Wednesday 30 May 2012

Again off the 3" boards tonight and had a good day. The elbow is feeling a lot better but I still have to watch what I am doing. Got a 280kg, 285kg and a 290kg pull out tonight so real happy. Could feel my elbow a bit after putting the weight but not enough to stop. Just real happy to be lifting heavy weight again. Good strong pulls as well and they never felt like they were going to miss.

YEAH LET'S HEAR IT FOR HEAVY WEIGHT

Tuesday 29 May 2102

Pretty good day today with benching with the bands. Felt good so I went for it today. About 275kg at the top with these bands on. (220kg on the bar). About 250kg at the chest. Good strong, quick presses out but not quite locking as strong as I want at the moment but with that shitload of tension at the top it is hard. I am trying my best to get it to lock strong. Still happy with how everything is going. If I could lift at comps right now I would still be opening on 240kg and that would just fly to the top. The Titan fury is still going and I have not got into the superkat yet so who knows what that would give me. I want to push the Fury until I can't get it to lockout for me then I will go to the Super.

Monday 28 May 2012

Had to use the No# 1 and 2 bands over the Safety squat bar today. My No# 3 bands have a big hole in them and are to dangerous to use safely. Not looking for big fiqures at the moment on these as this is the first time I have used this bar in a while. Still just trying to work things out but still got a good workout done with them. Only had knee wraps on at this stage. Could feel the lower back doing some work which is what I was wanting with this bar. Will go to about 260 - 270 next week.

Wednesday 23 May 2012

Changed things a bit here and went to deads off a 3" board. Also watching my elbow area as this is the first time for some real deads in about 4 or 5 weeks. Everything went well although I could feel my arm a bit at the top. But felt good to have the bar in my hands again for deads. No real power or speed or agression as I was just wanting to get these done. Will do some more next week. A bit happier now that I know I can get back to deads.

Bench Week 1

Good sets today. Had the No# 2 bands over the bar which gives about 55kg of tension at the top and 34kg of tension at the bottom of the press. So had the shirt on and 190 on the bar which works out at 245kg at the top and 235kgish at the bottom. Real good speed off the chest and good lockouts. Just missing my chest (mm's) but that happens with the shirt on. Need about 235ish to get it to touch clean. Everything went well including not to much wrong with my elbow. Bring on next week.

Monday 21st may 2102

Learning day today as I was usiing the Safety bar for the first time. Will have to do it inside the power rack and will have to redo the weights for the next 2 weeks. Could feel my lower back all last night and my butt as well. Was using the blue bands until we found a hole in one of the bands. Next week will have to use the No# 1 and 2 Bands for the same effect.Probably look at about 220-230kg on the bar next week for 2s.

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An update

Well how lazy can I get as I have done very little with this for a while. Still trying to work the bullshit thing out with my association and federation. It seems like the president of the association has something personal against me as I stood up to her last year and we have a major difference of opinion. Was nothing to do with abusing refs or anything like that, and I did not think so.

Still life goes on and over the last couple of weeks have had a new person that my training partner and I have been showing the light to in regards to Benchpressing and that's has made me realize I am being lazy. Have not been making up training plans a couple of cycle into the future like I was doing and I could have been doing a lot more strongman stuff. Thanks to Andrew (the new guy). I have refocused on this and am starting to get this done again. Andrew came in with us to do bench on the first time and we asked him what his best was and his reply was 137.5kg in competition (Andrew weighs about 80kg). On that first night we had him do a 140kg press off a 4" board for 3 individual reps, and he was stoked. Got him around for another session a week later and used the finger boards which are 20mm thick and we got him to the 4th board (80mm) with 152.5kg. This week we are going to push him to 160kg as low as he can get it. I think our style of training is a huge difference from what he has been doing and what he thought he could do. We have told him if you stick with us he should be looking at 180kg by the end of the year. Big goals but we ( both Steve and I) think he can do it. He might need to get an up to date Fury of Superkat but hey.

This week I am looking at a 320 + 30kg of chain Squat as the top of this cycle which will be a PB in every way, so pretty keen to have this go. Also looking at a 250kg + 22kg of chain benchpress off my chest as again this is the top of my cycle. Also I am trying to push the Fury as far as I can before I start looking at the Superkat. As this is my 3rd week of my cycle I do not deadlift and this is okay at the moment as I am letting my elbow heal from injuring it while helping people out at he Otago's but the way it is feeling I should be able to go back to deads from the next cycle onwards. I think I did it by helping people get the squat suit straps up. The injury was so bad on the first week that I could only just benchpress and had to stop after close grip for my tri's as it was just to much and I have a good pain tolerance level.

Congratulations to Steve as well for being able to get a total at the Otago's, however not quite what he wanted as he set up real bad for his first squat (320kg) and had to monster it out. Steve did however set a competition PB in the benchpress with a press of 222.5kg. His deadlift was only a 310kg. Still a pretty good total of 852.5kg. As this is only the Otago's and it is the Nationals we are aiming at no need to go all the way  right now. He is (and I hope to) be lifting at the South Islands on the 7th of June. Remember all this is being done under IPF rules and WADA drug testing guidelines.

Also would like to mention the our great friend Sonia Manaena is preparing for the world raw champs in Sweden in June as well. We are supporting her all the way and would love to see her bring home another gold and increase her Raw world deadlift record that she set in Australia at the beginning of April 

GO SONIA GO FROM YOUR DUNEDIN SUPPORTERS.

As you can see from the pictures I am still doing the strongman training on the weekend 

with who ever turns up. I have no choice in the matter it is something I have to do if I 

want to get stronger for the big lifts as I find this really helps with core stability and 

posterior chain work and it gives me and anybody who turns up a chance to do 

something different. I will find a way to keep this stuff in. 

Anyway sorry for the long post but as I have been lazy I suppose this sort of 

thing happens.  I am going to try and keep it up to date a bit more so post should

 not be as long. Hope all is going well with your training and you are setting and 

achieving your goals.