Trust Your Foundation, If You Built It

Training Week: 2024-07-08, Rehab Week 4

Rarely do I look forward to endurance work. However, this week I was glad to not be confined to marginal drilling and light mobility / physical therapy work. My knee allowed enough range of motion that I could get back on a bike and manage a few (hundred) low step-ups.

Summary:

This week I’m back to riding and rolling! But not running or lifting yet. At any rate, endurance and mobility are never bad places to begin again. Once I have full range of motion I think I can start lifting again and pushing into harder capacity work.

Of course, it will be a while before I’m doing takedowns and longer still before leglocks. At any rate, it felt good to get a fully 8 rounds in on Saturday, even if I was butt scooting around the “swimming pool.”

As we’re currently renovating the gym, the AC is turned off and we were rolling at a “crisp 82’F”, as Kyle described it! Similarly, Sunday’s endurance session was 102’F in the sun and a UV index of 11.

Overview:

• 6-Month Goal (12/31/24): Compete as black belt in 2024.

• 8-Week Objective (8/8/24): Rehabilitate right knee.

• Weekly Objective (7/8/24): Walk 10,000 steps / day, test ability to train endurance.