So what's this all about?

I turn forty at the end of the year. Before I get there I want to have another amateur MMA fight. This blog is a record of how, and if, I manage to achieve this.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

It's been a long time....


A lot has happened since the last update.  Just over a month ago, whilst working on my car, my back went in to spasm, OWWW!  After a week off work and mostly whacked out on muscle relaxants and codeine I started to gently train again - bad move.  Another spasm, this time whilst driving, convinced me to take things even easier.
The first thing that went was strength training of any sort, my 5/3/1 strength programme was right out the window.  No striking against resistance (no heavy bag, no maize bag), no kicking of any sort.  This left me with the question of what I could do.  First up, walk. Yes, really.  Walking a couple of miles at a reasonable pace with the dog was a way of feeling more confident doing anything that made me break sweat.  After this I moved to carrying our Bas Rutten's boxing workout with no resistance, then the thai boxing workout and finally the all round workout.  Before anything I was warming up properly and carrying out DeFranco's Agile 8 and scarecrows religiously. This has made a big difference.  I've also put goodmornings in to my training in order to build the lower back.
The injury really focused me on conditioning, something that I should do more anyway, and hopefully has begun to instil the habit in me.  I've certainly enjoyed doing more circuits, more boxing and more bodyweight exercises.  I have started strength training again but I've reduced my numbers in a big way.  I've also been hitting the bag with regularity again.
Hopefully I'll stay injury free and be able to update more often.

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