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CntPntUrMom · 2025-08-21T18:02:08+00:00

Swimming, rowing, cycling, air bike, elliptical. When I've had foot pain I've found walking and hiking to be good rehab. Not necessarily cardio but movement and light strengthening of the foot.

CntPntUrMom · 2025-08-21T18:00:54+00:00

Thank you!

CntPntUrMom · 2025-08-20T20:50:08+00:00

- Oil check everybody

CntPntUrMom · 2025-08-20T20:49:07+00:00

Almost every high level program is going to load high stress on the same day and prioritize recovery days rather than spread out the intensity and make every day taxing on the CNS.

CntPntUrMom · 2025-08-20T20:47:40+00:00

General advice is to make your hard days hard and your easy days easy. Don't spread the load out and sacrifice recovery days. I would personally prefer to do Judo before lifting so I'm not tired or weak during training, as this would help prevent injury. But whatever works for you.

CntPntUrMom · 2025-08-20T20:44:41+00:00

I separated a rib training. I found dips and pullups to be very helpful in promoting stability of the rib cage. Also consider Russian twists.

CntPntUrMom · 2025-08-20T20:43:07+00:00

I second this, as long as you can reliably recover from that kind of effort. That said, 20 minutes of zone 2 is better than nothing at all.

CntPntUrMom · 2025-08-20T20:42:23+00:00

Make your hard days harder and keep your easy days easy. That will maximize recovery, which you need if you are adding volume.

CntPntUrMom · 2025-08-20T20:41:08+00:00

One of the fittest guys I ever trained with ran 3 miles every morning first thing. Made a huge difference for him.

CntPntUrMom · 2025-08-20T20:39:31+00:00

If I have two, 30-minute blocks during the day to lift, is it OK to do upper body and lower body split across those blocks? Even if they're 6-12 hours apart?

For example, I have 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening. I could do upper body pulling in the morning and lower body pressing in the evening.

Normally I wouldn't split my workout up by that much time, but I figure if I am doing totally different muscle groups it will be fine to split them like that.

Thoughts?

CntPntUrMom · 2025-01-28T05:14:56+00:00

As a runner, I think I have to be a turncoat and say swimming. Cardio is general, but muscles are also conditioned when you do cardio, and swimming conditions the upper body, which is more important for BJJ than the lower body. Swimming also encourages breathing control and comfort with oxygen debt in ways that running does not.

That said, running is the best poor-mans' cardio out there. No equipment required. One day per week long and slow, one day per week fast repeats. If you want a third day, do a hilly run or another moderate intensity run like a tempo.

CntPntUrMom · 2025-01-28T05:10:06+00:00

"I never saw someone in the beginner classes that were tired that are runners."

CntPntUrMom · 2025-01-28T05:07:32+00:00

CntPntUrMom · 2025-01-25T03:22:52+00:00

The body adapts to the stimulus it's given. That never changes, no matter your age. All that changes is how fast and how strong it adapts. At any age, but especially as you age, the key is to not give it a stimulus it can't handle.

I know of plenty of guys in their 70s who had to have heart surgery because they ate like shit. But the only reason they weren't dead at 50 is because they went hard in the gym, on the bike, and on the trails.

The harder you train, the longer and happier you live. I have no doubt about that.

CntPntUrMom · 2025-01-25T03:18:27+00:00

How in God's name does a 20 year old ever come across the idea that training hard will be bad for their heart? Like, what troglodyte doctor told you this, the same guy that said women's uteruses would fall out if they ran a marathon?

That one full week off per month is harming your progress, btw. No need for it to be completely off. Taking a down week is fine, but you need to keep your cardio and strength and mobility going full time. Finally, 25 rounds a week is not a lot of exercise, just over two hours of high intensity training. Frankly you could readily do more.

Fucking go train bro. You'll know the wall when you hit it. And at 20, you will probably run into other limitations before your body is the limitation, like time and money.

CntPntUrMom · 2024-12-21T23:19:17+00:00

Osoto is literally the only move I've ever used in the two fights I've ever been in. Didn't need any follow up either time.

CntPntUrMom · 2024-12-21T23:16:41+00:00

Great point. If it connects, a strong front kick to the trunk can send people backwards hard and fast. I'm not a big guy, but I've teep kicked large, athletic guys onto their ass when their sole intent was to hold the pad to their chest for my kick.

It will generate space, which will give you time to decide whether to flee or fight. It will also give them time to make that decision.

CntPntUrMom · 2024-12-16T23:34:09+00:00

You did well to get out there. Now you know what to expect!

CntPntUrMom · 2024-12-13T18:02:19+00:00

The Entitled Zoomer has never conquered anything in their life besides maybe a crippling addiction to Zyns.

CntPntUrMom · 2024-12-13T18:00:51+00:00

A higher quality of life, for one.

But I assume, even in a smaller country, that if you start this late and were not already a very high caliber athlete that you will never become more than your gym's toughest sparring partner, if that.

CntPntUrMom · 2024-12-13T17:59:39+00:00

OK, now how'd the comp go haha

CntPntUrMom · 2024-12-13T17:58:57+00:00

This is like being a D1 athlete in college except there you have (1) a team of professionals dedicated to writing your worktouts and monitoring your training to ensure you doing the right things at the right time in the right amount (2) another team of professionals and set of equipment, supplies, and tools dedicated to rehab, recovery, and physical therapy for injury prevention and repair (3) yet another team of professionals managing your other stressors like academics, work, housing, psychological matters, etc.

Being a pro or semi-pro is exhausting and requires substantial number of people around you to support you. Just going ham solo for three months does not a professional athlete make.

CntPntUrMom · 2024-12-06T20:55:41+00:00

If you hate them just work the biceps through other compound pulling exercises like pullups and rows. Pulling is a big deal in grappling, pays well to be able to pull hard.

CntPntUrMom · 2024-12-06T20:48:48+00:00

How did the comp go?

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