Malaga, week 2

The sub wrestling crew. In the middle professor Aron Adamko

Back home and updating little by little

I am finally home again, got in on the 6th but have not had the time to relax and sit down until now. And from here its off to Helsinki again tomorrow morning.
I will make a few posts now during the coming week, catching up on whats been going on.

Hangover cure....

After the last installment, I continued to train in Malaga, focusing solely on BJJ. There was a severe flu going about and our instructor Santeri among others fell ill. I was also a bit taken by it and had a light feverish symptoms. And no, it was NOT a hangover. Hangover was sunday and maybe, just maybe mondays morning session. But after that it was something else.


I also fetched my jacket, it had been discovered by patrons in the Codigo bar. So no harm done, got my jacket back and had a great week of training at Costa del sol Fight and Fitness. Nice, solid training, couple of good dinners with Sakke but mostly just recovering. It was hard for rather unaccustomed bod to handle the load of training twice a day on instructed classes.


Sometimes the daily lunch menu took us some second guessing, and sometimes it just did´t satisfy as well as other times...

Sakke not content with Chinese restaurants 4.95 euro menu...

Close-up of the main dish, three chicken pieces smaller than a lemon slice

Some of us chose more carefully!

I can share though, my ways of physically recovering utilized here. I did not feel soreness and bruises also healed quickly with my protocol so pretty happy with it.
Normal day of eating was like this:

Morning: vitamin D, multivitamin, 8 raw eggs, little air dried ham, water, finnish herb tablet, glucosamin and green tea

Lunch: A lunch menu at a Spanish local place, fruit juice

At night a good serving of food ranging from restaurant meals to chicken rolls, non healthy but always high in protein

On top of those meals I had two drinks, half before and half after training. They contained the actual secret to recovery: Rapid recovery mineral drops, 10g of BCAA, 10g of creatine, 75g whey protein and 85g of whole crane sugar.

Before bedtime and before training 3 BCAA capsules.


That burst of energy and nutrients kept me going and really helped with recovery. No joint ache really, and muscles healed faster than ever. The combination of good fats, varying foods and periworkout stuffing of sugar, nutrients and protein did make a difference. Coupled with light after workout stretching I had no problems hitting about 300 minutes of sparring in a week and total 12 hours of training BJJ, plus some weights. Never been so big on supplements, but those I use are pretty well proven to work. Will incorporate that peri-workout plan to my training henceforth!

Saturday hydration, not to be overlooked on training camps

I like Spain a lot, and Spanish I deem pretty harmless and easygoing, and I will definetely be going back! My friend Sakke did like it also, but the flu and hard training depleted his energy a little, but I hope I can lure him in on a training camp with me some day. Maybe next August when Roger Gracie himself is holding a seminar!

I have been studying theater on a course, training weights and BJJ and made a lot of acquintances here and there, so coming back is easy. But as always, I need a context to do that in, just holiday won´t cut it with my attention span.

OK, admit it. Who of my hometown Paimios Action Sport Centers trainees has made this tag I encountered in Malaga?

So, then on to training:

23.2.
Morning: BJJ 90 min.

Weights:
3x10x120 narrow grip bench, 3x20 side laterals
Evening BJJ 90 min.

24.2.
Morning BJJ 90min.

Evening sub wrestling 100min.
 A huge wrestlemania-like bout of sparring with Jailo, with smashing takedowns, continuous pushing and propably more calories spent than on average week of training back home!

23.2.
Morning: BJJ 100min

Sakke with the man himself, Pablo Cabo

Evening: BJJ 70min

Treatment, a traditional bonesmithing from Aron Adamko. Osteopathylike treatment that did help me out and made me feel better. Lots of "crunch" sounds from all over the body...

24.2.
Morning session cut out because felt so ill. Managed to go to evening training, fueled by mysterious ephedrine containing Spanish flu medication...

Evening: Submission wrestling 90min.

Messing about with Andrew Forson, blue belt European champion

Weights:
5x10-20 hammer curls
3x10 arnold press
2x20 side laterals
3x10x rear laterals
3x10 triceps extensions
Band work



25.2.
Last workout with the great crew of Roger Gracie Spain! Last sparring with Aron and Andrew and others.

Morning: 90min. BJJ

Weights:
Inverted rows 5x10xBW
Bench 5x10x60-100
10 sets of upper body moves and some abs

After training I said goodbye once again to my friends In Malaga and  went to a local pub to eat a great and delicious Menu del Dia. From there the backpack man headed on towards the Malaga airport, knocking out elderly left and right with my oversized rugsack. Next stop and the next update is United Kingdom and its cities from Leeds to Manchester. Encountering worlds greatest deadlifter and a man who finally was able to choke me out multiple times at Gracie Barra Manchester!

Farewell for now to my home gym in Spain