##3/5/16
##Fuck-around-titus
Messed around and did a shit ton of nothing. Since my competition will be this Saturday, aka the 7th of May, no point doing anything too tough eh. Will update more stuff in the days to come.
##4/5/16
##Fuck-around-titus
And again messed around a bit, nothing noteworthy or special.
120kgs high bar squat x 2
#5/5/16
#Conditioning
20kgs weighted vest
3 round x area near me place
1st round : walked, took 11 minutes
2nd round : brisk walked, took 10 minutes
3rd round : jogged a little, walked a little, 9 minutes.
Each round is around 900m according to my fitbit? I’ve no idea if it’s accurate. There are inclines/declines part of the path.
I take all those things with a big grain of salt. Why not map out the route on Google Maps?
Eh honestly? I’m too lazy and I don’t think it really matters. Just go more rounds and do it faster.
EDIT: I went to check the distance cause eh, probably should. It’s 1km haha.
Got bored, checked out some USAPL nationals qualifying ‘standards’ for peeps my age and holy shit, they’re ridiculously low. I’m pretty sure having a qualifying total is pretty much a formality at this point.
That being said when there’s a 17 year old u66kgs kid hitting a 507kg total in my country… It’s hard not to feel bad
Don’t look at the qualifying total. I think it’s often there simply to make it easier to get bigger numbers of lifters at a national level. Once a federation starts having enough depth, you may find that either a) the qualifying total suddenly increases; or b) there is no longer a qualifying total and you need a certain ranking to get invited to national level meets. Your best bet is to look at the top 20 guys in your weight class and shoot for a total that will get you safely in that group.
Just for example, and I’ll unashamedly push GPC Australia here, from this year onwards you have to be ranked to get an invite to nationals as there are only a certain number of spots (120 for men, 60 for women I think) in each weight class. They introduced that because last year there were over 300 competitors at nationals when all you needed was a total. Now, getting to national really means something.
Here’s the link to the current rankings. I’m in there in the 100s at number 42.
http://www.gpcaustralia.com/index.php/component/attachments/download/110
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Yeap, I know. I just find it ridiculous cause it’s a rather redundant system and yet they still keep it there. Whoa, I was not aware you were ranked 42. Keep up the good work man.
Hem. I’m in the bottom half so it’s nothing great.
I know what you mean, but sometimes it’s helpful to the growth of the sport to initially make qualification easier. The problem is that when the the sport is strong enough, the standards aren’t raised accordingly.
##Well, competed today and I ain’t gonna do my write up until later. Long story short, I performed pretty badly by my own standards, lifting less than my Novice Push Pull even, yet somehow I still ended up with 2nd place. So, officially speaking, I’m rated 2nd for U80 Strongman in Singapore… Wait what? Yeah, you heard that right. I know for a fact that there are tons of people who would’ve kicked my ass if they joined but eh… They didn’t. Can’t say I’m too pleased with how I performed though. Will write more in my write up, duh. Stay tuned folks, hahahahahaha.
##“There is nothing more anabolic than second place.” - I can’t recall who but I sure as hell would give him a cookie.
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At least you beat several other guys vying for the same thing regardless of their skill. Got a clean slate and nothing but improvement to look forward to anyway. I’ve gotta be more attentive with your log man, sorry I haven’t! Anyways, grats on the placing.
Thanks for the kind words!
Being able to take second on a bad day is pretty nifty dude. Once you start taking first on a bad day, you will really be dialed in. Congrats.
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Thanks for the kind words Pwnisher. It’s just, I don’t feel like the competition was worthy if that makes sense. Losing to an 18 (turning 19) year old kid when you’re several years older and having trained longer and in one guy’s case, he even had a coach. In my mind, I’m supposed to fight to even get remotely close to the podium. This was just… Too easy, for lack of a better term. It’s unsatisfactory. That being said, the guy I lost to was actually my mentor of sorts and he massively kicked my ass. If it weren’t for him being there, it might look more like a novice comp instead.
I understand. Good competition pushes us to perform harder, and without it things can be lacking. You’re somewhat isolated, which is going to limit that, so all you can really do is absolutely crush whatever opposition you DO have, but if you keep pushing hard it’ll still show, and it might make traveling for competitions worthwhile.
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Still a good effort. I totally understand what you mean though. Pwnisher as in the money as per usual.
If it’s any food for thought, my first contest I bombed hard. I had no expectations, but deep down tugging to pull my humbleness down into the bucket was a fire to win. I was too afraid to set that as my expectations because I knew I was going to do poorly on a few events because at the time I hadn’t the means to really exceed at them.
Anyway, my friends were like YOU ARE GONNA WIN MAN I FEEL IT. I just felt like shit when I asked the guy what I placed and he uncomfortably told me “looks like you placed last.” I gave it all I had and got destroyed by guys with experience. I was only 18. Needless to say I placed very well at a much more prestigious contest 8 months later and I’ve learned that there’s more to a strongman contest than just going and competing. If you REALLY want to test yourself accordingly, don’t limit yourself to any show. Find a show with events you’re good at, or find a show where you know guys are gonna be tough to beat, of course depending on what exactly you want.
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In a nutshell. Right now, I really subscribe to the dictum that you can win, or you can learn. That’s simply because of the few meets I’ve done, the two where I messed up are the ones that I a) learned the most from; and b) the ones that motivated me the most to improve, which carried over to how I approach and execute my training.
##Haven’t been updating my training log as of late, will update everything at one shot eventually. Just… Don’t feel like updating jack shit for maybe a week or so.
##Singapore Strongman Series 2016 - Static Monsters Write Up
Just so everyone is clear, the comp was 7th of May 2016, I was feeling pretty damn lazy so I delayed it till now. Honestly, even as I’m writing this, I don’t wanna. Embrace the suck, I shall.
There 2 events were
Log Press (Last Man Standing with 10kg increaments, starting at 70kgs)
and
Axle Tire Deadlift (3 attempts for max weight)
Winner is determined via who has the higher “total”.
Warmed up with a football bar and did some strict presses.
Cleaned the empty log maybe once or twice and that’s all.
Log Press
70kgs
80kgs, failed
Well shit, you’d think I’d at least get the 80kgs considering I actually prepped for this competition. Lesson learnt, specificity is key. My barbell strict press went up a shit ton but it didn’t help my log press jack shit.
Totally didn’t get to touch the axle during warm ups. Hell, I spent the entire 15 minutes of “allocated warm up time” in the wash room. Did 70kgs, 120kgs, 170kgs on a rack pull instead. It took maybe a minute so to say it was rushed would be an understatement.
Axle Tire Deadlift
200kgs
220kgs, failed
Well shit again, I got it for my 3rd attempt at Novice Push Pull but nope, not now. Would’ve went with a more conservative number but I already had my 2nd place spot locked in so I just went fuck it and picked 220kgs.
This is the final results and as you can tell, the rest of my competitors are pretty pathetic to be honest. Losing to a 18 year old who isn’t strong, lol what. First place guy in U80 is my mentor of sorts so that’s nice. That and he literally beat the shit out of me.
This are not excuses but this are some of the details of the circumstance and situation. Despite what the results say, I was around 75kgs at the time of this comp. My previous comp, Novice Push Pull, I weighed around 79kgs-ish. So 4kgs drop in a month-ish. That could be a reason for my strength drop but whatever. As for why I’m cutting, I’ll cover it later so no worries about that.
I’ve qualified for the Asia Pacific Strongman Championships 2016 in Singapore but frankly I just feel under qualified and full of shit.
Gosh, I sometimes really do wonder if anyone actually reads everything haha.