Martial Arts and Training: Upping your intensity or training with intent.

I often hear from my training partner you play harder you are going to take you are going to get hit harder. So I have been upping my intensity and or training with intent.

For those people who I like (think of as family and or friends) it is really hard, it is a hard mental block for me. To hit them or train with intent. To dump them when the opening arrives.

I am now at the part of my training I have to work hard, I have to try to do everything I can to win. Training with intent does not mean I have to damage them permanently, but I have to be ready to train hard, and to the point where I am willing to hit them hard if they don’t cover or evade. I have to be willing to dump the people I love and care about on the ground.

It is not only good for me. It simulates training for the real world. Being afraid for your life and taking out a assailant.

It is also helping my training partners I am pushing them harder. I am making them have to think, defend, and train harder.

The harder I work the better for them and myself. I just need to get over my mental block of hurting my friends and family.

On a side note. It is also harder on your body. I got kneed in the rib and in the gut. Both accidents on my partners fault, both hurt a great deal, and I felt fine afterward, but the next few days were a doozie. You play hard you get big bruises.

Schedule: Week of Training

  1. Monday 7/26/2021: Mile Run, and Weight Lifting 1 hour
  2. Tuesday 7/27/2021: Mile Run, and Weight Lifting 1 hour, Muay Thai Training 1 hour
  3. Wednesday 7/28/2021: scheduled rest day
  4. Thursday 7/29/2021: Muay Thai Training 1 hour
  5. Friday 7/30/2021: scheduled rest day
  6. Saturday 7/31/2021: resting my neck shoulders
  7. Sunday 8/01/2021: Muay Thai 2 hours of training

My Martial Art Focus:

  1. Stay light on my feet
  2. Cutting the corner so I can flank my opponent
  3. Diving deep to make contact and stay close to avoid my opponents strike
  4. Keep my hands up
  5. Bringing the intent, intensity to training

Drills for this week:

Muay Thai Training: focus kicks
1) jump rope
2) Thai Test
3) mirror drill + leg kicks
4) mirror drill + leg kicks

5) jab, cross, rear body kick, rear leg kick
6) lead kick, cross, hook, rear kick
7) rear kick, Superman cross, hook, lead kick

Kali: I missed Kali this week due to my neck and shoulders being stiff and in pain after chiro appointment. This is normal from a big adjustment.


Weight Lifting

I increased the weight for my standing dumbell tricep rows to the heaviest dumbbells I have. That’s a 10 lb increase each arm. Yay! But that means gonna need to get the next set of dumbbells in a few weeks.

Focus on for this 7th week of 8 weeks with a focus on HIIT workouts, and volume.

Superset – do these in a two sets of exercises once through in a row without rest
1) standing dumbbell row – reps – 12, 12, 12, 12
2) dumbbell inclined fly – reps- 12, 12, 12, 12

3)seated reverse grip cable row – reps- 15, 15, 15, 15

Superset–
4) cable narrow grip pull downs – reps -12, 12, 12, 12
5) dumbbell standing double arm bicep curl – reps- 12, 12, 12, 12

Superset-
6) cable rope face pull – reps – 12, 12, 12
7) cable bicep curl – reps – 12, 12, 12

8 ) dumbbell biceps spider curl -reps – 12, 12, 12

Nutrition

  1. Maintenance week for me.
  2. I did terribly on my nutrition. I just did not eat enough, was not hungry and did not want to eat anything. Fell back into my bad habits of just not eating when I did not want to.
  3. I only averaged 96 grams in vs 190 g of protein, I went a little over on carbs 176 vs 160, and went over in fats 85 g vs 67 g goal.
MACRO AVERAGES
 Day 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Day 6Day 7AverageGoalDifference
Protein100107100115921045295.714285719094.28571429
Carbs132153251218168133193178.285714160-18.28571429
Fat445595119938310785.142857167-18.14285714
           
Calories13241535225924031877169519431862.285712003140.7142857
7/26/2021 – 8/01/2021

I am training harder, forgot to eat/or fell back into my old habits of not eating. I am working being better. Some times I slip but I get back up and go again.

Thank you for reading I hope you are having a fantastic week. If you want to talk please feel free to comment. If you want to follow my adventures please subscribe, and my daily shenanigans are on @sharpcupake on instagram.

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