3letterslong
Level 6 Valued Member
Combining martial arts and training has always been a struggle for me.
For the past 2-3 months, my S&C training has been this:
AM - skipping, leopard crawling, hanging
PM - various programs that should theoretically be the best way for me to increase my strength and mass while training martial arts while fixing injuries / imbalances
For the past two weeks, I've been trying to do Tim Anderson's Habitual Strength program in the evenings. Basically, it's some OS resets + an OS version of Dan John's One Lift A Day program (i.e. Monday you do get-ups in 10 minutes, Tuesday as many squats and push-ups as possible in 10 minutes, Wednesday exercise X in 10 minutes, Thursday exercise Y, etc etc.)
And for the past two weeks I kept adding.
On the push-up and squat day, I was like, why don't I add bodyweight rows? And on the upper body pull day I'll add squats and push-ups, so I do two full-body workouts instead of this hitting each movement once a week! And I made some other tweaks to get another day of swings in.
And then I trained martial arts and felt like garbage all week, so then i was pondering a rest day in the middle of the week, and suddenly it's a completely different program that also doesn't feel right.
This week I've been forcing myself to stick to Tim's program (with my hangs and crawls in the morning, which are producing great strength results, but for some reason that's not enough) and his 10 minutes of strength work per day.
You know what's been happening when I just do hangs, crawls and stop adding to Tim's program? I'm getting some amazing workouts and feeling great because I'm not training my entire body in much-longer sessions! Also, I've been eating to lose weight, and I still feel great in a caloric restriction!
My brain hates this. I could fit so many full-body sessions in there! So much progress! But, all that progress is theoretical, I never see it.
I feel like a heroin addict trying to quit cold turkey. My skin is itching and my brain is constantly ruminating on how to tweak this program. No, you effing idiot brain! "Optimal" is the program that will give me the most consistent results over the long term! Stop trying to change this amazing thing you've got going or I'll start watching Kardashians and make you too stupid to ponder anything!
For the past 2-3 months, my S&C training has been this:
AM - skipping, leopard crawling, hanging
PM - various programs that should theoretically be the best way for me to increase my strength and mass while training martial arts while fixing injuries / imbalances
For the past two weeks, I've been trying to do Tim Anderson's Habitual Strength program in the evenings. Basically, it's some OS resets + an OS version of Dan John's One Lift A Day program (i.e. Monday you do get-ups in 10 minutes, Tuesday as many squats and push-ups as possible in 10 minutes, Wednesday exercise X in 10 minutes, Thursday exercise Y, etc etc.)
And for the past two weeks I kept adding.
On the push-up and squat day, I was like, why don't I add bodyweight rows? And on the upper body pull day I'll add squats and push-ups, so I do two full-body workouts instead of this hitting each movement once a week! And I made some other tweaks to get another day of swings in.
And then I trained martial arts and felt like garbage all week, so then i was pondering a rest day in the middle of the week, and suddenly it's a completely different program that also doesn't feel right.
This week I've been forcing myself to stick to Tim's program (with my hangs and crawls in the morning, which are producing great strength results, but for some reason that's not enough) and his 10 minutes of strength work per day.
You know what's been happening when I just do hangs, crawls and stop adding to Tim's program? I'm getting some amazing workouts and feeling great because I'm not training my entire body in much-longer sessions! Also, I've been eating to lose weight, and I still feel great in a caloric restriction!
My brain hates this. I could fit so many full-body sessions in there! So much progress! But, all that progress is theoretical, I never see it.
I feel like a heroin addict trying to quit cold turkey. My skin is itching and my brain is constantly ruminating on how to tweak this program. No, you effing idiot brain! "Optimal" is the program that will give me the most consistent results over the long term! Stop trying to change this amazing thing you've got going or I'll start watching Kardashians and make you too stupid to ponder anything!
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