Day 5 - BJJ

Today is Monday, President's Day, so I had the day off and I decided to go to the 8am class. I brought along a high school friend of mine and he had no idea what exactly Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was all about. Warm-ups have been getting a little bit easier but I'm still running of out of air while I'm running. We learned how to get out of the gaurd and drilled that over and over again. My friend has pretty good stamina, however he was gasping for air during the knee escape drills. Overall it was a great workout, I'm not sure if my friend will ever return but after the training, we had a great breakfast at Keith's Restaurant.

Day 2 - BJJ

My day started at 5:30am. I was pretty excited to go to class today. These classes are no joke. Today is my cousin Jeff’s first day so I couldn’t wait to see him start training. Warm-ups were crazy. The knee escape drill gets you tired real quickly and this time we had to go back and forth twice. The sparring went ok. I was able to get a side choke on one of the guys, other than that, I tapped out about 6 times. I’m still working on my stamina and endurance. My goal is to be in tip top cardio shape within 2 months. I still am lifting weights so I can gain speed, power and stamina. I learned how to properly apply the guillotine chokehold and how to escape the guillotine while standing or in the guard. Training is getting more intense and I’m loving it.

Day 1 - Brazilian Jujitsu

Another chapter added to my life, I'm training to learn Brazilian Jujitsu. I joined a local gym that teaches boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, brazilian jujitsu and more. Today was my first day and it was more than I expected. Class started at 6:30am. I am out of shape as far as cardio is concerned. I'm going to have to change my diet and do a lot more cardio in my workouts. I could barely get through the warm ups without gasping for air. Day 2 is on Wednesday, we'll see how that goes.