Adam Bishop
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Smashed an awesome events session today. Needed it big time for some confidence and it delivered. Everything feeling easy and strength feels on point.
Shield walk – 3 runs total up to 50m
Axle Speed Pulls – I put these in for some technical work as well as adding some additional fatigue before the final two events.Bag toss – 2 clear runs with 18/20/20/25/27kg bags all over the 4.5m barrier.
Atlas stones – one motions up to 180kg then a lap and load single at 210kg. Finished off with a fast run of 120/130/150/180kg
2 weeks to go let’s see how this week goes.
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A much needed recovery day today. Body is feeling the added volume on the axle press yesterday especially in my knees where some tendinitis seems to be rearing it’s ugly head again.
Walked this morning, had an extra nap in the day and got in the sauna for 25min.
Hopefully I’ll be feeling a bit fresher for my events session tomorrow
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Great pressing session today with everything progressing nicely on the axle. Time to drop the log press out and focus on the axle as I taper towards Brits.
Axle clean and press – 156x3x1 and 135x1x4
Seated Pin Press – up to 120×3
Cable Pressdowns – 4×8
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Solid rest day today. Had a massage and had a great chat with my sports psychologist as we sorted some mental strategies for the lead up to Britain’s Strongest Man.
Feeling in a much better place after the session.
Finished off the evening with some contrast baths.
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I felt like England didn’t threaten them at all either , I think we missed Faz and Manu a lot in that game to really get things going forward , if they had them I think Scotland would of struggled to contain them as easily. I think no Courtney aswell is always a hard one, he just works so fucking hard, and is a total pest , and adds that extra line out option aswell.
Hamish Watson is also a fucking beast! He went 14/14 tackles , and was just everywhere
Can’t argue with any of that.
I do question why Eddie feels the need to play a centre on the wing and a utility back in the centre though. Marchant would have added a greater attacking threat in the centre but England clearly had a pre-determined game plan of kicking the ball in behind Scotland so probably why he selected Daly at 13. Pretty negative tactics considering Eddie was going on about bringing in a new brand of English attacking rugby ?
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Back in the barn for another deadlift/lower day. Finally back to pulling from a standard height on the axle as my TFL is healed and feels completely normal again. The pulls felt a bit laboured unfortunately but I have to remind myself that it’s expected due to the injury taking away training time from the floor, the axle making the pull hard and all the other events in the week eating into my energy reserves. I plan to add in some speed pulls to Fridays events session to help with this and to add a fatigue factor to the other comp events I’ll be training.
Axle Deadlift – 330×8
Leg Press – 4×8
SSB Squat – 4×8
Back Extension- 4×8
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Morning guys and girls ?
Lovely weekend away , I really needed it as my body was utterly destroyed and I was mentally
Exhausted from this push so far and juggling everything that we juggle atm , it’s surprised me this last month how much harder it is now to be in “ competitor mode” , and do what we need to, to successful keep the business growing – on the daily the levels of communication with our staff , supplier + manufacturers and our customers, is increasing and it’s certainly difficult to mentally manage fatigue, as always when I get too stressed , I will hand over communication To Corinne and she will take over whatever I was doing when I can feel I’m about to lose my shit at someone , this helps A LOT . A couple circumstances last week with suppliers that I had to do this ( don’t read work emails while in the gym Jordan, you will always be a cunt when you reply lol ? )
Ate a ton of shit over the weekend, laughed A LOT , met tons of hilarious people in the hospitality section at the stadium – big diff between Murrayfield and twickenham, Murrayfield feels like a posh comedy club , the food is amazing , and the atmosphere is very funny and social , everyone wants to chat with you , you could easily go and sit at some random person table ( even though it’s laid out like a restaurant ) and just talk and they would legit want to chat back and just have a laugh with you ( I love this about Scottish people , well the ones I have met through bb and rugby )
Twickenham is very posh, you couldn’t just mingle like that, it’s quieter and less rowdy, it’s very much “ we are VIPs in our hospitality box”type feel. It’s nice to experience both, I just don’t like pretentious people – would be cool to have the layout of twickenham with the atmosphere of Murrayfield!
