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Training: ADCC Pro gi trials around the corner..

It’s been good times these past few weeks..Theres always room for better training but I feel fine with the ways things are progressing.

First, this past month (October) I spent all of it hammering out details of my guard, guard games, and retention. There has been much drilling going on, I’ve been tidying up my dumb sides..You know the side where its weaker for you to get sweeps off of. Well I have been making my weak side strong, and I am feeling more comfortable with the ways things are going.  I will continue to do my guard project up until 2 weeks before the ADCC event which by then I will start doing competition prep.

Strength and Conditioning. Again there is always so much room for improvement here. I mean Dan Gable, man. That guy was a tremendous force with conditioning, I am trying to get just 2% of what his conditioning is all about. I am getting stronger, my resting heart rate and max heart rates are getting lower and lower. Cain Valasquez max heart rate is 167 BPMS! That is insane! Mine right now is at 187-190 bpms. That is great for me considering I was at the mid 90s. So obviously my conditioning is improving. As far as strength goes, I have been hitting up a lot of compound movements i.g. Dead Lifts, presses, benches, squats…I am actually dead lifting in the 400s easy, before this was a task and a mission! I have also been doing a lot of olympic lifting, more specifically the clean. It used to be that it was hard for me to do 145lbs even, now I am maxing it out at 205 no form lol! It feels good to see the numbers grow. As far as these numbers translating into jiu jitsu, some training partners have been telling me I feel stronger, especially my grips, which is another facet I have been training and improving!

Right now the ADCC pro gi trials are on December 4th. This is one of the ones I want to win for that ticket to Dubai! Time to make my dreams a reality! 

I will try and update all the way up to the event.