to mention a severe skill disadvantage.

I can hang with everyone in my school but this one guy and so I suck. talkin all this shit like if i brought you to Marcelo he would laugh me out of the team. **** YOU!

I train hard as hell, and as hard as my body will let me.

I admit it i'm an out of shape son of a bitch but i can ****ing go.

I do over 3 hours of working out before i even THINK about goin to BJJ that night. So i get ther and i'm tired but noe one notices cause i grin and bear it and do it all with NO COMPLAINING!

Thats more than i can say for some of the class.

I'm so god damn frustrated. how can he not see my heart.

****!

Never show pain. You can do it man. A lot of what you say reminds me of things that have hapened to me, and the last thing you should do is take these things to heart. Every insult to how hard you train has to be your motivation to do better, or you've already lost. If you let these things get to you, you may have the heart, but you don't have the balls to prove it. Fight through it, and never let your guard down.

BOXING

sure relaxed day. I think I'm commin down with a cold. :( That sucks.

did 3rds of
jump rope (my rhythm was totaly off and my calves ached the whole time)
speed bag
double end bag
heavy bag

and i did some incline benchpresses an some regular bench presses.

nothin special

I skipped BJJ tonight.

I'm commin down with a bit of a cold, low on gas, and just didn;t feel like driving the 1/2 hour to get there.

now i feel like i copped out.

I feel like a loser

Feel like a joke? You're not even close to this bad... (http://www.globalmma.net/community/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3169&perpage=15&pagenumber=2)

no training today.

I had to work. :(

BOXING
4rd jump rope
4rd heavy bag
4rd speed bag (i'm startin to get the hang of it)
2rd double end bag

WEIGHTS
curls
3 sets of 20 20lbs dumbells

kick backs
3 sets of 20 20lbs dumbells

Standing rows
3 sets of 10 105lbs

50 sit ups
BJJ

I HATE LOSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ****in hate losing.

I did terribble today. my game just wasn;t there. mabye it was the GI. I used to be good with GI now I suck. WTF??? I dunno.


**** THAT SHIT!

I gotta go boxing in an hour or so.

I stopped eatting carbs as much as possible today.

I baught some orange juice. I hope i can drink that else it would bea big waste of money.

ok so I Boxed.

4rds jump rope
4rds heavy bag
3rds speed bag

I slacked off. It was raining and i just wasn;t in the mood.
There were also 2 cops on the matts grapplin. so i watched tryin to get there attention to get on the mat and do my best to show them up.

They didn;t invite me.

They were roling and i was shouting out soe instructions to one of the guys. he looked at me like i was nuts and the other looked confused as to why a boxer would know anythign about BJJ.

i want to eat junk food SO BAD!
so far today i have eatten

lunch
1 chicken breast NO SKIN
2 slices of turkey breast
1 chicken thich NO SKIN

Dinner
about 8 pices of flank steak
1 chicken breast NO SKIN

accompanied by alot of water.

I gotta up the ammount of times that i eat per day. get my metabolism higher.

Saturday. Oh saturday.

Today i went to train at the new ATT facility. HOLY SHIT! its ****in HUGE its gotta be about 1500 square feel minimum.

they are buying another facility right next to it that is over 2.5 times the size.

I trained with some Top Team heavyweights and stuff. Today was mostly for taking pics of the fighters but i got some training in. nothing to intense.

BOXING

4 rds speed bag
3 rds shadow boxing
4 rds heavy bag
4 rds jump rope
4 rds double end bag

no running it was cold as a bitch today and i HATE tredmills.

Weights
3 sets of 10 standing rows w/ 105lbs
3 sets of 15 Dumbbell Press w/ 20lbs

What was wierd is i wasn't tired after that at all.

what should i do?

BJJ Tonight was actually really good and surprisingly we did it with Gi.

we did techniques from butterfly guard 1 sweet 3 variations.
Sweep:
one hook in other foot by your opposite thigh.
arm under the armpit of the same side the hook is in. (are can do on belt or underhook arm)
other amr blocks opponent's arm on that side.

chop arm,lift hook, thrust arm, push off with base foot.

This will bring you to scarfold mount or side mount depending how you play it.

VARIATION 1:
If they base shift yourself reach your arm (that was under there arm) behing there knee and bring that up tward your head

again elevate and shift weight.

VARIATION 2:
same as 1 but go to your knees and then put them on there back

VARIATION 3:
go to knees then stand and go to your ground with a foot sweep/slam

Counter to sweep:
cross your legs in a figure 4. (it keeps opponent on bottom from gettin leverage by seperating your legs.)

