Don's Strength und Conditioning Shapeup

Entering mainly for the motivation it gives me to keep on track!
This SUC will be more about performance goals rather than making a visual impact, however I would like to add some muscle (strength) without adding too much blubber.
 
Just turned 53 but refusing to grow old gracefully , have a 6 month target for a Strongman comp and I don't want to make a fool of myself 
 
Will post up stats tomorrow as I'm having a Health assessment so should get reasonably accurate weight / bodyfat% etc.
 
Starting piccies below

 

 

 

 

 

good luck!!!

alright don bud welldone for going in for another SUC i,ll keep a close eye on u bud to see how your getting on  

Good luck bud! I,m sure you,ll get where you want to be in regards to your strength.........................could have made an effort with the trolleys, very disappointing!

Looking class already! Not far away from the six-pack, are you still chasing it or is it all strongman now?

Good luck mate

JimRat


Looking class already! Not far away from the six-pack, are you still chasing it or is it all strongman now?

 
Be nice to have it but I'm def more gearing towards shifting some decent weights now. Not gonna use the chase for weight as an excuse for getting fat again tho!

Pacey


Good luck mate

 
Cheers buddy p I'm determined to give it my best shot!

Hoppy1975


Good luck bud! I,m sure you,ll get where you want to be in regards to your strength.........................could have made an effort with the trolleys, very disappointing!

Have to use the excuse that all my "coloureds" were in the wash! 

As said above, already in good shape. Should be interesting. Good luck!

Good luck Donny, also looking to do my first strongman this year

Thought I'd better post a quick update to summarise week 1
 
Training etc is documented in my journal so won't be reproducing that in here.
Dropped 2k this week which I'm well pleased with, diet not too bad but could be cleaner lol
Strengthwise it's apparent that there's a major difference between pushing and pulling strength that I need to address if I'm to get anywhere near my targets for doing a comp.

Keep up the hard work look in decent shape, best to not put to much blubber on as u will still need to be fit for strongman events.I,m slowly getting more in to strongman shows what weight do u need to be doing and what exercises you want to compete in.

titch84


Keep up the hard work look in decent shape, best to not put to much blubber on as u will still need to be fit for strongman events.I,m slowly getting more in to strongman shows what weight do u need to be doing and what exercises you want to compete in.

Thanks for popping in mate!
Comp I'm looking at doing is -
All timed events are max reps 
85k log - 90 secs 
250k yoke - 20m 
180k deadlifts - 90 secs 
105k stone over yoke - 90 secs 
Arm over arm truck pull - 20m 
 
If I can do that at a bodyweight of around 75k I;ll be well chuffed - lot of hard work to put in first though!

Week 2 written off - not trained due to a mutha of a cold , appetite been through the roof 
 
Looks like this one's gonna be a 10 week SUC - ah well onwards and upwards!

ahhh donny boy, don't worry fella, with my off days I usually accumulate about 2 weeks of no progress

Donny 10 weeks may as well be double that to a man of your calibre , hope the cold hasn,t set you back too much mate.

walkie


ahhh donny boy, don't worry fella, with my off days I usually accumulate about 2 weeks of no progress

Cheers buddy , still got 6 months to the competition so a week off won't make any difference to being ready 

Hoppy1975


Donny 10 weeks may as well be double that to a man of your calibre , hope the cold hasn,t set you back too much mate.

Not set me back - more of a case of standing still lol
 
10 weeks is plenty to to drop  a few % BF

My target is 75k too but no way I could do those weights!
 
Shame about the cold - just keep the diet clean and weight gain should be minimal.