[quote]DBasler wrote:
Two strong dudes in that picture.[/quote]
Yup!
I just got on this am to see the write up, BD Styleā¦
Waiting for my nonprize to arrive in the mail.
Also for the writeup.
KP your non prize in the mailā¦
I promise UP & Kp ill get a write up soon. Its going to be a BIG one , I was just a little tired from yesterday to work on it plus I need to take take time and digest a few things from the seminar.
Sons game was canceled for tonight. Ill have a write up by tomorrow.
Champion Training Day part1
All right, as some may or may not know I was in training for my next Meet when I came aware of a seminar being hosted by Reactive Training System. . Which, by chance, occurred exactly one week from the day of my Meet go figure, Which put me in a predicament of either going to the CTD were I would lift in front of some of the best and get feedback or just focus on my Meet. To make it more of a hard decision it was being held less than 40 miles from my home. Luckily for me I got nailed by a Flu bug which threw my training into the shitter. So making the decision became somewhat easier on my end along with having someone point out to me that in the long run it would probably be more beneficial in the long run to attend the CTD. Since any type of actual coaching for me doesnāt exist. In retrospect considering the quality of the individuals there Im not sure why there was any question in my mind in the first place.
Here is a rundown of who was there and doing the hands on coaching
Jeremy Hartman:
Teen National Title, 4 Consecutive Collegiate/Jr. National Championships, and a Mens Open in 2008.
Gold Medal dead lift at the 2008 IPF Open World Championships at 218lbs.
He is currently the strength and conditioning coach for the High School which the seminar took place.
Brian Siders
Brian Siders Interview Part 1 - YouTube
- YouTube
is a world champion powerlifter and regular participant in the Arnold Strongman Classic. Brian started lifting in high school, mainly just training the bench press and upper body.Brian started focusing on squatting and dead lifting in the winter of 1997, and started doing full powerlifting meets in 1998.]Brian trains 6 to 7 days per week and up to 4 hours at a time at his gym he built at his home.[ Brian has set several powerlifting world records, including a world record total of 2,452 lbs. at the 2004 USAPL Senior National Championships,] and another world record total of 2,529 lbs. at the 2004 IPF World Championships. Brian currently holds the IPF world record in the bench press of 775.5 lbs and total of 2,596 lb in the super heavyweight weight class.
Mike Tuchscherer:
Mike Tuchscherer competed on Saturday March 3rd at the 2012 Arnold Raw Challenge setting seven IPF raw world records. He weighed in at 264 pounds and squatted 716.5 lbs deadlifted 782.6 lbs and totaled 1934.5 lbs. All three are new IPF raw world records. Mike also benched 435.4 lbs raw.
Ed Coan
If I need to go into Eds achievements Ill fill two pages. Besides if you dont know who he is. Then you need to remove yourself right now. Because , Im not sure if Id want to be associated with you.
Well this sums up this part. I will go into the actual day in the next part.
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[quote]damutt wrote:
tease
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and thats how you like it.
Champion Training Day Part 2 of 3
Well , I got up Saturday with only a few hours of sleep due to a late night of High School football and still feeling not a 100% due to the damn bug which has been hanging around like luggage. So it made a less the optimal start. Luckily after getting some breakfast a gallon of coffee and about 800mg of Ibuprofen I felt somewhat less zombie like. Even though I had to slightly fight the urge for human flesh the remainder of the day.
I was the second to arrive at the high school were the seminar was being held, the first being the head strength and conditioning coach for the University of Indianapolis. I was surprised at the very low turnout. Out of 30 open slots only 12 people were attending it which made it even more hands on coaching.
The meet and greet:
Well before we hit the weights there was about 30 minutes of people introducing themselves. Iāll be honest even at a ripe old age of 41 I felt like a kid and was nervous being around Ed Coan . Luckily, the notion set in with me that he just a regular guy whom has moved allots of weight in his time and I started to feel more comfortable. It also helped that Coan is a pretty humble guy and has a very down to earth attitude. It was funny a younger guy was talking to Ed and was talking a million miles a minute and was into full geek mode. During the exchange I was amused to find out that the whole " Philip Coan dead lift" program you seen on line wasnāt written by Coan he just gave a rough outline and Philip ran with it. āI would never do that much workā These were his own words,I had to bite my tongue to keep from busting a gut .
Squats:
Three of us older bastard ended up flocking together and squatted in the same squat rack. As I started to squat Ed came behind me and got on me for pushing my ass to far back on the start of it. He point blank told me pushing ones ass back like I was works for multi ply guys , not raw. During my progression to my top set for the day Brian Siders gave me advice on shorting my walk out, showing me how he does it with heavy weight. I worked up to 550 for the day. At that point Brian called Ed over to watch. As I was getting under the bar Brian said āOk,no pressure you just have one of the greatest watching youā. Iām, thinking to myself , āOh Shitā. Well I hit it pretty easy in my mind with room to spare.
