[quote]Robert A wrote:
I think there are likely several things at play here. First, the PR was likely a big one and you had a bad day. How long ago was the 355? Was it set on a random week, or was their a lead up/peak/cycle before it was tested?
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No peak or anything, just a random ME session.
[quote]Robert A wrote:
Second, I will reiterate that I do not think it is fair to say you have really “switched” your workout. I do not intend that at all like a criticism. I am simply trying to say you added to your workload, not substituted workload.
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Altered my set up of my strength work and added conditioning to the work load. I didn’t mean it like I cold turkey switch. More like a phase shift into a different style of training.
[quote]Robert A wrote:
If I am tracking you correctly your “MMA” work is done entirely on Wednesday. This is probably a big switch (your post seems to indicate that you have not trained any kind of martial art since you were “a kid”), and you only gave yourself a week or two to adapt. If I did the opposite, gave myself two weeks to adapt to an ME lower/max squat workout on Wed, what would you say if I expressed concern over my rubber legs during Friday sparring?
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Poor wording on my part. The most recently I did a martial arts was about a year ago.
[quote]Robert A wrote:
Side Note: I really think you should be doing some kind of MMA/technique work at least twice a week. Only working out once a week has never seemed to yield any kind of technical improvements in my experience. If you only have access to training/teachers/coaches once a week, a second day of solo practice can be huge. Even if all you do is walk through/practice what you worked on last Wednesday on an additional day, by yourself, for 30-60 minutes it will pay huge dividends, HUGE.
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I have a heavy bag that I have been trying to use on a semi regular basis lately. Specifically working combos, reconditioning my shins, and getting my knee and kick technique down. Unfortunately I have no where to hang it once I move (Moving to a downstairs apartment, no garage). My girlfriend is at bootcamp currently, but I’m hoping when she gets back she can do some padwork with me. She is also a interested in learning grappling, so that gives me a dummy to work ground technique with without having to muscle around too much.
[quote]Robert A wrote:
Accommodating this to your lifting schedule may be as simple as switching from a 7 day schedule (All days: ME upper & ME lower and DE upper & DE lower get trained once every seven days) of Mon, Tues, Fri, Sat to a 3 day a week schedule. So something like Tues, Fri, Sat…Tues to complete a “training week” for lifting and MMA training on Mon and Wed. The Westside template can still work well with this schedule modification.
Regards,
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For the time being, especially until I get used to the workload, I don’t think I can recovery from 4 weight training sessions. At least not naturally. Still keeping a similar style of training with the ME Upper and Lower, but I’m going to cram the DE work into one day and rather than train the power lifts specifically, probably do some sort of olympic lifting with some complex or strongman medley afterwords.
Once school starts I should be able to still make one or two training sessions at my gym, but that also opens me up to the Judo and Martial Arts club on campus. They don’t really have any equipment besides some mats and a stand up heavy bag and they don’t always lets you go too hard, but it still some technique work and the MA club has open mat time. I can usually find at least one person who knows what they are doing. I don’t have an extra pair of shin guards for a sparring partner, but I have an extra pair of boxing gloves and MMA gloves.
Other than that I should be able to add in some shadowboxing and technique work on other days. Bag work if I can find a place to hang it.