My Butt Hurts!
Normally, my Sunday martial arts class is a mixture of sword practice, staff practice and jujitsu. FTNITK, jujitsu is explained here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujitsu
I've always been a keep your distance kind of fighter, mostly because I'm 6'2" and I have long arms and legs. I don't want you up inside my guard because I lose most of my advantage. So studying jujitsu has been eye opening as well as frustrating as hell some times.
My class is 2 hours on sunday mornings and usually equally split up into three sections. So when I got out of my car, I was hoping for a short jujitsu session because my elbow was killing me. Sensei called from the middle of the yard, "No Weapons". Shit. 2 hours of Jujitsu. Just what I needed. If you haven't been following my insistent whining, I've been having issues with my elbow with pain in straightening it completely - a form of tennis elbow that martial artists call Samurai Elbow - the use of the muscles to stop the sword at the end of the stroke is wicked painful.
I had gotten a shot of cortizone on friday, so I was hoping to hell it would kick in. We did our workout, putting sets of pushups in between the exercises we were doing, and I have to say, not only did I have a really good class, but my elbow is feeling pretty freakin good right now. I'm working on sitting straight and relaxing my shoulders in hopes that it'll loosen the knots there, and hopefully not add to the tension in my arm causing my elbow to hurt.
Now, why does my butt hurt? Dude, I got thrown around for 2 freakin hours. Have you ever done a lot of situps and then been really sore the next morning? Multiply that by 10, and you have an idea of how sore I am right now. It's amazing how much you can work out muscles with simple things as picking yourself up off the floor.
update: I wrote this last night, it's now Monday and I am even more sore. Funny thing is, I can't wait to go downstairs and ride the bike and run for a bit to work out all of this.