Enjoy The Pain... Like we haven't heard that before

I haven't updated in a while, but I wanted to share a little story that I thought was funny...

Couple of weeks ago I happened to be wearing a Kettlebell Advantage t-shirt while teaching a Saturday morning class at Lets Roll Jiu Jitsu. During class one of the ladies asked what my shirt said, another lady read it out loud to everyone. "Enjoy the Pain"! Then I had them start there next set of swings. After completing their swings the lady who asked me about my t-shirt starts a conversation with the class about how sore her legs were from doing goblet squats when she first started Kettlebell training with me. I thought ran through my head, what a good a idea. I told her "thanks"! All 6 people in class give her that look, "Why did you bring that up?"

"Let do some goblet squats!" The lady who give my the idea reply, "oh Man I hate those!" My reply back was "WHAT Does my Shirt Say!" in a low tone the whole class says "Enjoy the pain"... "That's Right! Now let's do some Goblet Squats!

I have to give Thanks to Mark Erickson RKC II for the giving me one of his Kettlebell Advantage T-shirts. Without the gracious gift None of this could have been possible! Thanks Mark!

Lots of BJJ Training, Well for me a least.

This week has been good for BJJ.... I got three days of training in! That's the most of gotten in a week in a looooong time. Better yet, we worked the recovering the guard something I have a problem with. Yep my guard is weak. Recovery is even weaker, so this was a great week to train. We did drills that I have done since I was a white belt almost 10 years ago. Either I missed those classes due to injury or travel, but it seem for the last 7 years I haven't done any of these drill at all.
It was a great week for BJJ training.... for me anyways.

Saturday Morning Group Class Will Be on the Beach

That's right, this Saturday August 8th ONLY, group class will be held on the beach at First Street in Hermosa Beach . Class will start at 8 am.

Taking Your Own Advise....

Last week While talking to a friend I give them a little advice to get back on track with KB training, and that was "You should do VO2 Max to get back. You will see it won't take as long as you think to get your cardio back." Or something a long those lines....

So Last Thursday I took my own advise and started back up my VO 2 Max training. I moved up to 8 reps in 15 seconds, with 15 seconds of rest. The last time I did VO 2 Max was a few months ago and was only doing 7 reps. I was finishing before the buzzer would sound. I knew back then I should have moved up and never did and there is no time like the present to do it, so I pulled the trigger. I competed 20 sets of 8. Not great, but it killed me! I thought I could get close to where I left off.... Boy was I wrong.... and what the hell was I thinking!

My next session was last Saturday Morning before I taught KB Class. I competed 34 set of 8. Still not great, but what an improvement. I completed 14 more set in just three days. I never thought I would improve that quick. I thought only go up by 5 or 6 sets, but not 14! The only reason I stopped was my clients where starting to show up and needed to get ready to teach class.

Today was my third session since I took my own advise. I Stopped at the 42nd set do to a blister forming on my right hand. I didn't want to take chance ripping it open. Better, another improvement this time 8 more sets then the last time. I would have went for more, but like they say Better to live and fight another day... This coming Thursday I will wear some hand protection and knock out another VO2 Max training session.

RKC Snatch Test:: Passed!

Friday morning of June 26th I re-took the New RKC Snatch test and passed in 4:26. Not bad, but I Passed. I didn't need to take officially, but as a RKC I want to be able to pass it with no problem with the time comes. . So my training doesn't stop. I will continue with the program I have been doing for the last month to improve my time.

Still Chasing the New RKC Snatch Test

After a a three classes of BJJ in one week, I'M Finally back in the mat again, I needed an extra day to recover to continue my Snatch workout. Today I forgot to reset my Gym Boss time to the 50:50 secs, so I worked out 1 minute on 1 minute rest. Next workout I will make sure to set the timer for 50:50.

My workout:
10 sets of 20 (10R/10L) with a 24 kg bell.

Friday Snatch Workout.

Today I didn't have much time but I needed to get my Snatch workout in. I warned up with a few swings then started my snatches. 10 sets of 20 (10L/10R) with 1 minute rest between sets. I felt good after my 8 set, so I decided I could do 10 sets. Until next week.....