Death by Snoo Snoo

Except in this case, snoo snoo did not mean wild monkey sex with 40 foot tall secksy amazonian women(if you didnt get it, that means you A) dont watch Futurama and B) obviously arent cool). No, for me it meant death by Grip training. Almost every exercise i did today involved heavy grip training. This was the second day, 1st week of my 7 week competition training. Heres the play by play

Mild dynamic warm up.
230lb/hand Farmers carries
1X100' 27 seconds(one drop, grip gave out.
1X100' 13 seconds. Much better, very happy with that time

little break to go to 7-11 where i ran into a church group who was having a bad week. They were from Georgia and in one week they had sickness, death, money issues and to top it all off, one of the cars broke down and they couldnt figure out why. I tried to help them with some jumper cables and all that did is set my cables on fire. After i cleaned up that situation, i gave them some encouraging words and was on my way. I hope they get back to Georgia without any further hassle. Also spoke with a homeless Vet who had a son who was currently in Iraq. Seemed like a great guy. Unfortunatly, i spent my last dollar in cash i had on me on the slurpie i was holding in my hand. I felt like an ass.

Back to training
550lb tire
10 flips in 58 secs. I need to get at least 14 in one min. ill work on that
6 flips just to cool down

Tricep pushdowns with green band SS with 3 board tricep lockout bench
15 pushdown reps SS 225X10 reps X 2 sets
15 repsX SS 225X 15 reps X1

thick bar shrugs
135X20ish
225X20
315X15
315X15
315X12... trying to get the yokes standing up again.

Gotta cut this short, time to hit up some sonnys!

BW still 289

ahh the joys of contest training

So im 7 weeks out from the contest and i needed to get a baseline of what i can do right now. Yesterday I did the thick bar deads. I was feeling like shit so i didnt do anything else.

2" bar deads(sumo)
135X8
225X5
315X3
355X10

350 is my magic number. I was still pretty sick and kinda malnourished, so i think by the end of this training cycle i can get 14 or 15 with the adrenaline going!

Tomorrow is Farmer carries and maybe the tire to see where im at with that!

Central Florida Strongman Championship

This is taking place on Aug 9th, about 8 weeks from now, in Lakeland, FL. Its an NAS sactioned event and it will be my first competition. The events/weights for my catigory will be as follows

Log Press, Max weight for one rep
Thick bar(2 In) deadlifts. 350 lbs, max reps, apparently no time limit
Farmers walk. 230lb/hand 100 feet course, no turns, one drop allowed, 60 sec time limit
Yoke walk. 550lbs, 80ft course unlimited drops, 60 sec time limit
Tire flip. 500lb tire max reps, 60 sec time limit

seems like a prety well thought out event. Im happy there is no stones in this one b/c im laging in that event, but this will give me sometime to work on it.

This event, like i said, will be my first ever. I think im interested in competing in this sport, but i wont know untill i get a comp under my belt. I also would like to try my hand at a small time powerlifting event as well, but that is later down the line. For now, my next 7-8 weeks will be devoted to getting my BF% down, increasing my conditioning and training for these events.

Heres the link to the event here

Now onto this weeks

Saturday i did some serious GPP with some members of the softball team
was out doing batting and fielding practice for over 2 hours.... from 1030-1 on a hot ass humid summer day in florida. After that i was as drained as michael Jackson at a chuck e cheese lock-in( I shouldnt say that, I really like Mike. Besides, what if he reads this, can he sue me? Please dont sue me Michael)

Monday, i decided to skip camp to go to the cleawater Threashers game(they are a 1a farm team for the philies) It was 11 dollars for a ticket and all you can eat food from 6-9pm...Im pretty sure they snagged My buddy Mike and I's photo with a "do not serve" text underneath. We tore that place up!

But i did get a bench session in before hand, heres how it went

stretch/warm up -10 push ups/light lat pull down set and a pregame dump

BarXreps(working on tucking/belly up
135X5
225X3
335X1
added shirt(2ply) and wrist wraps
375X miss.. brought it down to damn near my neck... just a form error
375X1 much better
I stil didnt like my form though so instead of going heavy, i just dropped the weight on worked on form
315X6 or 7. Just working on tucking and bringing it to my belly. Ryan says im pressing it back to far so I have to work on that as well. Over all, it was a good bench session

Close grip Lat pull down
2X10-12 reps, increasing weight

Thick bar(2inch) Curls

BarXreps
65X12
95X10
115X6

then we went to wendys... good times, good times. Ryan is reverting to old ways and its good to see. Double stacks for all!

Lets see here

I dont know why I havent felt up to keep this updated, maybe b/c i think that no one looks at em, or maybe beacause im not feeling witty. Its not that I havent been training, thats for damn sure.

Lets see, last wednesday i did a little more shirt work. I know it was only 2 day rest but i was anxious to get into the 2ply. Heres how that went down

warm up
barXreps
135X5
225X3
315X1
added shirt, 2ply
375X1X2 pretty east
405X1 first time ive taken 405 to a touch in 3 years(in 05 i was on a cycle)

then did a DE finish, working on speed off the chest
225X2X6
225X4X1

after that did a few reps on a stupid chest press machine, it was gay so i stopped

Friday i went down and did some camp work with Elliot and the boys. Its started to rain pretty hardcore so we stayed inside.

big tire push press war(i cant really explain it, other than the 550 tire is standing up with one person on each side. each person pushes the tire, trying to get the other person to drop it)

2 rounds, 60 seconds each( i got paired with elliot.. joy)

then a prowler push/keg carry medely Prowler loaded with 140 lbs, 150lb keg

10 yard push SS 10 yard keg carryX 5. approx 90 sec break in between

ab circuit

that was that, decent little session.

ill post more later and a post about the upcoming strongman comp and my feelings towards it.

First shirted bench session

I went down to the gym today with my gear and was super stoked to get in it!

started of with the 1 ply inzer just to work on getting the groove

started out with the raw side
barX12
135X6
225X3
315X1
put on the shirt!
375X1 3 board
375X1 2 board
405X1 3 board
405X1 2 board
405X1 manpon (pretty much a 1/2board when compressed)

I had a great time, made every lift and look forward to doing some more!

then did the camp
Pullups 4X5 reps blue band
SS with resisted pushups
3X10 reps and 1 set with an 80lb sandbag on my back 1X10reps

mini band front/overhead raises
3X15 reps
SS with DB curl and press
45X6/arm
55X5/arm X 2

ab circuit

It was storming like a Mofo down in st pete on monday. It was like 9pm at 530pm. It was pretty gnarly, but it got me out of having to do an extensive dynamic warm up, which really tears me up.

I need a job!