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

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.

time is flying

Wow it almost the middle of Feb all ready. I have sucked at posting, well in another two weeks board exams will be done. I've all ready graduated from massage school so just this last hurtle. Training is going awesome right now I've been breaking records all most weekly. A big part of that is because I've bulked right up again hitting 235 last week. So I'm a long way from the 210ish that I had planned on being by now. School has had to come first and maybe I was overly optimistic about competing at 198 in June. I've decided to compete at 100 again and I have to lift pro to qualify for words in Vagus. after the meet I will decide what weight for worlds part of me right now wants to go full blown 242 so weighing about 250, before I get to old to make it worth while. Mostly post on predator barbell's facebook page these days but will try to post here a bit more, to conical my journey to this years worlds

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.