Tuesday, April 15, 2008
W/O Log
I have decided to resurrect my training log. It kind of fell by the way side around the time I blew out my knee, but I am starting to train hard again and it always helps when I record what I am doing, plus I have some great training partners.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Nationals
Meet Report for James
Overall this was a great meet for all of us, only his 4th one we are all still learning. With the huge improvement that he has made over the last few months, I am really excited for the next few years.
Squat-
Opened with 474, and it went up easy, but James was red lighted for not waiting for his commands. I thought no big deal and moved him up to 501 know that he has done this in training many times. James walks out gets under the bar and steps back, but they tell him to rerack because it took him to long to get set. he reracks and then proceeds to take it out again, and squats it with ease, but i forgot that in the USAPL you must touch your but to the ground and he was red lighted for depth. Well I kept him at the same weight and call him up when he was 2 inches below parallel. At this point he is 7 Kg in the lead.
Bench
The benching this week for James was a joke. He was nervous do to a warm up miss, but I told him the day I benched 525 in a meet I missed 430 in warm up. Anyway, he opened with 470ish, went to 480ish, and then I took his shirt off and pimped it for his final attempt and he did 292 so easy it though it was going to fly out of his hands. Still 7 Kg ahead.
Dead Lift
At this point we are winning, but little did we know that the current second place lift could pull a small car. We opened with 430ish, went to 450, and final attempt at 485. If James would have got his final dead and the other kid missed his James would have won by one pound, but as it was neither happened and James took second.
Total- 1243 2nd place
Overall this was a great meet for all of us, only his 4th one we are all still learning. With the huge improvement that he has made over the last few months, I am really excited for the next few years.
Squat-
Opened with 474, and it went up easy, but James was red lighted for not waiting for his commands. I thought no big deal and moved him up to 501 know that he has done this in training many times. James walks out gets under the bar and steps back, but they tell him to rerack because it took him to long to get set. he reracks and then proceeds to take it out again, and squats it with ease, but i forgot that in the USAPL you must touch your but to the ground and he was red lighted for depth. Well I kept him at the same weight and call him up when he was 2 inches below parallel. At this point he is 7 Kg in the lead.
Bench
The benching this week for James was a joke. He was nervous do to a warm up miss, but I told him the day I benched 525 in a meet I missed 430 in warm up. Anyway, he opened with 470ish, went to 480ish, and then I took his shirt off and pimped it for his final attempt and he did 292 so easy it though it was going to fly out of his hands. Still 7 Kg ahead.
Dead Lift
At this point we are winning, but little did we know that the current second place lift could pull a small car. We opened with 430ish, went to 450, and final attempt at 485. If James would have got his final dead and the other kid missed his James would have won by one pound, but as it was neither happened and James took second.
Total- 1243 2nd place
Thursday, April 3, 2008
A good question...
I was reading a few days ago on the NSCA forum a topic of the best three exercises that you could do with an athlete. There were various opinions, and in my opinion some good and some bad.
I used to ask a similar questions to interns when I was the intern coordinator at my last job in OK. I have been asking people i work with and received some great answers, but here are mine:
- clean and jerk (technically it is just one exercise)
- back squat (who didn't know this would be on here)
- kettlebell swing
These have changed at different times in my life and I'm sure they will again, well at least number 3. In my mind you get the most important aspects of athletics here, power, peak strength, posterior chain strengthening, and midline stabilization(aka to idiots as the core)
I used to ask a similar questions to interns when I was the intern coordinator at my last job in OK. I have been asking people i work with and received some great answers, but here are mine:
- clean and jerk (technically it is just one exercise)
- back squat (who didn't know this would be on here)
- kettlebell swing
These have changed at different times in my life and I'm sure they will again, well at least number 3. In my mind you get the most important aspects of athletics here, power, peak strength, posterior chain strengthening, and midline stabilization(aka to idiots as the core)
Spring Break w/o's
This past week has been spring break for us here in Northern Michigan, although it doesn't feel like it when you walk outside(it snowed on Tuesday). Since the kids are out of school my numbers in the wt rm have been lower, having about 6 guys showing up for training. So this week with the low numbers i decided that I would jump into the mix and train with the guys.
The School is empty so the music is loud and the training is intense. We had a ME lower day on Mon., a ME Upper on Tue and a CF workout on Wed. with the rest of the week to recover. I believe that the correct atmoshpere is paramount in a training environment and it was there this week. It reminded me of some of the training sessions I had with my teammates it college.
The School is empty so the music is loud and the training is intense. We had a ME lower day on Mon., a ME Upper on Tue and a CF workout on Wed. with the rest of the week to recover. I believe that the correct atmoshpere is paramount in a training environment and it was there this week. It reminded me of some of the training sessions I had with my teammates it college.
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