Oh my god this one is giving me a hard time ! I stretch everyday but this will take time for sure ..

For yesterday´s training I checked Bruce´s schedule, I picked some of his exercises such as:

– Punching with weights.

3sets of 12 straight punch  and cross, this one was tough. I had 3kgs weight on each arm , may be too heavy, but great to test this one.

– Stomach exercises

Waist twists

Sit ups with medicine ball dropings in the stomach and regular

– Forearm exercicses

Leverage bar curl and reverse

– Stamina, Agility

Alternate split ( for as far as I can go of course:-)

Jumping squat , yeah this one I had to try, as I am getting better at stretching I thought this will look kind of OK… but I have some work to do !

To that I added some ” frog jumps”, regular push ups ( 40 in a row ),  push ups with legs on the big Yoga ball ( 40 ) , I just went up from 30 to 40 my goal is 50 before the summer.

Regarding all this,  I also read that Bruce said it is not how many you do it is how you do it, I try to pay attention to the form and make sure I do things right.

 I tested sit ups in different ways, I can do 200 regular with no problem seems a bit too easy so I change position and make deeper moves while lying on the yoga ball,  there I can only do 30!

Pretty intresting .. tonight I will have to test more of Bruce´s exercises such as Leg raises and leaning twist and I am quite curious about frog kicks.. 🙂

Good energy tonight with the weight lifting,  I have not been working enough with the weights lately, but this will definetly come back as one session a week as usual on wednesdays.

After that I did some pushups and  sit ups, I have done this for a while now and  this is good to feel the improvement , I can do more of them and I feel stronger. Sit ups have never been a problem but still I have to build some more abdonminal muscles.

Then I went over to stretching,  you won´t believe it , I could lift to the bridge ! allright it is not getting high enough but as we know I could not lift at all yesterday. I could hold 5 seconds ! I did it over and over again until I could hold 10, I am very pleased, I give myself a month to accomplish this without any problem. The split is getting better as well, even if there is a long road to get to it .  I was sceptical yesterday but now I feel that maybe I will reach the goal before the summer…I was just thinking, I have been training JKD for 5 years soon, well that´s about time!

Remy said he is stretching 35 minutes everynight I do that too , we´ll see who can do the split first 🙂

Just done with today´s training.

Stretching is the  main focus today, I feel that it goes well,

The Bridge position does not look any better today  but like everything else, I have to give it some time. ( I am a bit sceptical for this one really, I don´t know how I will be able to get more flexibility in my back, I look forward to receive the book I ordered and see if anything can help me in there).

Either than that,  I did some pushups and Situps. Increase the level of those would also be nice.

I feel quite tired today, hopefully I will be in better shape tomorrow as weight lifting is waiting for me when I get home:-)

ok,  now I will add some fotwork and I will be done for today…

Tonight I tried to find good exercices on the web , not much to find so first I ordered a book about flexibility for martial artists then I stretched .

I believe that I will get there, the split I mean, how long this will take I don´t know,  but I assume that  if I go on with good exercises everyday I will be much more flexible anyway.

But what´s up with my back ? no really, I tried to do the bridge today in front of the mirror to see how it looks like and really I am a bit concerned , my back is just not flexible at all.  I tried with the medicine ball under the lower back and get started from there, then with the big yoga ball, works as long as I have something maintaining my back but what can I  do to get there with no help?

This one will be a real challenge, because right now it just looks ridiculous.

2-2-2010

Training of the day, session at my place with Micke:

Speed reaction on pads, punches and kicks, found this quite difficult… I am too slow ..

Blocking drills with simultaneous attack.. this one goes  a bit better

Try to hit Micke with hook kick… well ….

Reaction on attack situations, self defense  drills , few exercices with arm grabbing, strangulation and usual attacks with bare hands.. Grappling, result of this is quite obvious, speed in the reaction is needed not to end up there at all .. because of my size there is no way I can pull myself out of Mickes body weight ( 103 kgs !!! )  if I get down it is too late, I can try to bite and reach some sensitives parts but either that , there is not much I can do.

stretching,  balance drills,  situps and to finish me, punches and heavy ball throwing in the stomach,   for the abdominal muscles to get stronger, because they are TOO WEAK !! says Micke..

the rest of the week is for me to work on my strengh and speed .. and stretch and.. and everything else.. 🙂

As I said Mondays are a bit tricky, tired after the sunday session and pain almost everywhere, at first I thought I would take this day off but I didn´t feel too good about it.

So I did some pushups anyway,  better than nothing but very bad .. I know !