My Return to Goddess Status

ForeverFiending

ForeverFiending

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After a huge down time, it's time to get back in the game. Hoping this helps to keep me accountable and all suggestions are more than welcome from my Sherdog friends.

Steps I need to take this week to get this thing going:

1. Contact my old personal trainer to create a weight lifting/ cardio routine for the next 3 months. Also get a body fat assessment and a diet plan. ( I am fat, don't ask how much! ahh!)

2. Continue Hal Hagdon's 5k Novice training program (5 a.m. runs blahhh!)

3. Contact my old Muay Lao coach and start classes which are 1-2 X week.

4. Buy a gi from my old training partners who now make and sell their own line of BJJ gi's since I lost my gi pants last year and have to create a stupid outfit to train with until then.

5. Re-join my old BJJ gym and get my ass kicked over and over again until I feel like an elephant sat on me, and smile while they make fun of my inability to help myself in defenseless positions.. I'm sure this bill bring them great joy.

6. Figure out a way to sleep. Living things need to sleep for Christ's sake!

7. Inform my family that I am returning to training because I need it for my mental and physical wellness <3 Which to them means I become obsessive and gitty.

Yes.. this all sounds fun :) These are my goals for week #1 and needs to all be done by the end of the week.
 
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Good luck to you and have fun. Those sound like good goals to have. Stay strong and keep up the hard work. Remember that you can always find time.

I am getting back into things as well. I took a huge amount of time off of Judo to be lazy. Now I am starting to get into training with BJJ and have been making it to at least 3-5 classes a week. Aiming for 5.
 
minotauro rex said:
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Welcome
 
ShadowSneak said:
Good luck to you and have fun. Those sound like good goals to have. Stay strong and keep up the hard work. Remember that you can always find time.

I am getting back into things as well. I took a huge amount of time off of Judo to be lazy. Now I am starting to get into training with BJJ and have been making it to at least 3-5 classes a week. Aiming for 5.
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Nice! and with a Judo background I bet you are killing it! Thanks for the pep :icon_chee
 
This morning I did my 5 a.m. run, but it was bad because I do it with my dog (who just eats treats and snuggles all winter so he is still out of shape) and my 13 year old daughter who wanted to stop and walk a few times and blamed it on the brownie she ate before bed last night. The dog also had to poop during the run... well.. that's okay. It is Monday.

I was supposed to call my old personal trainer, but work is killing me as I worked 45 min over my shift, did not take lunch, and yet I must be a bad employee since I am not supposed to work over my shift and am required to take lunch.

It's Monday... I don't care, just a bump in the road. I'm going to hit up my old friend for my new gi now :)
 
Good luck with your goals and with picking up your training again! Sounds like you're going into it full swing.
 
First day back at BJJ! Got my new gi, it was awesome :)
Rolled from 11:30- 1:00 p.m. took a few breaks. Definitely need to get back in shape. I was tired by the end for sure.

Will be implementing tactical barbell training twice per week. Thanks to Vrain for all the great info! Sounds like a perfect routine to help my conditioning :)

Planning this week:

Mon morning BJJ

Tues. ??? have a work-dinner in the evening

Weds. evening Muay Thai

Thurs. evening BJJ

Fri. morning BJJ

Sat. morning BJJ / late night Salsa Dancing

Sun. ???

I will sneak in some early morning runs and figure out what days to do the TB... that's what I will work on tonight so I don't have to think, just do :)
 
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ForeverFiending said:
First day back at BJJ! Got my new gi, it was awesome :)
Rolled from 11:30- 1:00 p.m. took a few breaks. Definitely need to get back in shape. I was tired by the end for sure.

Will be implementing tactical barbell training twice per week. Thanks to Vrain for all the great info! Sounds like a perfect routine to help my conditioning :)

Planning this week:

Mon morning BJJ

Tues. ??? have a work-dinner in the evening

Weds. evening Muay Thai

Thurs. evening BJJ

Fri. morning BJJ

Sat. morning BJJ / late night Salsa Dancing

Sun. ???

