Ok, today I did a 20 minute bike routine.
30 seconds pounding, HR around 165.
1 minute regular pedalling.
My legs were shot. I would like to have gotten more out of my heart, but my legs couldn’t keep up.
Something to work towards perhaps 
30 minutes Yoga
Smith Machine Squats 185
Chest Press
Shoulder Press
Shrugs
T-Bar Row Machine
I hate machines, but with my injured rib, I got nothin…
Did a 1 hour spinning class today. It was ok…
careful mp, saying “smith machine” around here is likely to get you mugged. 
rtb, I HATE machines, but with an injured rib, I can’t risk doing anything I have to stabilize on my own. It’s a bummer, but what are you going to do? I compensate as much as I can by going deeper and pausing to power out of the hole.
Last night, to get back on my daily schedule, I did 2 sets of each of the exercises in my last post. I had to miss Sunday, but I don’t want to do conditioning and lifting the same day and I didn’t want to miss.
I’m hoping the rib improves enough to allow me to go back to serious sparring next week. NAGA on the 12th…
30 minutes of Yoga this morning.
Smith Machine Squats 235
Chest Press 195
Seated Row
Shrugs
Yawn.
BJJ practice, about 15 minutes of light sparring. My rib creaked so I just wrapped it up!
3 x 400 repeats today @ 80 seconds.
VERY tiring. I’ll be working to 4 x 400 next week, unless I’m told to do something else. It doesn’t sound like much, but oh, it is, if you’re just starting…
BJJ class, maybe 45 minutes of light sparring today.
BJJ sparring about an hour.
How’s the rib?
Getting better. It’s as good as it’s going to be. I have the Pan-Am’s in one month and time’s a wastin! I’m just going to suck it up.
I’ve been alternating Ice and Heat, plus anti inflammatories, and epsom salt baths too.
I’m going to stay on the machines unless it gets even better, but I’m going to throw a lot more weight on now. Since I do so much grappling, I’m not as concerned about my stabilizers. I suspect they will hold.
I’m on two a days now for practice.
Monday was nothing, just so exhausted.
Yesterday was 4 8:30 rounds of sparring. Two browns, one world class, one round with a good purple and one round with a beast of a blue belt (40 lbs heavier, and much much stronger than me).
In the evening, I did 2 6 minute rounds, one with a good solid purple belt who has excellent passes so I always try to be working from guard with him, and the second a blue who is improving…on him, I try to attack attack attack - get the cardio and mindset in the right place.
Today was a 20 minute drilling session followed by a 30 minute sparring session.
This evening, I anticipate Judo randori for about ten minutes, then BJJ for an hour sparring and positional sparring at 2 to 5 minute intervals.
Might hit the weights this afternoon, time permitting…but I DO have errands to run.
MP, when you say “sparring” are you talking about a mixed round or just BJJ? I’m used to grappling guys using “rolling” instead of sparring.
Nah, rolling.
I figured it was just easier to understand this way 
Wednesday was 2 5-minute rounds of randori at Judo. One of these rounds was with Shin. Shin is a Korean fellow, who has his master’s degree in Judo. He went to a Judo college. He went to a Judo High School. He was on the Korean national team, and the Olympic alternate in his weight class.
Shin was nice and didn’t use me as a projectile. He was also cruel because he knows I have more experience than everybody else in the room at that time, and there is no comparison between my skills and theirs. However, he is as exponentially better than me than I am better than the other people in his room.
He made me attack him for 5 minutes.
Those of you who don’t spar like this (and I’m not being insulting), do not understand what this means. I spent 5 minutes throwing myself at a wall, trying to desperately to get something out of it. I barely made a dent in him, I think, except for a surprise double leg attempt followed up with an O uchi Gari with a waist clinch (which he sprawled on like I wasn’t there and longstepped out of with an amused look on his face, but at least he was going BACKWARDS for once!!!) And when I say 5 minutes, I never stopped moving, never stopped attacking and gripfighting. This is exhausting.
He rewarded me by gently throwing me with Tai Otoshi at the end.
Yesterday was:
12 straight minutes of sparring with Todd Margolis (BJJ Black Belt, world class)
15 minutes of guard passing sparring drills (full out)
5 2-minute rounds, 1 minute rest of no-gi gripfighting (control the hooks) w/fit ins for takedowns…with a left-handed opponent 40 lbs heavier than me.
6 1:30 rounds of balls out blasting sparring, 30 sec rest.
Home, ibuprofen, ice and heating pad.
Today, nothing. Tournament tomorrow.
You look like your having some really good fun there MP. Shin sounds pretty awsome.
Good look with the tournament.
Shin’s a blast, and something about his teaching style “clicks” with me. I understand instinctively what he is doing, which is good because my Korean is non-existant and his English is shaky.
I spent 5 minutes throwing myself at a wall,
I can understand this. A guy I train with about every two weeks, mostly just some basic boxing and kali, is about 6’2" and has about 40 to 50 lbs on me. He’s one of those tanks, the guys who are large and it’s mosty just solid muscle mass. The last workout we had, he would tell me what shot he was going to use, only one. He hit me almost everytime lol, and with a fist about the size of my head!
[QUOTE=Merryprankster] However, he is as exponentially better than me than I am better than the other people in his room.
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More better, Merryprankster. More better.
ps hey good luck kick some behind
2nd in gi on Saturday. Tough loss on points to Dan Simmler, a very good Purple from Renzo (Matt Serra).
No gi was a nightmare. Popped one guys ankle (he FINALLY tapped, the mother****er). I did myself in, lost by armbar to some guy I had no business losing to, but I got myself in the wrong mindset from the beginning. Whatcha gonna do? Just pick up the pieces and move on. Incentive to correct mental aspects.
Saturday evening, my training consisted of five margaritas on the rocks, nachos and a nice, bloody steak.
Sunday, drove home.
Monday, nothing. Still tired and sore from the tournament.
Tuesday, BJJ in the afternoon. Nothing too strenuous, normal practice stuff.
Today, BJJ in the afternoon, normal practice stuff, light rolling w/another purple.
Weight is at 187.8 as of this morning.
Lifting has fallen off the table with 2-a-day’s and only two weeks out from the Pan-Am’s. I’m not going to get any stronger and I’m not going to lose much…Focus now is on mindset and “the little things.”
congrats bro.
Know u probably don’t like comin in second; but that’s a heckuva showing after your injury.
Sounds a lot better than my boxing exploits lately. heheh
Can’t wait to hang out again.
If you, or any of the other dc folks wanna come buy Herndon on a Sunday morning, the post-workout Chipotle will be my treat.
Last night, did some Judo for a bit, and then BJJ. Normalish classes, sparred kinda hard for about 20-30 minutes. Nothing blasting, but tough.
This afternoon, normal class stuff, then about 25-30 minutes with Mike Fowler (Top notch Brown Belt). He was taking it pretty easy on me, but I feel like I’ve been through the ringer. Pulled a trapezius. A little annoyed about that, but what are you going to do. Talked through a couple of technical mistakes that I’m hoping I can fix tonight.