Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Lifting, New routine and running being added

Lifting
Leg day


warm up; dynamic stretching, 5 mins cycle, 1 set bodyweight squats, 1 set light front squats

Hack squat 3x3

Cardio

cycle; 25-30 mins 70-80%

** I will be changing my cardio up. I've been using a stationary cycle for the majority of my cardio for quite some time now. I will be moving towards leaving that behind and hitting the road for jogging/running in my target heart ranges. I will still cycle some, but will try to do the majority as running. I'm really looking foward to the conditioning this will bring me. I'm hoping to improve my cardio a lot just by this switch alone. I plan on running atleast 3x a week for 3 or 4 miles each time. I have a lot of problems with my legs, knees, and shin splints that prevent me from doing some things like skipping rope, but I hope I will be ok to jog and run. On the 3-4 mile runs I will be staying in the 70-80% max heart rate to build a solid aerobic base. I will also be doing sprints 1-2x a week down the road or in my backyard. I think the road in front of my house is 500m or so and is a straight shot so I can do sprints there. I have to measure it out tho, I could be wrong. My conditioning has always been OK but just OK, nothing great. I need to improve in this area a lot. I can't wait to see what this brings. I will be starting the new cardio routine within the month, probably within a couple weeks. I'm waiting to get some good running shoes basically (I have nothing suitable and want to put something good on my feet to help with the pain from my legs).

After a month or so of doing the new running routine and sprints, on top of my shadow boxing and heavy bag rounds I plan to head back into boxing and mma training classes. I want to get my cardio/conditioning up before that.

My conditioning will look like,

Jogging/running 3-4x a week, 3-4 miles
Sprints 1-2x a week
Shadow boxing/Heavy bag 2-4x a week
Barbell complex 1x a week
Heavy lifting 3x a week

Skill work as much as possible (BJJ/Boxing/MMA classes and sparring)

Thats just the base of things but is what I'm looking at for summer.

I have fell in love with shadow boxing and heavy bag work for conditioning. A lot of boxers do tons of rounds and seem to hit around 10+ rounds of bag/mitt work daily so I'm looking to add this type of training into my routine. Working to get a lot of my anaerobic work from actual training like that, instead of countless sprints. Sprints will still be in my routine though of course, I just believe in how great a conditioning tool the boxing rounds can be for someone and think they are overlooked some in MMA.

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