Mobility Prep
18” I-Beam Farmer’s Walk
Turns at 50’
127x150’ in 21.71 seconds
217x150’ in 28.96 seconds
No Turns
297x100’ in 18.53 seconds
217x150’ in 28.96 seconds
No Turns
297x100’ in 18.53 seconds
BiggDoggStrongg Frame Hold
590 for 55.27 seconds
Sandbag Over Bar (60”)
200x2
200x2
250x10
Vehicle Push (uphill)
carx191’10”’
Stretching
Comments: Saturday was kind of day to sleep and get some thoughts figured out. Of course I was stuck keeping up to date on both the Giants Live Wembley contest and the Arnold Canada show so I was a bit late getting to mowing the lawn. I hadn’t done that Thursday. Turns out a big thunderstorm was coming and I got soaked. Didn’t finish but I got enough of it done to be satisfied. This heat and humidity aren’t really wavering so I planned for things to be bad and packed a hand towel, a body towel and four shirts. I ended up leaving like a half hour later than planned to train as I wanted to add some new music to my iPod. Drive out was pretty good. Like really good. No traffic at all. The gym was dark when I got there except a few lights. I expected this to be a lonely day. Apparently some dude was just lifting in the dark. Ok, hope he enjoys my iPod set to random for music. The NordicTrack can go to the max elevation setting even when it isn’t in workout mode so that is convenient. Kept the lights off to try and keep the heat from doing me in like last week. I reversed stride every 75 seconds this time. Felt it was less harsh on the knees to do it infrequently. Movement prep stuff felt good despite how achy my knees were and how tight my posterior chain felt. Farmer’s walk stuff next. Inside was a bit cramped. Fingal fingers set up was taking up a about 1/3rd of the one lane and there was a ladder in front of the one fan. Seeing as how the guy with his ear buds in was an unknown and was using the broken tripod for filming, I figured that outside on the concrete was going to be a better choice for me. Same as last time; two lighter sets with turns and then a heavy set for 100’ straight shot. It was a bit of a pain setting things up to get my times off the camera. Just some dry runs had my hamstring on the right side feel tight and so was my biceps so I did some foam rolling on both. Almost went through all my chalk I had today. Making sure no slipping due to sweat which meant I had to cover my arms up to the forearm in chalk and I had to do that every time. Getting harder and harder to apply it the more I sweated. First set felt ok. Second set didn’t feel like it was pulling my arms out of my sockets like the jump last time did but I felt like my legs were heavy. I made sure to keep the handles covered with a towel so that they didn’t become blazing hot. I felt confident for the heavy set. I felt strong here. More confident than I did last time. Just about everything was exactly 1.5 seconds slower than last time but again, it is more weight on everything. So after that was the frame hold. 20lbs more than last time. I hoped that this time, I would be adjusted to this and ready to put up a good time. That didn’t happen. Again, it felt heavy and my whole body was quivering right from the start. Heavy on the hands not my lower body. My hands were hurting from the farmer’s walks. Usually I feel pressure before it goes down but now I was actually feeling the grip be slipping. Just trying to crush and squeeze but I was shy of a minute. A little miffed that I was under a minute here when I’ve gotten a minute with 10lbs more in the past. Just have to keep at this. Next was sandbag loads. Not looking forward to this. Plan was set of ten doing 225lbs to 250lbs sandbag for the reps. I wanted to do 250lbs. Well, I didn’t want to do any of this with any weight sandbag but I wanted to make up for the lackluster stones and not doing the sled drag last week so do more work. With the 250lbs sandbag, I figured that I’d really take my time and not worry about having a crash mat tower fall on me so I set it up to do it over the yoke. This meant I’ve have to walk around it for the next rep. This was going to be a long haul. Changed shirts at this point. I had intended do a rep with 150lbs but is was buried under heavier sandbags so I just did 200lbs for a double and got ready. I felt at this point, the shirt was going to be dry and I was too sweaty for chalk and hopefully the canvas of the sandbag would be grippy enough. It was. I knew I could do it but it was doing to be exhausting and I felt like I might hurl about half way through whenever I bent over to get the bag setup. Had the copper knee sleeves on my biceps just because it makes me feel more confident. Had to get some big breaths after that was done. Last thing for the day was vehicle push. Two brother’s that I know from training at Iron Mill had arrived and I asked if I could push one of their cars. This actually made me nervous to do this. I don’t know them really well and I didn’t want to really interrupt their workout. This vehicle was a lot lighter than Mike’s, so even with two people onboard it moved really fast at the start. Got up the incline good bit before slowing down as it got really steep with about 15 seconds left. There were some bikers (they had been there since the beginning, coming and going) that were joking about helping me move the car that I politely declined saying I got it. I think they said I was doing CrossFit or something. Oh well. I didn’t expect to get this much distance but it was good conditioning. Stretched and drank a weight gain shake before changing into my third shirt of the day and driving home.
