About a month and a half ago I got an injury during training and I knew right away it felt serious. My range of motion was severely impacted and swelling was ridiculous. So right away I took off of training and started feeling down on myself. I mean it was the beginning of the summer [...]
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Torn Ligament
Posted: 8th August 2010 by RomeZa in UncategorizedTags: BJJ, Grappling, rehab, Rome Za, secrets of rehab, Torn shoulder ligament
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My health insurance isn’t active until September 1st, so I cant get this MRI on my shoulder till then. Hopefully in a week or so I can start training, or at least teaching.
Right now I am just soaking in the rest of the summer, getting in tons of bodyweight work and all types of random [...]
Poison-ed
Posted: 3rd August 2010 by RomeZa in UncategorizedTags: Brazilian jiu jitsu, Brooklyn, Grappling, New York, Rome Za, seminar
Yesterday I went to my favorite sushi place and got food poisoning. Everything was going perfect yesterday until this happened. Today is my official recovery day.
I got an IV earlier to clean the gunk out of my body and I’m just resting on my new king size Tempurpedic bed .
Drinking Ginger tea, water, and [...]
The Light in the Tunnel
Posted: 2nd August 2010 by RomeZa in UncategorizedTags: apartment, Grappling, Rome Za, teaching
This past weekend was a bit rough for me, a lot of realizations and changes have been made to my life. Today, I woke up and got on the grind… A few great things worked out for me today.
My king size tempurpedic mattress was delivered after a 2 week long wait.
My health insurance came in, [...]
Living life, you never know who comes into it and leaves. Sometimes they come for a season, sometimes a reason and sometimes a lifetime. But sometimes you need to erase certain people from your life because they are bad for you and your life.
I had an occurrence this weekend that helped enlighten me on how [...]
I havent grappled consistently in over 2 months with my school responsibilities and the injury that I got during my comeback. I realized during this time is that without grappling I am still awesome and that It does not define me as a person. Its the relationships that I uphold with the people in my [...]
Personal Training
Posted: 8th July 2010 by RomeZa in UncategorizedTags: personal training, Rome Za, Strength and Conditioning
I started working with clients for private personal training sessions a few weeks back and boy is it going well. I am starting to see results in the clients and that makes me happy. Really happy. I really want to see them achieve their goals of losing weight, gaining muscle, gaining confidence, looking better in [...]
Summer school ended with a bang. Even though I missed the whole first week, I managed to rally and pull up a B+ for the final grade… Woo Hoo Go me! As soon as school was over I started training. I was going hard for 2 days and on the 3rd day in a row, [...]
End Goals
Posted: 9th June 2010 by RomeZa in UncategorizedTags: BJJ, Goals, Gym, Nursing, plans, Rome Za, students
I realized that I have been just breezing through and not determining my end game.
Where do I want to be?
I have been training a lot but I haven’t figured out what I really want to accomplish from this training and competing.
With BJJ I want to get my Black Belt and have a school with 300+ [...]
When people walk into their first BJJ class, they realize its not as easy as it looks. There are 2 categories of guys in gyms. There are guys that get good and there are guys that don’t get good. The guys that get good are the guys that are able to check their egos at [...]