Per fight training journal.

[Colstreamer]

Ok so I've hit exact 2 weeks before I fly to France for the elimination tournament for the world Savate combat championships. - any one who doesn't know what Savate is and would like to know just ask and I can give you a full explanation.

My training has consisted largely of running for cardio usually 1.8km and I try to reduce time everytime I run, I've residues it from 12 minutes 30 seconds to 9 minutes 30 seconds so far.
Shadow boxing for 5x2 minute rounds straight after the run then stretching.
Twice a week I get myself to the local boxing gym and once a week I travel to 1.5 hours for Savate training with the German team coach.
I try to get out at least three times per week with my girlfriend (she's come second at two world championships and once in the European championships) for some extra sparring and fitness work including shuttle sprints with clap push ups and squat jumps at the end of each sprint.

Today
05/24/213
I'm doing my pre-run stretches while I write this. Aiming to get below 9:30 on this run then hopefully get some sparring in if my GF is up yet!

[Colstreamer]

Didn't get below 9:30 although the first half I ran the same pace as my GF , I left her eating my dust in the second half
We did 3x2 minute rounds of sparring afterwards and I stretched before I showered and now I gotta get off to work.

[MuscleAddiction]

Re: Per fight training journal.

Subbed brother...let's see what you are made of! I have a great feeling about your competition...stay focused and train hard!

[Colstreamer]

Thanks bro. I'm giving it 100%

[Colstreamer]

05/25/2013
1.8km (about 1.1miles) run completed in 9:10 minutes! May not seem fast for little over a mile but it's down considerably from April when I started it was taking me 12:59 minutes back then so I e taken 3:49 minutes off my time. Besides, I'm really not built for running!

My GF got called into work early today so we couldn't do any training together which is a pity cos I was looking forward to some sparring and focus pad work so instead I did 5x2 minute rounds of shadow boxing with 30 seconds rest between rounds followed by 3x2 minute rounds of kicking a tree in the parking lot not quite Kickboxer style as I was wearing shoes and didn't hit it with my shin but the kicks were full force

Then I did the following
8 push ups with a clap -you know, where you push up real fast then clap your hands together real quick then put em back on the floor for the next one.
Sprint 60 yards immediately do 8 squat jumps -squat down atg then come up as fast as possible and jump up in the air.
Repeated that a total of 8 times- man is that a killer!

300 crunches - varied between upper, lower and oblique abs crunches every 20-30 reps or so. I'm not training for physique so I'm not too bothered that my abs get bigger. I just really don't want to get stopped by a body shot, IMO there's nothing worse than that!

20 minutes stretching my legs, lower back and shoulders to finish off with.

Now it's time to have a protein shake and my 2nd daily dose of creatine. The protein is great for preventing muscle ache I've found and I've always found creatine to be a good supplement for increased speed and power (nothing compared to var but I get drug tested at these competitions)

[zedhed]

Re: Per fight training journal.

Loving your log bro. And I love the fact that you have developed your own Met Cons!
Your running, add in more distance bro. You really will find that, that will help you immensely. Just go at a pace where you can run and run and run like for a couple of hours at a time, like 3 days per week. This will make you an iron man bro. This is exactly how the cyclist begin their training for the Tour de France. And the more rolling hills the better.
I have faith that you will get there again this year bro but this time NO DAM INJURIES!!!
love you man.

[Colstreamer]

Will do bro, I'm gonna do a long run Wednesday

So today
05/27/2013
Went to the boxing gym after work
15 mins warm up including push ups and sit ups - didn't count how many
75 mins of combinations and slipping drills - slipping jabs and crosses
30 minutes of heavy bag work. Mainly punches but I did work some kicks in at the end. I also managed to get in a round of sparring, but only one as there wasn't much time and everyone else was too tired. Lol.

Tomorrow I've got a day of hut building before training. Should be fun

[Colstreamer]

05/28/2013
2 hours kickboxing training in Frankenberg drills, 6 rounds of sparring and 45 minutes of bag work, my legs are killing me!

[Colstreamer]

Just banged out 267 crunches in 8 minutes let's see someone try winding me with a body shot!

[zedhed]

Re: Per fight training journal.

LOL awesome bro!

[Colstreamer]

Wednesday 05/29/2013

4km jog easy pace. Not sure what that is in miles, just over 2.25 I think...

Thursday 05/30/2013
went to the boxing gym for 2 hours and spent an hour hitting the bags, then some pad work, no sparring as I don't wanna get a cut before the competition

Friday 05/31/2013
3x2 minutes shadow boxing
4x2 minutes light sparring with my girl
15 seconds on 15 seconds off non stop attacking. (I get attacked during my 15 seconds "off") for 10 minutes
2x30 second bursts non stop round kicks into the bag each leg.

Take it as read that I stretch for at least 20 minutes after each training session

Ok so that pretty much the last of my training for this comp. I've been in rest mode since last Friday, getting plenty of carbs down my neck and stretching off tense muscles. I've done some abs but that's about it. In the morning I set off for France. I'll let you all know how it goes and hopefully get someone to film my bouts with my camera. Wish me luck!

[Colstreamer]

Results.
3 fights,
1 win 2 losses. One of the losses my corner threw in the towel

I was the second smallest in my category with the heaviest being 342lbs to my 231lbs!!! I think I'm gonna have to cut down to 187lbs and fight at light heavy. I don't really stand much of a chance against these huge fukin guys.

[Colstreamer]

[Colstreamer]

Man that sucks balls. I just wrote a long ass post and it disappeared! :'(
OK I'll write it again tomorrow. ....

[Colstreamer]

Ok here it goes. Been training for next season (kickboxing) regularly training at my usual kickboxing gym and local boxing gym, I've also been lifting, of course, using SL 5X5 I'm now up to 90kg (198lbs) bench 95kg (209lbs) squat & deadlift my rows are not so good so I'm thinking of not increasing my bench weight until the rowing weight catches up.

I'll log my last WO then from tomorrow on I'll log every WO

Friday 15th Nov
Squat
Warm up
2x5 @ 20kg (bar)
1x5 @ 35kg (77lbs)
1x5 @ 55kg (121lbs)
1x5 @ 75kg (165lbs)

Work
5x5 @ 95kg (209lbs)

Bench
Warm up
2x5 @ 20kg (bar)
1x5 @ 35kg (77lbs)
1x5 @ 55kg (121lbs)
1x5 @ 65kg (143lbs)

Work
5x5 @ 90kg

Rows
Warm up
2x5 @ 20kg (bar)
1x5 @ 35kg (77lbs)
1x5 @ 40kg (88lbs)
1x5 @ 45kg (99lbs)

Work
5x5 @ 55kg (121lbs)

Aston you can see my row strength is way below my bench strength so once I hit 100kg (220lbs) on the bench I'll stop increasing it until my row has caught up...

:-D