A strongmans log - British champion u105KG

Morba said:
Any tips on leg drive for over head (you get a crazy amount of extra weight from your push press compared to strict) and knee tendonitis prevention/cure would be very nice :P
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I'm sure I've said this before, but I'm confident it'll be down to some level of valgus knee and foot mechanics leading to poor transmission of force through to your hips. It also sets you up for poor hip organisations and glute utilisation.

Do you have any videos?


Nice session Ben!
 
In on this. I never put much effort into reading your log on Sugden so I am glad this is here now :p.

Congrats on your place at Giants.
 
Morba said:
Nice front squatting :D



If I put 130 on a log it's my legs that fail me. Combination of timing and no explosion ruin it for me. If I could get it above my head I'd press it out I sure.

I've got on log on here which shows how bad things are lol.
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I'll take a look through your log when I get a minute, but just to clarify: if you struggle to get the log off your chest, does it fail at the chest? at eye level?
 
Djdom56 said:
In on this. I never put much effort into reading your log on Sugden so I am glad this is here now :p.

Congrats on your place at Giants.
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I wasn't very good at keeping it up to date on sugden anyway!

Thanks, I've had confirmation that I'll be doing the Giants Live in Poland.
 
icecold said:
I'm sure I've said this before, but I'm confident it'll be down to some level of valgus knee and foot mechanics leading to poor transmission of force through to your hips. It also sets you up for poor hip organisations and glute utilisation.

Do you have any videos?


Nice session Ben!
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I've no doubt you are right, lack of decent shoes don't help either. Bonus payment soon, time to buy a decent neoprene belt and some lifting shoes!

exploitah said:
I'll take a look through your log when I get a minute, but just to clarify: if you struggle to get the log off your chest, does it fail at the chest? at eye level?
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Yeah, about there. I don't double dip (kills my knees) so its initial drive off chest and into pressing out. Once my head can get through I don't have much problem (do additional seated / incline log to help this part of the lift) generally.

Poland can be a lovely country, great place to go and compete :D
 
Morba said:
Yeah, about there. I don't double dip (kills my knees) so its initial drive off chest and into pressing out. Once my head can get through I don't have much problem (do additional seated / incline log to help this part of the lift) generally.

Poland can be a lovely country, great place to go and compete :D
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I've had a brief look through your log, I notice that you strict press for all your warm up sets then try to PP as it gets heavier.

I would suggest that you'd benefit from PPing all your warm ups, not only does it give you a chance to practise the technique on lower weights first, but it will allow you to be at least a little more explosive on the lighter weights.
 
Today's efforts:

A quick events session, nothing to serious as I’m meant to be playing rugby this afternoon. However the suns out and the grounds very hard so I’m having second thoughts!

Log (New style clean and jerk, to start)

70KG – 3
100KG – 3
130KG – 1
140KG – 1 (P.B. new clean and jerk, however the clean was pretty horrible)

120KG – 5 (Power clean straight to chest + jerk)
120KG – 5 (New clean technique + jerk – MUCH harder)
120KG – 5 (Power clean straight to chest + jerk)
130KG – 5 (Power clean straight to chest + jerk)

Farmers

105KG – 20m
135KG – 40m (drop and turn at 20m) x2

Wanted to check I remembered how to do farmers, was pleasantly surprised, faster and easier than I expected.
 
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Today's efforts:

22/04/13

Body still hurt when I got to the gym at 19:30 this evening, I’d been working since 06:00 so opted for some higher reps to get the blood flowing.

Back squat (high bar, belt)

70KG – 10
120Kg – 5
170KG – 10
200KG – 10,10 (tough, but not bad considering how I felt!)

Paused squat

200KG – 3,3,3

Strict press

60KG – 10,10,10,10

Hang power snatch

60KG – 5
100KG – 3,3,3,3,3

Chins

BW – 10,10,8
 
exploitah said:
I've had a brief look through your log, I notice that you strict press for all your warm up sets then try to PP as it gets heavier.

I would suggest that you'd benefit from PPing all your warm ups, not only does it give you a chance to practise the technique on lower weights first, but it will allow you to be at least a little more explosive on the lighter weights.
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Thanks :)
Yeah, it depends on my knees more than anything. If they are good then i'll do push press almost all session. If not then I'll do strict and add some push press at the end depending on the inability to move my knees.
I've tried drilling PP form at 70/80kg and too many just ends up causing my knees to hate me and that stops me adding any more weight :(
 
Sorry to clutter up your log Ben...

Morbs, as part of your lighter weight practice:
Feet almost parallel at shoulder width
Externally rotate your femurs (upper leg), should point your knees out slightly while locked out
Grip and spread the floor with your feet
When you dip for the PP, spread your knees.

TBH if your problem is what I think it is you need to apply this to all leg work.
 
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