When they sit up on you keep there knees at your shoulder. go under there legs left hand hold right pant leg right hand holds left pant leg. whatever arm the gram you with let go with that side's hand. conrtoll on there triceptshift them to there side on the floorput your head in there chest get on your tip toesscoot around there feet escaping guard and getting side mount.

try it out.

Originally posted by VulgarTheClown
What was wierd is i wasn't tired after that at all.

what should i do?

more reps or more weight also mabyye add in more exercises

its already a solid hour of exercise at least.

How to feel tired? Go to a stadium and run up and down the stairs. Now that will get you tired.

It prolly will.

I cut out my running unfortunately my shin hurts so much when i run its un believeable.

ride a bike

agreed, skipping if done right dosnt place much starin on your legs

Food so far today.

10:30am - Oatmeal w/ 1 and a 1/4 teaspoons of brown sugar

1pm - Chicken beast, green beans, 1 1/2 glasses of water 1 glass OJ - (I also got pear pressured into some iced milk which can;t be that bad cause all it is is slightly frozen milk)

3pm - banana

NOW I GO BOXING!

BOXING

I decided to doouble up my workout or go untill my punches felt to weak to be affective.

in this order
3rds speed bag
3rds jump rope
3rds shadow box
3rds heavy bag
3rds speed bag
3rds jump rope
3rds shadowbox
2rds double end bag

at this point in time my arms felt like jello. I called it an after noon.

once i get out of the shower i am going to go eat dinner.

thats the best way to train go until complete muscle failure......

by the way what the sparrinig like there?

I have yet to spar, There aren't many people my size there.

Though of the guys I've watched spar its pretty decent.

OH I FORGOT!

Last night at BJJ

it was No-Gi

we did some escapes from side mount, and an escape from when your on the bottom of a sprawl.


then we did Vale-Tudo sparring.

I had to go 3 rounds with 3 diff apponents 1 rd each.

1st rd Against Edson, thank god he didn;t actually hit me i'd of been dead
2nd rd against some guy I smoked him
3rd agains Jeff he was much more difficult to deal with.

I WAS TOATLY WHIPED OUT!

must spar more..


I didn't want to hit the guys i was sparring with, so i wouldn;t throw down. think I am the only guy that wants to really train Vale Tudo so i feel bad for hitting them.

Vulgar- who is Edson-your instructor?

Edson Diniz Hook and Shoot 155lbs champ, WEF 155lbs champ American Top Team member

Cool cool. Must be cool to train with him.

its awesome

BOXING!

3rd speed bag
2rd double end bag
3rd jump rope
3rd shadow box
3rd heavy bag
3rd speed bag
3rd double end bag
3rd jump rope
3rd shadow box
3rd heavy bag

100 crunches

3 sets of 30 hammer curls w/ 20lbs dumbells

3 sets fo 15 skull crushers w/ 30lbs

AND I STILL WASN'T TIRED!

I dunno what to do!

do more

9am
20 elevated pushups
20 squats
40 lunges
20 pushups
100 crunches

my back and neck start t ohurt when i do crunches, especially if i do them fast and i don't know why

breakfast
eggwhite omlet w/ sausage and tomatoe

1/2 bowl cheerioes
1/2 waffle (I should have never eatten this waffle)

Lunch:
2 hamburger patties
salad
2 glass water
1 glass OJ

Dinner:
2 ground steak
1 chicken breast
2 cups water
small ammount potato
(should i not have ewatten the potato)

BJJ

Best night so far.

It was Open mat so me and Andy (blue belt) gloved up and went at it. No stand up just GnP and submissions.

He conrtolled my arms really well so he would be able to hit me alot. I got my shots in but he got more.

He got my jaw pretty good it keeps poppin out now. thats bad. how can i get it to stop?

I got some crazy reversals and escapes. its was cool.

Best of all i didn;t get winded once.

BJJ
Saturday BJJ is great.
we went to Boca Black Belt academy and met up wit hthe rest of American Top Team.

Watched the guys do some full contact sparring (pretty intense)

Rolled with Cardiz from the UG.

Finally beat Andy. TWICE in one day!

Hermes Franca is a cool guy. Din was there he just got some cartilage fixed in his knee.

I got some pointers from some of the guys. a very productive day.

My neck hurts.

ur a lucky basterd ben

thank you.

Hey if you ever in FL we go open mat days. I can promise you meet Edson (can't guarontee anyone else)

cool thx, but i doubt ill be in florida for a long while

whenever your down here.

