BEASTOFRAGE
11-08-08, 10:05 pm
SPF MISSISSIPPI
bw: 341(345 later!)
curt got up to at least 341 on the day of the meet which was his all-time highest bw. we did this because the week before he was badly in need of recovery so we uped the creatine, ala, protein, weight gainer, etc to offset this. benched the other day(light session) and everything was easy for him. onward to the meet, warmups went very well. got up to him having to hold his opener at lock for 10 seconds. went for 725, and literally held it at the bottom for 10 seconds before he fired it up back up with amazing speed, just didn’t touch. then went to 765 and the same thing occured here. he got it down(brought it down slow) but within the last inch or so, couldn’t touch and held it there for 10 seconds or more before he fired it up and we had to take it. i called for him to have 805. same thing occured once more. got him fired up for this attempt since he had me call the final attempt. he brought it down faster this time but again, held for about 5-6 seconds before he called since he knew the same thing would occur again. i believe our mistake was not havin touched at all during this cycle and it still being a new shirt. we’ll be implementing some new ideas to help with this issue but curt can murder 805 now, he knows this. i knew this before going into this meet. just need to work on touchin more in the next training cycle is all. he’s goin to try and stay around 335-340 and see how it effects his strength. he is still going back to full meets in 09, just going to have to do a big bench in a full meet is all. all in all, it was a productive day. he wants 805 again and i know next time he will kill it! mason kicked ass and squatted 650 which was a world record for his weight class and division. he too had some benching woes that we are going to fix. the meet was fairly small, about 15 lifters. other than the issues curt and mason came across on the bench, yesterday was a productive day. we have a new plan that will fix all these issues and next time this won’t happen. on a side note, eric and trent have been hittin some impressive stuff! trent did a 605 3-board and eric did a 590 3-board…both done in the same shirt. eric has a rage x coming that we know is going to work for him. with the issues we had at this meet, these two will get the benefit of knowing how to touch in the shirts.
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ME BENCH
raw bench
135×10 245×6 335×3 335×3
shirted bench w/ katana
CG 4-board- 425×1 515×1
CG 3-board- 585×1 645×1
CG 2-board- 695×1 725×1
suicides
4-boards- 335×5
3-boards- 335×5
2-boards- 335×5
1-board- 335×5
full range- 335×2
***tonite was our first session back at the garage. tonite was the first session in our new training cycle that’s goin to be exploding some numbers. we also tried wetting our shirts and leaving wrinkles in my katana and jon’s f-6 and it worked wonders for both of us. jon did a 705 CG 3-board which is a 90lb PR from the 615 set in early october. i did a 725 CG 2-board which was another meet post-bombout! trent, eric, and mason had an off session. eric did a 515 CG 3-BOARD, trent did 515 CG 3-BOARD, and mason did some raw work. trent and eric are consisently staying 500+ on bar weight on any bench session which is huge progress in their first month training like powerlifters. we finished up with some suicides and me and jon attempted some bending but we were still burned from last week where jon did 11 grade 8 bolts and i did 12 60-penny bolts. jon managed a bend with a grade 8 and i did the same with grade 5 6 incher. now it will be 2 weeks before we bend again…for sure!! also previously before the meet, eric did a 590 3-board competition grip which was a huge PR on top of a 500 raw pull and trent did a 500×2 raw squat, so those two are gettin fuckin strong as well as their confidence is starting to climb. both has started bending and like me, they’re confidence is improving. we are goin to work with mason on his raw bench to get it up to where it should be and maybe give him some time to send one of those shirts back to get adjusted some. we got vids of tonites session as well as eric’s 500 and 590 3-boards from two weeks ago and mason’s 650 WR squat…the vids will be up tommorrow nite…also, today we got up the record boards for BAMA BARBELL. it awesome…even got a myspace page now:
http://www.myspace.com/bamabarbell
view various vid here:
http://trainordie.com/trainingblogs/2008/11/09/various-vids/
BAMA BARBELL IN FULL EFFECT!
