I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news. The good news is I won the 181-pound weight class in the open division last Saturday. The bad news is that’s the only good news. This meet was many things: humbling, frustrating and eye-opening to name a few. What it most certainly was NOT was a …
Powerlifting Meet Recap: APF NY State Spring Iron Frenzy Read More »
Long time, no blog. I’ve been away from the keyboard for awhile and spending more time reading, lifting and learning. Sounds pretty good, right? My life for the past few weeks has been consumed by work, midterms and training for the 2013 APF New York State Spring Iron Frenzy. It will be my fourth powerlifting …
My strength is steadily returning as my shoulder improves and my weight slowly climbs. I’ve got just over eight training weeks left til the APF Spring Iron Frenzy and I like the way things are going. I’ve hit some good indicator sets on squat and bench. I’m feeling surprisingly awesome considering I’m doing my own programming, …
It’s been way too long since I posted a training log update. Actually, I haven’t said a word about my training since my last powerlifting meet way back in November. But there’s a reason for that. After setting a handful of PRs at the meet, I started using a purchased program so I didn’t want …
On Saturday I competed in my third powerlifting meet – the Old School Iron Wars, sanctioned by 100% Raw Powerlifting Federation – in Williston, Vt. At a body weight of 190.8 pounds, I squatted 501, benched 330 and deadlifted 540. I placed second overall in the Open 198 division with a 1371 total – a …
I set a personal record this week… for lifting weights five times without training in the same place once. Between traveling for the Cressey Performance Fall Seminar and running away from Hurricane Sandy, I got to see a bunch of friends and lift in some really cool environments. All the changes of scenery have helped …
Yesterday I harpooned my white whale. On New Year’s Eve 2009, I wrote down on a sheet of paper that I wanted to squat 500 pounds in 2010. Better late than never. My training plan called for a “mock powerlifting meet,” so I tested my maxes to gauge my progress with five training weeks left …
Training Update – Max Testing and the 500-pound Squat Club Read More »
It’s official. I put my entry form for the Old School Iron Wars powerlifting meet in the mail yesterday. In the words of Kevin Hart… Two weeks down, seven to go. The first two weeks of Sheiko have been fun. And by fun I mean absolutely bone crushing. Let’s look at the math: 2 weeks …
I’ve been doing a lot more training than writing lately. I would venture to say a lot of online fitness personalities should follow suit. I finished up the last sessions of my max effort/rep effort training cycle and now I’m shifting toward a meet prep/peaking cycle using one of the Sheiko templates. I followed this …
Things are getting crazy here on Long Island. Grad classes are underway, fall sports teams are in full gear, and I moved to the beach. The lack of content here is not for lack of effort. My last blog post took a couple weeks of research (and several rewrites), plus I’ve been killing it in …
