Just a quick post; as the purpose of this blog is to track my training and weight lifting progress, I will regularly be posting my successes in the gym as well as the dojo.
The Gym:
It was a ridiculous leg workout today; it left me totally spent, but I beat my 1 rep max! Full-squat at 295lbs. I'm restarting the Strength 1 sequence of NROL, so my ultimate goal by the end of the 4 weeks is to have my 1 rep max at 335. For the record, I will not be counting the reps if I don't do a complete full range rep. I think in 4 weeks I should be there, but I definitely need to work on getting my ass to get through the full routine. I'm so spent from doing the squats that I have a hard time completing all the sets of the other exercises, so the sub-goal will to be able to get through the entire leg workout while also hitting my 1 rep max goal...it's going to be damned challenging.
The Dojo:
Biggest success I had today was making my already battered legs work for me for 2 hours straight. After a good long warm up, we worked kata. As I've been concentrating on cleaning up my Kanku-Sho lately, I decided to focus on that in particular today. My main issue has always been keeping my balance in the opening sequence, and then the snap of the hips after each oi-tsuki. I drilled up to the first kiai very slowly, getting a feel for each technique, and each hip movement. Finally, I was able to get a good idea of how to make the combinations work. Time to really work the moves when my legs are in better condition, and really learn to stick the landing.
I also worked a little on Bassai-Sho; as this isn't my tokui-kata, or even a primary focus for me, I was mainly just making sure I remembered the moves, and drilled a couple sections I was having trouble with.
It was definitely a great training day all around, time to hit the gym hard in the morning again, and then dojo at night.
Wish me luck!
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