Road to Out Totaling Dave Forner in the Summer of 2013

Training Training Logs
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[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
What is yalls thanksgiving all about? Did you pretend to be nice to a bunch of people and then murder them too?

And sheiko looks interesting to me. I like to just stick to basic lifts since I’m comfortable in my weight class. Maybe I’ll give 29 a shot in the off season.[/quote]

29 is a joke. I pretty much use it to branch two 10-12 week cycles together if I’m not ready for a skills eval or ill do a skills eval in the 3rd week and just keep going with my training that way

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[quote]Ryan Pelletier wrote:
Edit: Dave what do you think of Greg dourcett Getting busted[/quote]

Well, I wasn’t in the powerlifting game when he was a prevalent member of the CPU. I can’t really comment on whether or not he was using the whole time he was a CPU member or not. I believe he probably wasn’t juicing for most of it, then just decided to be an idiot and juice in a tested fed. Personally, I was never wronged by him, never lost a medal to him, etc., so to me it isn’t a huge deal.

If it’s an untested fed, I don’t care if they juice. Or at least, I didn’t. Another CPU member recently said to me that dealing steroids more than likely links (somewhere in the chain) to another dealer dealing something else. Which, in turn, probably leads to some far nastier shit than dealing some drugs. If you look at it that way, which is a LONG chain of events, I’m glad he won’t be dealing any more steroids in the NEAR future.

Also, it’s sad to see the guy potentially lose out on his career. In some comment I read by him, it strongly implied that the only reason he was dealing in the first place was because he lost his job and couldn’t find another. I don’t know if I fully believe he wouldn’t be dealing if he could find a job in his field (teaching), but if he’s just providing for himself and his family (not sure if he actually has a family, to be honest), then that is definitely food for thought.

TL;DR: I don’t care too much. It’s sad, but also good… in a way.

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Does Adam still exist? Is he doing this meet?

Also seconded on the last week of 32 being eyes-closed easy. Get ready for that super-compensation.

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[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:

And sheiko looks interesting to me. I like to just stick to basic lifts since I’m comfortable in my weight class. Maybe I’ll give 29 a shot in the off season.[/quote]

It worked wonders for me, and didn’t change my weight too much. Most of the weight gain would be from your accessory day (if you choose to have one…which you should). Obviously you can adjust the volume on this day according to what you want to gain or not.

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[quote]DaveForner wrote:
Does Adam still exist? Is he doing this meet?

Also seconded on the last week of 32 being eyes-closed easy. Get ready for that super-compensation.[/quote]

Adam isn’t around. I believe he’s in china teaching English, till february. then after that he’s go school interviews. So not sure how much ill be training with him. I needa find another retarded strong guy that was like him lol. He’s pretty much the reason why ill be squatting ~200kg and benching ~140 at this meet. He brought training to a new light and I don’t think I could ever thank him enough for it

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I see. Doing a professional degree or?

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[quote]DaveForner wrote:
I see. Doing a professional degree or?[/quote]
from what I understand he’s trying to get into med school in the states, but then again I’ve never met a kid smarter.

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Interesting…

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Good luck to you this weekend.

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WHat time do you lift at???

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[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Good luck to you this weekend.[/quote]
Thanks

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[quote]Spock81 wrote:
WHat time do you lift at???[/quote]

Weigh ins are a 3 and lifting starts at 5 and I’m geuss that ill be in the 3rd flight considering ima fatty. its going to be a long day though never trained at 11pm so itll be a new one

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10/10/2012
Extremely exhausted. Haven’t really slept much over the past couple of days cause of work and carb sweats. So I met this girl and she seems pretty cool, I think we hit it off pretty well, I geuss we’ll see where it goes

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10/12/12
I’ve been experimenting with if this week using a 16/8 fasting period because I just don’t have time to get up in the morning to eat. I feel training has gone extremely well over the past 12 weeks although I think I pushed to hard leading up to the meet. Personally I would have decreased working sets by 5%. I haven’t really slept over the past couple of days because of projects due and the meet all coinciding with each other hopefully with a good sleep tonight everything will fall into place and ill qualify for geared nationals.

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Good luck tomorrow.

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[quote]DaveForner wrote:
Good luck tomorrow.[/quote]
Thanks,everything should fall into place.

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This is exciting! Is anyone else from T-Nation going to be competing?

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[quote]Spock81 wrote:
This is exciting! Is anyone else from T-Nation going to be competing?[/quote]
I don’t think so. There might be some of the strongman people there cause I know the guy thats running the festival was on active in the strongman forum

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Calgary Festival of Strength Write Up

I’ve been experimenting with if this week using a 16/8 fasting period because I just don’t have time to get up in the morning to eat. I feel training has gone extremely well over the past 12 weeks although I think I pushed to hard leading up to the meet. Personally I would have decreased working sets by 5%. I haven’t really slept over the past couple of days because of projects due and the meet all coinciding with each other hopefully with a good sleep tonight everything will fall into place and ill qualify for geared nationals.

Felt good getting to the meet. I got there extremely early which I like to be way early just to calm myself down and get into the meet

Squats
Attempt 1:175kg(2.5kg PR)
Felt heavy unracking it. Walked it out nice and strong. Took it down how I like to. 3 Whites

Attempt 2:192.5kg (20kg Meet PR)
Felt Heavy Unracking it. Little bit shakey on the way out squatted it slower than I had wanted, but still 3 Whites.

Attempt 3: 202.5kg (30 kg PR)
Heavy Unrack. Took too many steps on walk out than I would have liked. Slowis. Hit a sticking point half way through pushed through it. 3 Whites

Squats Overall went EXTREMELY well. I felt like I was mentally prepared for each of the attempts and the cards were delt very well for me today. I couldn’t have been happier.

Bench
Attempt 1: 120kg (ties meet PR)
It was a fucking Joke. I took it as a last warm up. 3 Whites

Attempt 2:132.5kg (12.5kg PR)
Good tightness on the bench. Came down good and easy and up the same way. 3 Whites

Attempt 3: 140kg (20kg PR)
This is what I have been training for the past 12 Weeks I wanted that 300lb bench. I had missed 305 not even three weeks prior, but 2 attempt felt good so I went for it. My tightness on the bench fucking sucked should reracked it, but went ahead anyways. Came down good and easy, pause felt like for ever. Came up stalled right before lock out made it. 3 Whites

Overall the bench went extremely well, the only complaint I had was that the pauses were not consistent, but that could just be me.

Deadlift
Attempt 1: 190kg(ties Meet PR)
Easy as hell. 3 Whites

Attempt 2: 205kg (15kg PR)
Slower than I thought it would have went up. Not really any sticking points just a harder pull than it should have been. 3 Whites

Full RedBull
Attempt 3:220kg(30kg PR)
Pulled the FUCK out of it. Felt like a fishing pole still made the fucker. 3 Whites.

Happy with my deadlift performance I was surprised I wasn’t the weakest puller considering I’m am totalally not build for pulling.

Total:562.5kg (80kg Pr)

Everything was in the cards today. I went 9/9 and I didn’t leave nothing on the platform which I was happy about. Nice to know I didn’t let my ego get in the way of my lifting. Good to see some familiar faces and some new ones. Found a group to train with that will be starting up in the fall so i have that to look forward to. Overall I think the judging was fair even though the pauses were possibly unfair but thats the game. I’m not sure whats next whether it will be geared or Classic Nationals. I find it funny that me and ramzy were both pretty spot on my total about 8-12 Weeks ago.

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