I will sneak in some early morning runs and figure out what days to do the TB... that's what I will work on tonight so I don't have to think, just do :)
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Awesome week.. I am already 100 times happier and I feel physically awesome and this is just the beginning :) I missed my boys (and girl) so much and it's so wonderful to be training with them once again! I was nervous for so long because I gained a lot of weight and am so out of shape that I was ashamed. Yet, it was like I never left. They are still my team after all this time and I am so glad I am back where I belong.

I know it sounds kind of wrong, but a few of my fighter friends have also gained some weight.. I guess it's just normal. You are in crazy shape when you are actively competing, it's not something you can maintain for too long if you have a demanding job and a ton of outside responsibilities like family. I guess we are all human.

Mon. I did my early morning BJJ before work as planned.

Tues. the work dinner.. I ate lobster and drank 2 glasses of wine. It was actually a very good talk and I'm very glad I went.

Weds. I missed early a.m. BJJ because I had a very important work meeting (which.. was not what I hoped it would be!) but I DID go to my old stand-up coach's new gym/class. It was good, I love that man, he is the best stand up coach ever and there I suprisingly was not as sore from class as I expected. I think I will just join and take the 2 classes per week and switch to privates whenever I actually get a fight (should be at least 3 months I'm guessing)

Thurs. I think I did nothing :icon_neut aside from walking the dog.. oh well...

Fri. Again, early a.m. BJJ, which is a great class. I met several of the new girls. There are def a lot more girls at both gyms. Back when I was training BJJ I was the only girl member.

Sat. Awesome open mat BJJ at 11 a.m. I rolled hard for almost 2 hours. I was exhausted. I did well against a couple new guys, I almost subbed a tough guy, but didn't :( and I got totally horrible dominated by another who is "new to me" and I asked him to help me out since he so easily crushes me. He agreed to point out my many flaws and he will be a great key player in my growth. I also met another new guy who is also very helpful and saw a bunch of the "old guys" who were glad to see me. Very good time and I was wiped.

Then I went to salsa/bachata dance for 4 hours. I did not dance the entire time like I used too (I am out of shape with this as well) but it was a good work out and a great time with good people. Plus, I was still tired from getting tooled in open mat.

My sleep is terrible. I don't sleep enough still and since Sat. BJJ I am pretty sore. I need a new bed (or mattress topper since I'm broke) and I need to figure this sleeping crap out... still.

My diet was going well, but this week was pretty bad. This is mostly due to poor preparation. I have to make a list, plan meals, grocery shop appropriately and put more thought into diet. If I don't prepare for the week like I'm supposed to, the whole thing falls apart since I don't have time during the week... BAD BAD BAD

My finances are okay for now, but I have to increase my BJJ membership from 3x week to unlimited since I can see already that I am addicted and will be going whenever I can make it. I also have to join the Muay Thai gym. More $$$, but for now I'm okay. I need to make it work long term because I can see now how much better my mental and physical health is as a result of training with the people I love. It's worth every penny and I'll find a way.

That was week #1
 
Okay, okay... I had some vacation days this week, so not a "normal" week. I am still making progress though :)

Sunday I wanted to have family/friend time so we went to the beach and the drive-in movie. I ate crap (shame on me) I did not work out, but probably should of. Day off, I guess.

Monday Surprise, surprise, I got a sun burn! wooo hoo.. I was looking forward to some day classes at the BJJ school, but the thought of a gi rubbing all over me was a bit scary. I kept mulling it over in my head until I procrastinated to the point that it was too late anyway. Shame on me. Another "day off" I guess.

Tuesday Still burned. Thought about rolling again, but instead I met with an old friend an went for a long walk by the bay. Yippee. This must be what a vacation is like.

Weds. I had to work, still burned so I again missed my favorite early morning BJJ class. I had a late night Dentist appointment which was no good.

