Iain K's Powerlifting

No probs. May need to put your stance a little wider and possibly work with straps down for a while.

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

Ok, thanks Iain.

12/8/08

Just some light shoulder work;

BTN press- barx10x5
Dumbbell side, front and bent over raise- 10x2 on each (5-12kg bells)
Farmer walk holds- 2x100kg impliments x 30s
Dumbbell row- worked up to do 75x3
Lots of stretching and band traction

Felt like **** today. Still getting used to extra poundage on the shoulders squating equipped. Anyway feal better now so good.

Played with farmers walk impliments for the weekend. They are very basic standard gauge impliments with a low pick up. Essentially a long dumbbell with small handle. I picked up 100kg per hand and was happy to hold there for 30s, however my training partner Pat couldn't get them up. It didn't help that I was using some oly guage plates and meant it was very loose and tricky. We dropped it down to 90 using only 2 oly plates and Pat had little trouble with that. Gona get hold of some more standard plates and test em again on friday

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

Played with farmers walk impliments for the weekend. They are very basic standard gauge impliments with a low pick up.

Catching the Strongman bug mate ?

TOMMY TACK "Stickin it to the Stones "
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http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ncpowerlifter

Not at the moment, although it sure dose look fun! Running a smal unofficial meet this sat; max floor to overhead anyhow, max deadlift and farmers walk.

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

My openers for Saturday:

90 / 200

Does the gym have bumper plates and/or an oly platform? Me and Dave tried to set up something on the floor using mats to minimise noise and damage but we ended up ripping both of them. More reasons for them to ban our asses

"They are quite possibly the most sorry bunch of socially challenged and boarderline mentally ill reprobates to have ever attracted such a like-minded following of keyboard warrior wannabes." Unknown

Cheers. Got bumper plates, plus ad hoc platform. Its still very noisy though!!

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Where the banshees live and they do live well

Iain - my Inzer Rage-X bench shirt arrived arrived today - size 48. According to the Inzer site it should be 2" bigger than your chest measurement.
So 48" should be just right.
However, I can get my head through the neck hole but it barely goes past my shoulders and won't go anyway past my arms. I've probably got a proportionally small chest and I imagine I need a bigger size but how should they fit?
So tight there's no circulation?
Big enough to get on but tight enough so movement is restricted?

I got this from eBay so I'm limited by what auctions come up.

"They are quite possibly the most sorry bunch of socially challenged and boarderline mentally ill reprobates to have ever attracted such a like-minded following of keyboard warrior wannabes." Unknown

ORIGINAL: Lord Monkcheese

Iain - my Inzer Rage-X bench shirt arrived arrived today - size 48. According to the Inzer site it should be 2" bigger than your chest measurement.
So 48" should be just right.
However, I can get my head through the neck hole but it barely goes past my shoulders and won't go anyway past my arms. I've probably got a proportionally small chest and I imagine I need a bigger size but how should they fit?
So tight there's no circulation?
Big enough to get on but tight enough so movement is restricted?

I got this from eBay so I'm limited by what auctions come up.

Hey LMC

Are you planning on competeing in this shirt?

How long did you spend trying to get in the shirt? Did you have anyone pulling the shoulder/arms for you?

HEY HEY !!

bench shirts dont fit unless you:

put placcy bags on your arms

have a big mofo tugging in all the way on

THEN the pain starts !!!

Northern Englands strongest man u90kg  2010
The Midlands strongest man u90kg 2011
Yorkshires strongest man u90kg 2011
uk Open powerlifting champion 90kg 2010
PAGAN humilator since 2009

Not planning on competing but never say never. Just thought it would be a nice addition to see if there's some carryover to my raw bench.
The only help I got getting it on was from my missus who's a frail 8 stone so I possibly could have tried harder.
There just seemed no way that it would budge past my arms.

"They are quite possibly the most sorry bunch of socially challenged and boarderline mentally ill reprobates to have ever attracted such a like-minded following of keyboard warrior wannabes." Unknown

Sounds like the shirt fits well! Bring it this sat and we'll get you in it. If I remeber I'll bring my suit slip ons that'll help

A new shirt will take a few sessions to break in and get sorted. My advice is after this weekend 9if we get it on) to get it at the begining of a bench session. Take some weights and then off and crack on with normal work.

My new shirt couldn't get seated in my pits the 1st time despite some big effort by 2 people, 170 could only just get down to a 2 board bepth, and had to have somone position my hands on the bar. Now, 5 sessions later, it goes on with just 1 big tug per arm, and I can get 140 to touch if I want too.

Having said all that it does seem as though the shirt is possibly too tight for what you want it for.

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

14/8/08

Pullthroughs- 10x5

Roman sit ups- 10x5

Rowing- 10min (approx 2100m)

Stretching for lower back mainly


Not much more than a warm up today. Felt beat from sundays squats this week and with the comp on sat 'put my feet up' duing the middle of this week. Still I felt less lazy for doing a little bit of fluff today!

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Where the banshees live and they do live well

Fuuccckkk... went to check out new avatar bit and lost my avatar. I obviously pressed a wrong button but ... grrrrreeee... no warning....I HATE COMPUTORS!!!!!

Just gona have to be a big question mark till I can be bothered to do anything about it.

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

iaink


Just gona have to be a big question mark till I can be bothered to do anything about it.

Adds a touch of mistique to your persona.

Did I sound cleverer then?

Formerly Known as Old Git

iaink


Just gona have to be a big question mark till I can be bothered to do anything about it.

Adds a touch of mistique to your persona.

Did I sound cleverer then?

LOL Almost!

