Power Cleans
135wu, 185x6, 225x4, 245x3,275x1x3s
Power Snatch
135x6x4
Standing press (for speed)
135x8x3
DB rear lat raises
35x8x4
alt hammer curls
45x8x4s
Barbell cheat curl to forehead
135x6x4
Moment of self doubt. Looking for input. I eat pretty healthy (I think) when I can and don’t use any supplements. My main problem with maintaining a strict diet is I’m walking a mail route all day and I can only eat what I can keep in a lunchbox. I usually feel great and my lifting is going good but maybe it could be going gooder…
According to my Dr my BP/heart rate/cholestrol/prostrate are all super. Never had any tests for all the other stuff.
I’ve done a lot of reading on this site. Lots of routines and nutritional stuff. My routine seems pretty, dated, compared to many and maybe I do need to pay more attention to my diet and try supplements. Granted, I lift to throw so I’m not really that worried about my appearance. I guess what I’m asking for are some suggestions on the best supplements and foods for power and strength. Thanks to all.
Those power cleans are insane Chief. You should come play interior line with me.
My opinion, for what it worth, If you are eating clean and getting 5-6 meals a day. Your spot on. Food prep is the key for you. Get it all done on Sunday and take it with you during the week.
Nice looking workout hel! I don’t take much in the way of sups either, but sometimes I’ll score a tub of protein. I do make sure I’m taking a multi vitamin, and fish oil. I think it’s most important to take those.
I think most of the nutrition and supplement stuff we see on here is geared more for bodybuilders. That stuff’s just too anal for me. I’ll count reps but calories? Pfah.
My doctor has me on prescription fish oil tablets and I take the occasional multi-vitamin but frankly, there have been times when I’ve been really intense about the supplements and vitamins and I didn’t see one iota of difference than when I just ate and drank normally.
If I’m getting too fat, I eat a little less and do a little more. But my definition of too fat is a bit different than a lot of the guys on here. Every time I start getting lean, my wife starts feeding me more; she doesn’t like me skinny. She makes the best carrot cake in the world and it’s hard to argue with a carrot cake.
Do you need a prescription for fish oil in Texas?
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Unless you done kilt it yosef…
But, no. I was in there [my doctor’s office] for my regular checkup and she asked what vitamins/supplements I was taking and I mentioned the flax seed oil tablets I was taking. She asked why I wasn’t taking fish oil (which she preferred) and I told her that when I take fish oil tablets, I get fish oil burps. And that’s just really nasty.
So she said that there are some higher quality fish oil tablets that don’t do that and she gave me a prescription. No fish oil burps.
Actually though I don’t take fish oil pills I do eat a lot of fish. My wife is Oriental so it’s a main stay of her diet. Whenever I’m feeling a little heavy I just go on rice and fish for awhile. My downfall is a German mother and a Cajun father. Mom still makes her own wurst several times a year (brat, weis, blut) and is the typical “eat more, ist good for you” mom. My cousins bring up crawdads from New Iberia and argue with my wife over how to make rice. Nothing like brats, jambalaya, boudoin, crawdads, beer and Jim Beam for the ole heart. I think I’ll write that up as a new diet.
Last night
Machine hack squats - 90wu,180x10,250x8,270x8, 290x8, 310x6
Leg Press-
200wu, 400x10,490x8,580x8,670x6,720x6
Step ups - holding 45lb plate in each hand
3x8 ea leg
CG Bench 135wu,185x8,225x8,275x6,275x4
Seated overhead db tri ext 60x12,75x10x3s
Tried some dips. Kept leaning too far in and hitting my lower chest more than my tris. Anyhow, did 3x10. Need to work on these to hit my tris more
Today
Made soup and sandwiches for lunch at the State Veterans Home. Only place I still get called youngster.
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
I have no idea what any of that means, But Good Work anyway!!![/quote]
Quick intro to the scottish games:
The “Stone” is a standard measure of weight in Britain and weighs 14 pounds. The weights weigh 28 and 56 pounds respectively, multiples of the standard measure. You throw weights for height (over a cross bar) or for distance. The main difference with the throwing for distances in the scottish games vs modern Track & Field is you can only hold the weights with one hand and the area you throw from is rectangular, not circular, and larger.
The caber toss is a 16-20 foot taper log. Weighs between 90-100 lbs. You’re trying to flip it one turn and and have it land directly in a straight line. How accurately the caber turns to be in line determines you score. A perfect score is a 180 degree flip.
