Strength training for the puny

[mschatz]

*switches stance*

*attempts flying omoplata*

*knocks self out cold*

*googles omoplata*


That looks sweet! I dont know what i did to deserve that though :icon_evil


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W5dVr-f9GU

 

[Standard]

*googles omoplata*


That looks sweet! I dont know what i did to deserve that though :icon_evil


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W5dVr-f9GU

ummm it was a flying omoplata


really hard to push press without a shoulder joint... :icon_twis

 

[mschatz]

really hard to push press without a shoulder joint... :icon_twis

damn, i need a strategy to compete with all this 1/4 explosive front squattin' and shoulder joint crackin' sabatoge...

 

[SmashiusClay]

Tigers win - three finals out of three competitions this year!

Wasn't the most dominant performance, Bristol have come a long way in the last few years, and Gloucester will be a very tough side in the final; but I'm hopeful.

Minor point - Bristol's nickname is the shoguns, now (and if any japanese speakers could correct me hwere that's fine) I thought that shogun meant 'supreme military leader' as in there's only one of them. So how do you gets multiple shoguns?

Oh well, just kinda bugged me.

Light cardio - 15 minutes skipping rope work, just getting my foot work back up to scratch, trying to stay light and quick, moving from side to side and shifting weight quickly, doing lots of work on changing patterns rapidly etc. etc.

mostly this was a way to get some blood flowing through me again, I always get evil DOMS after I work kicks heavily after a lay-off from focusing on kicking (recently I've been focusing on hand speed whenever I've been striking (which isn't often enough really)), my VMO must just get fed up of acting as a shock absorber for my roundhouse kicks and decide to protest.

 

[Zerocrew1984]

Shogun-Japanese military leaders who ruled the country from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries. There was still an emperor in Japan under the shoguns, but he was reduced to a mere figurehead.

 

[Stonebreaker]

Multiple Shoguns are fine; it's having more than one at the same time that's the tricky bit.

+1 for logging whatever martial arts training you care to do.

Lot of folks over in the grappling forum spoke highly of Bravo's book, and Aesopian (I think) posted a full blow-by-blow of one of his seminars a while back.

*pause*

Smashius, is there a reason that I can't remember you ever posting over in the grappling forum? You have anything against it/the grappling regulars, or do you just not bother checking out what gets discussed there?

 

[SmashiusClay]

Multiple Shoguns are fine; it's having more than one at the same time that's the tricky bit.

+1 for logging whatever martial arts training you care to do.

Lot of folks over in the grappling forum spoke highly of Bravo's book, and Aesopian (I think) posted a full blow-by-blow of one of his seminars a while back.

*pause*

Smashius, is there a reason that I can't remember you ever posting over in the grappling forum? You have anything against it/the grappling regulars, or do you just not bother checking out what gets discussed there?

I'm really liking Bravo's book, will have to get toether with a few of my mates to have a roll focused on practicing rubber guard work in no-gi.

I'm sending through my application to fight on this show in june, think I'll aask to only fight amateur as my training in stand up has been the gheyness recently and I've got a lot of other stuff to do than train over the next few weks. So there should be much more MA logging in here in the next month or so.

I used to post semi-reguarly over in grappling but a few things mean I don't post there all that much. Firstly the endless judo vs. bjj, 'who's better a bjj blue belt or judo black belt?' and 'here's a video of a guy from my martial art beating up people from your martial art' threads just got me down after a while. I have a network of people who I train with in grappling and i can chat to about it, I didn't have that in strength training and still don't have anything close to this forum so I focused on posting here rather than over there.

Therre was other things, the repeated 'leglocks are for cheats/require no skill' (read - I got tapped because I rely on using a crappy guard, if people won't play my game I get bitchslapped and it's easier to whine than learn) threads and the number of people who've been to a month's lessons, watched a HL video on youtube and now know everything about grappling etc.

Really I guess I never really warmed to the palce, maybe it's just that I don't feel I mesh well with the regulars, I have very similar feelings about stand-up. The mods of both places do a good job and they're decent enough but little things bother me and I'd rather whore up the essenpee.

