TRAINING LOG: JVG

Allegany County

was a beautiful day, great weather.

Braemar 34'2 second

Ostone three fouls, thats a first

HWFD, unknown, fouled to safety throw to another foul

LWFD 60' first

HH 83+ second

LH 108+ second

Caber 12,12,11 only dude to turn all three times, only 12's of the day on the field

Sheaf 29' PR, four Guinness deep and feeling it, killer Ric Flair celebration

WFH 11' 5 beers deep, feeling it in the wrong way.

was nominated as most entertaining athlete of the day, lost out to Courtney McGuire, which is proper.

second overall

dont know how I pulled that off with fouling out of ostone, but i'll take it, was otherwise pretty consistent.

my man Brendan took third and Cory fifth. So ALB goes 2,3,5 aint bad. Squad Goals being realized.

lots of practice and hopefully dial a few things in for Northampton.

after the games we all put our speedos on and dominated the hotel pool.

last Friday did some barbell gymnastics type stuff, just working on moving around the bar.

yesterday was
Squat 275x3x5
Lots of CJ at 185 working regrip
Snatch pulls at 185x5

line drills, walking hammer, ahead and WFH yesterday.

lots of horrible snatches this morning

followed by some equally horrible pressing

went old school today for a rest.

DL 405x3x3

SQ 315x3x3

Snatch Pulls 225x1x5

alt dumbell raises 20x20x3

hamstring curls 10x3

man, I once hit a 405x10 DL, that seems almost impossible now. Love the Oly training, but I'm feeling week. Gonna try to find a little better blend of strength and speed this summer.

squat pyramid
135x10
185x8
225x6
275x4
315x2
365x1
then back down the same

muscle snatch to overhead squat 135x1x5
snatch pulls 225x1x5
CJ up to 225 with the new improved regrip, felt the best today.

overhead squat up to 205, 225 pinned me. felt really good too, then just couldnt stand up. weird.

CJ up to 265 using the new regrip, feeling more comfy, going to keep working it, shooting for 140/308 this year. Its in the cards.

i also texted TRob a bunch, so that surely counts for something.

overhead squats 135x3x3

squats 315x3x3

front squat to jerk 135,185,225, 255

snatch pulls at 255x4, then 225, then 135

was a good one. CJ movements are feeling money, gonna gear up for something super duper Saturday am.

weds was 10 wfh

thurs

squats

135x10, 185x8, 225x6, 275x4, 315x2, 365, 315x2, 365

cleans from high box up to 245, missed at 255

overhead squats 135x3x5sets

jerks 205x2x3

felt horrible, wrapped it up.

squat 135x5x3

snatch up to 175, failed 195x3

CJ up to 225, faild 245x2

its really hard to train when Phish is in town. Shocked

squats

135x8,185x8,225x6,275x4,315x4,365x2,405x1,365x2,405x2,365x2,315x4,225x4

diggin the wave thing, volume for growth

push press 185x2x4,185x5

snatch pulls 185x5 was pulling way high, almost to chin

feels good to be back in and rested up and doing something decent

DL up to 405 for 5 singles, in between reps i hit 95x5 squats to loosen up. Narrow stance. Pulls felt good by the third, faster.

Snatch from high box. 95x2x5, then 115,135,155,165,175 missx2 felt good though, bar path was nice.

WFH with 52#x8

HH x8

speedy squats 315x2x7sets
snatch from mid box up to 165
lwfd x8

so I think all this work from the blocks is paying off. worked up to 285 from the medium boxes today with no misses. That's like a 10k PR, felt good.

then 8 BR, 8OS, 8HH and 3x3 of the JVG caber drill.

Northampton Games

BR 30+   5ish
OS 38+ 5ish
LW 60+   1st
HH 79+   1st
Caber three 12:00, 1st
WFH 11'   9 way tie for third
SH 26' 3rd

absolutely average JVG games, was great to catch up wth some buddies. Beau offered up some WFH cues that I'll be working on for the rest of the season. Muelenberg and I have MWC 2018 all sorted out. Really proud of Cory (5th) and Brendan (2nd). Cory went 40+ twice in ostone and Brendan took second in 3-4 events.
I won the overall on the day, which feels really nice. With that being said, winning a game like Glasgowlands with those numbers just illustrates the lack of athletes around these parts. With a little luck Brendan will be beating me soon.

My wife really enjoyed the trampoline at our airBNB that night.

Brimfield Antiques isn't so cool.

