My good friend and top HW strongman Robert OB Oberst's wedding was this weekend and since we are all training for Dallas Plat+ we got together the morning of the wedding to really kill events. It was a great group with me, Evan Hansmann, Robert Oberst, Deadlift Doug Carroll, Alex Whitaker, Eric Peterson, Chris Carroll, etc
Started with Axle clean and press, i wanted to go up to what the weights for San Jose are going to be and get a pr
175x3
225x3
255x3 PR
275x1 1 rep pr
felt good! cleans felt solid, happy with how good the axle has been feeling.
OB went up to 375 for a double which was silly easy. he just ran out of room on the platform due to happy feet. Eric hit a solid 375 as well
next up was yoke, they have one of the best yokes I have ever used so despite having horrendous tendinitis in my lower inside shin i was going to take advantage
hit 610 for 50ft in 13 seconds for a pr
700 in 28 seconds with 2 drops.... the pain made this hard i needed the yoke a little lower but its as low as this one goes haha it was a pr but i can really improve on this. Evan, OB and chris all went up to a grand which is just kind of crazy
and than we pulled a silly heavy v8 mustang convertible. Me, OB, Evan and chris got a rep with the handles out 4' we moved them into 3' and I got 6 and OB got 3. I'm still the car deadlift king!! :) i gave myself a black eye lifting that damn thing though, oh the feeling of your head is just going to pop off your neck.
I think the west coast is going to bring some heat to Dallas!!
Drove up to core strength RX to get some events in. No time to rest because Dallas will probably be the most stacked class of 175's in 1 comp of all time!
I think i lost my moving event shoes somewhere between here and Seattle.
240x60ft 16 seconds wore some shit nikes way to squishy
240x60ft 15 seconds tried my OLY shoes. it felt weird but half way through got a fast stride
big progress but only the beginning
Axle Clean & Press
215x6 + 1 miss
215x8
felt solid! technique is good out of somewhere. Conditioning will improve and so will this event
little duck walk practice
17" deadlift with Texas squat bar
yes I did this Thursday but it felt like a fun idea. Using the squat bar since its stiffer and 1.25" the San Jose fit expo is using the old IFSA axle and wheels which is 1.5"
triples until
580x8
630x6
all the knurling really tore up my thighs but my back feels stroong
yoke walk 60'
620 14 seconds
best yoke run of my life
Suicide Medley all 60'
200 keg, 225 keg, 280 duck walk 500 sled drag
used kegs since I haven't filled up my ironmind bag yet. flew with those. Need more work on duck walk and sled drag and better shoes for both
Forgot I am going to the San Jose Improv to see Joey Diaz on Thursday so sure just take 1 day off after a contest than train 3 days in a row, sounds great.....
2" Ironmind Axle power cleans
123x3
173x3
193x3
Axle deadlift
213x5
293x5
343x5
393x5
didn't want to go balls out this week, trying to be somewhat smart for once
Why not do heavy ass 17" deads with an axle? that sounds easy on my sore back
350x3
440x3
530x3
620x1
710x1
550x10 just getting the grove back for this movement
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