This week

I added day 4 back in this week even though I'm doing 8 1/2 hours a week of cardio. Three days a week of weights doesn't do it for me. Tuesday and Wednesday are speed and hypertrophy work.

Friday

cls grip got 315 for 3 this week and barely missed 345 single I'm back to my old bench set up as my right leg/hip will not take the extreme stretch to get a high arch.

5 board 405/3 435/3 465/3 495/1

4 board 365/3 395/3 415/3

rage bench shirt 365/3 385/3 405/3 425/1

lock out 405/3 435/3

blast strap rows bw/10/3

cls grip is lagging behind previous years board work is behind last year but ahead of 2007

Sunday

squat 390/5 440/5/2 440/3

4" deficit dead lift worked up to 425/1

truck pull I'm calling it 50' felt like a mile

farmer's walk 300/100' 440/100' 440/70

The video shows me pulling and then Ryan this was his first time pulling and he did great shows how much a 100 lbs of body weight helps on truck pull. Ryan is just getting started and he is naturally strong if he stays with it he is going to be awesome at this stuff.

sad stone day

Sad day today as we broke our light stone I didn't put enough rebar in it.

Friday

bench day cls grip 310/3 325/1 it still sucks but it is slowly moving up

5 board up to 465/3 485/1

4 board 365/3 385/3 405/3 easy

shirt up to 405/3

lock outs 405/3 425/3

facepulls

sunday

squats up to 550 for 3 singles my hip is barely hanging in

5" rack pulls up to 485 missed 515

next was 5 reps with a 150 lbs feild stone on to a 54" platform I tried the light stone but couldn't get it up today I hate this dieting

10 reps tire flip

belt squat 3 sets of 8

rev hypers 210 lbs for 3 sets of 10

this week

the video here is an axle clean and press the bar is two inches in diameter and the tires do not rotate very hard to lift. the weight is 230 lbs with the two tires.

Fridays training was the same old thing I bumped up the weight where I could. My denim is so big it is useless so I tried the bigger katana again. I finally got it working good after I had Gwen cut the back out of it.

Sunday squatted 475 for 5 sets of 3

deadlift put my new suit on and pulled up to 455 with the straps down this was good for today as I still don't trust my hip and I think it was a good call as it is very tight right now

then we went out and did axle lifts followed by axle deads over hand grip I got up to 280 and Pat was the only one to get 310.

lastly I did some belt squats and rev hypers

meet training starts

built a new bar this weekend ,more for strongman type training. With it I can use the same grip that some of the events have.

So meet training starts and I'm officially 40 lbs lighter than this time last year. Man is this causing me some grief. I've totally changed the way I am setting up on the bench. This is coming along and I have a shirt coming from Ginny. I'll work with the polys when I have time to figure them out. I also have to learn how to squat again. Right now if I do three squats all three will be different. No big deal just no bands this time all free squatting :-(

Friday

cls grip bench worked up to 295/3 missed 315 for 3 (got 2) I was pissed it's been years since I missed 315 blew up 335 for a single

5 board press up to 465/3

4 board 405/3/3

denim shirt 365/3 385/3 405/2 425/1 shirt is so big that pulled all way down 365 barely slowed down.

face pulls and tri push downs 3 sets of 10

Sunday

no strongman training this week

squats 405/5/4

6" rack pulls 515/1 It's been 9 years since I injured my low back and the conv dead has never came back. My record from 2000 for this is 565. good thing I can pull sumo.

belt squat 4 sets of 10

45 deg back raise 4 sets of 10

Sunday

Training is going well. My right hip is still giving me problems with squating and sumo deadlifting. Still having problems setting up on the bench with a shirt on. My body weight is almost where I want it and my strength is slowly coming back. I even set a 25 pr on suspended goodmornings this week. Today I bench with rev green bands and missed a 10 lbs pr it was close. Then put on an old shirt and worked up to a 525 single. The rest of the guys squatted with bands. Then we went out and did some log lifts mainly for reps. We also fooled around with some grippers in between log lifts sets. It was a farly good day, but we really need to get outdoors again.