 

[the_w1se]

Smashius how do you feel your overall weight training has transferred over to your grappling?

 

[SmashiusClay]

Smashius how do you feel your overall weight training has transferred over to your grappling?

Ask my opponents

Seriously, it's made a world of difference, these days things just feel easier, throws just seem to snap and when a technique is sorta there I can finish it if I need to by just powering through. My throws, wrestling and groundwork have all improved massively. These days I am so much more happy to rough up opponents with a pretty big weight advantage.

 

[SmashiusClay]

Remembered to charge my camera battery day

Zercher deads off floor:

70 (154) x3
100 (220)
120 (264)
137.5 (303) filmed see below for video
145 (319) (PR)​

I knew my hips were coming up a bit as I started the lift, never knew I was close to stiff legging it, holy christ that looks awkward.

Fake stone lift:

42.5 (93)
67.5 (148)
82.5 (182) x3​

Fun, and felt much more natural, not gonna push these until I've built a platform that attaches to the powerrack (an adjustable height loading platform, how cool will that be?).

One handed pinch (2 30s with loading pin through middle):

60
71 (PR)
73.2 (PR)
76.5 (PR)
79.2 x2xFail (broke them off the floor with each hand twice but couldn't lock out)​

Alternating DB Bench (other DB held at lockout):

20s (44s) x10 per hand
30s (66s) x10 per hand
35s (77s) x10 per hand​

Parallel grip pullups:

3x10​

Suddenly realised that I could use the bars at the top of the powerrack, which just happen to be shoulder width apart.

Some OH squats, Bulgarian split squats, zig-zags and external rotations.

The 137.5kg Zercher lift: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfLykbjVWcs

 

[the_w1se]

also you bending 60 penny nails and such howd you do with the 40's? they seem shorter and harder to get torque on them? how should i go about gettin into bending.

 

[finnegan]

That was one smooth lift on the Zercher Deadlift. Awesome job.

 

[Mickey's]

Nice Z-deads there smashums.

 

[bacon]

Nice job man. Looked easy.

 

[Cap'n]

I'm sure my recent 285 zercher deadlift wasn't as pretty as your winning lift right there.

I bow to the master.

 

[SmashiusClay]

also you bending 60 penny nails and such howd you do with the 40's? they seem shorter and harder to get torque on them? how should i go about gettin into bending.

40s are a fairly nice way to start, I actually got two guys at my gym to give them a go and they managed them, they're both fairly strong but had never done any bending work.

Personally I feel the best thing to go with first is to buy some really easy steel, 3/16" bought in whatever long lengths you can buy cheap and then cut down to 6" lengths. Bend loads of these and get a feel for where your hands should be and how you prefer to bend (overhand, reverse or double overhand), work on trying to really explode onto the nail and fold it in half in one smooth motion. Learning to really attack is fundamental to getting good to bending nails.

BTW I tried reverse bending for the first time today, got a 60d quite happily.

Everyone else - thanks for the comments.

 

[SmashiusClay]

I'm sure my recent 285 zercher deadlift wasn't as pretty as your winning lift right there.

I bow to the master.

Damn straight beyotch!

We still racing to 350? My legs aren't too tired so I can continue to kick your ass.

 

[the_w1se]

nice, and another quick question, when doing pinch work you go heavy? and pinch with both hands at the same time? one hand? two fingers? and damn nice zercher

 

[Cap'n]

Damn straight beyotch!

We still racing to 350? My legs aren't too tired so I can continue to kick your ass.

Yes we are. I'm sure you'll beat me, but it's good motivation to ignore the forearm bruises and get to it.

 

[SmashiusClay]

nice, and another quick question, when doing pinch work you go heavy? and pinch with both hands at the same time? one hand? two fingers? and damn nice zercher

If you re-read my last two training posts you'll notice that on Friday I did 2 handed pinch and today I did one handed pinch. I also occasionally work one or two fingers specifically, generally this'll be at the end of a session.

I can't be bothered to do anything but train heavy on pinch, I'll do some timed holds or lifts for max reps at the end of a session but the main focus is on building up to a heavy single.