Friday Fights, META, and Active Recovery

This is the last “regular week” of my strength block before slicing the volume and going heavy! Friday night I was invited to watch some local fights ringside, which lead to many drinks and stories about “the good old days” being shared.

Summary:

This week was kind of all over the place. Mobility went missing, lifts are creeping towards PRs, Friday night was wild and I definitely drank too much and slept too little.

Nevertheless, I still showed up to Saturday morning open mat. I also managed to remain steadfast in both teaching and training focused on rear naked chokes when it came to grappling. That trend will continue for another couple weeks. As I’ve mentioned before I really want to hone in on a few months of “META only” — “most effective techniques available.”

Intuitively I needed a “active rest” day on Sunday, so there are 4 sessions left in my strength program that will take a little over a week to complete. However, knowing they won’t get finished this week as planned, takes some pressure off and I might as well be well rested and throw in some PR attempts.