Well, I tried your clean & press challenge this evening. Got weight up to 75#. Had to stop after 10 reps or risk aneurysm. Straining, shoving, sweating, gasping, yelling. Hyperventilated for a minute or 2, then did another 10 reps. Grunting, pushing, screaming, but got 20 done eventually.
Enjoy, Harry.
Saturday, masters division, 1st. Prs in open stone, braemar stone, heavy hammer 22#, 28# and 42# weight for distance. Tied my best weight over bar and sheaf. Turned a 12:30 with a 18’, 110# caber. Was waiting for some pix from another competitor but they haven’t come thru yet. Great meet, award 1st - 3rd place medals in all the throws. Got bunch of bling and another dagger.
Tuesday night, had to try.
1-10, hang clean and pretty much mil press
11-14, touch and go from ground, knee bend and press
*15-18, from floor clean, pause at shoulders, push/press
19-20, floor, pause, clean, pause, big dip and press. Move hand placement in slightly on last 5 for stronger shoulder placement
Not as hard as I thought it’d be but not easy by any means. Played hell with the rest of my workout. I think all the cleans and hang cleans I do gave me a difinite advantage over some of the more bodybuilder types.
Today, having lasted 56 years with them, I lost my remaining 3 wisdom teeth to my dentist, Abdullah the butcher. Couple been cracked for a while so I waited til after all my comps were over to get them pulled. Yummy beef brooth and jello for lunch and dinner. Haven’t needed any yet but they gave me Lorcet Plus for pain. May take one for bed.
So, off work for a couple of days. Do plan on hitting the gym tomorrow and doing something light. Drawing up my goals for next year and working out some different work outs. Well. time for some more Lime jello. Yum, yum.
nice work Harry-
sorry to hear about the teeth.
150 clean and press x 20 is some hair on balls type training.
Thanks Kev, ain’t gonna make a steady diet of it for sure.
Fri - Sqaut to 405x3, Dl to 455x3. Mouth started bleeding a little so called it quits early
Sat - Bench to 355x3
Sun - Hang cleans to 225x3, floor clean to 265x1,1,1
This morning swam a nice, easy 2000m. Working on a new caber training device using 4x4s, bolts, joints, cables, all kindsof good stuff. Mike Neese gave me the idea. Post some pix when this beast is finished. Wife’s already giving me the “what are you doing now” look.
Going through my post comp angst period again. Making out my training for the up coming year.
“Should I concentrate on one sport? Which one?”
“Should I try to hit a PL meet or even an Oly meet this year?”
“Do I keep entering swimming comps”.
“Dp I abandon my plans to make Shakira mine.”
“Should I move to Tibet and become a Monk.”
Think I’ll just bitch slap myself, stop thinking so much, and just lift shit.
LOL, keep it simple, I would love to see you tear shit up at a PL meet!
Just stopping in. Nice to read about a Senior Track and Field guy.
Losing the wisdom teeth now SUCKS…
And there’s no such thing as a nice, easy 2000m in a pool. So glad I stopped that nonsense in college…and I was pegged to swim the 1650…eessh.
Never give up on Shakira, ever.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
“Should I concentrate on one sport? Which one?”
“Should I try to hit a PL meet or even an Oly meet this year?”
“Do I keep entering swimming comps”.
“Dp I abandon my plans to make Shakira mine.”
“Should I move to Tibet and become a Monk.”
Think I’ll just bitch slap myself, stop thinking so much, and just lift shit.
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no, all of them
yes, one of each
yes
no, it is the drive to earn Shakira that keeps us all going, whether we admit it or not.
no, the Tibetan monks don’t get to eat meat. Or throw.
definitely on the stop thinking and just lifting.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
“Dp I abandon my plans to make Shakira mine.”
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^^^^^ Am I the only one who noticed the Freudian slip?
DP and Shakira in the same sentence?
Anyway forget her, she snores like a 60 yr old truck driver! Trust me.
Awesome lifting Harry, you are quite the role model. Those Tibetan monks will be lucky to have you.
If you go through a post comp angst period, what the hell (pun intended of course!) do all those old guys you beat on all year long go through!!!
…waiting for Shakira pics…
Had to put up her picture.
Matty, change your avatar. You just look too damn…young.
Buffalo, only swim in a pool when it gets real cold out and for competition. Also when a certain college swimming coach talks me into it. Usually it’s the Tennessee or Flint River. My first swimming competition ever was this year. Did the 500 free and 200 breaststroke. Loved it.
Brett, gotta take the bad with the good.
PG, they’re just old guys, who cares. Wait, so am I. Besides, I’ve had to compete against the young A’s and a couple of pros enough in HG this year to keep me humble. Ok, semi-humble.
Last night,
Squat
135,225wu
315x6
375x5x5
sldl
225x8
275x6
315x5x5
bb shrugs
225x10x3
bent row
225x8x3
face pulls
80,90,100,110x8
Tonight
Bench
135,225xwu
275x10
315x6x3
smith incline
180x10
230x8
250x6
cable flyes
45x10x2 (hi to low)
50x10x2 (mid)
45x10x2 (low to hi)
sng db seated tri ext
65x10
75,80,85x8
overhead tri ext (rope)
80,85,90,100x8
Social obligations will take me out of the gym for the next 2 nights. One’s a great neice starring in a High School play. The other is the grand opening of a new pub by a couple of guys I know. Have to go rub elbows with the upper crust.
ah, the lifestyle of the mover and shaker that is Harry. Thanks for posting Shakira. Now everyone can see why you’re not allowed to quit on that.
semi humble and tearing it up.
I think you have a god shot with shakira
Hey Harry, how are you? haven’t heard from you for awhile. I hope all is well with storms and work and family.
I’ve noticed my letter carrier is coming through the neighborhood a lot later in the day, makes me think they’re working y’all too hard.
Harry, the young’uns need some wisdom…
Back to the top. Hope things are going well in the deep South
Yesh, we are running wild around here without supervision.
I have a feeling hel is just TCB
stop in when you come up for air
Thanks for remembering me guys.
Sorry I’ve beem MIA, very, very busy.
First, the lifting. May have developed a new program called “Lift or Sleep”. I’ve been running on about 6 hours sleep a night for the past month. Decided to just hit the big lifts. Work outs have been:
Bench and CGB
Clean/press (from hang one work out, floor the next) and hammer curls
Squat and deadlift
that’s it. All 5 x 5
Set goals of 335 5x5 Bench
435 5x5 squat
515 5x5 dead
235 5x5 c/p from hang
Nothing spectacular but kept me focused. Hit them all this week so I’ll up them. Was swimming at night but since it’s turning too cold for the river gonna have to hit the indoor pool on Sundays. No throwing but I’ve been trying to work on some improvements in my form.
Caution! Whining ahead. Days have been may 10 to 12 hrs and 6 a week. Next couple of weeks will be more so with Christmas approaching. Whole lot of people afraid of losing their jobs and management trying to take advantage of it. Spending a lot of time working with the union and members. Funny position for me to be in as I’m generally pretty much to the right politically and never been pro-union. C’est la vie.
As this forum pretty much operates on reciprocity and I haven’t had time to get to others threads haven’t posted to mine. Gonna try and comandeer the wife’s laptop so I can read/post in bed at night. After several hours of intense sex, of course. (Believe that?) Gonna try and read some of yawls stuff now.
Whats up Harry…nice to see you back bro!