Let me know

BOXING!

3rd speed bag
2rd double end bag
3rd jump rope
3rd shadow box
3rd heavy bag
3rd speed bag
3rd double end bag
3rd jump rope
3rd shadow box
3rd heavy bag


BJJ
some ****in CRAZY ass pushup drills and situps drills.

very cool sweep from guard.

fish leg under theres hook to ribs fish arm under same knee grab lapel pu other foot under push with that foot while controllin same arm.

OH MAN!

did some crazy push up drills today. all sorts of shit and my shoulder HURTS!

I'm gonan try some icy hot see if that helps.

smaller class less warm ups just technique and training.

sweep from monkey guard (feel on there bicepts while you hold there sleeve)

Extend one leg completely (which in effect extends there arm taking it out of there use)spin body so the arm that is not holding the sleeve with the extended foot go inbetween there legs with it and keep your head close to there knee.

slightly bend knee then push it out shifting your weight and then sweeping.

you can land this in knee on stomach is you put your knee in beforethe sweep.

(2 points for sweep 2 points for knee on stomach)

Tood wednesday off.

I got a sore as shoulder and hip. They needed the day to rest.

I have eatten junk food a tleast once a day for the last 3 days.

I dunno whats wrong with me its gettin really hard to diet. The sweets just look so ****in good.

Any sugestions as to something to help deter me from sweets?

I personaly have no problem with sweets, it the salty greasy shit that I miss... like pizza...

My motivation is looking in the mirror, and saying "YOU'RE A DISGUSTING FATBODY". It works very good.

I still say taht but i look 30lbs better than i used to.

Once I tone up i'll be ****in good lookin i just miss the bad shit so bad.

BJJ tonight no gi

We did a sweet from butterfly guard that transitions into a painful ass neck crank.

you got them in your butterfly, pull there head down go for a gillotine (keeping one of there arms in it) the arm that goes around there neck shifts and goes under there armpit holding tight and grabbing there back, the other arm keeps the trapped arm tight. lift with one of your hooks roll your weight when you get on top/side shift your hip so your knee goes under the arm closest to you. Fight your free hand under there arm, clasp hands shift your base and PRESTO mean ass neck crank.

note: you don't have to do it with both arem you can alwasy just cranked the locked up one.

did sprawling drills annoying but i got through it. 3 3min rounds

then we did takedowns. I took down my teacher (single leg to body lock and trip while holdin the leg still), marcell (got belly to back position stepped out lowered my weight and whipped him), Jeremy (snapdown pushback). I did pretty good for someone who sucked at wrestling.

then we trained

I heel hooked a Rodrigo (purple belt) he crunched up i couldn;t straighten him out but i heard his foot crack so i let go he persisted so i torked itagain it cracked i let go he persisted i put pressure back on time ran out.

I rolled w/ jeremy (1/2 way to blue belt) that squirly ****er got my back! anyway I got him off of me he went to triangle i stepped over he switched to armbar. Yes I tapped

Kevin (purple belt) short man I can't shoot on him, I can;t body lock him, he is to small and stong as ****. He is so smooth on the floor he got be in the same neck crank 2 times in 2 min. then he armbared and i escaped time then ran out.

not a bad night but iwas barely sweating.

I do alot better when i don;t box earlier in the day but then i don't feel like i worked out.

I like your journal, and will start reading it every day. Very nicely done. As far as eating junkfood goes, here's what I do. Don't view food as food, view it as fuel for the machine that you want to turn your body into. Sweets, and fried foods etc., that's like putting sand in your gas tank, you wanna put the fuel into your machine that is gonna make it run the most efficiently, protein, low fat foods etc.. That and some good old fashioned discipline, if you can quit smoking, you can sure as hell quit eating shitty food.

Woke up this mornin at 8:30am to do a little workout in my room.

UNFORTUNATELY my room was COLD, super cold realy ****in cold.

I stretched out and couldn't get warm. I just gave up. I was bushed anyway.

I will go to boxing this afternoon but i have to cut it short cause family is in town. prolly only do 4 rnds of everything.


I want to start pushing myself on my cardio more. My Cardio is good but it needs to be better. I want to be able to throw down for 20min non-stop.

weight loss LOOKS to be commin along good but the scales don't seem to be moving. mabye i should drop more weight off what i lift and up my cardio more......

back to class (Organized Crime and the Drug business)

Boxing went as follows

4rds speed bag
4rds jump rope
4rds double end bag
2rds heavy bag
1rd shadow box

ran out of time had to go home

Saturday mornin BJJ

I want to express how great it is training with some of the people that are the top notch of this sport. Its absolutely amazing. They are such nice people and willing to help.

