Excellent lifting my friend, will be interesting to see your progress using Sheiko! Do you enjoy that kind of programming?
watched the vid now I am home - looks like a good crowd to train with, sick deadlifts too!
[quote]BigBen198 wrote:
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Thats legit, haha. CWU huh? I’m at WSU right now.[/quote]
Yup I’m a wildcat all the way, I’m a vocal performance music major and I RA in the dorms 
I have some friends who are at WSU they seem to like it, what are you majoring in?[/quote]
I’ll have my masters in civil engineering in December.
I’ll be following your log, hoping to learn a thing or two.
Damn, your history reminds me of my history! I honestly haven’t really understood when people say they’re inspired by other training logs on the internet but I think I’m starting to get it. You’re giving me a real direction and motivation to my own training. I need to get to where you’re at!
[quote]Adam-F wrote:
Excellent lifting my friend, will be interesting to see your progress using Sheiko! Do you enjoy that kind of programming?
watched the vid now I am home - looks like a good crowd to train with, sick deadlifts too![/quote]
thanks! so far I am loving sheiko, I’m mostly enjoying the fact that I can feel that I’m doing work every time I go to the gym and beating the crap out of myself the entire time. there is no question as to whether I have had a good workout because surviving to the end is the only indicator you need haha And My crowd is the best! Benny Seath has totaled 1950 at 20 years old RAW with an 800 lb RAW Squat (DEEP) drug free and is looking to to break the 2100 barrier at his next meet, Robbie Chicano is working his way through the ranks with hopes of becoming a pro bodybuilder, and Cyal Christmas is ridiculously strong and trains strongman with me sometimes. We actually decided that he is me if I never gave up pizza haha the atmosphere is great at my gym and I am blessed to have such incredible people to train with!
[quote]Varitek86 wrote:
[quote]BigBen198 wrote:
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Thats legit, haha. CWU huh? I’m at WSU right now.[/quote]
Yup I’m a wildcat all the way, I’m a vocal performance music major and I RA in the dorms I have some friends who are at WSU they seem to like it, what are you majoring in?[/quote]
I’ll have my masters in civil engineering in December.
I’ll be following your log, hoping to learn a thing or two.[/quote]
That’s pretty awesome, and feel free to stick around haha If you can learn anything here please do! and if you have any questions about the random way I do stuff feel free to ask I love talking shop!
[quote]165StateChamp wrote:
Damn, your history reminds me of my history! I honestly haven’t really understood when people say they’re inspired by other training logs on the internet but I think I’m starting to get it. You’re giving me a real direction and motivation to my own training. I need to get to where you’re at![/quote]
I appreciate that brother, I promise that everything I’ve achieved is attainable drug free, and by an athlete that was not originally blessed with crazy awesome genetics. If someone is willing to put in the effort, and commit to everything fully then they can do what I have done. Thanks for the comment, anytime someone tells me I’m motivating them it helps drive me to work harder so that I can keep being motivational haha lift hard brother!
This log is really inspirational, thanks for posting!
Just saw your log. Very impressive! Have any meets lined up? I’m doing my first one on Aug 20th.
[quote]phlegms wrote:
This log is really inspirational, thanks for posting! [/quote]
glad you like it thanks for commenting =)
[quote]Killerb521 wrote:
Just saw your log. Very impressive! Have any meets lined up? I’m doing my first one on Aug 20th. [/quote]
I’ve got 2 meets lined up right now, October 15th I’ll be aiming to take down a RAW 1700 lb total at 198, and then the first weekend of November I’ll fly down to Reno for the WABDL World deadlifting championships and try to take down the Junior 220 world record of 751 and win my 4th consecutive world championship.
[quote]BigBen198 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Yeah me neither[/quote]
haha well actually I do, it’s all a matter of ignoring the feeling and using the doubt as motivation and a constant opponent that I can focus on beating… lol sorry I get in epic moods sometimes and everything sounds all dramatic haha[/quote]
Don’t sweat it. It was cool to read it.
I haven’t followed the logs but this one caught my eye and I ended up reading the whole thing. Awesome work, you’ve got a bright future!
[quote]BigBen198 wrote:
[quote]Killerb521 wrote:
Just saw your log. Very impressive! Have any meets lined up? I’m doing my first one on Aug 20th. [/quote]
I’ve got 2 meets lined up right now, October 15th I’ll be aiming to take down a RAW 1700 lb total at 198, and then the first weekend of November I’ll fly down to Reno for the WABDL World deadlifting championships and try to take down the Junior 220 world record of 751 and win my 4th consecutive world championship.[/quote]
Those are pretty close. How are you planning to peak for two meets simultaneously? I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone doing that before.
