The 40 Plus Journal Part 2 - The Search For Strength

Well I'm qualifyed for unequippeds.
 
A may or june meet seems perfect for you

I'm just waiting for the divisions to sort out their comps now mate and I'll decide what I'm doing.
Unless I'm badly injured I should see you in Birmingham.

I've seen a comp announced for GBPF on Sugden though that's well worth looking at, an un-equipped bench and dead in February.

Tonights training

Deads
10 x bar
5 x 60 kg
5 x 100 kg
5 x 140 kg
5 x 5 x 160 kg

Rows, pulldowns, curls

Happy with the deads although I think 165 for 5 x 5 will be very tough.
Still struggling with my right wrist/elbow to do curls, no great loss.

Tonights training

Push Press
10 x bar
5 x 40 kg
5 x 60 kg
3 x 70 kg
1 x 80 kg
1 x 85 kg
1 x 90 kg (f)

Standing OH Press Machine
5 x 80 kg
5 x 90 kg
5 x 100 kg
2 x 3 x 110 kg

Shrugs, rope crunches.

Tired tonight.
All targets were hit this week, strength is going up but so is BW.

Hiya mate. Hope things are well with you.

A question if I may, coming off the booze, how did you deal with social situations? Being that Chrimbo is around the corner and I am going to find myself in situations where everyone is smashed (eg this Saturday for the football and out after with my missus), I am very apprehensive indeed. How did you manage to cope mate?

Cheers

I'll be completely honest with you mate, I did my best to avoid them.
I stopped drinking on New Years Day so there weren't too many social events immediately after to be fair. By the time the next Christmas came around I'd been off it for nearly a year and so found it a bit easier, though definitely not easy.
Nowadays I find it quite easy to go out to a party or a club and have diet coke all night even if the missus has a drink but there are still plenty of times when I do fancy a drink.
I was at a party in a Nottingham club 2 weeks ago and was quite happy drinking coke all night while the missus and her mate and her mates husband had a few drinks. He'd had quite a few and managed to fall flat on his arse and damage his wrist on the way back to the car - I don't miss that.

Cheers mate. I kind of expected that answer haha. I suppose it is just a case of getting used to it.

Thanks matey. Appreciate it.

A lot of very good training lately mate. If you fancy a Comp around feb time, we have the East Mids Uneqipped on the 7th at Letchworth?

Bit of a treck for you though.

Formerly Known as Old Git


A lot of very good training lately mate. If you fancy a Comp around feb time, we have the East Mids Uneqipped on the 7th at Letchworth?

Bit of a treck for you though.

Can both you fine fellas let me know if you divisions have meets around march or late feb? Fancy a decent unequipped meet around that time to cap of the ensuing batch of raw work. 7th of feb is prob a few weeks to early for me.

I think the next as far as east mids is concerned mate is the Anglian Open, and the Masters, Juniors and Novices, which aint a lot of good to you!!! Unless they allow you to just lift anyhow?? Not sure on that one. Can't remember dates at the mo, even though I was at the meating. Doh!

I am a tw@t:

2010 Calendar of Events
23/01/10 EMPA AGM at Hitchin, all EMPA members welcome
30/01 British Bench Press, Colchester
07/02 East Midlands Unequipped Powerlifting Championships, Hitchin. [color=#0066cc font="century gothic"]Entry
20/02 to 21/02 British Junior and Sub Junior Championship, Bournemouth
27/03 to 28/03 British Masters Championship, Accrington, Lancs.
4/04 to 7/04 World Masters Bench Press, Orlando, USA
25/04 East Midlands Bench Press, Colchester.
4/05 to 08/05 European Powerlifting Championships
16/05 Anglian Powerlifting Championship, Colchester
26/05 to 29/05 World Bench Press Championships, Killeen, USA.
8/06 to 12/06 European Junior Powerlifting Championship, Hamar, Norway
19/06 to 20/06 British Unequipped Bench Press, Stoke Mandeville.
22/06 to 26/06 European Masters Powerlifting Championship, Sofia, Bulgaria
10/07 to 11/07 British Senior Powerlifting Championship, Birmingham
July/Aug East Midlands, Masters, Juniors and Novices Powerlifting Championships
5/08 to 7/08 European Bench Press Championship, Bratislava, Slovakia
21/08 to 22/08 All England Powerlifting Championships, Northampton (TBC).
28/08 to 4/09 World Sub-Juniors and Junior Powerlifitng Championship, Prague, Czech Republic.
10/09 to 11/09British Unequipped Powerlifting Championship, Tyseley Birmingham
22/09 to 2/10 World Masters Powerlifting Championship, Pilsen, Czech Republic
03/10 Anglian Bench Press, Colchester
16/10 Four Nations Powerlifting, Northern Ireland.
21/10 to 23/10 European Masters Bench Press Championship, France.
1/11 to 6/11 World Powerlifting Championship, Durban, South Africa
28/11 East Midlands Powerlifting Championship