I rolled with Wade Rome. This man is strong as ****! and has some good technique too. He smoked me like a blunt.

I rolled with some guy I don't know who he is but he smelled. He kept tellin me how his JKD instructor was the best of the best. He wasn't bad but def annoying.

Then I rolled with this little dude. MAN THIS GUY WAS ****IN QUICK! just burting everywhere. nonstop boom boom bomm boom all over the place. he kicked my ass too.

I talked with Laborio about how you get on the team and all this and he told me I was already on the team. Just not the pro team. He then invited me to come to all there morning training and stuff. I can only got on Tuesday and Thursday unfortunately cause of class. Hopefully soon he will invite me to go train with them at al lthere sessions. The MT, wrestling, BJJ, and full Vale Tudo, but i don;t want to get ahead of myself.

Oh and i took some pics for tanner. not that many but a few I will get more later.

They really like that i have contacts on an MMA websight.

I ate before I trained today.

I know its better to work out n an empty stomach but i think it would have hurt me more to train for 3-4 hours without eatting at all that day than having some oatmeal and a banana before i go.

so yeah I ate oatmeal and a banana. I was gonna have a hard boiled egg but hey need to be boiled longer.

I got back from training and went to lunch. ****in asshole cafeteria people suck. nothing was cooked!

I ate a cold hamburger patty and a salad. They didn;t even have italian dressing so i used a garlic and basil dipping oil instead with some pamasean cheese and was quite pleased

Dinner was a chicken breast 2 bunger patties and the exact same salad as at lunch.

The burgers any good?

not really

I just ate 2 small pieces of a steakish kinda mean i'm not sure of the cut. and a na apple

Sunday! Thats my free day. I get to eat whatever I want whenever I want!

Free days are sooooooooo good!

imagine the good youud do your self if you dinddnt eat what ever you wanted and stuck to the diet.

Looks like you making great progress Ben, keep up the good work and train hard. Have you thought about doing any plyometrics to increase your quickness and agility to give you that extra burst?

I know nothing of polymetrics. everything i do is just out of my own common sense.

I know nothing of nutrition.

Bob as for the free day, when you constantly do the same thing your body gets in a rut. A rut being a plateau. To get out of that plateau you gott change something. the free day helps you prevent plateauing.

I gotta work today no boxing.

BJJ 9pm

I totally agree with you about taking a free day on Sundays. If you're disciplined with your eating for the rest of the week, a free day on Sundays isn't really going to make much of a difference.

Plyometrics are simple exercises that can be done most anywhere and they are great for increasing quickness and endurance. Jump squats, push up and raise off the floor and clap, box jumps, hurdle jumps. There's a million of them and they are great for increasing speed and quickness. Look into it, they will help increase your speed when you're going for that combo ko or that quick burst for the armbar.

what are box jumps?

hurdle jumps like running hurdles?

OK

Breakfast
1/2 bowl of grits w/ 1 tablespoon of brown sugar

Lunch
Burger patty w/ cheese
pulled pork 1/2 portion
baked beans 1/3 portion
Green beans 1 portion

Dinner
OK here i ****ed up.
1 pice turkey w/ gravy (I had no choice it was pre-made)
1 portion green beans
1 portion corn bread stuffing (That was my **** up. I wasn;t gonan eat it then i smelled that shit and it was over that shit is so good.)

Vulgar this thread is a good start for some plyo training:
http://www.globalmma.net/community/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6655

****!

Everytime I got somethign good commin up i hurt myself. luckly i don;t think this one is serious. so tomarrow I was gonan start training with the pro team of ATT.

what happens tonight?!?!?!?! While warming up I trip at least i think i did and i land pretty hard and it feels as though i pulled a muscle in my ASS. WHO PULLS A MUSCLE IN THERE ASS?

either way I was in pain the whole time. I could barely stand up off the goround let alone while in guard forthe guard pass we were doin.

sparring hurt like high holy hell.

****!

Guardpass
Stand up,grab opponent's knee spread your base and slide them down your legs when its open pas your leg over using your foot to block there 1/2 guard bring would be trapped foot out and pass to scarfhold

can you still take a shit?

Yes i can. It hurts to stretch my leg like goin for a triangel and then getting stacked. it hurts a lil bit to walk.

