Hey all,

So here we are, a week after surgery and whats happening?

Healing is coming along steadily, I can now walk with minor pain while a few days ago I could barely shuffle and mobility is returning to the shoulder.

Not making many changes at the moment (if it’s not broke, don’t fix it) but I am making a few small ones. The first is adding in two walks a day outside (the outside bit is important due to added vitamin D uptake, fresh air and a changing surface). One in the morning for 30 mins and one in the afternoon for about 45 mins at a moderate pace. I’ll probably increase either the distance or the pace over the next few weeks or so, just trying to get my body moving and using itself. As far as stretching and mobility work goes, I’m just moving at the moment as everything is a bit to raw (this isn’t my area, so if anyone feels like chipping in then I would appreciate it!).

The second change comes to nutrition. The main thing that I have noticed is that I have put weight on after the opp (about 2.5 kilos). This is a surprise as I expected to lose a few pounds. What I expect this is, is water weight due to the swelling and a side effect of some of the drugs I’m taking. I am keeping my macros and calories the same but I’m going to add in a litre of water a day and adjust from there (everyone is a camel, just ask Eddie Kone). Another side effect of the medication I have noticed is it’s bunging me up a bit (to much info?) so I’m adding in a fibre supplement to my morning shake. I will probably change this for milled flax seeds when I can get to the shop for the added nutrient profile.
All of the supplements are working as planned with their desired effects. However I have doubled the recommended ZMA dose (6 tabs spread over 90 mins) to aid with sleep. The reason for this is that I have to sleep on my back at the moment and I keep waking up throughout the night, so this should lead to a deeper sleep.

I have been inquiring about a few different types of medication (all legal) to help aid the recovery, but as I have nothing concrete or anything that I would recommend I will leave it to another post.

I have an assessment at the hospital on the 24th to have my stitches out and to see how I’m getting along. This will be the first test to see if any of this madness is working. So fingers crossed I blow them away.

Please feel free to ask me any questions about anything I am doing. Always happy to hear peoples suggestions.

If anyone is interested in following my ramblings as they happen, follow me on twitter @mike_unorthodox and on instagram at mikeyleng.

More soon

Mike

Mike Leng is the Managing Director at Unorthodox Nutrition. They specialise in nutrition plans for fighters whether they have a fight coming up or are looking to simply lose fat or gain muscle. Visit www.unorthodox-nutrition.com or E mail mike.unorthodox@gmail.com for details.

Hey everyone,

So here I am a couple of days after the opp. Everything went well and I feel like I’m slowly on the mend. For the last two days all I’ve done is sleep which is good thing as it means my body is putting itself back together.

Over the next week I plan to rest as much as possible and take in the right amount of nutrients that will help my body keep muscle and help grow the connecting tissue that it needs.

Nutrition is going to be based around shakes as I have no appetite and I can sip them throughout the day, ensuring a steady flow of nutrients. I will be focusing on making sure for this first week that I am getting 2g of protein, 0.5g carbs per pound of body weight with the rest of my cals coming from fats. No processed food at all. This will be a base line for a few days then I will change things depending on how my body reacts.

Here is a list of the supplements thats I’ll be using and why I’m taking them. All of this has been supplied by the great people at Myprotein who are helping me with this experiment.

Before I list what I’m taking, I’m going to comment on the amount that I am taking. It looks like a lot, and it is. I wouldn’t normally take this amount of supplements but what I’m trying to do here doesn’t normally happen to me. The whole point of this is is to give my body more than it needs to recover so it can do it at the fastest pace possible. I would also mention that I cleared all of this with my Doctor (even if he looked at me like I was slightly mad).

Impact Whey protein – for gaining and maintaing my muscle mass. Also aids in recovery and burning fat. I have about 2-3 shakes a day to meet my protein requirements.
Omega 3 fish oil – Helps reduce joint inflammation, helps with fat oxidisation, helps with nutrient partitioning, 6 caps a day.
Alpha men multi vitamin – help my immune system run at its highest. I take 4 tabs a day, 2 in the morning, 2 before bed.
Taurine – I take this before bed as a neural transmitter to aid recovery. I take 10g before bed.
ZMA – to aid sleep and recovery. 3 tabs leading up to bed.
Green Tea extract – I hate the taste of Green tea so I take the tablets. Very powerful anti oxidant, helps just about everything. 3 caps a day with meals.
Probiotic – helps aid digestion. I take 1 a day in the morning.
Glucosamine Sulphate – Reduces joint inflammation, promotes over all joint health. 1 per day in the morning.
L Leucine – Branch chain Amino acid. Strongly aids with protein uptake. 3g with every shake or meal.

As I go on the amounts will change and I will probably remove some supplements if I feel no benefit. Again I must stress that everything I do is about how my body reacts. What works/doesn’t work for me might not be the same for you. For example I feel no effect whatsoever with creatine despite how I cycle it and the dosage.

Please feel free to ask me any questions about anything I am doing. Always happy to hear peoples suggestions.

