"The natural prodigy" BJ Couture's road from injury to the cage.

[bcooter151]

So yesterday I finally got the cast off my arm. While punching a tendon in my wrist ripped off a piece of bone in my hand. After surgery and more then 12 weeks in a cast, I am finally ready to restart my road to the cage.

My right hand is very weak. I have almost no grip strength, very little mobility, and there is now a noticeable difference in the size of my arms, the right one obviously being smaller from lack of use.

While I was in my cast, I lost almost 20lbs. I was at 188, I have been fluctuating between 169-171 for the last few days. This was heart breaking. While my bodyfat percentage has dropped, I also lost a lot of muscle mass, and I'm sure strength.

My goals over the coming months is to get up to 180-185 gaining lean mass and keeping my body fat level where it is, or lower. I want to fight at 170, but I plan to walk around closer to 180.

In this log i will update my strength training routine weekly with a chart including reps, sets, and weight. I will update my MMA class schedule after every class, including what we worked on, and how I felt about it. I will also include some information about my diet weekly because it will be a pretty simple calorie surplus (this is a bodybuilding website, so I'm pretty sure most of you know the proper way to eat for the goals I described). The focus of this log will be the recovery from my injury and how I am building size and strength, I feel that will be the most useful to the readers.


Thanks for stopping by.


Oh yeah... Im also training to run a half-marathon this spring... cross training ftw.

[Clark_Kent]

COOTER!!!

What's up? So your Doomsday hand has been unleashed upon the world now?

You are a smarter man than I as far as running the Half Marathon. I jumped straight into a full one and it was far from fun.

Good to see you can train again and I will check up on you up in hurr.

[bcooter151]

COOTER!!!

What's up? So your Doomsday hand has been unleashed upon the world now?

You are a smarter man than I as far as running the Half Marathon. I jumped straight into a full one and it was far from fun.

Good to see you can train again and I will check up on you up in hurr.

Yes SIR... the lethal weapon has been released from it's shackles and is again free to roam the streets fighting crime and injustice in bar rooms, pubs, and MMA gyms across detroit.

A full marathon does NOT sound like any fun whatsoever. A half marathon is just enough to push myself.

[bcooter151]

Okay, I started the log a little early. It will begin next week. I have been in physical therapy for the last 2 weeks, and havent gotten into the full swing in the gym. Monday it begins full tilt.

So far, I have been doing cardio and strectching and strengthening the tendons in my hand/forearm.

monday I will be back in the gym. and we'll get this thing going.

[bcooter151]

Aight, so here the deal on this week so far:

Diet-- 3600 calories each day, coming as close as possible to this split

76g fat
slightly less then 360g cabs
slightly more then 360g protien

Im not being overly strict this week, as its the first week back on a large calorie surplus, and I know it will take a little getting used to. So far, I have been pretty close to meeting those numbers though.

Supplements--
White Flood
Green Mag
Purple Wrath
St. Johns wort
Various vitamins, fish oil, flax oil

MONDAY
morning- p90x abripper x DVD- killed my hip flexors
Afternoon- physical therapy
evening- Flexibility work

Night- First I did three sets of the "Randy Couture" workout--
Couture Grappling Endurance--

Bent rows x8
Upright rows x8
Military press x8
Good morning x8
Split Squat x8 (each leg)
Squat push press x8
Deadlift x8

3 sets of 8 reps with 1 min rest in between

Seeing as this was the first time lifting since the injury, I just used the bar... and boy was it enough.


Right after lifting, I did my 2 hour kick boxing class.

[bcooter151]

Tuesday

school and homework all day


Afternoon-
Chest workout. --- damn it feels good to lift again

Evening- MMA class for 2 hours.
worked on Key lock, and transitioning to cork screw.

rolled with the new guy, who is built like a ****ing tank for 170.... he was a DI on Parris Island....
ALMOST got an oomaplata on Clarence, our wrestler.

[bcooter151]

Wednesday
Afternoon- Physical therapy

evening-- laid down for 20 minutes before Kickboxing, and had phone on vibrate.... slept through kickboxing

My whole body is pretty much sore from the previous 2 workouts anyway... Rest is a good thing.

More flexibility dvd tomorrow (i recommend downloading the p90x series, the workouts really are no joke, something productive to do when you can't get to the gym)

[bcooter151]

Thursday

GREAT DAY!

went to a new gym for their "sambo" class. It was pretty much all ground, mma work.

The rest yesterday was a good thing.

trained having someone in guard, getting punches rained down. got an armbar, and triangle, and ALMOST a gogoplata.

Great ground work for 2 hours. Great night.

[Clark_Kent]

You're one of those Gogoplata guys?

Everyone in my gym tries that on me, at least once per roll.

It is rude putting your foot all up in someone's face like that.