TB
bw: 341(345 later!)
curt got up to at least 341 on the day of the meet which was his all-time highest bw. we did this because the week before he was badly in need of recovery so we uped the creatine, ala, protein, weight gainer, etc to offset this. benched the other day(light session) and everything was easy for him. onward to the meet, warmups went very well. got up to him having to hold his opener at lock for 10 seconds. went for 725, and literally held it at the bottom for 10 seconds before he fired it up back up with amazing speed, just didn’t touch. then went to 765 and the same thing occured here. he got it down(brought it down slow) but within the last inch or so, couldn’t touch and held it there for 10 seconds or more before he fired it up and we had to take it. i called for him to have 805. same thing occured once more. got him fired up for this attempt since he had me call the final attempt. he brought it down faster this time but again, held for about 5-6 seconds before he called since he knew the same thing would occur again. i believe our mistake was not havin touched at all during this cycle and it still being a new shirt. we’ll be implementing some new ideas to help with this issue but curt can murder 805 now, he knows this. i knew this before going into this meet. just need to work on touchin more in the next training cycle is all. he’s goin to try and stay around 335-340 and see how it effects his strength. he is still going back to full meets in 09, just going to have to do a big bench in a full meet is all. all in all, it was a productive day. he wants 805 again and i know next time he will kill it! mason kicked ass and squatted 650 which was a world record for his weight class and division. he too had some benching woes that we are going to fix. the meet was fairly small, about 15 lifters. other than the issues curt and mason came across on the bench, yesterday was a productive day. we have a new plan that will fix all these issues and next time this won’t happen. on a side note, eric and trent have been hittin some impressive stuff! trent did a 605 3-board and eric did a 590 3-board…both done in the same shirt. eric has a rage x coming that we know is going to work for him. with the issues we had at this meet, these two will get the benefit of knowing how to touch in the shirts.
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ME BENCH
raw bench
135×10 245×6 335×3 335×3
shirted bench w/ katana
CG 4-board- 425×1 515×1
CG 3-board- 585×1 645×1
CG 2-board- 695×1 725×1
suicides
4-boards- 335×5
3-boards- 335×5
2-boards- 335×5
1-board- 335×5
full range- 335×2
***tonite was our first session back at the garage. tonite was the first session in our new training cycle that’s goin to be exploding some numbers. we also tried wetting our shirts and leaving wrinkles in my katana and jon’s f-6 and it worked wonders for both of us. jon did a 705 CG 3-board which is a 90lb PR from the 615 set in early october. i did a 725 CG 2-board which was another meet post-bombout! trent, eric, and mason had an off session. eric did a 515 CG 3-BOARD, trent did 515 CG 3-BOARD, and mason did some raw work. trent and eric are consisently staying 500+ on bar weight on any bench session which is huge progress in their first month training like powerlifters. we finished up with some suicides and me and jon attempted some bending but we were still burned from last week where jon did 11 grade 8 bolts and i did 12 60-penny bolts. jon managed a bend with a grade 8 and i did the same with grade 5 6 incher. now it will be 2 weeks before we bend again…for sure!! also previously before the meet, eric did a 590 3-board competition grip which was a huge PR on top of a 500 raw pull and trent did a 500×2 raw squat, so those two are gettin fuckin strong as well as their confidence is starting to climb. both has started bending and like me, they’re confidence is improving. we are goin to work with mason on his raw bench to get it up to where it should be and maybe give him some time to send one of those shirts back to get adjusted some. we got vids of tonites session as well as eric’s 500 and 590 3-boards from two weeks ago and mason’s 650 WR squat…the vids will be up tommorrow nite…also, today we got up the record boards for BAMA BARBELL. it awesome…even got a myspace page now:
http://www.myspace.com/bamabarbell
view various vid here:
http://trainordie.com/trainingblogs/2008/11/09/various-vids/
BAMA BARBELL IN FULL EFFECT!
TB