Archive for August, 2009

Warrior Diet – my way

Posted on 23. Aug, 2009 by Tommy Blom.

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Training a lot and being active requires a good way to give the body the fuel it needs to be able to keep up, both physically and mentally. For a long time I didn’t care about it at all, I ate what i felt like whenever I felt like it, not the best way to [...]

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Grip training, kettlebells, pistols and FMS

Posted on 22. Aug, 2009 by Tommy Blom.

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All over an awesome workout today, not very taxing on the heart but that wasn’t the focus really…
Music in my ears today was Status Praesents, a great band from the  Czech Republic that I started working with when I was there doing the Krav Maga summer camp earlier this year… check them out here
Main focus [...]

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Good day of training and teaching

Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by Tommy Blom.

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Got to www.kravmagaacademy.se at around 17:00 today, training didn’t start until 19:00 so I had the sights set on doing some training myself before the students came.
After connecting the phone to the stereo and finding some nice music that made the feeling just right, today the band Bury your dead got the honors of accompanying [...]

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Grip training, pull-ups, pistols and swings

Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Tommy Blom.

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Went outside to do some swings today and the plates for pinching was lying around the training area… you know what that means… oh yeah… grip training… Didn’t do a lot of it but I managed to get a PR done which was nice.
All though the over head work with the bells have to wait [...]

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Grip training – 090817

Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Tommy Blom.

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Video of yesterdays training, did some more stuff than what’s in the video, the whole session was this
• COC#2: 5 x 1+1
• COC#1: 3 x 5+5
• Plate Pinching (10+10 kg)
• Plate pinching (14,1+10 kg)
• Bottom up cleans (32 kg), 4 x 5+5
• Swings (32 kg), 3 x 20+20+20

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Grip training and swings – video

Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by Tommy Blom.

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Yesterday I got some nice training done with Besam Yousef, a good friend and one of the pro fighters in the team. We did some basic stuff and it felt great to get back to do at least swings and some light turkish get-ups.
This is how it went down.
• COC#2: 3 x1+1
• Blob lifts (12 [...]

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Krav Maga CIC, grip training and barefoot running

Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Tommy Blom.

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For 3 days I’ve been to Jönköping teaching the new batch of instructor candidates, for them it was the 2nd out of 3 parts of the CIC (Civilian Instructor Course), the full course is a total of 180 intensive hours of training, lectures and everything else that the new instructor need to know when he/she [...]

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Mixed training – good stuff

Posted on 04. Aug, 2009 by Tommy Blom.

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The two last days has been good, training is progressing and the shoulders start to feel better. I’m still teaching Krav Maga to Micha from St Petersburg 4 hours/day. After the Krav Maga finished I’ve done some training for myself, it has been a mix of kettlebells, FMS, grip work and barefoot running.
Yesterdays training was [...]

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Teaching Krav Maga, training kettlebells

Posted on 02. Aug, 2009 by Tommy Blom.

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Yesterday Mischa, a Krav Maga instructor from St Petersburg, Russia and his girlfriend came to visit and train. Mischa is here to do a test for Graduate 5 and I’m preparing him for his test – he’s testing with Amnon Darsa in Jönköping on the 6/8. We worked a bit on some basic movements and [...]

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