March 28

So training continues, body weight is not coming down but so far I'm ok with this. I've been following the Carb back loading diet and have dropped two and half inches off my waist and only have dropped five lbs. This is not normal for me generally one inch equals ten lbs of body weight. My strength is way up right now which is cool. I'm going to follow this for a while yet and see where I end up. On a recovery week this week after seven continues weeks of increases on my bench six rep max. At 335x6 it has never been this high in all my years of training considering that I will be 50 this year I'm the strongest I've ever been. Did an easy 725 squat a few weeks ago and next week I'm going to push it a bit harder. just my deadlift isn't moving as usual. I'm going to compete at what ever weight I'm at this summer and make a decision from that meet to decide what weight class I'll compete at for worlds in nov. The video is from yesterday I'm going to compete in the highland games provincials in june just for fun. Watching the video I see weight for distance needs a lot of work. This is such a fun break from powerlifting.

moving on

Paulette rocking the zercher squats

So all exams are passed and I now an registered massage therapist. It is great to get my life back, even if it has mostly changed forever. Now I have to get serious about getting a business started. But more importantly meet preparations have started. Squatted an easy 725 on Saturday and pulled a 495 triple afterwards. starting to push the bench again I'm still having elbow problems, but I'm going to start moving heavier weights and see what happens. 3 board on Sunday 405x3 raw and 515x3 in an old shirt. I'm going to work up to a heavy single in a full shirted bench on Thursday and see how the elbows stand up. Now that I'm not spending my waking hours studying I'm doing more cardio, always so tough when you've taken to much time off.

march 5

So into march already. Wrote and passed the written part of the board exam. Did the oral/practical part last week, it went well but I have to wait up to three weeks for the results. So the work part of my life is on hold for just a while longer. Body weight is coming down now that school and such is done. I wanted to be training at my competitive by now but I guess that was unrealistic. Doing what is call a carb back loading diet right now, some people I know are having great results with it. For me so far it makes me gain weight, on the plus side I'm stronger than I've ever been. I've tweaked the diet to see if I can make it work a bit better for me, the science is all there for this to work. Nice that it is warming up enough to start training outside again. We squatted with this prototype spider bar on Saturday. Couple of modifications and it is working great, Lance used the finished bar on Sunday and thought it was great. Also on Sunday we started the strongman type conditioning. 3 sets of tire flips for 1 min rounds, and a couple of 110' farmer's walks with 150 lbs in each hand. I'm 12 weeks out from nationals in Waterloo so it is time to stat focusing on improving my geared lifts. I'm going to compete as a light 100 kg this meet weighing about 95 kgs. this should give me a good idea what I'll have to work on for worlds in November. I'm planning to make weight from 95 kgs to compete at 90.