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So this week I started my 20kg kettlebell pentathlon effort. The 6:00 Work/5:00 Rest rhythm seems like a natural fit with BJJ, and I need to get myself back into lifting, I've been farting around since December. So far my physique results have been great, but I'm worried that as I get better at, or at least more used to, grappling the fitness benefit is going to fall off.
I started by doing a pure half, 3:00/2:00, on Saturday morning to start the month. I hit the reps easy, doing 60/30/60/54/60 on reps, hitting big single sets, but I screwed up the timing a little bit: I skipped some of the rest periods on early sets because I got bored, then ran out of time on snatch because I was trying to pack the car quick in the two minute rest. d'oh.
Tuesday I tried again, this time adding reps without adding time, to increase density, so 3:00/2:00 but 80/40/80/70/80. It went ok, but not great. I was able to hit the reps on the first four exercises without too much trouble, though I had to hustle to hit them within the three minutes working time. The added density definitely pressed me. But when I got to the snatch, I was able to finish it, but felt something out of place in my left lat. Not that bad, but enough that I took a dnf on the push press set. Technically still a higher point total than the first go. Can't get hurt over nothing.
It feels better today, so between tomorrow and Friday I'll give it another go.
BJJ wise, a funny thing happened. New guy joined, middle aged white dude, ponytail, used to do Aikido. We get to the open mat at the end of the class, he's kind of hovering around the edge, nervous to join. I want to be friendly, ask him to roll. I figure I'll let him work a bit, flow, use moves I don't typically hit, be gentle, don't push too hard, try to help him learn positioning. Anyway I let him start on top, hit a sweep, get to mount...and then this fucker tries to wristlock me from bottom mount. He's grabbing my fingers and trying to bend them. He couldn't actually sink it, because he had zero leverage, but it was annoying and if we had lost balance could have lead to injury. Which, I should have handled calmly, but in the moment my reaction was "Ok, man bun, you're tapping." And we worked our way through a bunch of submissions for him to learn.
Then the kid who was there for a weekend before he joins his Ranger unit bounced me off the walls a bit. C'est la vie.
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