Training Week: 2024-01-29

Escape Velocity Week 6, Knowing Thyself, and Seeking Failure

This week was about finding and exploring limits, challenging and changing limitations and weaknesses.

Summary:

The early capacity sessions this week were extremely educational for learning how the cadence your body’s “machine” (breathing) pairs with the cadence of an exercise “machine” (RPM / watts).

Grappling practice has continued to focus on defensive wrestling, but this week a savvy brown belt found some holes in my defense which I elected to shore up later in the week.

Friday’s strength session was difficult, not the grindy kind of difficult I’ve become used to, but the more defeating “I just couldn’t hang” difficult. Nevertheless, the reasons why were obvious.

Contents:

• Monday: Escape Velocity Session 18 - Capacity / Recoverability

• Tuesday: Escape Velocity Session 19 - Capacity / Recoverability

• Wednesday: NoGi BJJ - bad positions, wrestling, guard passing

• Thursday: NoGi BJJ - wrestling review, progressive sparring pace

• Friday: Escape Velocity Session 20 - Strength Endurance

• Saturday: NoGi BJJ - wrestling and escaping mount

• Sunday: Escape Velocity Session 21 - Mobility

I neglected to mention previously that the “quoted parts of session ‘intentions’” are excerpts directly from Michael (@gritandteeth), entered for the respective session on The Space Program website.

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