2013 - Morba's Cake fed Strongman Log.

Events, little session:

Yoke 20m (10m drop, turn and return)
Empty (50kg) x 2
110kgx2
160kgx2
200kgx5
240kgx2

Farmers 36m (18m drop, turn and return)
40kg x 1
80kg x 3
100kg x 3
120kg x 2

Was more about speed than weight today, happy with how fast I was moving. Comp weight is 260kg yoke and 110kg farmers. Yoke is more concerning but will drill it over next few weeks :)
 
Monday deadlifts, on a hot bank holiday after bbq and swimming.. oh dear.

warmups
60x10
110x10
150x8
190x5
210x3
240x3
240x2

tired.

tbar rows
double under hand, strict pull from deadlift position as the bar just passes the knee (so standing as I would in a DL as bar is at knee then staying there and pulling the bar up):
115kgx8
125x8
135x8
150x8 - little leg and back movement here, actually felt like I was working something other than my grip though which is good.

Then as normal things kinda go odd.
Roll the 500kg tyre out into the road for some flips. I wasn't expecting anything other than normal back work so only had my flip flops with me (deadlift barefoot) so this wasnt going to be good.
Never flipped it before, so had to put this demon to bed.
first attempt - easy, boom!
got 2 more flips before giving up due to sweaty feet and no grip :D stupid lol

thoughts:
deads were terrible, tbars were easy though that could be my smal ROM. tyre was awesome.

Half way through doing tyre some local Polish people who live just up from the unit saw us with the tyre and decided to come have a look and try it. They couldnt budge the tyre at all (to be expected really as they were thinner than my arms).
One of the women with them seemed to like me, kept taking pictures and getting her friend to take pics with her and me. No idea why as I looked stupid in my flipflops but she was happy enough lol.
They then followed us into the unit and the Pole blokes wanted to arm wrestle us!! They lost that each time (though one had some good strength for this!).
Crazy!
 
Well that was a nightmare night tbh.

New shoes: will be awesome i'm sure :D

Log clean and press:
warm ups
70x10 (5 strict, 5 pp)
70x10 (as above)
90x10 (pp)
110x2
110xf - bicep started throbbing
110xf - really cannot clean the bloody log due to bicep.

axle strict press:
40kgx10
60x10
60+chainsx8
60+chains + red bandsx3
60+chainsx8

Z presses, with a log....
70x6
70x6
80x4

Thoughts:
bicep hurting, still is today, guessing its from doing the silly tyre on monday. Not happy.

z presses with a log is crazy, they are hard enough with a barbell due to balance but with a log its something else. Good though, wont do them again will just drag the bench out like we normally do!

New shoes were tight as hell, gonna work on my arch though and these will bed in a little. Can definitely see the benefit in them, just need some time to get used to push pressing with them :)
 
Yeah the weights I'm curling make doing it even more embarrassing! But then I see that as a sign that there is work to be done, now I just need to remember to do it.
 
Josh is a guy at my gym who is shredded at around 90kg and 5'10" ish. So pretty huge. His workouts are ridiculous; 25 rep deadlifts, 30 rep squats, crazy benching (did 170 paused on his first go or something stupid), and massive (70kg?) cheat curls for high reps.

He says he's natty and I believe him, but it wouldn't be out of place to assume massive juicer status.
 
Events:

****ing bicep.

Thoughts:
****ing bicep. Raining outside so couldn't even do yoke.

Other than me, few friends came from another gym for the session.
One of them threw a 150kg log up pretty easy and then became the first person to load the 180kg stone! Our 192 isn't in good shape for lifting so he decided against it. Immense shoulder strength and fantastic stone work!
He's only done a 130kg stone before, his gym is lacking in heavier equipment and he's never used tacky before!! Crazy stuff.
 
Overhead:

Axle (out of rack):
40x10 strict
60x10 strict
60x5 push press (all pp from now)
80x5
100x3
110x1
115x1
100x3
100x3
100x3
100x3

strict axle, plus chains (25kg in total) and red bands (i think these give more resistance through the top 1/3rd of the lift than the chains, so gonna say 30kg):
95x8
105x5
115x1
105x4
105x4
95x7
95x5

Thoughts:
had my adipowers on all session, first rep of the push presses were vile as my brain forgot I had them on. Each rep after though was fine.
Still felt tight as hell though, but will soldier on with them as I can see they definitely improve my position.
 
Deads:

Warm ups
2" deficit deads:
70x10
110x10
150x10
190x5
210x3

18" deads
260x3
280x3
280x3
280x3
260x5

3" deficit deads
180x3
180x3
180x3
180x3


Strict axle, clean first rep from floor:
80x8
80x8
80x8

Thoughts:
Wanted to do deficits and some 18" deads tonight, see where I'm weakest at the moment.
The 18's were easy enough, the deficits clearly show that I'm lacking from the floor.

Next weeks deads: work up to 220kg from 2 or 3" deficit before doing full range doubles above that weight.
 
Squats:
everything felt heavy tonight so decided to keep it simple, especially as squatting first time in my new shoes.

front squats:
barxlots
60x10
60x10
80x10
100x5
110 10x3

thoughts
nice quick session, nothing heavy but then it wasn't needed as still tired from yesterday.
 
Morba said:
Still tight, and for front squats they put me more forward than I should be really, but I like that as it means I have to fight more to keep myself upright.
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= more tension in your back = is good. :)

Frontiers with Olympic shoes is... Quite a different experience. :D I had to completely adjust my knees, back and hips to cope with the additional mobility... :p
 
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