Nice one! Always work your weakest arm first, and match its ability with your stronger arm- this ensures you dont create imbalance. Also remember not to twist the body or 'heave' the weight. Keep tight, and when its done, its done- no 'cheat' reps

We did the modified burpees at the end of class tonight,whew. Talk about wabbling,the whole class was bent over in agony afterwards,fun!

BTW, in sparring tonight I was knocked out cold. I was sparring my instructor and I'm still a bit rusty. I threw a leg kick with my left leg and came in with my guard down. He caught me on the chin with a left hook. He had pulled it,but I basically ran into it. The next thing I knew I was sitting up and him and the other blackbelts were attending to me. That's the first time in a long time that I took a shot like that.

Brian fall down and go bang.

I feel great after getting back from my trip to oldman's! Saturday was a real test for my conditioning. After two seperate classes at his dojo we went for a BJJ class which icluded some 3minute sparring rounds with hardly a break inbetween. Mark and I questioned our conditioning,but then remembered th two morning classes the others had not had. We're ok.

Wow that does sound like it would be tiring I am glad to see you had a fun trip though.

Whew! Had a great class tonight. After teaching some bunkai for a while we did 10minute rounds of sparring with 5min inbetween rounds,fun,but exausting. We included all ranges during the sparring session as well. We ended the class with some of those modified burpees Cord gave us and made plans for saturday,yee haw.

I'm up to 194lbs now,that's just one pound under my pre-cancer weight. I think I'll slow down on the protein for a couple of weeks and then pick it back up again. My goal is to achieve and maintain 205lbs.
Any more tips or advice would be appreciated,always looking to improve my game.
Thanks a many!
-B

Getting back on track Brian, excellent news. You get two thumbs up from me.

Thanks Dereck!

I now have a weight bench with 250lbs of weight. That should add some variety to my workout. I am going to start training for size more now. It also has the leg attachment. I'll look into some of the routines you guys do and see what I come up with.

peace out brother!!!!!!!!