Thurs. Finally! I get to train! The burn isn't so bad now, I graduated to blisters. Today was MT class, so I got to train! yippee! It was fantastic. I am becoming re-addicted to training, surprisingly it has all been coming back to me pretty quick. Met some new people and reunited with some old. I paid my fee and officially joined. So I can take classes Weds. and Thurs. (wish it was available more)

My old PT finally got a hold of me and we have an appointment for Monday. I told him that I want to fight again and that I am in poor condition right now. I told him I want to implement the TB training. I told him I have no specific time frame. He wants to do one month of cardio and endurance conditioning, one month of general strength training, and he will read the TB book and we will implement that in month 3. He wants me to eat clean, drink plenty of water, avoid energy supplements or fat burners, but some supplements are fine and we will discuss that Monday.

I love him, he is awesome, so whatever he wants to do sounds good :)

I will be doing a 5k Obstacle Run in Sept. and NAGA in Oct. hopefully a fight somewhere in the near future too.

Friday I am ready for a gi-rub, so early morning BJJ, then work, then I'm not sure about the evening. Either more BJJ or salsa dancing. maybe even just a run.

Saturday I have to work and then am on call so I cannot train, but will run at the park after, about 3 miles?

Sunday Same, I have to work and then I am on call so I cannot train, again I will run at the park, probably more than 3 miles?

So I had some lazy days, but I have rekindled some old flames and my love for the training and the people is strong. Slow but steady progress this week. Next week will definitely be a better training week (except I am on call all week and my MT trainer is away until the following week) I should have a better plan and my diet more under control.

Diet still sucks. Vacation days are not an excuse. I need to stop being a baby and step it up. This was always my weakest point in the past as well.

Finances are still okay... well.. not really, I had to pay for new wheel bearings which had been replaced less than a year ago, but oh well... and I have to spend about $1300 on dental co-pays in the near future and I am trying to buy a house this Summer. Oh, and take the kids clothes shopping. I can do this for now though.
 
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Nice work....looking forward to seeing your progress...
 
Okay... so it's been a while. Not because I have nothing to report, but because I have been so busy that I have not been on Sherdog.

It has been one month since my full return to training. I feel AWESOME on so many levels. I'm not so sure where I left off, but this past week was a good/exhausting/progressive week.

Personal Training: A couple weeks back I met with an old trainer friend from the family gym. He did a full body and fitness assessment on me. He said nothing jumped out at him, but there was plenty "left to be desired" (for some reason that choice of words eats at my soul.

He has decided to see me twice a week, makes me keep a log of what I am eating, when and why, told me I must sleep and eat food as to not waste either of our time. I had been so screwed up, that my sleeping and eating patterns were all over the place. I have miraculously resolved that. I think in big part because I love this guy, he has offered to help me, and I don't want to let him down. Also of course, because he is 100% right and I can't get back to my old state of bliss without sleeping and eating well.

He has been designing workouts for me that are completely unique and cater to my goals. I actually never worked with him before in the past, I just knew him from the gym that I went to with my kids almost every day and would chat with him. I'm very very impressed with him as a trainer and he definitely knows what he is doing.

Right now these sessions are based on muscle recognition. He says we are not doing strength training yet (although it feels to me like strength training) he says we are isolating muscles groups and reawakening those muscles. I do feel much stronger and I can feel myself kind of re-establishing that relationship with my body. In the past, when I was in shape, I always felt like I could feel all of my muscles. When I was out of shape, I felt like I just "had a body." This feeling is probably one of the things I missed most.

He also has clear goals and plans for how much muscle he hopes to put on me and how much fat to lose. Whatever he wants, I am game. I trust his judgement completely.

BJJ: I have been training BJJ consistently for one month now. About 3 X week, give or take, depending on work. Generally regular week 7 hours a week. Although I hope to step this up very soon.

I am still very rusty and get my butt kicked regularly, but I have been remembering how to roll and have been able to submit some of the guys a few times. I am focused on gi this time around, and it is incredibly obvious how my style of nogi vs. gi is different.

I am very good at stacking, crushing, and applying uncomfortable pressure to have my way, this was all learned in nogi (I assume). Having the gi limits this greatly. I am trying to train myself to grab mine and the other's gi and it's not something that comes naturally, but it getting better. So far I am constantly cursing my own gi as it is always being used against me!!