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

15/8/08

Bench press;

70x5
80x3
90x2
100x2
110x2
130x2 (shirt on)
150x2
170x2 (pb, all touched and paused )
150x5 (pb)

2 board press;

130x2
140x2
150x2


Great session today. Really nailed the benching. Very happy to do a max double with what must be very close or just on comp form. The 5 was hard work in the shirt, but all but the 1st rep was touched. Good days!

Finished with some limited assistance work, but the 150 2 bp was a very tough double.

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

nice!

-

Cheers pal!

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

Very good benching, and well done with the PB's

Have fun with the STRONGMAN comp - I starting to get the fever to train Strongman again soon..very soon

TOMMY TACK "Stickin it to the Stones "
My You Tube Vids..
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Cheers Tommy, I did!

16/8/08

Sugden suthern meet / Kendrick Classic

Power snatch;
80x1
85miss

PCPP
90x1
102.5miss

Not a lot on the tank. 80 snatch felt **** and just didn't want to get under the 85. So **** it switched tp PCPP but had done non in warm up so although 90 felt light it was an effort and 102 just didn't have the legs. Came about 5th place out of 10 in this lift

Deadlift;

260x1
270miss
270miss

Again nought in the tank. 260 was easy although didn't hit it well, but 270 just wasn't happening today. I actually took my belt of and decided that was that after the 1st attempt but in the end took it again.... which was a bit pointless LOL. Still 1st place on the pulls and up to 3rd overall

Farmers walk;
90kg implemenst x 53m

Enjoyed this, although really wanted 3x20m but there you go. It was enough to get me the win by 1m, and the win overall!

Not outstanding work on the deadlifts but It wasn't really the week for me to attempt pb's so there you go.

I had a great time and nice to meet several guys from this site; LMonkcheese, Dave, Ithopener and Mouser. Cheers for making it down and lifting hard.

Full write up nxt week!

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

Nice one Iain, I look forward to the full write up.

Thank you for organising it Iain!

Nothing wrong with 90 kg overhead either

My Journal

Big thumbs up for a well organised meet. Always good to put a face to members' names. What a decent bunch of trainers. I look forward to the next Southern meet.
Hope you guys had a nice Nando's after.

I've got a reasonable bit of footage which I'll try and sift through at some stage and whack up onto YouTube.

"They are quite possibly the most sorry bunch of socially challenged and boarderline mentally ill reprobates to have ever attracted such a like-minded following of keyboard warrior wannabes." Unknown

Massive thanks for organising a fantastic meetup Iain. I hope to return next year much stronger than before. Ill get to work on taking care of the videos later on today

Good stuff guys it was a pleasure!

17/8/08

Squats;

barx10
70x5
90x3
130x3
155x2
190x2 (suit on straps down)
210x2 (straps up, knee wraps on)
220x2
240x2
260x2 (pb)

Good session today. Not pulling well yestarday actually did me a favour today with only my traps were sore, due to farmers walks. Happy with double pb, will be my opener at All English. Both my arms were buggered by the end of the session. Heavy bench plus the sntaching and cleans on sat set them up and the squating knocked em down! Found it hard to raise my water bottle by the end Binned the raw work due to it. I'd done my pb so job done. Still the ibuprofen and codiene has done it's job, so will be fit for benching nxt friday. Ice, baths and more drugs tonight

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

Yet another PB, nice one mate.

Sugden Southern Meet (Push, pull and carry) 16th August

'The Kendrick Classic'

RESULTS;

Floor To Overhead

Cliff (sugden)            115
Phil (sugden)            115
Sivvy                          110
Lord Monkcheese    102.5
Dave284                     100
Iaink                         90
Mouser                     90
Pat (UoC)                 85
Cliff vtr                     70
TIOpener                 70


Deadlift

Iain K                      260
Mouser                    240
Cliff                          240
Dave284                  230
Phil                          225
Sivvy                       220
Lord Monkcheese   220
TIOpener                205
Cliff vtr                    200
Pat                         200


Farmers walk for distance (90kg in hand, 20m course)

Iaink                 53.00
Dave284         52.74 
Sivvy             51.15
Lord M             49.06
Phil                 48.33
Pat                 30.05
Cliff                 21.08
TIOpener          8.66
Cliff vtr               3.65
Mouser             2.23


Final Positions

1st- Iain
2nd- Cliff
3rd- Dave284
4th- Phil
5th- Sivvy
6th- Mouser
7th- Lord Monkcheese
8th- Pat
9th- TIOpener
10th- Cliff vtr

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

19/8/08

Band dislocates and stretches

Band (mini-band) curicuit x 2 (10 reps);
Side raises
Front raises
Band pull aparts
Presses
Tricep extensions
Hammer curls

More dislocates and traction work.

Just did some work in the office to stretch my shoulders and arms and get the blood moving.

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

iaink

Just did some work in the office to stretch my shoulders and arms and get the blood moving.

Internet porn has its uses!

:)

Hows you training?

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

Training's good, although my gay Fairy Liquid hands keep on cutting up from pulling. They better toughen up soon becasue it's p1ssing me off!

So any danger of a comp soon?

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

Single lift comp at end of October. Then 2009 will be trying out equipment.
 
Greater London's is usually around October, but I think it may be moved to February. I'll be doing that.

Whoooo!!!! Is it a bench comp in oct?

Stonehenge
 
Where the banshees live and they do live well

Originally it was going to be, but I'm doing the deadlift one instead.

And my fat ass will be competing in the 100s as I'm hovering around 95kgs!

****ing hell!!!!!

might have to make it up to that!

After all that it turns out it'll be the bench one I'll be doing now. Both are on the same date, so it makes no real difference to me.

Deadlift would've been the 600lb attempt, so instead I'll be doing a gay ass weak bench attempt. It's all good experience for the long run though...

yea defo gayboy

infact, i wanted to do some bwla bench only comps next year....