I hope its gone by morning

Breakfast
4 egg omlet w/ small ammount of cheese
1/2 portion of oatmeal

Lunch
2 pieces of italian sausage
1 salad
1 small portion of ice milk

Dinner
1 chicken breast (baked)
1 chicken leg (baked)
steamed carrots

I went and watched the ATT traingin in the mornin it was boxing mostly and how to incorperate that with your takedowns pretty cool.

I'm not gonna train for the next couple days hopefully that will help my butt feel better.

keep up the good work

Breakfast
scrambled eggs (powdered eggs) I barelly ate even 3 bites
bowl of grits w/ 1 table spoon brown sugar

Lunch
5 slices roasted turkey w/ thin gravy
green beans

snack
1/2 italian sub

so my muscle feels alot better.

i can cross my legs with no pain and i almost have all my flexability back. I think i will train tomarrow mornin

woke up ate a banana

i will leave to train in 15 min

HAHAHHA

Just got back from the harderst 2 hours of boxing in my life.

Howard Davis (Shannon Briggs's trainer) runs the Boxing for ATT.

He is gonan do some stuff with me alone next timei come in cause i'm far behind the rest of the group and he wants to catch me up.

I go to go with Din, Marcus, Aumray, and a couple other guys.
I never thought 3 days off would hurt me so bad my cardio sucked. tie to get back on the ball.

OH YEAH

Lunch
Chicken ceaser salad
Meatballs w/ a little red sauce
3 glasses of water

Dinner
2 chicken breasts
1 portion carrots

You seem to be eating better than before. Did you start losing more weight again bro?

last i checked i was down to 235 but i had just got off work i will find out tonight. and update here with my weight.

Weight 232lbs!!!!

Tonight at BJJ I braught my frat brother that said he was fighting in the UFC. Anyway He was like WOW thisa is brutal!! and i called him a pussy. He is much stonger than i thought and he is much fatter than i thought too. I armbarred him twice, guillotined him once and let him think he was gettin an achilies lock on me once (I then kicked him off and took his back). Well I know he can turtle well.

he said he was fighting in the ufc???? why did he say that

Cause he is a fool!

He is a some **** tard Gung Fu kid why was talkin about stick fighting in the UFC and shit. I old him he was insane and a liar but he persisted.

I will give him credit, I offered him a chance t get on the matt and he took it. Its more than i can say for some other people.

I HATE THE CAFETERIA!!!!

****in eeeewwwwwwwwww

Breakfast
Powdered eggs
2 pancases
hash browns
some bacon


AND I FEEL SICK! GROSS DISGUSTING!


on top of that there is no hot water to shower with!!!!

WHY HAST THOU FORASAKEN MEEE???

Cut out the bacon completely bro. Huge fat grams in that. Also watch the hash browns

I know. Trust me i know. I been kickin myself in the ass all day.

There was just noting else and i was starving.

I get that too bro, as long as you know, then it's fine. Also cheese is contains a lot of fat also. try to eat the least amount of cheese, just a fyi

Dinner
Pepper Steak
Mixed Veggies
2 glasses water
1/2 glass OJ

Muay Thai
muay thai was good unfortunately there was no muay thai, none of the instructors showed so we just grappled

I only got to go like 2 times cause of the language barrier. I couldn't really ask anyone to roll.

I met Tiburon he is mad cool.

Snack
Meatballs (no sauce)
Banana

I ate junk food today.

what was i sapposed to do easter candy was 25 cent!

I think i will pig out tonight and start the diet again tomarrow. (if your against this speak out now!)

BJJ was good today i was escaping shit like a mad man I think it was the new Gi.

I was rockin it.

we worked triangles and triangle defense it went over very well but i'm to tired to explain them right now sorry.

woke up 9 am

20 elevated push ups
50 crunches
20 squats
20 lunges
50 jumping jacks

no sweat not even a sign of sweat, not breathing hard either i should have done more butmy roomate was sleeping and starting to stir (he is a grumpy bitch when he wakes up)

breakfast
3 eggs
oatmeal

lunch
eggs w/ tomatoe
broccoli
chicken chopped up with tomatoe salsa and some lettuce


Went to box but the shit was canceled.

they made a schedule so that the fighters could get more personal attention but apparently that just M/W/F and then T/R are normal 11am time. I came at 1 for my section and it was all over.

:(

Dinner
seafood Imperial
stir fried vegitables


BJJ

did crazy traiing and i did really good.

