jan 4 thru 17

The week of the 3rd I got two training days in. I'm also walking 5 k to school every day Gwen is picking me up after school. Week of the 10 th I got all four days of training in. Training weights are still down, but are coming back. I'm pushing the bench as I'm only planning on doing a bench only this year. I need to fix the trouble I've been having in the low back and hips. I will be still training lower body just not putting it thru meet training. Sundays training was deadlifts tire flips and farmer's walk. I think the neighborhood now have something to talk about their new neighbor I have a great road beside my house it is about 500' long and only has three drive ways off of it. It is a bit of a hill but it is prefect for farmer's, prowler, maybe even super yoke.

happy new year

So happy new year

Well I've decided that there is something seriously wrong with me I moved down on the 23rd of Dec and by the end of Christmas day I had a place to bench deadlift and use my dumbbells. By noon on boxing day I had a cardio and stretching room set up, and I hadn't unpack my clothes yet.

Joined Break away Fitness on the 28th got a squat and speed bench workout in.

Trained back on the 30th

I've trained new years day every year for the last 20 years a great way to start the year

Today I did a max effort bench 3 board press

pwr cleans

conv deads

lastly 3 sets of 3 stone loading

Because of my life has been a little crazy lately, I basically have not been training for the last four months. My body doesn't feel any better for it. My strength is way down no surprise there. Also as I was training today I noticed that my body firing all over the place I had very little synchronicity at the start of each exercise. I really hope that I will not have to lay off like that again for a long time. My goals for this year is to do a bench only at nationals in Montreal this year and to fix the issues I've been having in my hips and low back. Also to try and get some people here training for powerlifting and strongman.

The gym is closed

Well on Sunday my training was to pack the last of the plates out (1010 lbs), and the bars 450 lbs from the gym to the trailer 100 feet x many trips. I'm hoping that my life will settle down a bit next week as I will be officially moved. I will likely have to find a commercial gym to train at for a while.Anyway Happy Holidays to everyone who reads my ramblings

two Sundays in a row

So two Sundays in a row, wow I'm training now. Today log clean and press sets of 3. Then floor presses I grabbed the jack stands from my shop it was a little scary racking it still I got a 140 kg single. Last was grappler one arm rows just went up to 120 lbs as that was all my core could take.

workouts far and few between

well the monolift, leg press, bench press and cable machine headed south today. So I'm down to log pressing and deadlifting, and I actually had a good training day today. I've been doing some training but nothing to write about. Two more weeks and I start a new life.

cool

splitting of the stones My stones are now in Vernon. I haven't been training for a while now In the last couple of weeks I've moved my wife stuff and her business to Vernon also my plates , dumbbells, and most of the strongman training equipment are gone as well. so far I've moved 10,000 lbs of training equipment and I still have all the equipment in my gym plus about 750 lbs of competition plates. Today I bench for the first time since aug 23 did triples up to 295 then a 315 single I was happy with this after almost three months off benching and a low body weight of 205 Did a drop set 205x17 this was down allot last did some tris and shoulders. Now I'll wait to see how sore I'll be lol

The end of an era

So today was most likely the last real training day in my home gym. It has been my home for the last seventeen years. This weekend I will start tearing it down. So many people have trained here, so many memories, personal triumph's, so many valiant efforts for the next five pounds. It will be hard to build the same atmosphere in a new place. But it is time for a new life and move I must. So come by and see me in Vernon when I get set up again. Today was a great day yet again Dallas and I did some med stance squats nothing to great accept Dallas did a drop set of 315 for 20 reps a new pr At the same time Steve and pat were pulling deads Pat pulled a pr 505 Steave was off a bit as he just got back from 4 weeks in Europe Steve did a drop set of 275 x 20 and Pat did 315x20. Dallas and I did some pulls and Dallas got a personal best 550 I haven't trained since my last post so I just coasted today. So thats it from Taz's gym (t shirt in the back ground)where no pencil neck were allowed