I missed my dog.

You are my favorite.

Next time you're at Brimfield antiques...

FINISH THEM!!

Don't worry bout the lack of athletes.....our paths will cross soon enough......

I look forward to it, in a 1960's Kung fu type of way.

muscle snatch to 2overhead squats 135x5
front squat 225x3x3
no brush snatches 95x5

the squats felt like 1000lbs. I know this because I've squatted 1000lbs many times. It was tremendous and I am a tremendous squatter. China. Im going to make the bodybuilders build a wall around my squat stands.

DL 405x3x3, 455, 405x3x3
SQ 275x3, 315, 275x3, 315

was hot in there.
works kinda physical this weekend, beating me down.

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snatch doubles from mid box up to 135
Front squats 275x3x3

double muscle snatch to power snatch 135 for 5 sets
squats 315x2, 365, 315x2, 365, 315x2 with that sweet ass over the head dump
snatch 155,175

little pep back in the step, lots of throws Weds

vonguinness wrote:

with that sweet ass over the head dump

Video or it didnt happen........

grasshopper wrote:

vonguinness wrote:

with that sweet ass over the head dump

Video or it didnt happen........

next time.

just for you.

yesterday was overhead squats to 205

front squats to 345

squats to 405

CJ to 220 then was tired and went for refreshment

Bangin all 3 types of squats in 1 workout!

grasshopper wrote:

Bangin all 3 types of squats in 1 workout!

i'm championing diversity.

snatch up to 195 today then some BB.

Hunter Mountain Games

so the wife, the bear dog and I roll out of town around 5:00 and head to the mountain, we arrive around 8. Some beers and then we make some man soup in the hot tub. Bruddy, the brothers Milliron, Kelly and Cory Cronk all in the same house for the weekend. The place wasnt amazing, but was cheap, had a hot tub and we had the entire place to ourselves, so thats nice.

Mike MillIRON of IRON COFFEE fame woke us to a fine breakfast Saturday am, then we all head over to the field. Got a bit of rain, but nothing horrible. Kinda burned off half way through Braemar. We're chilling under trees and the stone stays relatively dry.

BR 35'9 PR so, this comes with multiple asteriks because throwing on a mountain and I played that shit hard. Other throws were around 34' and I've gone 34' with this same stone before. So I gained some from the unfair hill, but not a ton.

OS 41'6" Season Best, this is a stone Hapy brought, its my fav. Not so much asterik here because all my throws were straight out, not so much down hill at all. Trig was also graded uphill.

HW 28' whatever. I need to work this out, this mark has been getting worse for me over the last few years.

LW 59' new trig, this one was downhill and super hard to not foul on

HH 84' Season Best, those thin little .5" handles are killer, especially with my style, makes a good fit, they break though, so we didnt get to use them for all 3 rounds.

LH 104' Also on the thin handle on my first....I knew I'd probably only get one rip on it before it broke, which happened first throw of round 2. For my second I tried to hit the chair lift, missed. Scratched my 3 cause I didnt think I'd be improving on that.

caber 12.12.12:30, was undefeated in caber this year until here. but my man Bruddy took the strap from me and back to ALB, so all good. His celebration game is weak though.

SH 28', had some good looks at 30'

WFH 12' was pretty drunk and loose by this point. Stayed patient and pulled well.

Overall came out #2 because consistency.

My hound was a god damn superstar all day. did great for being 5 months.

wife hung in like a champ and brought me all the Guinness all day long.

my travel team looked like CobraKai rolling up, was grand, Matt Hand swept the leg for the win on the day though.

Sam Mattis is a legit athlete. Its a real joy to just share the field with dudes that move like him and Jeff Milliron. If Sam figures a few things out he'll be on that same Milliron program of going pro within a year or so. Which I think is fantastic. These dudes make garbage money from USATF and if they can make a few bucks at games over the summer to help finance their olympic goals, then right on. I forsee a bunch more high level dudes being attracted to the games in the next few years. Plus they're all super educated and well spoken dudes. Its great for the scene and works out all around.

we then wrapped up around 8 and back to the mountain chalet to make some more BRO SOUP and enjoy lots more GooseHead IPA's

got back to work today and operated a backhoe all afternoon.

overall this was the most fun games of the summer so far.

1. unlimited free Guinness

2. mountain views while throwing

3. excellent company

4. Carl rocks and has become a fantastic AD and super accommodating

Agree wholeheartedly! All points 1-5 on the mark. Great setting