Monday, 5/25

No Training

Tuesday, 5/26/09

Snatch, x 2; 65/65/70/75/80/85/. Singles, w/2 OHS: 88/93/93/98/98/103/103/105/105/105/110/110/.

Power Cleans, x 3, one from the bottom, two from the mid hang: 110/115/125/135/145/150.

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Not according to Edward Melanson, an exercise physiologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, in Denver.

Melanson and his colleages published their findings in the journal Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews. Here is the abstract:
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Now that the NFL draft is concluded, teams are looking forward to the mini-camps and soon after, regular training camp. In the meantime, players are employing state-of-the-art athletic training and conditioning that meet the demands of the positions they play, and also specific to their individual anatomies. This is where personal training end and professional sports athletic training begins.
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Good training this week, but more rest days, so maybe this was the de-load week!

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It has been about six months since several of us left a gym that became neutered from what the old-style gyms were like. As the chrome and fern corporate gyms began dotting the landscape, our box, while not hardcore, “tolerated” some of the serious old school training we did.

But that ended and we found a new gym, Brian Hood’s American Gym, which encompasses the widest range of training styles you’ll find in southern California. Brian has somehow found a way to put it all together and cater to us all and now we live in peace and harmony! Seriously, if you are in the area, come on by for a visit and train hard.

We found a kindred spirit in Jason Hanisak, of Hanisak Sports Performance in New Jersey. (It looks like these Jersey guys get it, ain’t that right Scott)?

In this week’s Elitefts, Weekly News and Articles, Jason posted a great article on“The Return of Hardcore”. Check it out. He makes the case for hard-core training as if the case even has to be made at all. Some people just need to be reminded.

What happens when a tall, long-limbed,  young, cocky 20 year old challenges a shorter-levered, confident 32 year old to a weightlifting competition? I don’t know yet, but we’ll find out in about 8 weeks as these two claim they will train and then square off for a maximum three lift total contest.

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Steroids? Huh? Never heard of them.

The Belgian Bodybuilding Championships have been cancelled due to doping officials showing up and attempting to force the 20 competitors to inject anabolic steroids into their clean, pure and healthy bodies. Visibly shaken, the competitors, still in their posing trunks, grabbed their gear and all ran out the door, terrified at the thought of putting these bad, bad chemicals into their bodies. The 20 were last seen headed for the French border.

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This week was supposed to be a deload week and for the most part it was, except I hit it hard on Saturday. But that is ok, since I got plenty of rest.

Monday, 5/11/09

No training.

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I have never been a fan of the cliche, “less is more” but that is exactly what Olympic and powerlifting coach, Glenn Pendlay of Wichita Falls Weightlifting Club suggests when he says that most people do too much in the gym.

In a very interesting podcast interview, Pendlay lays out a ton of training gems for the few experienced, competitive lifters to the many novice, intermediate and even for the older lifters (I made sure I turned up the volume on my computer so I could hear it).

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I got a strong start to this training week and an even stronger finish at the end. I am very pleased with the effort.

Monday, 5/4/09

Jump Squats, up an 18″ plyo box down to full squat: 3 x 15.

Sandbag Clean & Press, 50# max number of reps in 5 minutes: 50. Got 13 reps in last minute.

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