Analysis Paralysis

One of the great things about the internet, especially in relation to health and fitness, is the wealth of information out there.  Literally anything you could want to know is probably out there, and most likely for free.  There are workout programs galore, targeting every imaginable goal and involing a wide range of equipment.  Unfortunately with this all this accessible information there comes a downside, to much reading and thinking, but not enough doing.  I know i am guilty of it myself at times.  I’ll find one program that seems effective, run with it for a few weeks, then change because i run across something else that just seems cooler or more interesting, never my body a chance to make any progress with the first program.  I could literally spend all day contemplating different programs.  Full body training, body part splits, olympic lifts, barbells, dumbells, sandbags, conditioning, etc.  Eventually i’ll find the perfect program that makes use of it all, then ill be set for life, right?  Wrong.

First off i think its neccessary to have goals.  If you don’t know where you are going then you cannot plan the best route to get there.  Then find or devise a program that meets your needs, and just do it for a few months before you reevaluate.  Give it time to work for your body and dont jump ship to the next best thing you see on the internet.

As for myself i am going to give Mike Ruthefords Max Effort Black Box a try.  I have heard alot of good things about it, and it seems to cover the strength and conditioning sprctrum i need for grappling.

Anton

An Update!

So sorry no updates in quite a while.  Lift just got crazy, i was sick for a week, had a visitors in town for like three weeks in a row, and was busy working on a music project, starting to record my first cd.

In the fitness realm it looks like i may have an article published the Performance Menu soon, which is cool.  Its about integrating Brazillian juijitsu with outside strength and conditioning work that the regular 9-5, day jobber can handle.  It needed some pictures, so i got my grappling buddy Nathan and we took some pictures using Crossfit Portland’s crash pad.  It was fun to be able to thow each other as hard as we wanted.  Picking people up and slamming them is fun.

We definitely need to work with the crash pad more often.  Being able to take someone down is quite important.

There is another Crossfit Total coming up at Crossfit Portand this saturday.  I can’t believe its been more than a month since the last one, and i have prepared by doing more or less nothing in the past few weeks.  I had a program all planned out, then between being sick and all didnt up following most of it.  I was going to ditch out on the Total, but friends talked me into it, if for no other reason to see what i could do being under prepared.  So yesterday i went and squatted and pressed heavy.  Got an easy 280 on the squat, and almost got 140 on the press.  Not to far from what i got before, so i think for the Total i should at least be able to get the same lifts.  With the deadlift i mostly able to finish a speed cycle since the last total, so i am less concerned with that.  After this its back to a well rounded program for grappling, i am no powerlifter.

I promise to be better about updates and want to write up a bonch of topics that folks can actually implemet into their own exercise routines.

Anton