Spud’s Training June 26, 2019 4 or 5 10 min walks Light leg training with Mondo leg press. Used the option for two legs but each leg is individual tracking. It is terrible but you get to see where you push more from. Worked up to 4×8 Reverse Hypers 4 pre, 2 post Double Conventional swings […]
Third Times the Charm OR How to Get Rid of a Sh*tload of Toxins Marc and I just got back from our third round of Be Activated with Douglas Heel in Columbus, OH. And as it turns out, third times the charm. Well, not exactly, each time has been exactly what I have needed at […]
Training and Posture Pro Clinic On 6/12, I received my Posture Pro insoles. They are expensive but given the amount of time you can wear them, the cost is inconsequential versus their benefits which were immediate. The first step is fixing the foot first which after the assessment showed me with a postural lean backwards. […]
Training and Most Everyone Should Have Stan Efferding to Their Place If you don’t know Stan, you have not been around this industry too long. If you haven’t been around the industry long, you don’t yet that everything has been done and done again. Whatever you have done it has been done already. Any new […]
Training and The Dr. Squat Strap Flu Not that I am blaming the Dr Squat Strap for my feelings of flu and wore out ness as this past week has also brought a very unexpected tragedy with the loss of a good friend but then again maybe i will just blame it on the Dr […]
Training and a Crossfit Light Sesh 4/11 Stepmill 20 mins 4/10 Crossfit sesh and video shooting. So we had my good ole palzy Murph down to shoot some videos for the re-release of the Dr Squat Back Strap. One of the videos was a dodgeball goof off with us doing a light Crossfit class, Christine […]
Climbing up the Rough Side of the Mountain I have struggled for years to be consistent with writing a blog for the Spud, Inc. website. Part of the problem has been that I didn’t think I had anything that anyone really wanted to hear. I’m not a world class powerlifter like Spud. I am a […]
Training and Grow Into It Just a few thoughts about growing and powerlifting. When we entered powerlifting in the late 90s, Westside was ruling the turf and gear was moving towards some unseen levels. We started with Marathon suits and Inzer blast shirts namely because we didn’t know any better and that was not such […]
The Second Best Meet Ever Training Logs: Pt.2 of the Great Spud Market Crash 297lb of hell. That is what I weighed in at for the 2006 WPO Semi-Finals in NY. This was 14lb over my normal 283lb weight for a meet. I wanted to go 308lb class thinking I would get my 1200lb squat […]
Training and Post Arnold Time This year marked year 7 for Spud Inc going to the Arnold Classic as a vendor. Personally, if you count competitions and going to help or in the case of 2007, recover from a tricep year I have been to 12. Witnessed 1100 fall for the first time ever in […]
The Best Meet Ever Training Logs: December 2005 December 2005 12/3/2005 Training Log 12/3 Speed work lower -Speed deads raw with belt,515x3x4 sets(2 conventional,2 sumo,605×3 (conventional)I thought my quad would bother me more but it wasn’t much. The speed was good on all reps even the 605.I hope this crap transfers. -Leg press with pauses […]
The Best Meet Ever Training Logs, Part One of the Great Spud Market Crash My thoughts originally were to make this a one-off article/log just so you could see what I did and the reasoning behind some of it. But as I got to thinking, this is a really good three-part story leading up to […]