last day of the year

So I'm still here and still at it. Got through the first three months of school past some of my final exams, and got my last internship in. As I posted a while back school has been consuming my time. Half of October and all of November there was no cardio and I only trained twice a week most of the time. So with lack of training and added stress my body weight is up again. But I'm still focused on competing at ninety kgs next year. I hope to get back on track with the cardio, but I will do whatever I have to get through final exams in January and board exams in February. Through the month of December I've had some great training. I spent a couple of weeks up in Prince George and got some great squat training in with my old training partners. Mike help to fix some squat issues that I was having. Also I'm training with a nineteen year old right now who is strong and motivated. He has been pushing me hard. That is Kevin doing the farmers walk after a de bench day. So that's my up date for now. Wishing everyone a happy new year.

school is getting in the way

So again I'm falling behind on my posting. As I am getting into my last few months of school, it is really starting to take up my time. I'm not managing my stress levels well and as a result for all practical purposes I've been off for the last two weeks. I've hit a few workouts, but maybe half of them I just bailed. I'm still hopeful to make it to the Larry Burke memorial on Nov 26 but it's not looking good. In reality my focus should be on getting through the board exams in February and then I can back to a normal life. On the up side everyone who is training with me continue to make gains and are all focusing on up coming meets, and that has made training fun.

oct 17

Strange week this week I had to miss Tuesday deadlift workout, Wednesday had a great snatch workout. Thursday we got a speed bench day in and I added full jerks after benching. I only did 80% so it went ok but I may have to switch bench and jerks around when I start to go heavier. Saturday we squatted I did ass to grass oly squats with a pause in the bottom position. Only went to 315x3 for 5 sets, then moved on to cleans and struggled hard. Again wrong order of lifts, this is a problem when I lift with powerlifters and I'm trying to throw in some oly lifts. Also my glutes and hams started getting sore a couple of hours after squatting, and today I can hardly move around. Shows how much a change in a movement pattern can effect the body. Sunday didn't do much shirted up with a loose shirt did 405 x3 for 4 sets and 425 x3 for the fifth. I was just using the weight that my training partners were using, I meant to do a bit more training but never did. I only got a couple of cardio sessions in this week and my weight is creeping up again because my diet also sucked this week. So back on track starting today.

recovery week

So this week was a recovery week. I did a little steady state cardio mainly I study for some up coming exams. Friday I did a snatch workout and ended with trying to flip this tire. It took seven tries to stand it up twice. The video here is on Sunday after a clean and jerk training session @ 65%. I got Gwen to video me picking it up as I had been telling everyone about the new tire for next years strongman meet, I'm glad I got it on the first try. Sunday I spent an hour working on improving my arch on the bench. I posted video on Predator Barbell's Face book page, as I'm hoping to get some feed back from Clint Harwood Canada's biggest bencher. Thanksgiving is the start of the gain 10 lbs season, I know I ate way to much turkey this weekend so I'm going to have to ramp up the cardio again to try to maintain and better yet loose a little weight thru the next two and a half months

Oct 6

New addition to the strongman tire family. This one weighs about eight hundred pounds. I am going to try and flip it on the weekend, I've lifted waist high already but that is far from turning it. Body weight is up right now, it has been a struggle with all the sitting I'm doing now that I am back in school. So I've added in some metabolic training to my week. On Monday I tried to do 50 v ups, 50 kettle bell snatches, 25 push ups,50 kb swings 50 burbies, 50 kb clean and press, 50 mountain climbers, I didn't make it in 15 min so I will allot 20 min this time and hopefully not throw up. Had a good week training hit all my numbers in the squat 385 plus heavy bands for 6 sets of 2, triceps are still giving me grieve so I'm using this time to improve my bench technique and on Tuesday I pulled a 585 sumo deadlift which was great as I haven't pulled sumo in over a year.

sept 27 update

body weight was down to 207 last week, but I went to a coaching certification program last weekend and it turn into a alcohol induced feeding frenzy. I've avoided the scale for the last few days, but I'm back on track. So I spoke up and told the people who put on the NCCP level two technical certification that if they ran a masters division at provincials in December I would return to weightlifting and support them getting a masters division started in BC. So I guess I will have to be more consistent with my weightlifting training so I don't make an ass of myself. This also puts a little more pressure on to get my weight down by the end of November as I would like to compete at 85 kg for this meet. that means dropping at least 7 more kilos in the next 8 weeks. I will likely have to find the time to get some intervals back into my training week. As for training it will be a challenge to get better at the oly lifts and still keep the powerlifting going strong and moving towards my goal of a WPC world record at worlds in nov 2012. Should be an interesting ride

not much to report

So with being back at school life is settling in to a routine again. Not getting in the training that I was during the summer though, two weeks in and the work load has already taken up a bunch of my time. But only five and a half months to go and boards will be done. Body weight is down to 209 this week so I'm happy with that, but as usual as my body weight drops so does my bench press. I have been working on improving my arch to make up for the loss of thickness in my chest. Cardio this week has been riding back and forth to school and a couple of day on the treadmill in the morning. It is completely dark now at 5:30/ 6 am so training outside has come to a halt. Deadlifting went well on Tuesday and I'm hoping that squats on Saturday will as well, always sucks losing strength when dieting.