I’m gutted England lost , but feeling the atmosphere when they won, was special , and they played fucking well!
I was 275 this morn, so didn’t actually put back on as much weight as I expected , I thought I would be back at 277 , especially after stopping on the way back yday and loading up on subway ! It’s been forever since I had one and you can add hash browns now to them haha! Obv went in with double meat, double cheese, double hash browns , couldn’t even close the fucker hahah
Subway do hash browns now!! I’m off out for a while ?
It was a really interesting game. Eddie made a couple of bad coaching calls IMO but Scotland looked the more dangerous attacking team and definitely deserved the win.
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Another volume focused session today in the Barn. Increased the loads up to 65% 1rm and mainly hit 8 reps each set for 4 sets each exercise.
CG Pulldown
SA Cable Row
High Incline DB Row
Hammer Strength Chest Press
Standing DB Curl
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Plenty of positive evidence both studies real life experience for the use of the sauna.
I’m currently getting in the sauna (traditional not infrared) 3-4 times a week for 20-30mins.
I would recommend this with a dip in the plunge pool when you get out the sauna.
When using the sauna post workout I would keep it as far away from the session as possible personally. Rest days anytime of day seems to work.
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Friday’s training
Sorry for the delayed post – I had a long day training and driving yesterday so I’m catching up on my log now.
Had a solid enough events session on the competition kit yesterday up in Boroughbridge.
Sandbag Toss – worked up in singles up to the top weight then did a few full comp runs with bags ranging from 18-28kg. Strangely enough my first couple of sets were my best. I think I got a bit tired and/or amped up on later sets which is not what you want for throwing. You need to stay relaxed as it’s very technical. Lesson learnt and I’ve made a plan to add in some more throws over the next couple of weeks.
Shield walk – worked up to the full 200kg shield for 40m which was easy and filled me with confidence for Brits as this has historically been a bogey event for me.
Stones – up to one motions with the 150 and 170kg stones. All pretty routine really, still progressing these as I haven’t done stones in a while.
We filmed the session for the site so watch out for a very different type of training session coming soon.
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Had a busy rest day today.
Went and saw the Doc to have a pint of blood off then hit the road as I’m up north testing the kit for Britain’s Strongest Man tomorrow.
Booked into a hotel tonight to get used to sleeping with the CPAP in a hotel room before I have to do it at Brits in a couple of weeks time.
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Wednesday Press Session.
Trained a bit later today and still took my hit of JPre Stim – still wide awake so hopefully I can get to sleep soon! Great session today, training solo so it took ages moving all the kit about and loading the plates – got a proper sweat on.
Log Press – up to 173×1
Axle clean and press – up to 150×1 then 120×4
Seated Lockouts – Up to 120kg plus 70kg band tension
Pressdowns – 4×12
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Had a great recovery day today, got all the bases covered:
Slept enough
Walked in the morning
Had a productive massage session
Spent some time in the sauna
Got all my food inI always enjoy the days where I get everything ticked off and I know I couldn’t do anymore to prepare me for my next session.
Heavy pressing tomorrow.
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Yep sounds like you’d got the right idea training wise. Legs not an issue and contra lateral training on the non injured side is essential.
Cuff attachment for cable will be a good idea for a variety of fly and row options for your injured side. I would imagine you’ll need to be on this for 6-8 weeks before you can slowly start to use machines again.
You’ll need to go on feel but be sensible to start with to allow the bone to heal.
Have they immobilised the wrist with a cast or splint at all?
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Maybe try using some Bio oil on your existing stretch marks.
I know plenty of guys who used it on scars post surgery with amazing effects and it’s reported to also work on stretch marks.
I’m not sure if it will prevent new ones but it will reduce the visible appearance of current scars/stretch marks