BJJ-2025-086

Overview:

• 8-Week Focus (July - Aug):
  • Re-emphasize sport (BJJ) sessions 4 days / week. Fitness sessions should focus on rebounding (2x), and leave one day for creativity / hard days with Ollin.
• Weekly Objective:
  • Fitness sessions should include neck / spine work, animal movements (Budokon), and hamstring stretches.

Assessment:

• Sleep Quantity (hours): 6
• Sleep Quality (1-5): 2
• Mood (1-5): 2
• Soreness (1-5): 1

Style: NoGi Structure: Class

Technical Resource:

Review:

• Difficulty (1-10): 6
• Performance (1-10): 6
• Mat Hours: 1
• What worked well?
  • I made the smart decision to not roll / spar tonight. It was a lighter class, so I probably could have done fine, but I’m glad I settled on the decision based on how I was feeling ahead of time rather than seeing who showed up or not and ducking hard rounds.
• What didn’t work?
  • I slept like shit. I was dragging ass and felt like I got hit by a ton of bricks all day. It took me a while to figure out why, but I wore my night time mouth guard (for teeth grinding) which I don’t usually do. Even though it’s pretty low profile, apparently having a big chuck of plastic in your mouth isn’t conducive to sleeping with your mouth closed.
• Plan for next time?
  • I’m still figuring out my next training micro-cycle. I could do Monday Gi class, or make a drive on Sunday’s for cross training. The latter is better for my style, but I also do bitework with my dogs on Sunday. The former is logistically better, but not really something I’m excited about, though I could probably use polishing up my Gi game.