In the sheef toss you use a pitchfork to toss the sheaf (a hay filled bag between 16 lbs and 25 lbs) over crossbars above you.
The Scottish hammer is between 16 and 22lbs and has a solid wooden handle. Unlike the T&F hammer throw you can’t move your feet at all.
The stone throw is the ancestor of the shot put. Weighs between 16 an 28lbs. Lot of varitey in stones shapes and sizes.
Sorry if that’s too much detail but I love the Scottish games almost as much as Track and field.
Oh yeah, you have to wear a kilt. What you wear under it is up to you.
I spend so little time on other threads that I’ve discovered I’m missing out on a whole lot of great info. Just went through the posts on this page & I’m awestruck! I really respect the stuff you do for T&F and Highland Games stuff. At one time, I was a T&F wannabe. In college, the T&F coach saw me working out and asked if I wouldn’t mind showing him something…took me outside to this cement pad with a painted circle on it. Said, “Take this ball & heave it as far as you can” Showed me how to kinda cradle it against my neck…Handed me a shot and I heaved it up in the air and caught it a couple of times, tried cradling it but it fell on the floor a couple of times, stood at the edge of the circle and “heaved/shoved” it ~15’. He said, “Wow, I thought you were strong!” My ego was hurt something fierce…so I asked him how far would I have to throw it for him to be impressed? He said, from a stand, >30’ I never learned the spin or glide but threw that damn ball until I hit ~37’ in an All Comer’s meet in Eugene, OR in 1982. The short & long version of my throwing history(1978-1982). During grad school, I got to meet all the great throwers of that day, Burton, Feurbach, Wilkins, Stover Plunknett, Rogge, Crouser brothers, Oldfield, McCardle, Burns, Flax, Petronoff, Powell, Barnes, Hohn, Laut, Schmock, Landerholm, & Goldsmith, etc at the Univ. of Oregon as I was in charge of the medical coverage of the T&F team.
I look forward to keeping more frequent tabs of your thread…best of luck!
During grad school, I got to meet all the great throwers of that day, Burton, Feurbach, Wilkins, Stover Plunknett, Rogge, Crouser brothers, Oldfield, McCardle, Burns, Flax, Petronoff, Powell, Barnes, Hohn, Laut, Schmock, Landerholm, & Goldsmith, etc at the Univ. of Oregon as I was in charge of the medical coverage of the T&F team.
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Good to hear from you. Damn am I jealous! That is a who’s who of the throwing elite. I met Fuerbach and Oldfield but it was after they were through throwing. I think Wilkins is out in Oregon coaching now. I have downloaded films of all of them. Powell is talking about coming out of retirement and going for the 60+WR. Even though he was banned for life Barnes still holds the world record. Eugene is still THE place for Track and Field. The Prefontaine Classic draws the best every year.
Master’s level sports are really starting to catch on. Advertisers are finally figuring out we’ve got the money to spend (at least when my wife lets me). Be it T&F, powerlifting, Oly Lifting, swimming, etc. I figure the more who know, the more will compete, the more meets there will be (stepping off soap box now).
Hope your pec keeps healing and you can get back to competing soon. Need more of us “mature” guys out there representing.
[quote]daddyzombie wrote:
Now that’s some cool stuff right there hel320! Sounds like fun, but I doubt I could hang with you big guys.[/quote]
It was right above freezing when we were throwing. Not cold like up your way but we get some he-man points. It’s damn cold when the wind goes up your dress, er I meant kilt. Maybe he-MAN isn’t quit the right word?
Disclamior: Any Scots who happen to read my post. I mean no disrespect to your traditional garb. It takes real men to wear a dress well.
Got to love these Federal holidays! Just had to get out and throw today. Three shirts and longjohns helped. Two days of throwing in a row. I’ll see how my arm feels tomorrow. Got ice on it as I’m typing. Definitely need to speed up. Throwing with all power now. Throwing overweight disc. Twice as heavy as competition.
Well, I meant to attach some videos and it just ain’t happenin. Must be peak usage time. Or the videos are eventually show up multiple times. Anyway, this is suppose to be me practicing my spin technique in the shot. Definitely have a need for speed.
Change of schedule. I’ve always been an after work, in the evening lifter. For the next week I’ve got other things I have to do after work. So I’m going to try the morning work out routine for a while. Let’s see how working out with a coffee mug in my hand goes.
