Thread: TOXO Journal

i have had to take a few months of training completely to allow a few injuries heel.

i did a few classes on monday (wrestling and grappling) and im as stiff as a board at the moment.

im going to try and do a few fights in around 6 months so im pretty much going to be training like its a second job.

i will have to leave all the strength and conditioining stuff out until i get my recovery level high enough to be able to do 2 workouts a day.

im upto around 15st im fairly solid but as im around 5'10" i really need to fight at ww so im planning on getting down to 13st then depleting to ww.

look 4ward 2 reading ur progress mate, what will you compete in?

im looking to compete in mma in about 6 months if im upto scratch.

at the moment i need to get my cardio up alot aswell as my flexiblity and footwork.

im still score with doms from monday so it looks like i will have to be getting back into it next monday.

I did shootboxing and mma last night. Shootboxing started with the double leg off a jab and then we went onto switching to the single i f your oponent gets one leg back and finally getting out and taking the back if your oponent manages to sprawl and get both his legs back, we also did breaking the wrestlers headlock.

In sparring i managed to get hold of a few of the the top guys but couldnt mangae to take them down or if i did i ended up on the bottom lol, i did sparr with one of the students who is at the same level as me and i totally dominated him so that makes me feel better as i normally get stuck with the advanced guys due to being a bit of a lump.

In mma we worked on getting the wrestlers headlock from a sprawl then breaking him down and taking the back, we moved onto the amaconda choke from the same postion and finally some weird reverse anaconda choke, personally i dont think alot of these advanced chokes are much use unless your at bjj black belt level but i guess its good to learn just from a defence stand point, i take the marcelios garcai point of veiw that it is better to be good at 1 move then semi good at 2.

i didnt get subbed at all in rolling, my flexiblity is really off from months of iddleness so my guard game was prettg useless, i did invent a new month sort of, which is a wrist lock if you mess up an arm bar and your oponent gets on top of you.

Did thai boxing 2 sessions a beginners and the advanced class, i always like to do the beginners classes whenever possible as thay have a slower pace and you can work on ironing out any bad habbits. The thai boxing was your normal shadow boxing combo's on the pads and conditioning stuff aswell as some leg sparring and clinch sparring.

After the 2 thai boxing sessions i did mma, we worked on taking the back from a double leg if our oponent leans his weight on you then a takedown, after drilling the take down a bit we moved onto taking the back when your oponent is loose and also when he turtles up before moving onto the rnc and short choke.

I was paired off with a huge giant of a man to do the drills with and he almost crushed me, how fedor and couture can fight those giants is beyond me.

my tendonitis is playing up from doing thai boxing :no: im going to probably give training a misstonight and maybe do some sub mma on fri and maybe start taking judo on sat and then start training properly from monday without boxing and thai boxing for 3 weeks to so if it gets better.

so i did the boxing and mma last night anyway.

the boxing started with about 15 min's of skipping and then about 2 rounds of shadow boxing. next we did combos, the first was step in hook,cross for a round then jab body cross for a round the next round we put the 2 combos together and in the last round we added a slip and pivot to get an angle.

the class finished with 3 brutal rounds of pure conditioning.

in mma we first worked on the jab to double legs and then moved onto groundwork where we started drilling tying up your opponent from guard and then moving onto getting the triangle and finally we practised the omoplata from the same position.

i ended up paired with the giant bloke again which isnt fun when your drilling omoplatas and triangles.

i had a quick chat with one of the main coaches and he reckons i would be best fighting at mw and i should try to drop all the fat and replace it with muscle so by the time im cutting weight i should be about 90kg solid, at the moment im 95kg not very solid lol

hows the cutting weight going to get to MW, its been a few months did you have your first fight? sounds like a good routine you had going...

Ben

Originally Posted by ~BDC~

hows the cutting weight going to get to MW, its been a few months did you have your first fight? sounds like a good routine you had going...

Ben

im down to round 90kg at the moment but havent done and training this week due to really bad doms in my back largely due to grappling 4x a week

Good work you hit the 90Kg you was looking for keep up the good work have asked about the strength and endurance workout in your other reply

Keep Rolling....

Ben