Sometimes Training Hurts

The last week of training has been a little off. I hurt my sacrum about a month ago and it has been getting worse from training. It is hard to stay off your butt when practicing jiu-jitsu so I have been avoiding it as much as possible for now. At this point it is hard to even sit down. I saw a video like this one a while ago but this one is better because it is pretty much what happened to me...



One morning I was at the Clinch doing some training and playing with my son. I watched a video like this before hand and wanted to give it a try. I knew I could stand on the ball so I figured this was the next level. The first time I tried I nailed it. I did it probably 6 more times that morning no problem. Later that evening I tried to show off my new trick during open mat in front of a group of students and I wiped out just like that dude did. I think I crashed like 2 or 3 times pretty actually before I stuck it. I didn't make the connection until last week because it didn't bother me much at the time but grappling has made it worse over the last month. I have still been able to do some cardio but need to be very careful right now. I hope it heals up soon.

One of the reasons my wife and I decided to do the Gracie Diet was to hopefully get more energy. Between losing sleep and the constant energy it takes to entertain, teach and take care of our kids, we have been dragging a bit the last few years. About 2 weeks into the Diet we both have felt as if we had lost some of that fatigue. Last Friday my Mother wanted to have the kids over for for the night and we had a gift certificate to go the Bonefish Grill. Our littlest is almost a year and a half an this was the first time that both kids have been gone all night since she was born! So we took advantage of the night off and the gift certificate and went out to eat. On the way there we were trying to figure out what we were going to eat to stay close to the diet but as soon as we got there they asked us to try a sample of their Bang Bang Shrimp. We looked at each other and said O.K.! From them on it went down hill. We were like, "We haven't been out in forever. Let's just enjoy it." And we did! We ate all kinds of good stuff and enjoyed it. After diner we were going to go out for a coffee and by time we got to the coffee shop we felt like two slugs creepin in the door. We sat down at a table and talked about how tired we felt realizing that the food just wiped us out. We both immediately knew that this is exactly how we have felt the last few years. It turns out that our little night out was a good lesson and testament to the Gracie Diet.