The past couple weeks in review and my gymnastic experience.

Greeting loyal follower(s),

As promised, I'll catch you up on my training and some reasons that I've been so busy of late. The past couple weeks, I've been on the search for a new job. I wasn't having a great deal of luck, but one of my part time jobs offered me a full time position. So, I decided to take it and my first full work day starts in a few hours. Unfortunately, my shift begins before my jujitsu class starts and my shift ends after the class dismisses. :( Sadness to say the least.

Over the past 2 weeks, I decided to hit jujitsu hard and grapple as much as possible. I trained with, practiced with, and taught as many people as I could in the time frame. In that time frame, I believe that my skills, abilities, and conditioning improved. I diversified my training partners, I used as much of the height and weight spectrum that was available to me. Unfortunately, during this time an injury occurred, not to me but one of the under belts. Long story made short, while doing some grappling, the guys face hit my elbow and broke his face. It was an accident but I still feel bad about it. However, things happen. If you read this Shawn, sorry buddy and I hope you're recovering well.

Last Thursday, I had a gymnastic experience. One of my jujitsu buddies is also a gymnast. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a fan of physical culture and training and I wanted to get a feel for gymnastics. My friend gave me a crash course on the still rings, pommel horse, and high bar. A brief summary of the experience, fun but hard. I learned some basic techniques and I also learned that I am not built for gymnastics (especially the pommel horse and high bar). For those 2 events, my arms are way too short, my torso is too long, or a combination of the 2. I could go into details, but just think about the positions that are performed on the pommel horse and my above mentioned build (hint: I dragged my junk). Hopefully, that's been enough said.

The gymnastic training effect was awesome, today is 5 days after and I still have some muscle soreness. I've decided that I'm gonna get some rings to train with (not gymnastically). The rings made simple exercises exponentially harder. Pull up and chin ups, normally, I can do a couple hand fulls, not so on the rings. Dips, usually not a problem, HARD on the rings. Push ups, normally not an issue, on rings an entirely new level of muscle activation. All I can say is awesome.

Well folks, that's all that I have for today. If you have question or comments, please leave them below or if you know me personally drop me an email. Until next time, take care and try to improve.

Steven DG