Unconscious in a timely manner last night, and up with plenty of time to be fairly alert for a staff meeting. This time I was just an attendee, but I actually paid attention to everything that was presented. What a bunch of shit it all was. Seriously.<\/p>\n
I had great training last night and my hips are tight and sore today, especially the flexors the run down the front. I used to have to do thousands of flutter kicks back in the pleasantness of non-civilian life, mostly to condition and occasionally to pre-exhaust the legs before going on long ocean swims. \u00a0In phase III we had a timed a two-mile open ocean swim that we had to complete in 70 minutes or less. That was with fins on, but it was extremely difficult to keep the legs moving through all that ocean for so long, and it was mostly hip flexor strength. If you were strong there, you’d be fine. I can remember as we prepared ourselves for those kinds of challenges, watching my hip muscles develop, growing out from my body, becoming little fists that would clench when holding my legs out straight. I think it was at that point, maybe about age 19, I first started to see \u00a0my body as an extension of myself, and using it and developing it in that way.<\/p>\n
Kicking bags and people doesn’t work those kinds of useful muscles in the same way as a long bay swim, or especially not an open ocean swim. Because of that, I’ve starting doing the PT from my old days and it feels great. Flutter kicks and pushups, pull-ups, dips, leg raises and long runs and swims for basic conditioning now, when not wrestling or training at the MMA gym downtown. Since I’m off alcohol completely for another 6 weeks, I expect to see fast progress, and especially for long distance swims. My lower back is 100%.<\/p>\n
When you switch over to endurance training, you lose most of the fat on your body and become hungry constantly. I believe that is my most natural state, and having started all this again it was a fast reminder of how important it is to me to stay hungry and anxious for action. Training hard and going extreme creates that state, and for me I need it. Hungry. Anxious for action. It applies to fighting, it applies to conditioning, it applies to sex, it applies to travel. I’m hungry. I’m anxious for action.<\/p>\n
I have an MMA tourney in April that I’ll be\u00a0over-conditioned\u00a0for, so that will be a fun target.<\/p>\n
Back to work for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unconscious in a timely manner last night, and up with plenty of time to be fairly alert for a staff meeting. This time I was just an attendee, but I actually paid attention to everything that was presented. What a … Continue reading