I am a Brit living in Louisiana, I met my now husband in July 1998 playing text adventures online. In Sept 2002 I moved to the States to get married. I am a gamer, a geek, a pet (furry and scaley) lover, a book lover (fantasy and sci-fi) and just lately a health nut.Workouts – Week of Feb 9th
Posted by Morkai on February 17, 2009
Gonna try a weekly log format since there is not much to log regarding my actual Jiu-Jitsu Classes.
Monday: Jiu-Jitsu – 60 mins
Tuesday: Jiu-Jitsu – 90 mins
Wednesday: Circuit Training
- Air Dyne 44 calories
- Medicine ball slams: 10
- Air Dyne: 33 Calories
- Medicine ball slams: 15
- Air Dyne 22 calories
- Medicine ball slams: 20
- Air Dyne: 11 Calories
- Medicine ball slams: 25
Tough -much harder than it potential sounds.
Thursday: Jiu-Jitsu – 90 mins
Friday: Training with Beth
Warmup:
- 10 mins walking on treadmill. 2.9mph holding water pipes.
- 5 mins stair master – lvl 4
- 40 x Squats – 45lb bar
- 40 x Swiss ball pushups
Circuit – Repeat x2:
- 30 x Kettlebell swings – 20lb kb
- 30 x Medicine ball bounce (hard 30lb ball)
- 15 x Medicine ball slam (soft 30lb ball)
- 15 x Medicine ball squat and throw (soft 20lb ball)
- 30 x Jumping pull ups
Cooldown:
- 10 x Ab wheel
- 10 x crunch and squat from slanted bench.
Awesome workout. The last item was pretty cool, to explain it a bit further you lie on the bench and roll forward like a crunch ( ie putting all the work on your midsection) but you then stand up. Then you drop into a squat and sit back down and roll back with the same crunch style action. Beth said eventually that will be done with all kinds of weight added. I think she was being nice as by that point I was dripping with sweat and probably looking like I was about to expire. Fun stuff 
I am very much looking forward to our future sessions.
Overall a very successfull week, I enjoyed 2 days of I think well deserved rest over the weekend
blubberbegone said
Dare I ask, what on earth is a jumping pull up?
Morkai said
Ha ha, actually not as bad as it sounds. It’s beginner pullups
Stand on a box and grab the bar, instead of just pulling yourself up you jump to give yourself a boost, idea is to lower yourself back down as slowly as possible.
Right now gravity has different ideas about the let your self down slowly part for me and there is not much difference in my down speed to the up but hey it’s a starting point.