No love for time Dr. Jones.

just a quick note gentle reader. I am going out of town for a few days, my parents are in town.. No updates for a while.
Go out in the sunshine.
Mahalo.

Book learnin'

Day time workout:
medicine ball burpee to granny toss for height.
5x down basketball court and back.

Class:
we learned a strange arm-lock to shoulder-lock from side control (base switched to the head). Weird, for the non-Bjj player, it's as weird as it sounds.
second class we worked on cross-collar choke from mount and guard.
Then we worked on positional specifics in-guard. I was on my back for 10 minutes as people rotated through my guard. Lot of fun, but I gassed pretty bad at the end. Still getting my shape back after the back injury.
Rolled with a white belt that is pretty new, I got too lax and he did a good job of making me pay for it. I'm going to have to take that guy more seriously.

Book learnin':
I bought Gracie Submission essentials the other day. You can't learn jiu-jitsu from a book, but so many moves get lost, or learned partially during class time that I feel the time with the book is well spent. I'm going to have to invest in a couple of books to allow me to rediscover moves that may have fallen out of my game.

Occupation: Fool.

One of the best, brightest, and funniest folks to hold a microphone died this weekend. George Carlin is taking the big siesta. One of the best birthday gifts I was ever given was tickets to see him perform on my 18th. My sense of humor, and love of the manipulation of language was all his influence. Too bad. Happens to the best of us.. and everybody else for that matter.

Happy Solstice.

Today is the summer solstice. There is a crazy whack-funky street fair between me and my gym. There was no chance of getting a car through, so I just walked.
First let's catch up.
Thursday, I took the day off. I was feeling pretty beat-up and the wife was heading out of town friday, so I decided to hang out with her at home.
Friday, the workout as designed was to work in pairs, with the goals being 50 TGUs each, and 50 pull-ups each. The partner's "rest" doing either planks (for the pull-ups) or kb clean and lunge (1 kb) basically you work all out, and as soon as you start to fatigue you tag your teammate. Things stop when you hit 50. Well we had odd numbers so I did something else:
3x kb snatch to TGU 5/5 then 5 pull-ups
then kb clean/jerk-pull up ladder:
6-1

Today we worked some sweet passes, and then I rolled a bit.
The back is still cranky, but ok.
Then I came home for a bit then walked to the gym, and did this:
deadlifts:
worked up to a single at 425, then did 2 sets

pull-ups:
bw+45 x 3
bw+25 x3
bw x 6

1 arm rows:
8/8 @ 95 x 3

tired but feeling good. Folks are coming over to watch the Ultimate fighter finale.

Your pay.. earn it.

I admit it, I am a snob. I know a good bit about training, but I am far from an expert, but I am a proficient amateur. I have no patience for professional trainers who either don’t know, or don’t care enough to take care of the people that are paying them to at a minimum keep them safe, and at a maximum get them fitter. Two experiences (at two different facilities) yesterday: First, the client is doing a circuit of exercises (Bulgarian split squats, push-ups, 1 arm rows, and walking lunges) he is doing exactly none of these exercises with decent range of motion, core stability or even control of his body. His “trainer” is standing there one arm crossed, one hand under his chin staring off into space. He is making no corrections, or even suggesting that perhaps doing split squats with his weight forward of his front knee, with the knee bending inward at an angle that hurt me.. Might be a bad thing. I understand, that it’s a bit of a blow to people’s ego to have their form corrected, you might even lose clients that way, but if they get hurt they’re not going to be paying you any way, and not trying to help people is reprehensible.
The second instance I was setting up to do some speed pulls against bands when the trainer and his victim..I mean client set up at the other lifting platform. So far so good.
“We’re going to do deadlifts” hey! Even better.
“Is that the exercise that always hurts my back?” Uh oh.
The “client” grabs the bar from the trainer, and descends. She gets in the neighborhood of the floor, and her hip mobility is used up her lumbar spine flexes, her butt tucks under, and her back hurts. The trainer nods in approval, and this poor woman heads closer and closer to disk issues one deadlift at a time. Some people need adjustments to exercises to accommodate their particular body type/mobility issues/whatever to ignore that and to keep pounding people through the same program is to show that you are not skilled enough to make assessments and adjust accordingly. This is compounded by the fact that the client said she was in pain, and the trainer forced her, like so much play-doh through a fun factory, to do the exercises without trying to adjust her body or the exercise so that she could do them pain free.
In my opinion what these guys were doing is worse than stealing. They are activly injuring people, then asking to be paid. It's pitiful. Know your craft, and do your job.

My workouts (pain and trainer free):
Morning:
Chins 4,4,3,3 @ bw+45
1A dumbbell press: 6/6 @ 75, 4/4 @ 85 x 2
1A rows: 6/6 @ 95 x 3

Afternoon:
Mobility drills and whatnot.
Speed pulls:
8 singles @ 315+2x Monster mini bands. I really liked these, I can go heavier, but this was my first go at pulling against bands, and I was short on time.
I will revisit.

Jitz:
Couple basic side control escapes, and two quick rolls. I got beat up, but did pretty well. Tired, but good work.
Mahalo.