TRAINING LOG: jp

Good call. Did you guess snow today? They said it would start snowing around 9am in Milwaukee and they were right. Of course it was already snowing at 8:57am in tosa when they said it, sooooo.

2/17

Squat:

Up to 12x3@73kg DE (Haven't done DE in years, this was fun.)

Press:

Up to 12x3@35kg (Knee finally feeling better. Yeah knee.)

mOAr shoveling. 

jp

Deadlift (3 week)

Up to 1x6@110kg

Bench:

Up to 12x3@37kg

Shovel slush, ick.

jp

Throwing Day

Went out and threw a few to work out a couple tweaks. The nice thing about it being so cold still (15 with some wind when I got out there) is that the snow is really hard and I don't have to worry about my shoes getting so wet when I retrieve the implements. So there's that. AND anything above 15 degrees next weekend will be considered toasty. Giddy up.

Thanks so much to Road Warrior for his last minute help after a disasterous throwing session Sunday. Throws are coming along, not as fast probably as I would've hoped but after looking at my numbers from last years opener, I'm doing just fine. 

Nothing to do now but rest, eat well, enjoy some carbs this weekend and have a blast! 

jp

3/2

Arnold Classic (the numbers are already in the Database, thank you Rich and Brian!)

WOB: Cleared 11, 12, and 13 on first tries. 13 felt the best. This event was our first and in full on snow. Which is much better than full on rain by the way. I'm pleased with a solid start on this. I passed on going further.

Caber: This event is still an enigma to me but I got some great tips going forward. I really like it, I just need to practice more. A thousand thanks to Courtney, the fireball, McGuire for the use of her gloves for my second and third attempt. Bare hands became numb immediately after picking the log. **Also thank you to 'the other Brian' from GLSAA in taking time to explain the scoring of the event to me. It sounds as if there were questions from some on my score for my second attempt and my advice would be to direct them to Brian Huntley, he was the one who scored it. I was just trying to understand scoring in general. I received an 85 degrees and Canadian Josee Morneau (an AWESOME person) was the only one to turn it all three times as effortlessly as I brush my teeth. Amazing! I heard many of my fellow competitors say that this was the first time they've failed to turn a log. I said I'm used to not turning it I better change that. I came in 2nd.

LWD: 56'5" for second place and I'll take it. It's off my PR of 58+ but in these conditions, that's ok. 

Open Stone: 29' for third place. I ran out of room on my second attempt and my third attempt felt magical and the stone flew..and so did I. Right on my arse out of the trig after slipping. I know I'm on the right track though so I won't sweat it. Lil Mendy confirmed a good throw (minus the foul) by saying, "I'm not gonna lie, she flew." Damn.

Light Hammer: 68'4.5" for 4th place. That hurt. I had an amazing first throw...again until I wiped out in front of the trig. But the timing was nice and the speed was there and it flew. Again, disappointed but I believe I'm on the right track for further improvements. 

1st place overall. Giddy up. My goal for this weekend was to place in top three for each event and let the chips fall where they may. I was incredibly disappointed in the hammer result but such is life. Josee had a rough outing on the WOB (uhhhh, she's a four time Arm wrestling world champion and competed at the Arnold so on a normal day she'd get me) which helped me place just above her and get the win.

It was an amazing experience and for once I was thankful for the cold winter that made Sunday's conditions tolerable for me. The entire throwing class was supportive and tons of fun. If I were to give one complaint, it's that I didn't get to shake David Webster's hand. Poor me. heh.

Thank you SO much Rich McClain and Brian Huntley for this experience. It goes down as one of the tops for this 'ol gal. It was wonderful meeting so many people I see posting here and was especially entertained by Rob and Jeff and the stories of when Rob and Matt used to compete together on the Strongman circuit. 

Home now and will be back in the gym tomorrow. Back to work.

jp

Throwing Day

We brought the 12# Sheaf, heavy hammer and Matt's 56# weight to the park for practice but it was a cold 18 degrees so focused on sheaf only while he WOB'd a bit. 

Felt good. Good pop off the ground, I don't like the pre-swingie stuff. Haven't touched this since Kirksville last Oct so it was good to work on it again. Need to do better at the Shammies in a couple of weeks than I did last year. Overall felt good...or that could have been the Founder's Dirty Bastard Scotch Ale...hard to tell.

jp

*The back was pretty tight and sore yesterday from Thursday's deadlifts. More so than should be, could be I wasn't as recovered from Sunday as I'd thought. Wanted to get some blood flowing today and feel a bit springy but kept things very light.

Power Snatch: Up to 8@45kg

Power Clean: Up to 8@55

jp

Squat:

Up to 6x1@90kg

Press:

Up to 6x1@45

jp

Thanks Big Daddy!! and heeeheeee, trouble maker

Always much aloha your way.

jp

There is a time for putting muscle on bone.  Time-under-tension is what is called for here.  Snatches and cleans aren't going to get you there unless you're training super frequently.  

Dear guy,

Josh's arms are going to have to ask you you trim a few pages from your log.  You see, Josh's arms have become so expansive, Josh's arms are going to need the extra room.

Josh's arms thank you in advance,

Josh

Games Week

Snatch & PClean & Jerk up to heavyish but not hard single.

SN: 55kg

CJ: 75kg

jp