jan 17th week

Not much happening this week. I got two cardio days in and two training days in. School is kicking the crap out of me right now.
thursday
speed bench 8/3
deadlifts pulled some reps and a couple of easy singles at the end
tri push downs and face pulls to end

sunday
narrow bench up to 315x3 345x1
5 board 435x3 465x2 495x1
4 board 406x3 435x1
shirted bench 405x3 435x3 465x2 495 crushed me
squat 13 inch box 315x3 405x2 495x1 525 crushed me
not a great week nothing like a good kick in the ass to motivate a guy. hopefully this week will go better. Still dropping some weight thats not helping either I'd like to drop another 12 lbs but already my serength is suffering.

new plan

So already a new plan I wanted to try and go to the world masters in olympic lifting, but Monteal backed out and the meet got awarded to Cyprus. This isn't doable for me, so I'm switching gears again. I'll be getting ready for cpf nationals in may and continue with the olifting and try to do the ogopogo meet in Aug. which may be better anyway as my wrists are so sore do to my lack of flexibility.
wednesday
pwr cleans 82.5x4x4
cleans was to go to 92.5 kg but at 80 my wrist hurts so bad I bailed there.
cl pulls 120x3x3
sumo deads 190x3 210x2

thursay
speed bench 8 sets of 3 with dbl minis then singled with 245 265 275 285
some push downs and lat pulls and curls to finish off

saturday
pwr snatch 50x3 60x3 65x2 70x1 72.5x1 75x1
back squat 120x3 150x3 170x3 190x3 210x3 230x2 off a 13" box
snatch pull 60x3 70x3 80x3x2
hack squat 140lbsx10 175x8 210x8
abs 4sets
sunday
narrow grip bench 315x3 335x1
5 board 405x3 435x3 465x3
4 board 405x3 425x3
shirted bench 405x3 425x3 455x3
band push downs and lat pulls to finish

two weeks of olympic lifting

well 2nd week in and as I thought it sucks I'm very slow and my flexibility sucks. My training is wednesdays thursday saturay and sunday. So my oly weight are really low as I work on tec and flexibility.
wednesday pwr cleans 82.5 kg x4 reps x 3 sets
full cleans 90x3x5
clean pulls 115x3x3
sumo deads worked up to 200 x3
thursday speed bench dbl minis 185x3x3 205x3x3 225x3x2
some push downs and curls and called it a day I was very slow and tired today

saturday pwr snatch 50 kg x4x3
full snatch 62.5x3x4 70x1x2
snatch pull 82.5x3x3
I was going to front squat today but I'm still struggling
sunday cambered bar two board press This is one inch bellow a normal bench 330x2 I wanted 3 for a new record but it was not to be today
pwr jerk 82.5 x4x4
full jerk 90x3x5
front squat 90x3 100x3 110x3 115x3

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.