After my last set Ed informed me that I should get the bar lower. I honestly, never thought about it but this entire time I've been doing a High bar squat. Well Ed got me back under the bar and positioned me.. for the record it sucked due to my lack of shoulder mobility. It's going to take me awhile to get my shoulders were they need to be to the point that my shoulders don't feel like they aren't being dislocated. Jeremy Hartman gave me several band stretches to help me in that department.
I was told by Mike Tuchscherer that structurally I was designed to squat based on my body structure.
Bench:
Was a Shit show on my partā¦ Basically for some reason I could stay tight at all! Mike Hartman pointed out I need to bring my feet back more. Along with the fact that Iām not utilizing my upper back or lats in the movement. I always thought I was, until Mike set me up on the Bench, Damn again! My Lats started cramping up with no weight just from being in the proper set up and being tight.
After Bench we had Lunch in one of the class rooms. Iāll Go into more detail in part 3
Deadlift:
I figured this would be the one lift were I needed the most coaching since this is the one lift I pretty much suck at relative to my other two lifts. But Iāll be damned I was told my Brian Siders that my conventional form was better than his. Crap!! Brian and I talked; he and I have similar leverages he suggested that might want to consider trying a modified sumo deadlift. Strangely enough Mike Tuchscherer during the dead portion suggests that I might want to involve my legs more into. So it seems that the general consistence thought seems to be it might be productive for me to experiment with sumo to a point.
Round Table:
Iāll go into this in part 3 along with more details regarding the day along with some closing thoughts.
Soooooo your going to try multiply gearā¦ Lol
Be cool to see how you adjust with the little tweaks. Maybe an even BIGGER BD! BOOM!
Love your writing
[quote]Up wrote:
Be cool to see how you adjust with the little tweaks. Maybe an even BIGGER BD! BOOM!
Love your writing :)[/quote]
I can only hopeā¦
Thanks again for all of your help at the meet and Good benching.
[quote]DBasler wrote:
Thanks again for all of your help at the meet and Good benching. [/quote]
Dave it was my pleasure to help no need for thanking me. Besides you had to hang around me in one of my weird moods. We just say it was mediocre benching being polite.
Your starting to get behindā¦ Weāre waiting on part three of your seminar and now a meet write upā¦ Tapping foot waiting
[quote]damutt wrote:
Your starting to get behindā¦ Weāre waiting on part three of your seminar and now a meet write upā¦ Tapping foot waiting[/quote]
2012 NASA Ohio Meet write up.
I BLEW GOAT JUNK !!! Had no business entering any part of it all things considered.
Ok one write up done.
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
[quote]damutt wrote:
Your starting to get behindā¦ Weāre waiting on part three of your seminar and now a meet write upā¦ Tapping foot waiting[/quote]
2012 NASA Ohio Meet write up.
I BLEW GOAT JUNK !!! Had no business entering any part of it all things considered.
Ok one write up done.[/quote]
I hope someday I will be able to bench 400+ and rag on it!
[quote]DBasler wrote:
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
[quote]damutt wrote:
Your starting to get behindā¦ Weāre waiting on part three of your seminar and now a meet write upā¦ Tapping foot waiting[/quote]
2012 NASA Ohio Meet write up.
I BLEW GOAT JUNK !!! Had no business entering any part of it all things considered.
Ok one write up done.[/quote]
I hope someday I will be able to bench 400+ and rag on it![/quote]
Regardless my performance Blew Goat Junkā¦The only highlight for me sadly was a certain female lifter. And of course you having a good day.
LIGHT and I do mean Light Squat and pull session.
Warm up: Pvc rolls
light stretching
Butt load of shoulder mobility work.
Used low bar position Coan told me to use.
Squat: several light warm up sets
5 x 5 X 60%ā¦Pretty easy, After the second set I started feeling very comfortable with new bar position.
Modified Sumo dead lift or (WTF)ā¦as suggested by Brian Siders, I think I should really thank him .
Worked up to only 385 and did 275 x 3 x 3
For the record these just sucked.maybe the third time in my life I tried them so my body was like WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE??? I will give them a good eight weeks or so and see if I take to them or not.
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
[quote]damutt wrote:
Your starting to get behindā¦ Weāre waiting on part three of your seminar and now a meet write upā¦ Tapping foot waiting[/quote]
2012 NASA Ohio Meet write up.
I BLEW GOAT JUNK !!! Had no business entering any part of it all things considered.
Ok one write up done.[/quote]
Nope need numbers not good enoughā¦ Your performance may have sucked in your world but the rest of us want to yewwww and ahhhhh at itā¦
[quote]damutt wrote:
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
[quote]damutt wrote:
Your starting to get behindā¦ Weāre waiting on part three of your seminar and now a meet write upā¦ Tapping foot waiting[/quote]
2012 NASA Ohio Meet write up.
I BLEW GOAT JUNK !!! Had no business entering any part of it all things considered.
Ok one write up done.[/quote]
Nope need numbers not good enoughā¦ Your performance may have sucked in your world but the rest of us want to yewwww and ahhhhh at itā¦[/quote]
I m not going to take time and write about it. I will say that the official results were posted on the site today. It would appear that I must of misread the Kilo chart when I gave my attempt at the judges table. It appears I Benched slightly more then I tought with 407.8 lbs.