Martial Arts and Training: Always learning and growing, training to my body type.

I will never stop learning and growing. I am so happy about that. I mean in my martial arts and fitness goals, but also in everything I do.

I have some new things on the horizon… It has a huge learning curve, and potential for me to do things I love. I am being intentionally vague because there is a lot up in the air. We will see how it goes.

Anyway back to the blog. I am changing how I train, or am trying to. The thing I have learned as I have gone through the years in my training is that you have to be willing to change things up. You have to be willing to try something new. If things are working for you but not the way you want, you have to be willing to change it up.

What am I doing that is different in my workouts/training? Well it seems like something that should be intuitive, but I am moving more toward training to my body type. I am making little changes to try to work with my body. Trying to be understanding when hormones are not working with me.

This current week I am adding more moves/workouts that are supposed to be more appropriate for my body type.

Body type you ask? I have heard about them and read about them before. But it is really hard to find consistent information on how train to your body type. I have been reading a book called Roar by Stacy T. Sims, PhD.

Different Body types:

  1. Ectomorph: Ectomorphs tend to be longer limbed people. They don’t seem to pack on muscle easily, and they tend to skinny looking.
  2. Mesomorph: Mesomorph people tend to find building muscle easy. They are more proportionally built.
  3. Endomorph: Endomorphs are usually curvier, softer and rounder. They tend to store fat more easily than the other two body types.

I feel am mostly Endomorph but partially Mesomorph. I kinda straddle both of these two body types. Which makes things difficult to taylor my fitness routine.

Some experts say to do one thing and other another thing. Honestly we are all different and we cannot be put in to a box. With that said we have to find what works for us, and be willing to throw away what does not. That is why we need to be able to experiment.

So as I go along I learn and try out new things and throw away the old things. Sometimes going back to the things I did before because they worked better than the new things.

This week I am doing more sprints. I hate sprints. But I need to work more on my explosive movements. I am keeping the weight lifting, and I am of course keeping the Martial Arts. I am changing up when and how I am eating. No longer just waiting till I have time. I am making time.

Let me get to my last week of training.

Schedule: Week of Training

  1. Monday 8/23/2021: Mile Run, and Weightlifting 1 hour
  2. Tuesday 8/24/2021: 1 hour of Muay Thai Training
  3. Wednesday 8/25/2021: scheduled rest day
  4. Thursday 8/26/2021: 1 hour of Muay Thai Training
  5. Friday 8/27/2021: scheduled rest day
  6. Saturday 8/29/2021: 2 hours of Muay Thai Training, Weightlifting 1 hour
  7. Sunday 8/30/2021: we had an off day

My Martial Art Focus:

  1. Working my distance management and learning my distance
  2. Stay light on my feet
  3. Cutting the corner so I can flank my opponent
  4. Pull up foot out of the bucket when throwing cross

Drills for this week: Focus on getting in and out of the pocket

I did not record the drills for this week.


Weight Lifting: Week one 3 day split

Weightlifting: focus – shoulders, triceps, chest and abs

1) seated dumbbell shoulder press – reps – 15, 15, 8, 8, 8, 8

Superset
2) seated dumbbell lateral raises – reps- 12, 12, 12, 12
3) inclined fly backs – reps- 12, 12, 12, 12

Superset
4) dumbbell inclined chest press- reps – 10, 10, 10, 10
5) diamond push ups – reps – 10, 10, 10, 10

Superset
6) cable chest flys – reps- 12, 12, 12, 12
7) overhead rope tricep extensions- 12, 12, 12, 12

Superset
8 ) pike crunches 30 seconds
9) dumbbell v ups 30 sec
10) dumbbell Russian twists 30 sec
11) walking planks 30 seconds
12) pike crunches 30 seconds
13) dumbbell v ups 30 sec
14) dumbbell Russian twists 30 sec
15) walking planks 30 seconds
16) pike crunches 30 seconds
17) dumbbell v ups 30 sec
18) dumbbell Russian twists 30 sec
19) walking planks 30 seconds

Nutrition

  1. Maintenance week for me.
  2. Just trying to make sure I eat right now. Not getting enough protein in… and eating lots of carbs.
MACRO AVERAGES
 Day 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Day 6Day 7AverageGoalDifference
Protein79104119107641009395.142857119094.85714286
Carbs229217238293130188164208.428571160-48.42857143
Fat87739912289676986.571428667-19.57142857
           
Calories20151941231926981577175516491993.4285720039.571428571
08/32/2021-08/30/2021

I am kinda in a transition. I guess this shows in my posts. However, this is a recording of Trying to figure out my next steps, feeling out my new workout. But I will keep training. Changing things up, and tweaking things to make it better for me.

What do you do for your training? How have you tweaked it? What is your body type?

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