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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: September 24, 2009, 06:53:09 pm »Quotewanna do some amateur fights.. so 152 will be what i would need to weigh in at.. 155 is what ill probably weight though.. i dont see myself getting to 147 with the mass ive put on.. im 164 right now and definitely can get to 155.
ya man i need to get some fights in.. ive never had any official fights, only hard sparring.. i need to get some real fights on film, then go form there ;d ... i doubt ill even do any sparring before i do amateurs either, i really dont think i need it.. i know what to expect in there and i know what shape i have to be in.. i do need to toughen up my hands a bit and hit a bag though, or they wont be ready to smash face without increasing injury risk.
i plan on getting into better condition than i left off 2 years ago.. high rep squatting plus faster road work (mid foot, not heel toe) should help me do it.. i dont think im going to jump rope much, i think i can actually obtain faster hand speed without it.. i think it is IIa'n my shoulders.. looking back, i think jumping rope actually staled my shoulders out.. my hand speed is ridiculous right now and im putting in no work jumping rope.. i need to just shadow box/heavy bag (eventually heavy bag) for that, not endless rotations on a rope.
to get to better condition than be, i need:
- max mile runs under 4:40
- ability to do insane high rep squatting
- get down to ~5-6% body fat again
- not train every day, more like every other day, but make these days count 2x.
peace man, hopefully ill have a shadow boxing vid up in 3 weeks or so.. i want to get more ripped for it, for fun. heh
i feel incomplete.. hitting 27, realizing dunking is kind of boring, and not doing what i do best, conditioning/fighting.. i am completely natural at boxing so there's really nothing going against me other than improving my skill level even more.. which is awesome, cause all of my other hobbies involve me fighting my genetics.. im wasting my talent.. its bothering me.
Cool man. Personally when I boxed I felt jump rope and all the other repetitive boxing type work did nothing but make me slower. The only thing that made me faster was practicing combos for speed in a fresh state separate from the repetitive round by round stuff you do in the boxing gym. Regarding strength training that was actually a situation where Isos were really beneficial because they kept my muscles fresh. I did a lot of gymnastic training Iso variations and only minimal leg work. Grip and forearm work seemed to have a very positive effect on punching power. High rep squats in conjunction with boxing training would personally crush my nervous system but you might be able to handle it. Also interval work was a complete waste of time. It ran me into the ground and didn't do shit for my conditioning. I don't understand these idiots who don't understand that combat sports are already as "intervalistic" as hell. I would just do low intensity road work and go to the gym and train/spar.
Anyway, I experiemented with a lot of different stuff so holler at me if you ever want any ideas. Don't worry about getting too old either. At 32 I thought I was too old but now it's 4 years later and I still haven't lost a thing related to boxing other than desire.
ya, im realizing how i trained before was not optimal.. way too much jump rope, it would fatigue my shoulders too much, even though i didn't feel it much.. way too much volume every day.. im going to approach this from more of a sprint based perspective, making sure all my sessions that need be 100%, are actually 100%.
i definitely plan on doing grip work, i have to strengthen my hands again.. they are weak naturally, unfortunately.. weak hands for sure.
i don't get the obsession with circuit intervals either.. i do plan on splitting my road work into intervals though.. working on my 400's, 1-1.5 mile, 5k times.. im going to be 'sprinting' them, not longer running heel to toe, rather, running mid foot, which is a huge change for me.. i know for sure i cant do any long slow road work running this way yet, the faster i go the better.. running slow on mid foot seems to kill my calfs/achilles even more.. im going to be able to push myself on these distances alot better now, because im taking advantage of my reactivity, and im able to hit higher speeds.. jogging heel to toe is horrible, but i never knew the difference growing up, i think thats why running mid foot for distance kills me so much, i just didnt develop properly.
the high rep squats seem to be fine so far.. i mean, the 5x20 was the hardest for sure.. that has given me some soreness.. but overall, i feel fine performing them.. i want to create INSANE lactic acid tolerance, to levels ive never had.. and i figure high rep squatting is one of the best ways to do it - the adaptations seem to occur very fast under high rep squatting.. plus, ive never had the mental strength or grit to get to 135 x 100, not even 135 x 50.. im going to break some mental barriers improving with this exercise, thats for sure.. and i will cut it out before i do any amateur events etc.. the whole goal here is to achieve something that is beyond my mental 'strength' currently.. if 40 is hard, and i get to 100, that is going to do alot for me, i know it for sure.
ill probably go right into amateur event, i doubt ill spar before.. have to be careful with my hand yet still do some competitions.
peace man
, so I didn't play nearly as much on Sunday as I could have due to us qualifying for Regionals pretty early on --rendering the rest of our games more or less meaningless-- and me not wanting to risk injuring the damn thing worse. At least I did it while making a cool play (came out of nowhere to D a deep throw against the best team on the East Coast). And the ankle's not that bad. I'm walking normally and will do some active recovery and mobility stuff today to get the blood pumping to the ankle and my sore muscles. I played really well, even with the messed-up ankle. Should be jumping rope and doing some low-impact plyos to get the connective tissue as strong as possible before Regionals in two weeks. After that, the real fun starts.