Anybody who has lifted with me at Joe-Gym has already had an earful of the Japandroids.. you may have even noticed that my last two form check videos had them playing in the background. Not surprising since they are playing pretty much the whole time we lift..
Anyway- Best Canadian band ever? Best Two-Piece ever? probably.. they are my current favorite..
my Deadlift day this week was wednesday. So after adding another 2.5# to my Squat (427.5#) it was time for warm up sets and a work set of 5-Reps.
Not much to say about DeadLifts- i am pretty good at them thanks to my long arms and SHORT legs (Shrimp!! thx +Tim M) and i typically pull about 30# more than where my squat is. That was true today, as i threw on an extra 5# for the cameras- for a set of pulls at 455#
also focussing today on my breath control during squats. I already burst a blood vessel in my eye and getting headaches after squatting!!! it seams that being mindful of where the pressure is and releasing at the end helps..
Gym Log 8/13:
I've been back in the gym for about 6 weeks since we dropped weight work for Masters States.
Leading into states i got lazy on the squats and just rep'd out on 4-plates at my gym..
after Joe and i got his Garage Gym set i really started turning the screws on the weight work, and the post lift rollers (more on rollers in another post). Its amazing how much more motivating it is to train at Joes! I dropped my work weight down below 375# for my 3-sets of 5-reps, and began to methodically add weight each lift day (3 times a week). I started out with gains of 5# until i hit 405#, then dropped down to 2.5# increases per day.
It was interesting that on any given day after i hit about 410#, I felt like the current weight was about all i could handle- but i would add weight the next lift day and still manage to hit all my reps. my previous PR for a 5-Rep was probably about 410#, mostly from being lazy, or hitting that weight right before we dropped the lifting pre-competition.
Today i added another 2.5# for a total bar weight of 425#. To be entirely honest i was not feeling amazing today- and suffered through the 2nd and 3rd set- but still managed all 15 reps.
One more week of adding weight- then we go into maintenance mode leading into Elite Nationals... Deadlifts wednesday and another video update..
This has been a good year on the bike for me. I have hit PR's in every event I run. There was some solid competition at Masters States this year in the kilo and I managed to drop 7/10ths of a second off my personal record- and that time was from 2 seasons previous- I have made a lot of progress in the last year. The juggling act that is my life did not allow me to go to Colorado Springs this year for Masters Track Nationals... It wasn't in the cards. To be honest I was not interested in going and not winning so maybe it is better I didn't go... so now i take all the frustration, all the thoughts of how things could of gone and grind them up in the mill that is my obsessive brain... turning it all in to fuel to finish the season out strong!
JOE-GYM
joe and i hocked some old bikes on e-bay and started putting together equipment for our gym. I would of loved to have this set up at my house, but my un-sealed garage wasn't working out, so it ended up in Joe's garage in Culver City.
This gym has allowed a huge amount of progress in a short period of time. Not only is it set up perfectly for the weight program i follow, we avoid the pit-falls of commercial gym douche bag tolerance, and we get to hop on our rollers immediately following out lifting...
both weights and roller workouts have gone up quality wise!
So now with about 6-weeks until my Kilo at Elite Nats, i am really putting the weight on the bar. More updates on the lifts this week.
My good friend- and Hell of a bike racer- Tim McGee came out to encino last Tuesday to drive the moto while I trained. Between big loads of Shit Talking he shot this vid of me behind the motor on the effort where my saddle broke... There might of been some bad behavior, as I struggled in the 105f heat trying to bolt on a rental bike saddle...
JAPANDROIDS!!!
