Merry Christmas

Training has been so so lately. Been doing more olympic lifting lately, while trying to stay more or less contest ready for powerlifting. Final exams kicked the crap out of me this time, I think I'll take some advice from from one of my training partners to just back off on the training during exam weeks. I'm going to try to start posting more regularly as I am going to try and compete in olympic lifting, powerlifting and I may do a strongman meet just for fun. This should be a crazy year. My training business predator barbell will be putting on a strongman meet this year some time around June and a powerlifting meet just not sure when yet. I'm doing massages out of my house, and I will also be doing massages out of Breakaway fitness three part days a week starting in January. That's it for now Merry Christmas and I hope everyone exceeds their hopes an dreams next year

good to go

Well I finally got every thing set back up after almost a year. Now I just need to recruit a few more people to train with. Training is going well, Barry brought a slingshot back from Vegas. This has been a fun addition to our bench training and of coarse Gwen made me one. I got a new pair of Olympic lifting shoes yesterday and I had to try them out today. I was pleased that I still have the flexibility to do full cleans. I quit at 100 kg as my wrists and elbows started to protest. Then went up to a fairly easy 150kg front squat with my arms crossed. It was a good day as I haven't done full cleans for close to 10 years. Next week I'll be adding briefs to my squat days which will be great as feel done with raw squatting. 12 weeks from the battle in Montreal. Its time to go.

back at it

Well I've been here 10 months now and slowly the training and the training areas are coming together. I took down the squat rack and on tuesday I get my monolift back from powder coating I'll be putting it up. Training; this was just a intro week nothing to heavy or hard at least until today. Today was power cleans, clean pulls, then triples deadlifting. everything felt good until 190 kgs on the deadlift that's when I found out that my body is not use to cleans and such because I barely pulled a triple at 190. I plan to do this for a couple of months. Then get ready for the Battle of Montreal in January.

time for a break

Well I kept training after the meet and hit some good numbers for me. I got a 425x5 raw squat week 1 and 450x3 week 2, and did the same numbers for conv deadlift Hit a 520 bench in a very old fury shirt last week. Now it is time for a break. Most everything is ready for the push/pull on oct 16 ( for info go to www.predatorbarbell.com ) I was going to go to the cpu westerns but I'm thinking not as there has been a big debate on their forum about lifters lifting in other federations and banning these lifters from the cpu. So maybe I'll drop a little body fat to be healthier and start to focus on a cpf meet.

wow 6 weeks have past already

So training and school are going great. I had a great meet in Idaho falls netting me six more world records 4 awpc and 2 wpc raw. I was asked about my records the other day. So we went thru them and it turns out I have broken 14 world masters records in four weight classes over the last four years. So here I am in my late 40s and likely in the best shape of my life and for sure the stronger than I ever was in my 20s or 30s. There is something to be said for hanging in there, when I was at this last meet there were so many guys in their 50s 60s and a few in their 70s still going strong. Seeing these old bulls never fails to inspire me to continue. Not only are these guys and girls strong but they are mentally sharp and they still have that sparkle in their eyes that shows that they are truly alive. Life tries to beat us all down but finding something that you truly love to do and challenging yourself everyday to become better than you were yesterday seems to keep us young at heart. Next meet for me is the CPU westerns in Nov I'm just going to bench at this meet. Then I hope to get my monolift set up somewhere and I'll be getting ready for CPF nationals in may. I still have some goals in that weight classes and it will be my last years as a master 2. I'll try to update a little more often.

last two weeks

On the 25 th had the strongman training day it went well. There were eight of us training that day. There is more video on the utube site. I pulled the truck hand over hand in 25.8 sec which turned out to be 5th place. I think even Ryan beat me and he only has one leg. Car deads I got 17 reps for a win. log clean and press I got 230 lbs for the win. super yoke went 570 for 50' tide with Cameron. And last was stones I couldn't get the 260 today. Cameron did though which was his first time. Thanks to everyone who showed up. So this week I sent in my entry fee for the AWPC/WPC raw worlds in Idaho. Sept 3rd I'm not sure why I decided to do a raw meet but it should be fun. Had a full blown squat workout on Thursday and I'm still sore today on Sunday. I have to deadlift today warm ups are going to take a while.

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.