MMA and me; day 217

Thursday was a day full of conditioning drills, so you can imagine how sore I was the following day. For the first hour, we started with jumping rope for ten minutes, then we grabbed some medicine balls, and headed up to "the conditioning room". I don't know if it's actually called that, but with the temperature in the high 90s, it sure got the sweat flowing. First we just held the medicine balls over our heads for five minutes, which is MUCH harder than it sounds. Next, half of us knocked out 25 ab rolls while the other half did 25 knee push ups, then we swapped. We then proceeded to do squats while holding the ball, alternating medicine ball push ups, and then two rounds of punching the ball while our partner held it. Five minutes of back and forth chest passes with the balls, then we finished off by circling up, and doing sit ups for five minutes. A very exhausting hour, and then it was on to grappling.

Grappling was more of a conditioning class than normal, but with all the sweat we had just worked up, it felt awesome! After warming up with shrimping forward and backward, front and back rolls, and cartwheel passes, we got into the nitty gritty. We began by shadow grappling for a bit, working shoulder rolls, shooting in for take downs, pulling guard, rolls and re rolls, it was great! Everything we did over the course of class was focused around honing basic skills. Bag hangs, inverted bag hangs, climbing around your partner as they stood like a tree, koala bear crawls, flattening out your opponent from their back (key to defending, is angry cat!) A thoroughly draining day, but I felt great after, and though sore, I loved every minute of it. Back to it this week, and hopefully more conditioning, because I need it!