Taking Beatings & Forgetting Names

[mschatz]

PRK is going to be awesome. I heard you cant spar fora month after you take it, but I know how it feels to have left contacts fall out every other sparring session. Putting in eyedrops before sparring is annoying too

Yeah dude, it should be cool. The Doctor was saying that sparring is ok within a few weeks, but...I might give myself a month to be on the safe side. Scary stuff.

Cant wait though...I have only had one contact come out in an actual fight, but they come out or get crinkled pretty often in sparring.

 

[BaliShagSmoke]

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Session 1
Location: The Road
Duration: 24:13

3 Mile Hill Run
Avg HR: 160
High HR: 180...

Am I to understand you were running uphill or otherwise on an incline the whole 3 mi? Even if it was up and down hills, that's still a mighty impressive time.

 

[mschatz]

Thanks. There's very little flat ground where I live, and this run is almost entirely ups and downs. I have decided that I like downs more than I like ups.

 

[BaliShagSmoke]

Thanks. There's very little flat ground where I live, and this run is almost entirely ups and downs. I have decided that I like downs more than I like ups.

haha don't we all. It is a pretty task to be able to run that fast over multiple hills, but I prefer my initial mental image of a lone figure running up a dark, snow covered crag, similar to Rocky 4's training montage.

 

[mschatz]

Oh, I like that better too!

 

[TheAth-ah-lete]

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Session 1
Location: The Road
Duration: 24:13

3 Mile Hill Run
Avg HR: 160
High HR: 180

Session 2
Location: Boxing Gym
Duration: 5:30-7:45

Jump Rope: 5m
Shadow Boxing: 2 x 3m Rounds
Focus Mitt Drills: 75m
Medicine Ball Calisthenics & Conditioning: 10m

Notes: My HR is higher than what is normally considered "LSD" runs...does that mean its not LSD anymore?

People are still trickling into the gym, so no sparring yet. Training is kind of boring when there is no sparring...

I don't have any idea where I originally heard this but I personally don't consider it LSD unless it's at least 30 minutes. Since your HR was also pretty high I would slow down and add another mile or so.

 

[mschatz]

So...that was anaerobic?

 

[Steakeater**]

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Session 1
Location: The Road
Duration: 24:13

3 Mile Hill Run
Avg HR: 160
High HR: 180

Session 2
Location: Boxing Gym
Duration: 5:30-7:45

Jump Rope: 5m
Shadow Boxing: 2 x 3m Rounds
Focus Mitt Drills: 75m
Medicine Ball Calisthenics & Conditioning: 10m

Notes: My HR is higher than what is normally considered "LSD" runs...does that mean its not LSD anymore?

People are still trickling into the gym, so no sparring yet. Training is kind of boring when there is no sparring...

Was the running session VERY hard? If not, I think something went wrong with your HR monitor, either that or you took a supp (yohimbine?) or food that elevated your hr. 160 bpm for over 15 minutes minutes is insanely hard to do, let alone 24 min. But then again, you ran 3 mile within a pretty short period of time, so maybe you just highly conditioned.

and +1 on training being boring w/o sparring. Sometimes my coach is working with other people, and Im just dozing off on the heavy bag by myself. I cant push myself to work sometimes unless my coach is watching me

 

[mschatz]

It was hard, and I push myself on the runs, but I wasnt dying. Some of the steeper hills that I try to accelerate up definitely get me trying to puke out a lung, but its not...awful.

 

[Freeman102010]

Martin (and other pugalists);

Can you recomend some tips/drills for me to try to work on keeping my arms and shoulders loose when attempting to box? Or is it all a matter of practice? Does one try to keep the neck loose too?

 

[Steakeater**]

are you clenching your fists?

 

[Freeman102010]

are you clenching your fists?

Yes.

 

[Brando]

Big no-no - fists loose till just before impact. It tenses up your entire arm when that fist in clenched, man.

 

[Freeman102010]

Thank you. I'll try some shodow boxing, staying loose.

 

[MIDMOBOX]

Freeman,

somewhere the other day someone was talking about how you whip a towel to smack someone, and how the towel is loosely held, think of your arms the same way.

The loose fist until impact is also right. I tend to stress at the traps, holding my hands unnaturally rigid. Although they need to be up, they can move its ok. Just don't let them swing wildly around opening you up. And don't be afraid to create space and shake your arms and hands out every once in awhile.

 

[Newt]

Freeman,

somewhere the other day someone was talking about how you whip a towel to smack someone, and how the towel is loosely held, think of your arms the same way.

The loose fist until impact is also right. I tend to stress at the traps, holding my hands unnaturally rigid. Although they need to be up, they can move its ok. Just don't let them swing wildly around opening you up. And don't be afraid to create space and shake your arms and hands out every once in awhile.

And if you accidentally thumb someone in the eye BJ Penn style, you can always just claim it was an accident...that coincidentally seems to occur during all fights he's losing!

 

[MIDMOBOX]

you have unlocked my secret

*gets out NEWT voodoo doll and a pin*

 

[Stonebreaker]

And if you accidentally thumb someone in the eye BJ Penn style, you can always just claim it was an accident...that coincidentally seems to occur during all fights he's losing!

It seems like just yesterday that any deliberate-finger-to-they-eye accusations would have been about Liddell/Ortiz. This must be what getting old feels like....

 

[mschatz]

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Off

Friday, January 8th, 2010

The problem with waiting to post is that you forget what all you did.

Did get first 5 rounds of sparing for the year in. Still waiting on some of the amateur fighters to trickle in from the holidays, so sparring was a bit mellow.

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

3 Mile City Walk

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

7.97 Mile Hike to East Peak of Mt. Tamapais

 

[mschatz]

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Location: Boxing Gym
Duration: 5:30-7:30

Jump Rope: 10m
Shadow Boxing: 5x
Sparring: 4x
Shadow Boxing: 2x
Rope Drills: 4x
Movement Drills: 4x
Heavy Bag: 4x

Notes: Sparred with an open class fighter with about 10x as many fights as I have, and did pretty well. Did some decent work on the inside, and didnt get drilled with anything too bad. My defense is much better than my offense, it seems. I just rarely get hit flush with shots, even when I am right in front of a guy. Now I just need to add more variety and unpredictability to my offense, sharpen up my jab, and actually land straight right hands, and Ill be doing ok.

Oh, and to hell with 152 pounds.