Jan 3 2013

Strength, determination, perseverance, commitment,  I thought I knew these words was a master of these words. Twenty plus years of competing in strength sports, training, dieting, recovery, doing whatever it takes to be the best I could be. Then I start this bodybuilding adventure and I realize that I have much to improve. Thinking back it was a process like it is now, but as I became more proficient  at what I was doing it had become more of a habit than a discipline. Now I am learning all over again much to my surprise. I fell  off the BB wagon through December, diet went for shit, reps fell on the big three so I could lift heavier. As a result three weeks later I have gained ten lbs and injured my low back. This is one of the reasons I have decided to do a BB meet, three years ago when I went back to school to become a RMT I quickly learned that I had become complacent with my view of myself. I thought I was constantly reading and upgrading both at work and in training myself and others, I was sure school would be no problem. Boy was I wrong. I now find myself here again, although like before nothing is new but man is it different. So now once again baby steps, and with some help of the people I have supporting me I will have to find a new level of strength, determination, perseverance, and commitment.

post worlds

So didn't have the meet I was hoping for, still managed to win my class and set a world record on the bench while battling a stomach flue. With that being said I have retired from powerlifting. I am going to try and do a body building show in june, and will try to get a highlands game comp in before the year. So far the training is going ok, very different from what my body is use to. diet is a struggle as I am use to eating what ever I want most of the time coupled with the fact that I dropped from 240 down to 205 all ready this year so continuing to watch what I am eating is getting old. The hardest thing right now for me is learning how to pose, I have never really cared what I look like and not the kind of guy to be running around in a muscle shirt so it has been difficult to make myself stand in front of a mirror and pose. I must get better because I truly suck at this. If anyone wonders why I am doing this it is because it is forcing me out of my comfort zone, and it was something I wanted to do as a youngster. If I get this done it will be completing the circle.

last post before worlds

So I surely no reads this anymore as I have hardly posted this year. Weight is down I didn't think I would ever get it down but I did in the end. from 240 in march to 209 today. the video is a 730 squat from last week, this week 675 warmup missed the video of730 opener camera man was more worried about calling depth than making sure the camera was going squat was good and the last squat is 760. I cut it a bit mainly because I would never do a second attempt this close to a meet. But it has been a long hard road this time. I took most of the weight off quickly so that I would have more time to train at the weight closer to my comp weight. This had kicked the crap out of my strength. By the end of July with the strength loss and the change in body mechanics I was struggling with 585 in the squat couldn't pull 495 deadlift and raw bench was way down as well. Got a shirted bench day to get in this week and in 13 days I will know if the hard work has paid off. This will be my last powerlifting meet equipped for sure I might do a raw but I will have to wait and see. I have advanced osteoarthritis in my elbows and with the lack of joint space can no longer straighten my arms, heavy benching is not going to make this any better.

Sept wow

So still on my quest. It has been a crazy year. Since June I have renoed the house in Vernon to sell it (hasn't so far) bought a place in PG cheap because it should have been tore down, but after 3 months of working 12+ hours a day it is live able. All the while starting a new business and getting ready for worlds. weight has been good for a couple of months now and my lifts are slowly starting to return. It has been a challenge tring to find gear that works and figuring out how to best lift at this lighter body weight. In the past I never gave enough time to adapt and my total suffered for it. Hopefully this time will be better. I need to total 860kg to beat the world record, it has stood since 1984. i would be arrogant to think this will be easy

june already

So the wrist is giving me trouble. but \i did get up to a 385 bench last week and 705 out for a squat. the squat made my wrist sore for a few days. So I am moving back up to PG which is part of the reason for the lack of posting, also I haven't been able to train very affectively so there hasn't been much to post. Slowly losing the bloat I gained during the last few months of school. lost a total of 23 lbs so far. 5 more and I could make weight at 198, but I may drop more than that so I can gain some weight leading up to worlds. Well that's about it for now.

set back

Training Heavy

So training continues, I've been hitting it hard the last while. Weights are slowly moving up, getting to train outside more thats always fun. today was squatting, stones over a 56" bar, walking lunges with the ss bar, the sled dragging. nothing exciting durning the week mainly high rep body building type stuff. Start heavy high volume benching tomorrow. Thats about it for now