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Mark
Posts: 150 Join date: 2009-03-30
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:11 pm | |
| | Admin wrote: | I'm guessing the 25th contest is a powerlifting meet. If your competing in a power meet, concentrate on doing the power meet. After the meet concentrate on the sept. contest. |
I am really happy for all of the support I am recieving from this board. This place is becoming like an extended family.
alright. I just discovered that for every contest I do, I can put it down on my masters application for the masters/doctorate program I am going into. Which will make me look even better. So I want to get as many as I can under my belt.
I am hoping to do quite well in the PL meet, and then rock at the september contest. I'm leaving my training the same except for the weekend I wont be doing the event lifts ill be doing gym lifts. So the weekends will look like
push press for 5s chins 5 sets front squats 3-4 sets dumbell hold 2 sets
push jerk technique focus chins front squat 3-4 sets dumbell hold 3-4 sets
I will be doing all the training suitless. I want to keep my training addressed to strongman, as that is what is most important to me. This meet is manly to be with friends. My female strongman powerlifter friend was supposed to do the meet with me, but she found out recently her brother is shipping off to afganistan that week so she will not be there. But she notified everyone at teh gym about me and people are looking forward to meeting me. I am also using it as a mini vacation. because the contest is 2 weeks after my birthday my best friend is making the drive up there for me paying for the gas and the hotel for the night. So becuase of the all the junk I have went through these past few weeks with medication. I am happy for a minivacation, I really need it.
Then off to bust myself for the september contest. I am gona rock it. |
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Tony Soucie Admin

Posts: 893 Join date: 2008-07-29 Age: 37 Location: St. Anne, IL
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:05 pm | |
| With the power meet you'll have to include the bench press in the routine. Just concentrate on the bench press, deadlift and Squat, mainly. Also, if you plan on using equpiment (bench shirt, squat suit) you may want to consider using those in training since the meet is just 3 weeks away. The shirts and suits have certian "grooves" and if you decide to use the equipment only for the meet, it will most likely throw you off. Here's a very simple, straight forward sample powerlifting routine: Tuesday Bench Press Bent over Rows Heavy Tricep work Wednesday Speed box squat 50% of max, 8 sets of 2 reps with 45 seconds rest between sets Speed deadlifts or High Pulls Good mornings Shrugs Friday Speed Bench Board Presses Chins Shoulder press Heavy Triceps work Saturday Squat Deadlift Don't worry about front squats. If you are doing a powerlifting squat in the meet, start doing those instead. 3 weeks to prepare for a meet is not a lot of time. The priority would be to get used to the lifts, techniques, feel of the equipment, etc... |
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Mark
Posts: 150 Join date: 2009-03-30
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:21 pm | |
| | Admin wrote: | With the power meet you'll have to include the bench press in the routine. Just concentrate on the bench press, deadlift and Squat, mainly. Also, if you plan on using equpiment (bench shirt, squat suit) you may want to consider using those in training since the meet is just 3 weeks away. The shirts and suits have certian "grooves" and if you decide to use the equipment only for the meet, it will most likely throw you off.
