As write this, the little bastards next door are popping fireworks and flaming rockets are whizzing by my house uncontrollably. Earlier we had a different sound. The sounds of heavy death metal rang through The Bat Dojo. The minute timer ripping out the sound of an annoying boxing bell beginning our duty to suffer. Sweating, cursing, we engaged in our endeavor to endure some pain. The airhorn fires. Relief. Something our opponent probably would not provide... The boxing bell fires! Eight times we ran through the mini-circuit. Every minute one guy would work while the other rests, reminding the worker how crappy he is performing. Pushing each other until something spewed uncontrollably from our cardiac sphincters.
In total, each person worked for four minutes. Short and sweet. Hey, if training for one five minute round works for Shane Carwin, oh wait...
As I've said before, it's not easy. One of the words slurred during today's training session was either "puke" or "throw up". I can't remember exactly. I was busy lowering my center of gravity, collecting my chi energy and preparing for battle in case a prior meal was used as a pre-emptive military strike upon my mats and I.
Here's the break down for today. It's upper body centric due to some sort of alien life form embedded in The Dude's knee. Probably having little alien-squid hybrids which will one day burst from his patella during Muay Thai, infecting us all. Couldn't be as bad as ringworm or staph right?
- 15 minutes of basic warmup, punching the defenseless bag and general mucking around as usual.
1 minute - Pushup with a crunch in the middle, while your feet and stuck in the rings about 1.5 feet off the ground.
1 minute - Gi pullups
1 minute - Decline, one armed pullups on one ring, while punching a 10 lbs weight up into the air.
1 minute - Incline, one armed straight stability hold while yanking up a 10 lb weight(looks like you're elbowing a guy behind you in the liver).
Then we cooled off with some core exercises.
- Stick your feet in one of the rings and swing using the core 180 at the hips back and forth, keeping your ass and head off the floor. Tough!
- Basic plank on one forearms (1 min hold)
- Modified lunges with 10lb miniball. Lung and raise the ball straight up as you launch a Muay Thai knee forward.
After that we sat around and watched various Marcelo Grappling videos, reminding us actually how bad we really are at jiu jitsu.
As we continue, the workouts will get a bit more difficult. I have several new little evil bastard tortures built. I'll probably blog them tomorrow. They are awesome :)
Here's some shots of the action.
The Dude doing crunch push up thing.
The Dude immensely enjoying gi pullups.
Me having a great time dangling by my fingertips.
The Dude punching a weight while performing a pull-up. Multitasking!
Me trying punching weights with BadBoy eyes hovering over my head.
That's gotta mean something!
Mark!
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