carx191’10”’
Stretching
Comments: Saturday was kind of day to sleep and get some thoughts figured out. Of course I was stuck keeping up to date on both the Giants Live Wembley contest and the Arnold Canada show so I was a bit late getting to mowing the lawn. I hadn’t done that Thursday. Turns out a big thunderstorm was coming and I got soaked. Didn’t finish but I got enough of it done to be satisfied. This heat and humidity aren’t really wavering so I planned for things to be bad and packed a hand towel, a body towel and four shirts. I ended up leaving like a half hour later than planned to train as I wanted to add some new music to my iPod. Drive out was pretty good. Like really good. No traffic at all. The gym was dark when I got there except a few lights. I expected this to be a lonely day. Apparently some dude was just lifting in the dark. Ok, hope he enjoys my iPod set to random for music. The NordicTrack can go to the max elevation setting even when it isn’t in workout mode so that is convenient. Kept the lights off to try and keep the heat from doing me in like last week. I reversed stride every 75 seconds this time. Felt it was less harsh on the knees to do it infrequently. Movement prep stuff felt good despite how achy my knees were and how tight my posterior chain felt. Farmer’s walk stuff next. Inside was a bit cramped. Fingal fingers set up was taking up a about 1/3rd of the one lane and there was a ladder in front of the one fan. Seeing as how the guy with his ear buds in was an unknown and was using the broken tripod for filming, I figured that outside on the concrete was going to be a better choice for me. Same as last time; two lighter sets with turns and then a heavy set for 100’ straight shot. It was a bit of a pain setting things up to get my times off the camera. Just some dry runs had my hamstring on the right side feel tight and so was my biceps so I did some foam rolling on both. Almost went through all my chalk I had today. Making sure no slipping due to sweat which meant I had to cover my arms up to the forearm in chalk and I had to do that every time. Getting harder and harder to apply it the more I sweated. First set felt ok. Second set didn’t feel like it was pulling my arms out of my sockets like the jump last time did but I felt like my legs were heavy. I made sure to keep the handles covered with a towel so that they didn’t become blazing hot. I felt confident for the heavy set. I felt strong here. More confident than I did last time. Just about everything was exactly 1.5 seconds slower than last time but again, it is more weight on everything. So after that was the frame hold. 20lbs more than last time. I hoped that this time, I would be adjusted to this and ready to put up a good time. That didn’t happen. Again, it felt heavy and my whole body was quivering right from the start. Heavy on the hands not my lower body. My hands were hurting from the farmer’s walks. Usually I feel pressure before it goes down but now I was actually feeling the grip be slipping. Just trying to crush and squeeze but I was shy of a minute. A little miffed that I was under a minute here when I’ve gotten a minute with 10lbs more in the past. Just have to keep at this. Next was sandbag loads. Not looking forward to this. Plan was set of ten doing 225lbs to 250lbs sandbag for the reps. I wanted to do 250lbs. Well, I didn’t want to do any of this with any weight sandbag but I wanted to make up for the lackluster stones and not doing the sled drag last week so do more work. With the 250lbs sandbag, I figured that I’d really take my time and not worry about having a crash mat tower fall on me so I set it up to do it over the yoke. This meant I’ve have to walk around it for the next rep. This was going to be a long haul. Changed shirts at this point. I had intended do a rep with 150lbs but is was buried under heavier sandbags so I just did 200lbs for a double and got ready. I felt at this point, the shirt was going to be dry and I was too sweaty for chalk and hopefully the canvas of the sandbag would be grippy enough. It was. I knew I could do it but it was doing to be exhausting and I felt like I might hurl about half way through whenever I bent over to get the bag setup. Had the copper knee sleeves on my biceps just because it makes me feel more confident. Had to get some big breaths after that was done. Last thing for the day was vehicle push. Two brother’s that I know from training at Iron Mill had arrived and I asked if I could push one of their cars. This actually made me nervous to do this. I don’t know them really well and I didn’t want to really interrupt their workout. This vehicle was a lot lighter than Mike’s, so even with two people onboard it moved really fast at the start. Got up the incline good bit before slowing down as it got really steep with about 15 seconds left. There were some bikers (they had been there since the beginning, coming and going) that were joking about helping me move the car that I politely declined saying I got it. I think they said I was doing CrossFit or something. Oh well. I didn’t expect to get this much distance but it was good conditioning. Stretched and drank a weight gain shake before changing into my third shirt of the day and driving home.
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