Here's a very simple, straight forward sample powerlifting routine: Tuesday Bench Press Bent over Rows Heavy Tricep work
Wednesday Speed box squat 50% of max, 8 sets of 2 reps with 45 seconds rest between sets Speed deadlifts or High Pulls Good mornings Shrugs
Friday Speed Bench Board Presses Chins Shoulder press Heavy Triceps work
Saturday Squat Deadlift
Don't worry about front squats. If you are doing a powerlifting squat in the meet, start doing those instead. 3 weeks to prepare for a meet is not a lot of time. The priority would be to get used to the lifts, techniques, feel of the equipment, etc... |
The meet is just a push pull. Ill modify it to that routine. |
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Mark
Posts: 150 Join date: 2009-03-30
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:07 pm | |
| Sunday is easier for me than saterday right now so I trained sunday. Trained with part of Ed Coans group today. Ed Coan was not there though. They checked out my form helped me into the suit and taught me a good amount to do this meet. They want me to train with them the next 2 weeks. They see a lot of potential in me for this meet and told me they think I could balance both strongman and powerlifting and be good at each. One offered to loan me a bench shirt for the meet. We will see if it fits next week. I am amazed to see the friendship of the strength sports. Everyone seems to help everyone out and be very good to each other. I have never sen this before in sports. I see it with you guys, now with ed coans group. This is not like any other sport ive ever done. They had me warm up with light singles I know this goes against you tony, but the guys wanted me to find my opener. 135 5 225 5 315 5 405 suit buttoms 405x2 very light and fast. They told me to cut it here and shoot for 430 next week for a double again. Then lay off. They think I am good for 450-475lbs at the meet. They said open at 405. Then we did front squat together. They said these some of my flaws in my pull hopefully. 135x3 185x3 205x3 215x3 they told me cut it here and so I said ok. They said I had more in it but they said this is just acessory and to not bother with going heavy today on these. They asked to see my bench press. So i did some pressing with a 575lb bencher. 135 for 5 correcting form errors. My biggest problem he said is stability. But he said this may be because I have to bench flat footed instead of on my toes like I normally do . He said I have a powerful arch and my butt stays on the bench even with my heavy arch. He said I have a ton of power behind my strokes but I am not stable at all. He taught me stability corrections we did 10 of these with a pause command. with 135. After about rep 5 the pauses had to go longer and longer as I was moving when it hit my chest. Bench day will be as normal this week. |
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Mark
Posts: 150 Join date: 2009-03-30
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:10 pm | |
| Getting a new deadlifting suit for my birthday (birthday is the 12th yay happy birthday to me). Very excited about this meet. But more excited about the september meet. I am gona rock that one. I am sure of it. I think I have more potential for strongman. |
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Mark
Posts: 150 Join date: 2009-03-30
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:13 am | |
| Lets start with some rambling. First off I am realising I like strongman MUCH more than powerlifting now that I have been training strongman more. Why you ask, because my disproptionatly strong triceps are good. While in powerlifting my weak pecs screw me unless I am in a shirt. I am realising how weak I am off the chest now and am quite angry at it. You will see that in the workout comming up, and how my triceps make everything else easy. I followed Tony's powerlifting routine he set out for me, but added one thing members of Ed Coans group had me do. Since they saw I have a VERY hard time benching with my feet flat, they told me to add in some stability work which is bench presses with the feet on the bench and no arch of any kind lateral or lower back. These after 2 workouts are already starting to help bring stability to the bench. I will be doing these every bench workout with light weight just maximise my stability. I have also been thinking about this. This is an open question for anyone. Why did they have me do front squats after my deadlifts with them on sunday instead of regular or PL squats. I told them my meet was a push pull. Part of ed coans group, but as I said ed coan was not there. I should mention they invited me to train with ed coan and them, but alas i have classes that night. So for the meet I have determined my openers at 405 DL 225 bench. Flat work with pause command from a bodybuilder but still experienced 135x5 easy 185x5 easy 225x5 easy 275x0 failed.. now when i failed the guy tapped the bar and it flew up. So I put on a 2 board and did. 2 reps easy with more in the tank good for AT LEAST 5-6. put on a 1 board 2 reps easy with more in the tank probably 4 reps. normal bench 275 again 0. This angered me and was very odd. I am not sure if this is a speed weakness or a pec weakness. Rows db no straps 40x5 50x5 60x5 80x5 suprisingly very easy. These are done with the same strictness and style as a Bent over row for those wondering. I find dumbell rows harder. Stability work with pause command 135x5 145x5 he said do only 2 sets so thats all I did. Dips 2 sets for my heavy tricep. By this point bw dips were quite heavy. They broke me down very fast. |
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Tony Soucie Admin

Posts: 893 Join date: 2008-07-29 Age: 37 Location: St. Anne, IL
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:55 pm | |
| You're weak off the chest because you've only done floor presses. These work the triceps fairly hard and the chest not so much. |
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Mark
Posts: 150 Join date: 2009-03-30
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:24 pm | |
| | Admin wrote: | | You're weak off the chest because you've only done floor presses. These work the triceps fairly hard and the chest not so much. |
think any fixes can be done in 2 weeks? |
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Tony Soucie Admin

Posts: 893 Join date: 2008-07-29 Age: 37 Location: St. Anne, IL
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:33 pm | |
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Mark
Posts: 150 Join date: 2009-03-30
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:15 am | |
| Alright. I got 2 days of bench work like you suggested so that should take care of it.
