Well, I am getting a great opportunity in the very very near future.

I've been working as an assistant for the kids classes for a little over a year now, and I've become an essential part of the team. As such, in january I was given a free ticket. Any class I wanted to take wont cost me a dime.

Due to me scheduel with the kids classes I work about 23-24 hours a week on the mat, and now am only onto 2 hours of actual training per week. I used to come in 4 nights a week for classes, for multiple classes. I used to pride myself on it because it brought me from very overweight to a very good weight now along with muscle build up. this was all prior to working there, when I was still in highschool.

Now that I'm totally free of paying for any classes I can pick up krav maga again there. As mcdojo-y as it is I actually enjoyed the workouts and the techniques are MT/Boxing style. As I've said in a review they are sound techniques - a generic soda compared to the real coca-cola or pepsi.

Of course I would still be doing the 2 days of kajukenbo. I also attend a school sparring class on friday afternoons

not only this, but the guy who owns the school also gets together with a bunch of local school owners/friends and spars. he invited me to join them. I did it once before and I'd never been so outclassed in my life. It was awesome.

Now I took time off of school for a while, but its time fore me to get back in. The local college offers judo and since I need the credit it offers I'm thinking of taking it up. Could be fun (btw, this is a fitness related degree. Lots of weight training/circut training/etc).

Also, some of the instructors at our school have been doing MMA (and of course goofing off with all the equipment and generally having fun) on friday mornings. I have done a few of them and it would definatly add a ton to my nonexistant MMA game.

Heres the last bit of icing on the cake. Probably by the end of the summer we are brining on a BJJ guy to do bjj class in our school. Again, totally free for me.



Heres where I need advice. out of all these choices, what should I be doing? All of them? Some of them? I would not be doing ANYTHING (the past two months my weekends have been sitting on my rear the entire day.) on weekends but is that enough of a rest if I were to take on such a huge load of options?

If I were to do the math, that would be 2 kaju classes, 2 judo classes, 2 krav classes, maybe 2 bjj classes (since the classes aren't in effect yet I dont know), 2 differant sparring classes, and an MMA (and gi grappling I think) workout. Added to that working with the kids, and when summer is over half time college (though I would probably take half of the hours off the kids). About 11 hours of workout through the week, plus (now until the beginning of fall quarter) 23-24 hours of working with kids in martial arts.

I guess my biggest worry is not really how tired I would be, but how I would keep track of everything going on. When I used to do 2 classes a week before, I slowly built up to being there 4 nights a week for 2 classes. I would probably do this again.

over training? should I do it?

Yes obviously.

If I were to do the math, that would be 2 kaju classes, 2 judo classes, 2 krav classes, maybe 2 bjj classes (since the classes aren't in effect yet I dont know), 2 differant sparring classes, and an MMA (and gi grappling I think) workout. Added to that working with the kids, and when summer is over half time college (though I would probably take half of the hours off the kids). About 11 hours of workout through the week, plus (now until the beginning of fall quarter) 23-24 hours of working with kids in martial arts.
I trained for 10-13 hours a week for the last year or so and didn't have any problems other than minor injuries and being sore alot (oh yeah, and no social life). I say go for it.

go for it, if it's free then you really have nothing to loose if you have scale back the training, due to school, exhaustion, ect.

I agree with the above posters. Try it all, what you don't like you don't have to take. Find a schedule right for you that's fun, provides an adequate workout (which sounds like it shouldn't be too hard), but also gives some Temps Libre (free time for the uncultured barbarians out there).

Alright, thanks for the feedback guys. I'll start putting things into my weekly calander now

build things up gradually to decrease the chances of burning out and/or getting injured.

Thinking from when I' ve trained twice a day, the brain might go before the body. If you stop thinking critically about what you are learning and acquire a survival daze then its been time for me to ease off.

Reflection and review outside of a class is a necessary part of how I learn. Too many classes and all non-class time becomes a necessary break with no desire to analyse what I'm doing and what I should be working on.
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I trained for 10-13 hours a week for the last year or so and didn't have any problems other than minor injuries and being sore alot (oh yeah, and no social life). I say go for it.

That is no social life in Maryland. So it isn't a big deal here.

Work it up slowly. As you progress, if you are feeling burned out, back it off a bit. I'd be sure to stick to your favorite striking class 2x, and your favorite grappling 2x, then throw in the sparring session as you feel like it. This is quite reasonable, and shouldn't be too bad. If you want more, add in another class from whichever option you prefer. Increase as desired, but be sure to keep a striking/grappling mix, and make sure you get some sparring in somewhere.