I will be doing a grappling tourney in Oct. for both gi and nogi


Striking: I am reunited with my favorite coach, as mentioned before. I get to train with this group about 3 hours a week (not much!), although I would love more, fortunately my stand-up is pretty well developed and this may be enough training to "maintain" me for now. I am learning some fun new tricks though ;) I sparred for the first time in two years the other day against a guy who is fighting this weekend and did surprisingly much better than I anticipated. It was pretty even.

A goal is set for a MT match in Nov., at that time I will of course, put in more hours into this and have some personals with the coach. After this, I hope to explore the possibility of an Ammy MMA fight to follow.
 
So last week... (week #3?)

Mon. 1.5 mi run followed by a.m. BJJ (I have decided to run before BJJ in the morning)

Tues. a.m. personal training

Weds. a.m. BJJ (skipped this run due to moderate shin pain) & p.m. MT
this was my first double workout in 2 years!!

Thurs. p.m. MT w/ light sparring (shin pain almost gone, replaced with sore/bruised knee)

Fri. a.m. BJJ & late a.m. personal training (although I was beat by then, the trainer said he did not see a flaw in my session with him, much to my surprise!)

Sat. late a.m. 2 hrs. BJJ open mat (usually very exhausting!)

Sun. OFF
 
This week:

Mon. a.m. BJJ & p.m. personal training

Tues. late a.m. BJJ, then lounge at the beach :)

Weds. a.m. BJJ & p.m. MT

Thurs. p.m. MT

Fri. a.m. BJJ & possible p.m. sparring or salsa dancing? will see...

Sat. hopefully late a.m. BJJ open mat, but I am going to some sand sculpting thing, so I may not be able to go to that. If not, I will have a good long run in the a.m.

Sun. Not sure yet.. will figure that out as the week goes on

SLEEP has been good. I have been averaging 8 hours per night... miraculously ever since my PT gave me a short speech on the issue.

DIET has been much better. I am preparing in advance, writing everything down, and avoiding bad foods for the most part.. however, I have been going to tons of cookouts, there are a lot of birthdays, I have been drinking wine, sangria, and eating some bad things. But everything has been in moderation. It is not perfect, but I intend to enjoy my Summer as I progress into fighting shape :)

INJURIES haven't been bad. I've been keeping track of that too. Muscle soreness is surprisingly not an issue except the days that I have been doubling my workouts. I did have some pretty bad shin pain, but that didn't last long. I have a bruised knee, that will go away. I have some skin abrasions that keep re-opening and have been told to use Liquid Bandaid. So I will get some today. I am covered in bruises, which isn't very feminine or "sexy", but too bad. My friends are aware of my bizarre choice of hobbies.

When I started this, I had a moderate shoulder injury to a shoulder I had injured a few years back at work. This is now completely gone and I have full range of motion. My PT has been making me work this area, which I am sure has helped and he also told me I need to stretch every time before training (I know.. more common sense.. but I wasn't dong it). I have been doing that and I have no more issues with my shoulders.. as of yet.
 
ForeverFiending said:
Right now these sessions are based on muscle recognition. He says we are not doing strength training yet (although it feels to me like strength training) he says we are isolating muscles groups and reawakening those muscles
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Considering that you dont (seem to) have a history of crippling injuries and conditions, or an excessively sedentary life style, this particular paragraph fucking screams of "snake oil salesman".
 
golvmopp said:
Considering that you dont (seem to) have a history of crippling injuries and conditions, or an excessively sedentary life style, this particular paragraph fucking screams of "snake oil salesman".
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I took about 2 years off and didn't do much "working-out"... and FYI, he has been helping me as a friend/admirer/needs to challenge himself as a trainer-type deal. I am going to say something to him, but he does not seem to want my money.

Besides, it's working... maybe I did not word it properly, but up until recently I did not feel strong at all. Since this return, I have not been doing any heavy strength training yet I feel significantly stronger because I feel like I am utilizing all my muscles again vs. lazy. I don't know how to explain it. His exercises are also geared towards keeping me injury free as I am quite prone to injury at my job.

I have been nothing but impressed so far.
 
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