Weight 235.8 go medicine making me retain water.
Speed deadlifts 205 6 sets on a 50kg plate 1 minute in between
Good mornings wide legged, the reason for the wide legged it close stance hurts my back. I am now getting all the way to parallel to. 95x3 105x3 135x3 195x3 last set was a but rough but got it. oh these were also beltless
Dumbell holds 85lbs for 40 seconds. I counted out 40 seconds quite slowly so I'm sure its more.
Shrugs 100lb dumbells 1 minute rest 10 4 |
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Mark
Posts: 150 Join date: 2009-03-30
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:44 pm | |
| my metal deadlifter came in today. Gift from my mom and aunt and uncle. Its very wierd than what I'm used to. Almost falls off when the straps are down but once the straps are up it turns into a whole nother animal. Very hard to get down to the bar. And tight as heck everywhere. I was worried about this so I called Jim Wendler and he told me thats exactly how a metal deadlifter is. |
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Mark
Posts: 150 Join date: 2009-03-30
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:40 am | |
| Today was a very bad day: lets examine. Cambered bar bench press speed work since I am abnormally weak off the chest. Thought the extra movement pattern would help. 70lbs 4 sets of 3 These felt great and were fast. Quite to fast to be exact. Then decided to be sure I had technique with speed and switched bars. 135lbs on a normal bar wide grip. Got through 2 sets just fine for 3 reps. On the third set I dont know what I did but I really hurt my pec delt tie on my right side. Stung very bad and everything just slowed down. Went for one more set got one rep and then had to rack it as it hurt very bad. Idiot me said lets put some icy-hot on it and continue. Did some chins didnt as bad with these so I did 4 sets 3 over hand 1 underhand. 2 minute rest in between. Went to do my shoulder work or overhead presses. bar x5 went fast minimal pain 75 x 5 went fast a little more pain 95x5 hurt quite badly still fast 155x2 at this point after the second rep it began to hurt even worse and had 0 speed it was just pure grinding it out. Which should not be at this weight especially starting at the first rep. So I called it here on the shoulder press. Stupidest thing I did was I did my heavy tricep work as dips. Got 5 reps the first round and 2 reps the second at this point I couldn't take anymore and left. Should hopefully heal up by Sunday. Taking some Tylenol. I usually hate to do that but I think it would be smart. My drive caused me to push way to hard today. I need to learn sometimes you need to just call it a day. |
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Mark
Posts: 150 Join date: 2009-03-30
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:17 pm | |
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Mark
Posts: 150 Join date: 2009-03-30
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:01 pm | |
| Training with the powerlifting crew tommorow. What a great way to spend my birthday. Being 100% serious with that. Now that I got a few tips on the deadlift I'll pull 450 tommorow Im sure of it. |
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Mark
Posts: 150 Join date: 2009-03-30
 | Subject: Re: Marks Journal Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:11 pm | |
| Wow last night was crazy. I'll put it this way I remember less than a 3rd of it. Dont even wana know how much I drank. Everyone was like its your birthday tomorrow drink drink drink. So I did. And it was a neighbors grad party so it was free so I took advantage of free top shelf liquer normally I dont drink very much at all or very often. Managed to get 2 hours of sleep. The rest of the night was spent vomiting. Which is good or I probably would have had major alcohol poising. So everyone was suprised I came in on my birthday and hung over. But we didnt take it easy oh no not at all. Deadlifts 135 about 4 singles wanated to farm up 225 3 singles again extra warm up 315 1 single 405 suit on straps up went up very slow and akward. I stiff legged it. Not used to the suit. They said add more. 430 this flew up like it was 135. Broke and moved fast all the way to lock out like a one second lift. They couldnt beleive it. They nor I was expecting that. 460 2 missess went up all the way but didnt lock my back so it would have gotten called. Second one went up to knee height. They told me that weight is easy and I should have it. No doubts I should have had it they said its probably the hang over. The way I pulled teh 430 they I'm good for a lot more than 460. Loaded up the bar to squat one of the 800lb squatters said no dont even think about it. Your doing leg curls and calves and going home. your not gona fry your cns. So 2 sets of 10 with 90 2 sets of 100 unknown reps then started to get really sick so they told me to cut it there. Spotted them for a bit then went home. Some birthday for sure. Hungover and still do good. Im happy. |
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