October 26, 2007FRIDAY 071026Diablos After battling with a "desk job" induced back injury for more than 10 months, Jeremy Jones of Diablo CrossFit won his first Mixed Martial Arts match in over a year at the International Shootfighting Championships at Six Flags "Discovery Kingdom" in Vallejo California. "After going from MD to Physical therapist to Chiropractor, and avoiding using my back all together (with little success), I decided that healthy dose of my old CrossFit ways with some extra Deadlifts was the prescription I needed. Without deadlifting much more than bodyweight for at least 9 months and only doing CrossFit, I was able to pull 355 for sets of two (with a previous single rep PR of 370) in late August, and could have probably done more. I didn't start fighting again until early September, and thankfully the CF had kept my conditioning at a level that allowed me to focus on my fight skills and not get burned out. I owe this one to CrossFit." -Jeremy Jones, Diablo CrossFit Video: Kelly Starrett of San Francisco CrossFit interviews Eric LeClair of Elite Fitness Bootcamp, Part III: Comments
Congrats Jeremy! Comment #1 - Posted by: Anthony Bainbridge & Jodi Arbeau at October 25, 2007 11:58 PMCongrats...very evil! Comment #2 - Posted by: Steve Liberati at October 26, 2007 4:31 AMWell Done Sir. Sometimes you know what you need. As a side note I recommend the reverse hyper as a tool for lower back rehabilitation as well. Great job on the Fight. Comment #3 - Posted by: CCTJOEY at October 26, 2007 5:00 AMNice comeback! Congratulations on the win! Comment #4 - Posted by: Carney at October 26, 2007 6:13 AMYeah, Jeremy! is there anything deadlifts can't do? congrats on the fight. Comment #6 - Posted by: john vernon at October 26, 2007 7:20 AMRight on Jeremy! It's almost like this stuff works! Comment #7 - Posted by: Robb Wolf at October 26, 2007 7:58 AMThe "funny" part of the story that JJ didn't mention was how he exacerbated his back injury early on by retrieving two large, half-buried, muddy, tractor tires from the side of the highway for the Shed, home of Diablo CrossFit. A tender back wouldn't stop him from saving a buck on equipment. Nice to have you back in peak form, buddy! Thanks everyone. As far as the tires go. . . What can I say? When I saw those tires on the side of the highway, with those puppy dog eyes, I had to stop. I can't imagine who would abandon two perfectly good tractor tires, it is despicable. I can only imagine it was days until they would have been picked up and euthanized. Now they have a good home where they can frolic and play. -jj Comment #9 - Posted by: J Jones at October 26, 2007 10:36 AMCongrats JJ! Comment #10 - Posted by: murph at October 26, 2007 1:55 PMOh yeah, BIG Thanks to Mike Hom and Rhjesh Huntley from San Diego CrossFit and Krista from CrossFit SoCal for kicking my butt on Monday and Tuesday the week before my fight. (And yes Krista, my arms did recover from J.T.- aka "Mutha F*Oh yeah, BIG Thanks to Mike Hom and Rhjesh Huntley from San Diego CrossFit and Krista from CrossFit SoCal for kicking my butt on Monday and Tuesday the week before my fight. (And yes Krista, my arms did recover from J.T.- aka "Mutha F*<#!N& ARMS DAY!" by Saturday) -jj Comment #11 - Posted by: J Jones at October 26, 2007 2:14 PMI love these types of stories!! Wonderful! Congratulations Comment #12 - Posted by: Skip Chase at October 27, 2007 2:47 PMIt looks like my post got caught by the spamenators. It should finish - CKING ARMS DAY!!!") Comment #13 - Posted by: J Jones at October 29, 2007 10:10 AMPost a comment |
