Salty's log

[wesrman]

Heres a few articles on stretching:

Bodybuilding.com - Stretching And Flexibility Articles!

The Bruce Lee book, The Art of Expressing The Human Body, has a good section on stretching, but i cant seem to find a pdf version. You could also look into doing a few yoga positions. They could help with balance and flexibility.

[Salty]

Ok just got my copy of Infinite Intensity today by Ross Enamit and it is packed full of information and training tips. Really looking forward to doing the 50 day guide set out for me, but will have to buy some free weights first so might do that tomorrow morning or this afternoon if I can. But hell can't wait to get into this and get myself conditioned like never before (again :P), but this time without the injuries I hope. Anyways I'll let you all know how I go with it and the improvements I make thanks to this book.

[Salty]

Ok here's my routine, the gym is stopped being opened on friday's so I'm going monday, wednesday's and thursday's now.

Monday: Interval Training & Gym

Tuesday: Strength Workout/ Warrior Challenge & Finisher

Wednesday: GPP session & Gym

Thursday: Interval Training & Gym

Friday: Tabata & Finisher

Saturday: Strength Workout/ Warrior Challenge & Finisher

Sunday: Rest

• Each week swap each conditioning and Boxing set to a different one to avoid adaptation.
• Core workouts are done Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays (do them at gym as well)
• Stay active on rest day, but don’t do too much, need body to recover.
• All rest should be active rest (walking/jogging)
• Every 4th week settle down on the strength workout
• Exercise on gym days are done in the morning before uni.

Don't really want to post the actual workouts I'm doing on here as they are from the book. Although I'll say they are much different to the strength exercises I am used to doing. A lot less it seems, but really intense so I'm liking it a lot so far. Did a bit of sparring last night, first time in a while. I have to clean up my diet, I got lazy and started eating shit like cookies which pushed my weight up a bit. However I can see it coming off already. Another thing is that I have dropped long road work completely from my routine, instead doing intervals and the warrior challenges/GPP sessions provide more than enough conditioning activities for my body.

[Salty]

Sparring went well today, but everything is still going fast in there. Kind of annoying, need to get the rust out big time. One of the blokes has a fight this friday so we were sparring him, we both got each other with good left hooks to the body, but need to make sure I keep that elbow digged in. I don't want to have to take a knee in sparring.

Also I have noticed myself closing my eyes, this pisses me off as I never used too. Have been close to eating a few rights and hooks because of it. But glad to get back in there, fitness is picking up dramatically. I feel fresh, strong and quick and punches seem to have a bit of power behind them. Now just need to get the skill back, which I guess only sparring and shadow boxing will do for me. Anyways I have a long time till I fight (next year) so don't have to lose weight any time soon and instead focus on getting better. I love starting a new program, gives you something to aim for

[Salty]

This week sparring was so much better, was seeing punches coming and parrying/slipping and countering. So i'm glad it's coming back to me, fitness is coming along nicely as well. Following the plan I set out for myself, but sometimes drop the stuff in the mornings of training days as we do an hour's circuit at the gym anyways. Don't want to do too much too soon, but the strength work seems to be working nicely as well as the conditioning. Going to do some intervals today instead of Tabata's as I did them yesterday as I didn't have much time. Going to time myself on the first 400m interval to see how I compare to when I did little athletics. I think my best time when I was 14 was around 1.02 mins, so should hopefully beat that comfortably when I go to the track

[Salty]

Did a nice quick session last night, about half an hour on a core circuit and then sweet 16 (tabatas punching with 3lb weights, squats, punching with 3lb weights and pushups) and then a tabata sprint to finish off. This morning, woke up and did a nice long jog (7km I think) as it was really nice and sunny, couldn't pass up on that. Tonight i'll time myself doing 100 burpees, my last time was 7.52, so i'll see if I can beat that, although it will be after a strength workout, so we shall see

[Salty]

Yesterday got attacked by a bunch of seagulls, would have been a funny site for people to see but it was raining a bit so no one was out. I was down on the beach sand, enjoying my tabata's as you do and at the 3 min mark, 2 seagulls swooped me one after the other. They then proceeded to squark above my head, I shat myself and sprinted the 200m or so to the stairs so I could get away from the bastards. I was buggered after that, so wasn't too bad in the end. Although next time I think i'll do it somewhere else.

Today did an ab circuit, GPP workout and a nice jog in the morning, anyways give this workout a try...

Do 10 circuits as quickly as possible:
100 Rope jumps
10 Burpees
10 Pushups
10 Squats

You get pretty exhausted by the end of it, but this is one of my favourite conditioning circuits from infinite intensity as when you get better you just do harder variations, instantly making it more difficult. Anyways that's about it for now.