july 12th week

it was a heavy week this week speed bench day I got up to 335 plus dbl minis for a 3 board tri press. thursday I worked up to a 495 single in a raw squat. saturday worked up to a 585 shirted 2 board. sunday turned in to a massive day we pulled deadlifts then went to carry and drag next was stones and lastly we did some log clean and presses. next week is a deload week. I'm putting on a strongman training day at Breakaway fitness hopefully there will be a good turnout.

week of july5th

Tuesday speed bench nothing to exciting here up to 235 plus dbl minis some tris back and we were done. Thursday rock bottom squats worked up to a 405 triple and 495 singles with a drop set of 405 to a high box for 21 reps. followed by one leg leg press I'm still having problems with my right leg. Saturday shirt work. Raw singles are slowly coming back then some shirt work I had on my oldest shirt and I think I shut it down at 425 just ran out of gas did some tris land mine rows and some clean and press with a log. Sunday pulled sets of five conv deadlifts then did some car deads for some rep work we did two sets. All in all a good training week. After only training twice last week I came to the conclusion that until I'm done school I'll just do what I can.

first full week of training

First full week of training in like forever.speed bench on Tuesday and squats on Thursday nothing to exciting. Shirted bench on Saturday Barry and I worked technique with 455 but the story of the day was Mary benching 225 for two singles and 230 for a single her previous best was 175 and misses at 185 in her last meet. Just an amazing day. Today we pulled some deads Barry was working with a new suit and had trouble setting up conv doing a couple of singles with 405 then pulled an easy 405 455 sumo Mary pulled in the video 315 x2 raw then put on a loose suit and did 320 and two more singles at 315. I pulled 455 x1 and dropped 495 at the top using a over hand hook grip finished the day with 3 sets of tire flips Mary did 4 and last we did some log lifting, the cleans were a challenge with all the other work we did earlier. all in all a fun day. the you tube site has the log presses

2010 bc championships

So first cpu meet in 5 years It went ok I got a 230kg opener and lifted 240 second but got a technical call, on the third attempt I lifted my head on the way down and didn't even try to press it as I wasn't going to get whites anyway. Barry in this video got a national record with his opener then just went big for his second and third. It was good to see Jeremy coatea sorry Jeremy I'm not sure how to spell your name. He competed in his first meet and struggled with the bench. I'm sure he'll be back stronger than ever with what he learned at this meet

Robert O. Smith 1943 - 2010Robert O. Smith today lost his battle against pancreatic Cancer, passing away in Vancouver. Robert O. has been a long time member of the CPU and lifted with every organization known to man, just for the chance to compete in our great sport. Robert O. is a true ambassador of the sport and was extremely well liked where ever, when ever and with who ever he showed up to compete with. I think he told me at one point he lifted in 26 events in one year and had lifted in every state I believe, all while over 50 years of age. His passion to compete is something we all should strive for. Our prayers go out to ROBO and his family.

Jeff Butt, CPU President

I first met Rob in 1998 and he was one of the people influenced me to continue in powerlifting. He was a great guy always helpful and fun to be around. I talked with him a few weeks ago and he gave know indication that he was in this much trouble. A testament to his character, to not burden others. You will be missed Robo

sunday april 25

Had a great training day. Had 4 others come out to join the fun. My body weight is still going up with all the studying I'm doing, but it seems to be helping my lifts. We didn't go all out as I wanted everyone to try a bunch of things. we did log lift, farmer's walk super yoke, tire flip, truck pull, atlas stones, and the prowler for those brave enough to try it. We went up to 440 farmer's 480 yoke I got a 225 log press I only brought up to 260 for the stones which I placed much to my surprise. The truck was pulled on a uphill slope but not as steep as the one we pulled on in prince george. I've posted more video on the my utube site posted on the links at side here. All in all we had a great day.

Training @ kamloops barbell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYs1Vc2P6E0
Had my first real training day since moving to Vernon In the video I believe the last squat was 495 plus green bands. Squatting and dead lifting went well considering my lack of training lately. I never did manage a complete glute ham raise. It was so much fun to train with some guys that are serious about training. It was a hour and half drive each way so I'm not sure how often I'm going to get over there, but I'm really going to try for a couple of time a month. Kamloops barbell rocks