[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
I only post on here so much because I have about 10 million hours a day to kill at work/school and all my free time is spent either reading or posting in these forums. haha.
I’d be more than happy to share some of what I do. Actually, it will be good to write it out and organize it because I dont even know what the hell I am doing half the time. I guess it makes the most sense to start at the beginning.
TRAINGING HISTORY:
As far as training history, I have had a job since I was in 5th grade. I grew up on a farm so as soon as I was capable of rational thought and had the ability to shovel shit, literally, I was doing work. Looking back now I realize the 4 or so years I did that was GPP for the training I would be doing for the rest of life. I got a gym membership in 8th grade because I wanted to play football in high school but my mom and the coaches said I was too small and would probably die if I got hit. Needless to say, this fucked me up pretty bad. I was small, I got picked on, I had dislexia (mostly because I was anxious as shit from getting beat up every day), and all my teachers pretty much wrote me off as retarded. Anyway, the gym changed that. I met up with a trainer, Keith Dickie was his name, who used to be a body builder and he helped me out a lot. 9th grade sucked. I got my ass handed to me in football all year. After the season (and after lacrosse season) I learned about the Bigger Faster Stronger program and worked the shit out of that for the rest of high school. in 12th grade I broke all the schools lifting records. Went to play football at a D3 college, broke all the records there too. Regretfully, I had to quit my senior year(2007) for an incredibly fucked up situation but the up side of that was I could focus on powerlifting. All football left me with though was 8 different surgeries and a ton of muscle imbalances that I am still correcting today.
My first meet was in 2005 and I was a sophmore in college. I did it just for fun because 2 of my buddies were into it, I had just been introduced to westside and like everyone else, I had no idea what the fuck Louie Simmons was talking about. I went something like 530, 365, 620ish raw at 275. I did a couple more meets and played football which was tough but I made it work. After I quit the team, I really started trying to learn everything I could about strength. I thought I knew everything because I had just got a degree in exercise science and all my weights were shooting up. I did a raw meet in the beginning of 2008 and went 699, 412?, 725 as a junior 275. Then that summer, I fractured my L3 while doing rack pulls. The docs said it looked like it was damaged already, football, but the extreme tension of my lower back pretty much pulled the bone in half. So, basically I was fucked. I had no insurance so PT was out of the question and surgery would have made it impossible to lift again. I bought every book I could find on rehab and searched the internet for about 6 hours a day until I could move around again, which was about a week. I am glad this happened to me. You learn a lot about yourself when you are in a completely hopeless situation like this. Anyway, instead of laying around and waiting to feel better, I worked the shit out of it and got back to lifting, not heavy, in 3 months. Did a bench only 4 months after my injury and eeked out a 487 shirted press. So, that pretty much takes me to now. My squat is finally coming back up, my bench still sucks, and my deadlift appears to be much smoother without all those stupid vertebra in the way. My next full meet is july 10th and I am shooting for a 2100lb total that includes a 744 squat. If that actually happens, I’ll probably get a tattoo on my face that says “Fuck Yea”.
Sorry thats kinda long winded but a lot of stupid shit has happened to me so I wanted to get it all in there. haha.
TRAINING:
From 2005-2007 my taining looked like this:
3 days a week
Monday-
Squat-5,4,3,2,1,1
Wednesday-
Bench-5,4,3,2,11
Friday-
Deadlift-5,4,3,2,1,1
That was seriously about it. I got strong as shit. Some assistance work but nothing really worth mentioning, just anything I needed to work on and also took a week off here and there. Also, all you “sport specific” people, my 40 time went from 4.89 at 255lbs to 4.75 at 272lbs. What was the differnece besides body weight? I squatted heavy every week for 2 years.
2008-now
2 days a week max effort
2 days dynamic efforts
4+extra workouts for recovery/gpp
3 weeks on, 1 week off no matter how I am feeling
Even though everything I’ve read tells me not to do it, I have recently started doing some circa max work before meets. I like heavy weight on my back/in my hands and I feel like it helps me at meets. I also started cycling strnegth speed and speed strength phases.
Pretty much every 8 weeks, I try something new and if it works I keep it, if not I throw it out.
I can get a lot more detailed about my training if you guys want me to.
DIET:
My diet is a lot. 6 solid meals a day on average. Kinda on the anything and everything plan.
INJURIES:
Too many to mention. I got through them all by working my ass off and not waiting to feel better.
GOALS:
Short term: 2100lbs july 10th
Long Term: go 800, 600, 900 in the usapl/ipf
Lifetime: Squat 1000+, Deadlift 1000+, bench something that doesnt suck.
Thats about all I can think of. I am going to stop here because I actually hate talking about myself. I’d be more than happy to share anything else though so let me know!
Die, or get strong trying,
~Mike[/quote]
Thanks for writing all that out man, it was a good read. Best of luck with your upcoming meets.
), but he is also one of the damn strongest guys on this site, very active in the PL forum, and always helpful when someone asks him a question.