Formerly Known as Old Git


A lot of very good training lately mate. If you fancy a Comp around feb time, we have the East Mids Uneqipped on the 7th at Letchworth?

Bit of a treck for you though.

It is a bit of a trek but most comps are for me mate to be honest.
The closest one to me is the South Yorkshire but that's not my division.
I did promise myself 6 - 7 months of un-interupted training barring injury but I'll certainly give it some serious thought.
 

iaink

Formerly Known as Old Git


A lot of very good training lately mate. If you fancy a Comp around feb time, we have the East Mids Uneqipped on the 7th at Letchworth?

Bit of a treck for you though.

Can both you fine fellas let me know if you divisions have meets around march or late feb? Fancy a decent unequipped meet around that time to cap of the ensuing batch of raw work. 7th of feb is prob a few weeks to early for me.

Not sure if you're interested Iain but there's a GBPF un-equipped Bench and Deadlift in the North West on 28/02, I'll post in your journal.
 

Tonights training

Squat
10 x bar
5 x 60 kg
5 x 100 kg
5 x 140 kg
2 x 160 kg
5 x 1 x 170 kg

Calf raises, SLDL's, rope crunches

I'll move on to 175 for 5 x 1 but that was fookin hard tonight, a little backy at times and I'm not sure they would have all passed comp depth but they wouldn't have been far off if they didn't.

Tonights training

Flat BBBP
10 x bar
5 x 60 kg
5 x 100 kg
5 x 5 x 110 kg

Not much time tonight so no support exercises, happy with the bench, move on to 112.5 for 5 x 5.

I got the post cheers pal.
 
Right date, but as I powerlifter I like to squat ;) lol

No problem mate.

Tonights training

Deads
10 x bar
5 x 60 kg
5 x 100 kg
5 x 140 kg
5 x 3 x 180 kg

Rows, pulldowns, curls

Good tonight, move on to 185 for 5 x 3
The knees are ready for a break, starting to feel it a bit lately.

Tonights training

Push Press
10 x bar
5 x 0 kg
5 x 60 kg
3 x 70 kg
2 x 80 kg
1 x 85 kg (f)

Standing OH Press Machine
5 x 90 kg
5 x 100 kg
5 x 110 kg
2 x 120 kg

Shrugs, rope crunches

Sh!t, failed triple at 80 and dropped the bar at 85, right elbow/bicep tendons giving me grief tonight.

Tonights training

Flat BBBP
10 x bar
5 x 60 kg
5 x 100 kg
3 x 3 x 117.5 kg
1 x 2 x 117.5 kg
1 x 3 x 117.5 kg
1 x 2 x 117.5 kg

Tonight was supposed to be squats for 5 x 5 x 150 but I've had a stabbing pain in what seems to be the ligament area below my left knee cap since Saturday morning. I thought it might have cleared by now but it hasn't and the pain causes my left leg to buckle at times, particularly when going up stairs or kerbs and also when pressing the clutch down in the car.
I've no idea what's caused it as last weeks squats and deads gave no indication that anything was wrong.
I was going to take at least a week over Christmas off from training any way as I really do need a break but I have to admit this latest injury has got me wondering if PL is the way forward for me.