Morning Workouts

So this week, now that my knee is better and I seem to be over the hump of illness, I started working out in the mornings again. I set up a schedule for the next 2 months to peak at the beginning of December when I will enter a local competition in Handa city. Hopefully, I can progress with this.

I began with some Revab workouts, 1 cardio 1 muscular weight training. Today I did Abs and a Tabata workout. Tomorrow I will do a BJJ specific workout with pull ups and neck rolls etc. On Saturday I plan to stretch or do yoga. Repeat this each week.

The Tabata was great. I switched out push ups and body weight squats. Real easy to start with but still tiring. I found a video I run from my ipod to the TV to time it all. See the youtube link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5oiNX8L9Rs&feature=feedlik

BJJ related resistance training

After the competition I have decided to do specific drills for BJJ. I did 3 sets of the following:

Pull ups using gi collar x 5 (grip slipping!)
Side to side push ups on medicine ball x 10
Kettlebell thrusts using hips forward x 10 each hand
25 kg medicine ball hold with level change and tackle shoot x 10
Same medicine ball around head to strengthen shoulder girdle x 10 each way

An easy start but I felt very pumped after it.
I should add neck strengthening to this.