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Wcustom
09-28-2009, 04:55 PM
My first journal.. and my first tournament. I gotta try and keep you guys updated with this for whoever cares that is but I might forget sometimes.


Weight: 147
Goal: Around 146+ but more conditioned
Training time: A year and a couple days.. only went to class like once a week first couple months but a year since the first class I went to.
Trainer: Lee Fortin, Purple Belt under Sylvio Behring
As you can see in the poster below for my tournament info.. the rooster weight division is 140lbs- weigh ins are on a Friday so I'll probably cut the weight to make that and hopefully be a strong 146+ on Saturday. My original plan was to start 5x5 or a type of powerlifting routine to be very strong 3 weeks ago but I didn't plan on injuries. So.. here goes.


My Jiu Jitsu schedule is tuesday - thursday - saturday.
Starting today (kind of late I know) I'm going to change my gym routine for different goals. My goals are to achieve a higher threshold for conditioning and muscular endurance and my jiu jitsu based goals are to just roll as much as possible before the tournament and work on things I already know.
I used to train for bodybuilding (hypertrophy style workouts) and I haven't been to the gym in like 3 weeks due to school/back injury. I'm all good to go now though. Here is what I did at the gym today..

clean & jerk variation 1m
Pull ups 30s
Plyo Pushups 30s
Plank 1m
Around the World (45lb plate)1m
Rest .. I tried to rest around only 1 minute but I lost track of time lots but I'll for sure be more accurate next time. I did this about 3 times and then started doing some other exercises that were kind of irrelevant.


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Wcustom
10-01-2009, 02:05 PM
Tuesday:

Did our warmup consisting of body weight exercises, situps, inverted sit ups, planks, neck up and down, neck side to sides, pushups, squats, and stretched out a bit.

Worked on Gi throws from standing, we did 3 different kinds. Also worked on hand positioning on the gi and collar chokes and collar choke defenses and counters to throws.

Last 30 minutes of class we rolled or drilled, whatever you wanted.

Wednesday:

Went to the gym and did
5 sets of one arm DB snatches for 5-10 reps
5 sets of DB Swings for 5-8 reps
3 sets of Inverted Rows really exploding on the positive and going down slow on the negative till failure
Did some light ab work and stretched