[quote]ericcartman wrote:
I haven’t followed the logs but this one caught my eye and I ended up reading the whole thing. Awesome work, you’ve got a bright future![/quote]
thanks =) I love sharing what I do with like minded people so this place seems to be a great outlet
Strong for sure man. Pretty inspiring history by the way. I’m 16 and i’m working toward big numbers myself but got a ways to go. Will be following.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]BigBen198 wrote:
[quote]Killerb521 wrote:
Just saw your log. Very impressive! Have any meets lined up? I’m doing my first one on Aug 20th. [/quote]
I’ve got 2 meets lined up right now, October 15th I’ll be aiming to take down a RAW 1700 lb total at 198, and then the first weekend of November I’ll fly down to Reno for the WABDL World deadlifting championships and try to take down the Junior 220 world record of 751 and win my 4th consecutive world championship.[/quote]
Those are pretty close. How are you planning to peak for two meets simultaneously? I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone doing that before.[/quote]
yeah it’s not exactly ideal but I’ve done it before with a shorter time frame. My last 2 competitions were 14 days apart, the first one was the WA strongest Apple strongman national qualifier, it was my first strongman contest and I managed to win it. 2 weeks later I had my WABDL Worlds qualifier where I showed up and managed to break my all time PR and pull 733 at 203. The challenge there was going from a 5 event strongman contest which included an axle deadlift for reps… to a single lift, single ply max weight contest. It was stressful and required some strategic workout planning and programming, but it worked out really well so I’m confident that going from a RAW 3 lift where I plan on having a big deadlift anyway, to a suited single lift a few weeks later will be an easier transition and therefore be do-able…
Here I already posted a video of my deadlift contest but I’ll post both of those last contest videos again so that you can see the difference in the training required and how crazy the transition had to be for the 2 week turn over and shift in training
Washington's Strongest Apple 2011 Ben Rice 200 lb class winner My first strongman show.mp4 - YouTube
[quote]parsley wrote:
Strong for sure man. Pretty inspiring history by the way. I’m 16 and i’m working toward big numbers myself but got a ways to go. Will be following. [/quote]
Welcome! and thank you. just remember that all good things come with time, and crazy amounts of effort!
[quote]BigBen198 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]BigBen198 wrote:
[quote]Killerb521 wrote:
Just saw your log. Very impressive! Have any meets lined up? I’m doing my first one on Aug 20th. [/quote]
I’ve got 2 meets lined up right now, October 15th I’ll be aiming to take down a RAW 1700 lb total at 198, and then the first weekend of November I’ll fly down to Reno for the WABDL World deadlifting championships and try to take down the Junior 220 world record of 751 and win my 4th consecutive world championship.[/quote]
Those are pretty close. How are you planning to peak for two meets simultaneously? I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone doing that before.[/quote]
yeah it’s not exactly ideal but I’ve done it before with a shorter time frame. My last 2 competitions were 14 days apart, the first one was the WA strongest Apple strongman national qualifier, it was my first strongman contest and I managed to win it. 2 weeks later I had my WABDL Worlds qualifier where I showed up and managed to break my all time PR and pull 733 at 203. The challenge there was going from a 5 event strongman contest which included an axle deadlift for reps… to a single lift, single ply max weight contest. It was stressful and required some strategic workout planning and programming, but it worked out really well so I’m confident that going from a RAW 3 lift where I plan on having a big deadlift anyway, to a suited single lift a few weeks later will be an easier transition and therefore be do-able…
Here I already posted a video of my deadlift contest but I’ll post both of those last contest videos again so that you can see the difference in the training required and how crazy the transition had to be for the 2 week turn over and shift in training
Washington's Strongest Apple 2011 Ben Rice 200 lb class winner My first strongman show.mp4 - YouTube
Ben Rice WABDL Worlds Qualifier - Deadlift Record 733.3lbs http://www.theaestheticmovement.com - YouTube [/quote]
Nice. I’d like to see how this all turns out for you. Did you do any strongman training prior or did you win it with strength alone? Impressive either way.
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Nice. I’d like to see how this all turns out for you. Did you do any strongman training prior or did you win it with strength alone? Impressive either way.[/quote]
No I trained strongman events like crazy 3 weeks out with coaching from my good friend and Pro lightweight strongman Zack Mccarley, and while I was the strongest one there (as far as static or gym strength is concerned) I really won it with my conditioning, by the time we got to the yoke, everyone else was pretty gassed, but I had been training so much volume that I was still solid and set a new PR time. putting me in an almost unreachable 1st going into to last event. plus I absolutely owned everyone on the Axle dead for reps
[quote]BigBen198 wrote:
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Nice. I’d like to see how this all turns out for you. Did you do any strongman training prior or did you win it with strength alone? Impressive either way.[/quote]
No I trained strongman events like crazy 3 weeks out with coaching from my good friend and Pro lightweight strongman Zack Mccarley, and while I was the strongest one there (as far as static or gym strength is concerned) I really won it with my conditioning, by the time we got to the yoke, everyone else was pretty gassed, but I had been training so much volume that I was still solid and set a new PR time. putting me in an almost unreachable 1st going into to last event. plus I absolutely owned everyone on the Axle dead for reps ;)[/quote]
looks like you’ve got the whole package man