kiwipete
Level 8 Valued Member
I went and tried a Japanese Ju Jitsu class last week. I've dabbled in aikido, boxing and judo in the past without finding an art that felt 'like me' and thought this was worth a go.
I completely under-estimated how sore and grumpy it would make me for 4 days afterward...
Paraphrasing , my wife said, "You are not doing it again because I'm not living with you being so grumpy and tired".
My 20 year old brain did not appreciate it was working in a 40 year old body!
Does anyone have advice about how to train MA's in a way that doesn't destroy you?
The JJJ session was pretty much 30min of push ups, jumping squats, crunches ad nauseam - then ground fighting and self defence techniques for the next hour.
I was extremely restrained, tapping often and early. Ego was very much left at home - nothing to prove (literally ha ha)
I think the body weight stuff combined with the ground fighting just destroyed any recovery capacity I have last week.
I'm disciplined with going to bed early, eating good food and looking after myself.
I love moving my body but I can't see that type of training being sustainable over the long term - especially if it leaves me no energy to be happy to be around nor able / willing to do easy strength and easy running each week (which I love BTW).
Has anyone else had this 'recovery challenge' from MA training? And if so, what ways did you go about solving it?
Change schools? Change MA? Other ideas? Appreciate your experience and ideas ?
I completely under-estimated how sore and grumpy it would make me for 4 days afterward...
Paraphrasing , my wife said, "You are not doing it again because I'm not living with you being so grumpy and tired".
My 20 year old brain did not appreciate it was working in a 40 year old body!
Does anyone have advice about how to train MA's in a way that doesn't destroy you?
The JJJ session was pretty much 30min of push ups, jumping squats, crunches ad nauseam - then ground fighting and self defence techniques for the next hour.
I was extremely restrained, tapping often and early. Ego was very much left at home - nothing to prove (literally ha ha)
I think the body weight stuff combined with the ground fighting just destroyed any recovery capacity I have last week.
I'm disciplined with going to bed early, eating good food and looking after myself.
I love moving my body but I can't see that type of training being sustainable over the long term - especially if it leaves me no energy to be happy to be around nor able / willing to do easy strength and easy running each week (which I love BTW).
Has anyone else had this 'recovery challenge' from MA training? And if so, what ways did you go about solving it?
Change schools? Change MA? Other ideas? Appreciate your experience and ideas ?