19:00 Home

SMR
Warm up

TGU 5 minutes.

Hip rehab
Stretch

18:00 Fencing

Intu Flow

Warmup

Bouts

1.(C) 15-7
2.(A) 5-15
3. (B) 9-15
4 (A) 9-15
5, (A) 12-15

Stretch

22:00 Home

Meditation.


Long day at work made for low energy. Fenced better in the last two bouts. Made a lot of unforced errors. Need to work on calming the mind prior to starting. From today starting a daily meditation practice based on the book 8 Minute Meditation.

19:00 Home

Warm up

TGU 5 minutes.

Stretch

SMR

19:00 Home

Warmup

12 minutes of KB swings with 1 minutes active rest (fencing footwork) after each set.
20 x 24Kg (160)

Stretch
SMR

13:00 Home

Warm up

TGU 5 minutes.

Stretch

SMR

19:00 Home

Warmup

12 minutes of KB swings with 1 minutes active rest (fencing footwork) after each set.
20 x 24Kg (160)

Stretch

19:00 Home

SMR
Warmup

12 minutes of KB swings with 1 minutes active rest (fencing footwork) after each set.
25 x 24Kg (175)

Stretch

18:00 Fencing

Intu Flow

Warmup

Bouts

1.(C) 2-15
2.(B) 12-15
3. (B) 9-15
4 (B) 12-15
5, (B) 9-15

TGU 5 minutes 12Kg KB.
Pullups 2x10

Stretch
SMR

Felt mentally and physically drained; maybe from the competition. My fencing reflected this.

Season Opener.

 08:00 Fencing Club

Warm up

Poules won 3, lost 3
DE 64 Bye
DE 128 2-15

I lost two bouts in the DE 4-5. In both bcases I was up and in both cases I rushed. I need to work on my attack to develop more confidence in it and work on my patience in general.

In the DE I just lost control of the bout. I repeated the same actions that had failed previously.  More practice of my mental game.

19:00 Home

Warmup

12 minutes of KB swings with 1 minutes active rest (fencing footwork) after each set.
20 x 24Kg (140)

Hip rehab work.
SMR
Stretch

19:00 Home

Warmup

12 minutes of KB swings with 1 minutes active rest (fencing footwork) after each set.
20 x 24Kg (140)

Hip rehab work.
SMR
Stretch

18:00 Fencing

Intu Flow

Warmup

Bouts

1. (C) 15 -2
2. (C) 15 -9
3 (B) 14-15
4 (A) 13-15
5, (C) 15-9
6. (A) 13-15
7. (A) 5-15

As I get tired the tendency to rush increases. Patience, always more patience.

19:00 Home

Warm up

TGU 5 minutes.

Run 25 minutes.

Stretch

SMR

19:00 Home

SMR
Warmup

12 minutes of KB swings with 1 minutes active rest (fencing footwork) after each set.
20 x 24Kg (140)

Hip rehab work.
Stretch

08:30 Home

Jog to park.

Sprints 5 x30m. Rest about 3 minutes.

Jog home.

Stretch.

Sprints were done barefoot. I did some basic sprint drills while I was resting. Really felt it in my quads later that day.

19:00 Home

SMR

Warm up.

TGU 5 minutes 12kg KB.

Stretch

ROP. A review.

I followed Right of Passage routine for the Summer months. I think it's an excellent off-season program for someone like me with minimal  equipmenet.  My thoughts.

• Very good for conditioning.
• Has a nice "bodybuilding" side effect due to the high volume.
• Excellent for drilling technique again due to high reps.
• Tough on the shoulders. My old injuries didn't like the volume of pressing and pulling.
• No real benefit from from the pullups other than the ability to do lots of pullups.
• Time consuming as the ladders build.

I would follow the ROP again but with these changes.

• Make the light and medium days shorter. Leaver Saturday as the heavier day when I've more time.
• Reduce pullups to one weighted set at the end of each ladder.

This should retain the conditioning benefits while reducing total time and get some better strength results from the pulups.

18:45 Home

SMR
Warmup

12 minutes of KB swings with 1 minutes active rest (fencing footwork) after each set.
20 x 24Kg (140)

Hip rehab work.
Stretch

This was a fun workout. My wife joined in. The 24 didn't feel too heavy. It was nice to be back to Program Minimum. The hip rehab is going to be carried out most days. I'll post on exactly waht I'm doing shortly.

18:00 Fencing

Warm up

Bouts.

1. (B) 14-15
2. (c) 12-15
3. (A) 15-11
4. (C) 15-9
5. (A) 15-5

It had only been a week since I last fenced but it was the week of the family staycation. Fun was had by all but I didn't feel fighting fit. The first two bouts I should have won but it took me that long to get my self prepared mentally. I was very happy with how I fenced the later bouts. I controlled the distance well. Fencer 3 has a good hand, patience and smooth footwork. I kept him under constant pressure and limited his opportunities to attack.Fencer 5 has a very strong attack often ending with a flick to the shoulder, he also has a good CA game. I kept distance close and stepped in as he started his attack. I pushed him to the end of the piste and controlled his blade to limit opportunities for CA.

18:00 Fencing

Warm up

Bouts.

1. (C) 15-11
2. (B) 15-10
3. (A) 3 -15
4. (C) 15 -5
5. (A) 11-15
6. (B) 15-10

It was interesting to see how much some of the younger fencers had improved over the Summer. I also had a nice revelation about distance and attacks with absence of blade. I normally like to pull distance and set up a counter or a parry riposte. Today I worked on closing distance and forcing my opponent to attack from close distance. If the pulled their arm back I took an aggressive counter, if they attacked straight I took a simple parry quarte. Worked very well and allowed me to control the bout.