On The Road To World's Strongest Man 2015!

I've started stretching every night and it's loosening off nicely. I'm hoping in a few weeks I'll be able to squat without pain.

Ok one last night, weight on the 18" pulls is coming along, close to the limit, but think I had 5 to 10kg more in me last night. Will hopefully add atleast another 20kg to it before UKs.
23/07/10
18" Block Pulls- 60/6, 100/6, 150/4, 200/3, 250/3, 290/1, 315/1, 330/1, 300/1
SLDL- 150/5, 180/5, 210/3
BB Row- 100/8/8, 150/6/6
DB Row- 50/12/12/12
Finished with pulldowns, biceps, abs and a wee bit of cardio.

What do you do for biceps?

Okish one today, felt knackered and drained still from the weekend and lack of food, but was happy with the work I did. Had a play with the Monsterbell too.
27/07/10
Jerk From rack- 60/6/4, 100/3, 120/3, 130/3/3
DB Press- multiple attempts with the 73kg WookieBell, locked it out a few times, just couldn't nail the balance aspect
Seated DBs- 30/8/8/12/12/15
Power Snatch- 50/3, 70/3, 80/2 No explosiveness so called it a day and going to eat like mad for some big squats tomorrow!

Quality one today, got a nice heavy squat and then some good rep stuff in.
28/07/10
Squat- 60/6/6, 100/6, 140/4, belt on 180/3, 220/3, wraps on 250/1, 265/1 Really happy with these, the stretching since last week has really paid off. Knee felt great; 220k is the heaviest I've gone without wraps since hurting the knee and it felt great. 265k was an ok lift, 270 was definitley there!
Leg Press- 100/10, 190/10, 230/10, 280/10, 320/10, 360/10
Front Squat- 60/5, 100/5, 140/3 Just wanted to do these to see how the knee felt in the hole.
Finished with a few sets of calfs and then abs.

Inspirational stuff!
Maybe one day i'll be able to lift half of what you can.

Hope to see you on Britain and Englands Strongest Man soon.
Been reading your journal for a while by the way. Incredibly impressive stuff.

Rich- It changes, jsut do what I feel like. I believe that day I just did some higher rep hammer curls with the heaviest DBs in the cardio suite that I was using for pulldowns. Think it was 4sets of 15reps with the 16kg dumbbells.

Tom- Thanks mate! I'll be competing at UKs Strongest Man in late August which will be televised later in the year.

Never see Ken at the Englands,  hes a sweaty sock!

Dbell looks awkward mate.

Thank you kind sir haha!

It's awesome, but a total prick!

Christ, can't believe I said Englands strongest man. Dumbass! I mean't Scotlands of course.

Saw that video of your huge DB. Never knew pressing rage existed! Looks justified though, must be bloody frustrating when you've got it up but cant get the balance.

I've competed at Scotland's twice (missed the third time this year by getting stuck in NYC) and the UKSC Scottish three times.

Results are:

Scotland's Strongest Man 2008- 12th
Scotland's Strongest Man 2008- 5th

UKSC Scotland's Strongest Man 2008- 2nd
Scotland's Strongest Man 2008- 3rd
Scotland's Strongest Man 2008- 4th (threw away 2nd place)

The dumbbell is very frustrating mate! I always get angry if I miss a lift though haha!

I assume not all of them Ken were in 2008?

training looks good keep it up!

Oops lol, fixed below:

Scotland's Strongest Man 2008- 12th
Scotland's Strongest Man 2009- 5th

UKSC Scotland's Strongest Man 2008- 2nd
Scotland's Strongest Man 2009- 3rd
Scotland's Strongest Man 2010- 4th (threw away 2nd place)

Happy with today, got some good work in and tried some new stuff.
29/07/10
Reverse Band CG Bench- 60/5, 100/5, 120/5, 140/3, 150/3, 165/1
Floor Press- 60/5, 80/5, 100/5, 110/6/5
Then did some single and two arm db extensions and finished with pushdowns.

Fantastic one today, felt really up for it and hit some great numbers!
30/07/10
18" Block Pulls- 110/6, 150/6, 190/4, 230/3, 270/2, 310/1, 335/1 PB, 345/1 PB, 355/1 PB Really chuffed with these, squeezed them off the floor instead of jerking and were all pretty easy.
Speed Pulls w/ doubled mini bands- 60/5, 100/2, 140/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1
DB Rows- 50/10, 60/10/12
Seated Row- 60/10, 90/10, 120/10
GHR- BW/10/10/10
Finished with biceps.

Pretty happy with how things went today, Just trying to get some good work in as apart from log and yoke everything else on Day 1 is pretty much covered during the week.
Was raining like a bitch today, so just did log, WookieBell and yoke. Next week going to do a medley as well for a bit of conditioning work for the loading medley on Day 2.
01/08/10
Log Press- 80/1/2/3, 100/3/3, 120/3, 130/2/3 Not too sure the weight of the log empty, we always went with 90kg but have heard recently it's 80kg so just went lower. Was planning on going upto 140kg, but after I put down the 120k I lost feeling in my legs and almost collapsed. Feeling came back pretty quick though. Going to wrap a towel round it next week to bump up the diameter. Have a feeling that Glenn's logs are going to be very awkward.
WookieBell- Few attempts with old tech, changed it to an Ortmayer style and then nailed it. Went in for another rep for the video. Going to rep this on Tuesday!
Yoke- 250kg/30m/30m, 330kg/15m/15m/15m/15m

Nicew one today, pushing it a bit much in expecting to be pressing 140k easyily 2days after heavy log so for the next few weeks before UKs, Sunday will be heavy log and Tuesday 5x5 jerks.
03/08/10
Jerk from Rack- 60/6/3 100/3, 125/3, 135/3, 140/3
Seated BB Press- 60/5, 80/5, 90/5, 100/1 drop to 80/3 drop to 60/6
Incline DBs- 30/6, 40/6, 50/4
Close Crip Snatch- 60/3, 80/3/2
Goosed so save it for tomorrows squats!

Awesome one today, wanted to give the knees a rest from being wrapped and totally blew my expectations away as I was still a bit concerned about the knee.
04/08/10
Squat- 60/6, 100/6, 140/4, belt on 190/3, 230/1, 245/1, 255/1 PB, 260/1 PB Really pleased with this, 600# raw squat is a minimum for this year.
Leg Press- 190/8, 240/8, 280/8, 320/8, 360/8, 400/8
Leg Ext- 30/10, 50/10, 70/10, 90/10
Finished with calfs and abs.

Nice one today, training alone so lacking a bit of atmosphere, but still got some good work done.
05/08/10/
Reverse Band CG Bench- 60/6, 100/4, 130/3, 150/3, 170/2 PB, 175/1 PB
Floor Press- 60/5, 80/5, 100/3, 110/3, 120/3 PB, 130/1 PB
Was having some really bad elbow pains so just did some high rep 1arm db exts and pushdowns to finish.

Another quality one today, things are really going well right now!
06/08/10
18" Deadlift- 110/6, 160/6, 200/3, 240/3, 280/1, 320/1, 340/1, 360/1 PB
Deadlift- 110/3, 160/3, 200/2, 240/1, 280/1, 310/1 PB
GHRs- BW/10, BW+20kg/10/8
Been having a really sore left elbow the past few days, think it's bicep tendon from squeezsing into the bar on Wednesday since my shoulder was quite tight. Only managed to do a few sets of pulldowns and db rows.
Let it rest and hopefully get it healed somewhat for events sunday.