I got up and got my son ready to go to the babysitter and then I headed for the gym and got a full weight session in.
| Squats | 135×5 | 205×5 | 240×5 | 240×5 | 240×5 |
| Bench | 135×5 | 185×5 | 210×5 | 210×5 | 210×5 |
| Deadlift | 135×5 | 225×5 | 285×5 |
From the gym I headed over to the dojo – I had Spotify going on the Megadeth discography and Take No Prisoners started playing when I got in the car. I figured that was a perfect sentiment for what I was doing.
I got to the dojo and changed into my gi and started to get to work. Yeah I really need cardio – but I did get 45 solid minutes of work, my activities included:
- Jumping Jacks – 30
- Ran laps around the dojo (approx 2 laps each):
- Running
- Grapevines (doing figure 8s with my feet)
- High-heel run
- High-knee run
- Front stances with a reverse punch – was really focusing on moving from the center
- Going forward into Back stances one lap then backward into back stances – again moving from the center. My legs were really not liking these, so I made myself do a lot of back and forth across the floor with them (about 10 in total I think) while focusing mentally on only accepting victory and moving from my center.
- Got into Horse stance and did 100 thrust punches
- Did a few 2 minute rounds of shadow boxing:
- 1st round – jab/cross with simple footwork
- 2nd round – more complex footwork – an offline step followed by a swing step mostly
- 3rd round – elbows with foot work – worked a lot of spinning elbows
- 4th round – footwork with kicks
Not bad for the first time doing a hard training session like that in a while – let alone after doing a full weight session.
Yes, my body has been tired all day since, but it feels so damn good. I got my EDC draws done – the first few were noticeably slower as I hadn’t done them for a couple or three days. I’m sure the general fatigue didn’t help much either.
Yeah this is all about doing what I set out to do in spite of being tired. I don’t have another double training session on the calendar – but after today’s I want to make it a regular thing.
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