2012 Comp Season

Training Over 35 Lifter
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Thought Carl was just cartoon cussin at me George. @!)(0#%!^@%(!^??": back at you!
Try to ride away MJ, I just keep comin back.
Not til Oct 2nd Wison, lots of training to do first. Plan on finishing up the season big.

HG splits/
1 = sheaf, weight over bar (42#), caber (4" 15’ pvc. Not heavy but mainly used to work on the flexibility of my hips for the pick)
B = weights for distance (28 & 42), stone (open & breamar), hammer (17.5#)

With that in mind:

9/15 - mental prep - 1000m out/1000m in

9/16 - immediately after woork

Hang cleans
135x5
185x5
225x5
245x3

hang snatch
135x5
155x4
175x3
195x2

db snatch (each arm)
50,60,70,80x3
90x2
100x1,1,1

bent raises
40x10x3

ez curl
70,80,90x10

db hammer curls
50x8x4

home, 24 oz whey protein drink (choc), 1/2 rest,
hg split 1

9/17
1/2 gallon water, lemon, honey while lifting

Bench
135,225wu
275x10
315x5x5

Smith inclines
up to 315x3x3

cable xovers
50x12x3

cable flyes
45x12x3

cgb
225x8x3

skullcrushers (ez, decline bench)
100x10
110x8
120,130x6

Surge recovery (choc) 24oz after
Lunch
sprints
10x30m

dinner, 24 oz whey protein drink (choc

evening
hg split 2

9/18
Same
1/2 gallon water, lemon, honey

Front squat
135,185x5
225x3x3

squats
225x8
315x6
375x5
405x3x3

sldl
135,185,225,wu
315x5x5

hypers
3xmax w/45plate

jump shrugs (may be an official name. Hold bar ((duh!)), jump straight up, shrugg bar at apex)
135x6
185x5
225x5 (got off the floor, but not much)

Surge recovery

dinner + 24 oz whey drink
hg split 1

9/19
see 9/16
evening
hg split 2

Tonight
hg split 1
1500m swim

Weighing @ 233# (home scales). Postal shorts are starting to slide down so tightening the belt another notch Shirts are tight across the shoulders and legs are even getting a wee bit bigger. Tree says at the gym the other day, “man, you’re really getting f…kin, bigger. Ain’t you a lil bit old for puberty?” And yeah, I get the, “sir, are you, you know, like, takin…anything?” Not tellin this to stroke my ego (ok, a little). Kinda scary finding myself growing at this age. Feel like maybe I’ll turn 60 or some age and it’ll all catch up with me and I’ll just deflate.

Long post, confussing, I know. But then, 82.63987% of my subprime 1 and 3/4 max based on the tidal pull of the moon don’t always make sense to me, either. Reader’s digest version, I lifted, I swam, I plan to conguer.

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You’re the man Harry, anything else would be redundant.

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DAMN!! with training like that, You are going to close out the season with an explosion!!

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[quote]JoeGood wrote:
You’re the man Harry, anything else would be redundant.[/quote]

I repeat this all the time.

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Keep up the good work!

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I’ll be able to have workouts like that. Once I have genetically enhanced. And good on ya for gaining some muscle and losing some waist.

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Joe, Punny, we all the man, and woman, in our own way.
Thanks all, decided to push this here liftin, throwing, muscling up, whatever thing and see just how far I can make it up the mountain fore I start comin down the other side. Of note. I’ve had lots of injuries but have never had a injury from lifting, working out, swimming, jumping, climbing, playing scrabble, etc. Currently, I feel great, lack flexibility in some areas. Having to push it harder to get my fix of DOMS so we’ll see how the body holds ups.

Today, (oh yeah, Sept f…ing 21, 98 degrees yesterday and today. I’m sorry for doubting you Al. How was the massage btw?)

24oz whey drink for breakfast (and lots of coffee)

Lunch on the route
Stir fry of 1 lb sliced beef,green onions, broccoli, green beans. Covered in hot sauce and served ice cold. Have to keep it in the ice chest. 24 oz ice coffee. Making these dishes up 2 at a time and alternating with chicken.

At the gym, in the owner’s office (you southerns please forgive me) 1 cup instant grits, microwaved, pure carbs, 1 cup coffee.

Finally got round to lifting something

Bench
135,225wu
275x6
315x6
335x5
355x4
375x2,2,2

Smith inclines
135,225wu
275x5
315x4,4,3,3

DB Incline flyes
30x10x3

cable xovers (low to hi)
40x12x3

skullcrushers (ez bar on decline bench)
100x10
110x8
120,130x7

Surge recovery (choc) 24oz drinking during the workout

home and hg split 2

Dinner being prepared
4 skinless chicken thighs
Really Large chef salad

Dessert, peeled grape fruit

Won’t list the food and drink anymore after today. Point is I’m making an effort to eat semi-right.

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[quote]username42 wrote:
I’ll be able to have workouts like that. Once I have genetically enhanced. And good on ya for gaining some muscle and losing some waist.[/quote]

Do I dare ask what you’re having genetically enhanced?

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[quote]hel320 wrote:

Won’t list the food and drink anymore after today. Point is I’m making an effort to eat semi-right.

