Derek's Mass Gain Manifesto and Milestone Log - Page 205

Derek Weaver · 12-30-2010, 10:24 PM

Nice work Derek. Way to end the year.

Arien Malec · 12-31-2010, 07:06 PM

Congrats! That DL PR is not long for the world...

Derek Simonds · 12-31-2010, 10:01 PM

Thanks guys. I finished the year with two great training sessions. on the 30th I trained with a brown belt from GBO at a BJJ place here in Deland. We worked hard! Tons of positional drilling. Finished by going back to my house and having a steak feast and giving him some coaching on the core lifts. Today Jr, my dad, my bro in law from TN and me hit the local range for some serious trigger time. We turned some serious dollars into smoke and noise. I really focused on my press out and front sight picture. It paid dividends by the end of the session. I also got some great video of Jr shooting his moms AR. He loved it.

All in all a fantastic finish to the year. Catch you guys on the flip side.

Leon Robotham · 01-04-2011, 02:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Derek Simonds

I also got some great video of Jr shooting his moms AR. He loved it.

All in all a fantastic finish to the year. Catch you guys on the flip side.

Shooting his moms AR, amazing!!

Sounds like you had a great xmas and new year mate, nice one.

Derek Simonds · 01-04-2011, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Leon Robotham

Shooting his moms AR, amazing!!

Sounds like you had a great xmas and new year mate, nice one.

A lot to catch up on here in my log. For Leon here is a video of Jr shooting his moms AR for the first time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy2XJRYESTU

New Years day we played paintball with the family. I can tell you that getting shot in the arm with a paintball from 25 feet with no sleeves is painful. I wan't properly attired at that moment in time as I was running out on a rescue mission. We got done playing and headed out for some dove hunting. It was a beautiful afternoon but no dove wanted to play. Here is Jr waiting patiently.

I will update more stuff as the day progresses.

Derek Simonds · 01-04-2011, 08:51 AM

3 Jan 2011 Monday

First day back at work so I decided to wait to lift until Tuesday.

BJJ Fundamentals: Inside Trip, Single Leg, Single Leg Sprawl, Whizzer to Turtle Top, to Take the Back, to Collar Choke

BJJ Advanced: Open guard inside leg pass and outside leg pass. Monkey in the middle guy on bottom sweep or submit guy on top pass only. First time up against another purple belt I didn't know and I played an open passing game and just flowed before moving into a smothering pass. Then I stayed in the middle the for the remainder of the 15 minutes. I felt great all along and had a couple of good goes with some other blue belts. I noticed that most people started with their center of gravity too high. That made it easier to sweep. Ended up grappling 2 6 minute rounds and had some good moves in both. Happy with the way I felt and what I did. Yeah me.

4 Jan Tuesday 2011

Wow 05:00 is early. No earlier then before but crap I wasn't ready for it this morning. I was in slooooow motiooonnnn... By the time I got the dogs walked it was 05:46.

Foam Roll

Press up to 85, 95 X 5, 110 X 8
P/U 3 X 7

BS up to 175, 195, 220 X 5
55 LB BB Curl
45 LB BB Skull Smasheroonies

All done by 6:30 and cooked breakfast for the kids. Laney had a bad grade come home yesterday so we had to have a little talk about the importance of school. Other than that a great morning. Oh yeah the squats felt heavy as hell! Hoping just not ready for the night and morning workout.

Leon Robotham · 01-05-2011, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Derek Simonds

A lot to catch up on here in my log. For Leon here is a video of Jr shooting his moms AR for the first time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy2XJRYESTU

New Years day we played paintball with the family. I can tell you that getting shot in the arm with a paintball from 25 feet with no sleeves is painful. I wan't properly attired at that moment in time as I was running out on a rescue mission. We got done playing and headed out for some dove hunting. It was a beautiful afternoon but no dove wanted to play. Here is Jr waiting patiently.

I will update more stuff as the day progresses.

Class mate, looks like a very controlled shot! Gotta be like heaven to just hit the range. Fortunately for me I've spent a bit of time on the ranges when I volunteered for the Royal Marines but the only thing I got to fire was the SA80 A1 & A2 and The LMG, oh and the GPMG, but unfortunately for me we don't have your gun laws here

Derek Simonds · 01-05-2011, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Leon Robotham

Class mate, looks like a very controlled shot! Gotta be like heaven to just hit the range. Fortunately for me I've spent a bit of time on the ranges when I volunteered for the Royal Marines but the only thing I got to fire was the SA80 A1 & A2 and The LMG, oh and the GPMG, but unfortunately for me we don't have your gun laws here

I know your gun laws are quite restrictive. I tease one of my friends all the time by saying oh yeah you are from where Great Britain used to be... Like I have said before if you are ever in the states we will A) have to train BJJ and B) get in a little trigger time.

Derek Simonds · 01-05-2011, 09:57 AM

I have been doing a little thinking about what I want to focus on physically this year. I have been fairly focused on just getting stronger in my workouts and have used BJJ as my conditioning. I am thinking it is time to change that some. When I played paintball last week with the kids I was running through the woods and got winded. I wasn't too pleased with that at all. Could I run a 5K in under 26 minutes right now. Sure. It would be all levels of suck though. I have nursed this busted up right foot for almost 2 years now and have used it as a crutch on why I haven't ran. Probably time to address that.

I think I am going to add in 1 day a week of some type of running and 1 day a week of rowing. The primary goal is to get some steady state cardio work. I will wear my HR monitor and keep it in the 145-150 range. This will be between 20 minutes and 45 minutes (absolute max) worth of work.

I am thinking something like this

M: Run
T: BS, Press (this could easily be M and the run T)
W: Off
H: DL, Bench
F: Row
S: Accessory lifts

BJJ will still be in the evenings ideally 3 times a week when I am in town. This gives me a lot of flexibility and I can move it around as needed based on travel.

I also need to get committed and get in for my physical. I haven't been in a couple of years and having hit the big 40 this year it is time.

My legs are sore today from yesterdays squats. I think I am going to be hitting some pretty big improvements on my squat in a very short time with the changes I have made to my setup and stance.

Lastly a shameless bit of self promotion. I am selling one of my Suburbans. If anyone is in need of an incredible tow vehicle this is it. http://orlando.craigslist.org/cto/2144984340.html

BJJ Tonight and lifting in the morning.

Derek Simonds · 01-05-2011, 11:53 AM

Leon et al BJJ players have fun with this link...

http://www.jiujitsuforums.com/viewto...=asc&star t=0

And one other good one.

http://www.youtube.com/user/sgtjones.../0/xVIg_87Sy3g