3 min rounds non stop 1 min rest every 3 rounds 3 min rest

1 rd have guard
1 rd in guard
1 rd side mounted

1 rd side mount
1 rd mounted
1 rd mount

1 rd back mounted
1 rd back mount
1 rd training


I did really good with my guard, I was transitioning well and sweeping really good my passes were the best they have been in a long time.

I was doing good at making space while side mounted but i was over extending my arms getting me armbarred

I suck being backmounted and i suck having back mount i always **** it up.

went to boxing for the first time in a while

I wasn;t really feelin it, my shoulder kept clicking and it botherd me.

3rd double end bag
3rd speed bag
3 rd jump rope
2 round side bends (for slipping punches)
1 1/1 rd shadow box
1 rd heavy bag

****!!!!!

I JUST ATE LIKE 15 JELLY BEANS!!!


SHIT!!

Saturday is the post UFC NAGA in Miami. It was more in reference to that.

I was really considering competing cause for a while now i've been doin really good with people my level and a bit above.

Today i'm re-thinking I rolled wih a blackbelt and got housed now i feel like a failure. Granted I've only been in 2 months and this dude has been in for a minimum of 10 years but i feel like a failure cause iwas tappin every min at least.

BJJ same kinda set up as last time

1rd guard pass
1rd keep in guard
1 rd escape side controll

1rd sub/mount from side
1rd defent while mounted
1rd attack from mount

1rd defend back
1rd attack back

1rd spar
1rd spar
1rd spar

Boxing
side bands for slipping punches

mits 4 rds working jap and cross mostly

Boxing yesterday was just pads


Today wedid jab sparring, I took some really hard jabs the coach decided that i needed to work on my slipping and blocking I fully agreed.

breakfast
grits, scrambled eggs, fruit and water

ALRIGHT! Its been a while but I"M BACK!

OK

just did an early afternoon workout consisting of

20 push ups
100 knees curling things (for your stomach)
50 leg spreaders (spread leags out close and cross over/under rotate legs)
20 push ups
100 swim kicks
100 no weight leg press (lick doing a leg press but with no machine/weight)
20 push ups
100 squats
3 sets of 20 weighted side bends
100 slips (like boxing slipping punches)
50 twists
100 squats from a striking stance (to help with ducking hooks)

Go Ben

Last week i sparred a bit and the coach was watchin me. Afterward he was tellin me that I hit extremely hard.

I was shocked, I thought i hit like a bitch.

My shoulder hurts, I didn't go box today.

This pain thing needs to go away.

20 push ups
100 knees curling things (for your stomach)
50 leg spreaders (spread leags out close and cross over/under rotate legs)
100 swim kicks
100 slips (like boxing slipping punches)
50 twists
100 squats from a striking stance (to help with ducking hooks)

I just tapped Edson

I must have caught him by surprise
i was goin for a kneebar like when F Sham got Horn
and he was escaping i grabbed a reverse heel hook
i pulled it, and looked at his leg and saw the strain so i let it go
he goes KEEP GOING so i started pulling again then he tapped.

I was psyched

everyone stopped they were like "he is gonan **** you up"
I was like yup so he choked me out and armbar/triangled me
then goes you stopped tryin you scared you tap me again you get a blue belt so i went after him. i was about to try and finish off an achilies and the round ended.


This si the happiest day of my grappling/fighting carrear

he wasnt going 100%

no shit, but still, him going 50% he still houses everyone in the room without tryin.

Just got back form open mat no gi

tapped a brownbelt goin all out with a heel hook.

granted he tapped me 3 times prior and 2 times after

but i subbed him 1 time and had it locked but he escaped like 6 or 7 times.

I AINT NO PUNK!

I got my arm all snapped up in an armbar

it made a loud noise and i yelled he let it go

it don't hurt anymore but it might in the mornin i'm worried

it will.....sorry

nope it don't feel too bad, just a lil bit weak.

hopefully i don't have any 8 person tables at work today.

sounds like your bjj game is really improving, keep up the good work

I have been suckin ass in training in the last few days!

my shoulder has been really bothing me lately and my elbow hurts like mad since almost gettin snapped saturday. I think 2 of my toes are broken

i'm just not feelin it. i'm out of my groove. i'm not even tryin. i'm just lieing there.

****!

Edson is all yellin at me, your an embarsment, don't be easy, try , you don't try. push, move, go, all i do is stare him direct int he face emotionless and just space out.

****!

my shoulder seriously hurts.

I had a really good day at training today.

I worked my triangle really good and worked my sweeps