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I was gonna say that if you want to list your food you might want to head over to the women’s section. They love that shit. I was always the outcast where that was concerned because I was usually eating a big bowl of ice cream while I was reading their posts.

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[quote]kpsnap wrote:

[quote]hel320 wrote:

Won’t list the food and drink anymore after today. Point is I’m making an effort to eat semi-right.

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I was gonna say that if you want to list your food you might want to head over to the women’s section.[/quote]

I read this line, and I pictured a mouse (but big) kicking an elephant in the foot to rile (try, that is) him up. I laughed.

You have a snappy sense of humour there. I like it.

Now I have to go eat, because reading Harry’s post made me hungry.

Then I need a massage afterwards, to make me happy.

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Harry, with the volume of work, and the goodness of food, you can’t help but get bigger. Great work!

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[quote]hel320 wrote:

At the gym, in the owner’s office (you southerns please forgive me) 1 cup instant grits, microwaved, pure carbs, 1 cup coffee.

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Grits are grits slow cooking, quick, or microwave… I’m a purist, I prefer mine cooked in milk, heavy cream and 2 sticks of butter… But grits are grits, you dont need to be forgiven!

Damn good training AND eating!!

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[quote]punnyguy wrote:

I read this line, and I pictured a mouse (but big) kicking an elephant in the foot to rile (try, that is) him up. I laughed.

You have a snappy sense of humour there. I like it.
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I don’t think it would be much of a contest between Harry and me.

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[quote]kpsnap wrote:

[quote]punnyguy wrote:

I read this line, and I pictured a mouse (but big) kicking an elephant in the foot to rile (try, that is) him up. I laughed.

You have a snappy sense of humour there. I like it.
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I don’t think it would be much of a contest between Harry and me.[/quote]

Harry might surprise you. He’s one tough bastard.

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That’s true. But I still doubt he could take me.

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[quote]kpsnap wrote:
That’s true. But I still doubt he could take me.[/quote]

I don’t know, he has been practicing his running. I’ve found that if I run away uphill I can call it a victory (my last encounter with muggers I ran away up hill and they gave up chasing me).

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I go off to work and yawl just run around my thread. That’s ok, I’m use to a big family.
Wilson, just something about microwaving food seems, wrong. Had to swim down and recover some stuff from a downed plane once. Afterwards had to be washed, scrubbed, powered, and gieger countered. Never felt comfortable around radiation since. The third eye I grew draws attention, too.
Punny guy, you just made me remember my old ant jokes. Use to have hundreds of them, e.g.
“What’s an ant crawlin up an elephant’s ass got? Ambition.” Ego’s when the ant says,“don’t worry, I’ll be gentle”.
Glad to see you poppin in Elaikases. You still competing? The vid of you doing that take down at your comp was outstanding. I may need some lessons if Jack keeps egging Ms Snap on and she starts starts feelin froggy. Truthfully though, ever since Rose Broussard showed me what you could do with girls I haven’t been real interested in fighting them.
MJ, practicing throwing the 28 and 42 and I found the natural tentency is to throw for an arc, say at around 40 degress like I’m us to doing in the shot and disc. Brought my elavation down to a near straight line throw and I really sped up and got it out there. More to come on that.
A general apology. Haven’t been getting around to many threads and I feel bad about that. Will try and catch up on all soon.

Front squat
135,185x5
225x5x3

squats
225x8
315x6
375x5
405x3

Bulgarian split squats (that sounds so fancy, huh)
135x8x3 each leg

dl
135,185,225,wu
315x5
375x5
405x4
455x3

hypers
3xmax w/45plate

shrugs
315x max x 3

Facepulls
90,100,110,120x10

HG split 1
Feeling good

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[quote]hel320 wrote:
ever since Rose Broussard showed me what you could do with girls I haven’t been real interested in fighting them.

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Amen.

I had to lay off the competition, my daughter with Tourette’s needs more time than I could spare if I kept it up. She will keep growing and be out of her teens before I know it. Though I admit, it killed my interest in strength training for a while.

I’ve recovered and can still lift, even if I don’t have the time for other things, so I’ve been back to lifting about a month and a half.

Just took me a while to get myself together.

Well, I’m off to make sure she goes to sleep after going to bed :wink:

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Though, now that I’m not training, I can explain why the emphasis I had on a place with super heavy adductor and abductor machines (to which I added 40 lbs).

I was training hip check o soto gari using the thigh lever rather than the hip, from a “no gi” grip (e.g. instead of starting with a grip, I would parry the other guy’s right arm with my left and drive my right arm past his ear, basically getting a head and arm grip on him rather than gripping his gi – works well in karate, and I would execute the reap by checking him with my thigh, then rotate to take down with a follow-through strike – that is a three point technique).

Since I was competing weighing about 179, the weights I was training with were basically the amount I needed to send someone any where near my weight class into the air with a straight lift.

Anyway, now I’m back to just training so I can carry 50lb bags of flour into the house for my wife :wink:

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[quote]Elaikases wrote:
Anyway, now I’m back to just training so I can carry 50lb bags of flour into the house for my wife :wink:

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A noble quest, to be sure. I have been jonesing for judo so bad I went to the libraray and got some books on nage no kata and randori no kata just so I can look at pitchers of throws.

Harry, as always, I await your throwing wisdom. I have been going for the arc, and that just means it hits the close ground harder, but not farther.