[Adam Bishop]

Recovery day today with my soft tissue work and physio session.

The usual work on my back, quads and adductors for massage then we treated my tricep and hip.

Didn’t get to grind down the stone today as it was pissing it down and electric grinders and buffers and water do not mix! I should have a good weather window over the weekend so I can get the stone ready for Monday

[Adam Bishop]

No training to report today. Body is pretty beat up so thankfully my rest day came at the right time.

Got my medical forms all sorted and sent off to the WSM doctor for review. Blood work came back great as did my ecg and physical.

Need to get over to once again try and make my 180 stone more user friendly and re seal it tomorrow.

[Adam Bishop]

Super heavy couple of training days for me which all kicked off with pulls and stones on Monday:

Deadlift – 380×4
Atlas stones – runs of 100-160 then a set of 6 and a set of 10 with the 160kg stone.

Finally got to use some clean stones so I made the most of it. Loads of reps with the 160, so much so that I ended up lifting 4140kg worth of stones in the session.

This made my erectors a little tender for me press session today:

Log press – up to 163×1 then 2 ladders of 103/123/143
Incline log press – 153×3
Circus DB – 100×1 then some reps with the Thomas Inch
Finished with my usual tricep isolation work.

Slow progress on the log with a couple of technical tweaks to help my lockout a bit. Body and brain need a rest tomorrow

[Adam Bishop]

Deadstop Goodmornings could be an option. SSB would be more comfortable on these going off the pins.

As close as you can get to a SLDL but a little tougher to perform. Very undervalued movement IMO.

[Adam Bishop]

Another tricep session today:

DB Rolling Extensions
SA Cable Pressdowns
SA Seated DB Extensions
Banded TEEs

All felt good and definitely making my tricep feel a lot better. Also went for a long walk with the dogs in the afternoon.

Got a lot of logistics tomorrow moving a couple of stones to a new training base for a couple of weeks. Loading the 180 and 210 stones onto a pallet then into my truck so I can use them in a clean environment tomorrow. Heavy deadlift set to do first though…

[Adam Bishop]

Big old events session today. 5 events in total with some great progress on all events.

Bag toss – 3 sets of 18/20/20/22/25/25/27 over a 4.5m barrier
Fingals finger – light finger x5 heavy finger x2
Conans wheel – up to 5 plates per side for 3 revolutions
Loading – anvil, sandbag and tyre
Stones – up to 180 for a single then a run of 100/120/140/160

Stones are now causing issues with training as the dust is a big problem. Looking at training them elsewhere next week, I need a couple of heavy sessions on them before WSM.

[Adam Bishop]

Lower session at physique warehouse today. Started with the leg curls and extensions to warm my legs up before some heavy banded leg presses and I preferred it.

Leg Extensions – 3×12
Prone Leg Curls – 3×12
Banded Leg Press – worked up to 550 plus doubled heavy black bands for 5
Reverse hypers 3×12
Calf raise 3×12

Using a low, narrow stance on the leg press with a lot of accommodating resistance to give the greatest carry over to my deadlift.

[Adam Bishop]

Without physically assessing you it’s always difficult to give straight recommendations so here’s what I would do if I was in your position:

Wait 10 days before for a significant loading however keep the lag moving with little to no resistance to promote blood flow.

When you recommence loading start light and use pain as your marker – if it hurts don’t do it!

Move a lat dominant pull to before your RDL (once again light) to aid in the warm up. I actually like performing a 45deg band Pulldown with the band over a power rack as a prep exercise. I have a video on my YouTube titled How to Deadlift where I show this movement.

Forget about training to failure until you are happy your lat strength matches up left to right – unilateral movements either machine or free weight will give you a gauge on where you’re at.

Keep the process slow and consistent.

[Adam Bishop]

A proper diagnosis is key here especially if you can’t pin point a certain moment where you believe you sustained an injury.

If it is currently pain free I would scale back movements and go higher volume on various movements to see if you can get some activation out of it at least until you are able to see a medic

[Adam Bishop]

Some isolated tricep work today. All for a bit more volume so 2 build up sets followed by a work set of 8 then a drop set straight after:

DB Rolling Extensions
SA Cable Pressdowns
Seated SA overhead DB Extensions

Then finished up with some banded terminal elbow extensions for 3×15. Tricep felt really good after these which is promising.

[Adam Bishop]

Rest day.

Had some calls to do this morning before I got out for my walk with the dogs in the afternoon.

Tricep wise I used the compex and game ready on It today and that was it.

I’ll be loading it again tomorrow as I really need to sort this lockout so a change is needed.

[Adam Bishop]

Mondays pull session:

Deadlift – 360×5
Stone over bar – 130×5
Shield walk – 167x45min
Loading – 4 implements in 36sec

Tuesday’s push

Banded Pin Press – 100kg plus 70kg band tension x3
Log Press – 163×1 then ladder of 103/123/143
Circus DB Press – 90x5x1
Incline Bench Press 150×5
Dips – 2 sets
Tricep Hell – 2 sets

Frustrating press session today as my medial tricep tendon is still playing up and causing lockout issues. I spoke to my physio afterwards and we made a plan over the next couple of weeks to hopefully settle it down a bit.

[Adam Bishop]

Guts still not back to normal today which made getting my food in a bit more of a challenge than normal but we got it done. Rather have this issue now than in a couple of weeks at WSM.

Got the food shop done this morning – Costco is carnage on Sundays! Then this afternoon we did a long walk with the dogs.

Very solid Sunday, the opposite of my shits right now haha.

[Adam Bishop]

Not the best 24 hours for me. The world started falling out my arse last night and continued into today. How I managed to get my session done without catastrophic consequences I’ll never know. Hoping things settle down tomorrow. Session ended up being pretty decent luckily:

Bag toss – up to a top run of 8 bags 20-30kg
Fingals finger – several flips on the lighter finger before getting a solid rep done with the heavy finger. Big confidence boost on that one.
Conans wheel – single revolution sets up to 6 plates a side which is above comp weight
Stones – one motions on 100/120/140/160 then a double on 180.

[Adam Bishop]

Very simple lower session at physique warehouse today. Don’t expect much from this session over the coming weeks as I taper towards Europes and worlds

Leg press – up to 550 plus bands x5 (paused)
Leg Extensions – 1 work set with drops
Reverse hypers – 3×12
Standing calf raise – 3×12

I’m really seeing the benefits of the paused leg press on my deadlift and stones in the past few sessions. Big drop in direct hamstring work as nearly all events have hamstring requirements.