If anyone is interested in following my ramblings as they happen, follow me on twitter @mike_unorthodox and on instagram at mikeyleng.

More soon

Mike

Mike Leng is the Managing Director at Unorthodox Nutrition. They specialise in nutrition plans for fighters whether they have a fight coming up or are looking to simply lose fat or gain muscle. Visit www.unorthodox-nutrition.com or E mail mike.unorthodox@gmail.com for details.

Hey guys,

So I’m a couple of days out from the op so I thought that I would share a couple of random thoughts that are rattling around my brain.

-I am now looking at everything ‘one handed’. What I can and can’t do, plus how to adapt things so I can keep doing them (ever tried to put contact lenses in with one hand?..)
-I need TV shows to watch and books to read/steal. Please give me some suggestions. (more…)

Good day all!

Here we are at the second blog entry and already there have been changes!

The date for the surgery has now been moved back to the 8th of May. This sucks in one aspect as it means I have to wait yet another week. However it also means that I still have an extra week of training and a little time to get stuff organised.
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(Let me preface this by saying I won’t be making any reference to bad rappers. Apart from Richard Blackwood. What was all that about?!)

It’s not often I’m a sentimental old fool, but there’s a time and place for everything – well, almost everything – and this is one of them. As anyone reading this will (or should) know, we’ve just released our first print edition of Your MMA Magazine. If you didn’t know, then where the hell have you been? And why aren’t you clicking this link immediately to go buy it?
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18/04/12

Good day sports fans (always wanted to say that)!

Firstly welcome to my blog on how to become a super soldier after surgery (or as close as we can).

If you are reading this blog you know (or want to know about) a couple of things;

I am currently very injured and awaiting surgery in 2 weeks time
You’re interested in how much pain I am in/how I’m going to recover from it.
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Right its that time of the year, its been a few months and the numbers are starting to thin out a bit in your gym, diets are starting to loosen and enthusiasm is dropping.

I see this in my gym all the time. the best intentions start to wain and dedication starts to take a bit of a hit. Its not all doom and gloom though, there are still a few who have ‘the look’.

You know ‘the look’.  Its not reserved for anyone, everyone can have it. It’s something thats past their eyes, something that is past determined. It’s a person that has had enough. Whether they have had enough of being in bad shape, enough of a shitty job, a toxic partner or someone who has taken one to many beatings either on the mat or at the hands of someone else.
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I asked people for suggestions for this blog and I got back a fair few topics that I think are valid enough to open eyes. Suggestions I had were contracts, matchmaking, upcoming fighters, the business, me managing my time with different companies and the lead up to a show. These are just a few topics fired at me.

I’m sitting on a plane back to London, so let’s hit exclusive contracts. Are they good or bad? If you were a fighter — not a hobby fighter there for the t-shirt but a fighter that wants to make a career out of fighting and train to be the best — would you want to have a path? Would you want to know exactly what’s happening with you for the next 18 months? Would you want your career structured?

I know I would. Without structure and goals in training, fighting or life, you have nothing.
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After an extended hiatus “Haters Corner” is back and will be more regular now. Due to a hectic move into my flat and a fight camp that was in full swing until I in truly amazing yet tragic fashion injured myself on which I shall elaborate more towards the end of the blog. Tangential rantings here we come.

Although some names and promotions will be name dropped in the upcoming dialogue, it is in no way a specific dig at anyone it’s merely an indictment of the system as a whole, I.E a lack of commission or governing body. Some matchmaking of promoter leaves allot to be desired for example at the weekend Arunas Kilmavicius of……………….yes you guessed it Antonio’s gym fought 2 days in a row against actually very quality opposition in the form of Aaron Wilkinson And Craig Turner, losing both times just like he did the week previous where he lost to again another pretty good opponent in Ali Arish. So 3 fights in 1 week, is this really what we want going on in the MMA community, I think not. This is not the only similar example to this, I know for a fact it is rife.

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After much procrastination I am finally breaking my proverbial YourMMA blogging cherry. For those of you who don’t know me my name is Kieran Malone and I am a 19 year old professional fighter, fighting out of the Dinky Ninja Fight Team in Scotland. For those of you who know me you may know me as ”Hater” or even “ wee dick”. It didn’t take long for me to think of the topic and direction I would take in my initial blog, which will be the first of many. The topic derives directly from how the year 2010 went for me and could also help young fighters like myself.

Before I get into the meat of what this blog is about I will give a prelude spiel about myself to let the e-world learn more about moi. Before I started out training and fighting MMA I had an unusual background for a British MMA fighter in the fact that I have a bit of a background in the sport of wrestling which I happened to be not bad at, pretty successful in fact. As I write this I will have been training “cage fighting “ for just over a year in the process I had a whirlwind semi-pro tenure going undefeated in 5 fights before going pro and amassing a quite shite ( there is no other word for it ) 1-2 record. This provides a perfect segway into my topic.

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