Adam Bishop
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Rest day.
Walked around Tokyo a lot watching the wife run in the marathon today. Crazy crowds but the organisers did an amazing job keeping everyone moving around correctly – best organisation of any marathon major I’ve been to. Underground trains here are very good, puts London to shame.
Got one more day in Tokyo tomorrow before we head back to the uk. I plan to rest again tomorrow then train Tuesday when I get home as I have circus DB and need to do that at home as no strongman kit here in Tokyo.
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Busy day today. Jumped on a train this morning to head over to ONI gym which had powerlifting plates that enabled me to deadlift. Cool gym with a lot of platforms/ racks crammed into it – probably a bit too much really as there was very little space to move round in there. also hot as hell in there, I must have sweated 2 litres minimum in the hour and a bit I was in there – played the role of sweaty white guy very well. Didnt bring the suit with me obviously but my raw pulls on a stiff bar felt super easy – don’t think I’ll use the suit for rep work as I seem better without it.
Deadlift 365×6
Leg Press 4×10
CG Pulldown 4×10
DB Curl 4×10Headed off in the afternoon to watch the sumo wrestlers train and get an insight into their training regime. Very interesting.
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Final session in Osaka this morning with some log press. Felt really good and the reps all felt smooth:
Log Press 142.5×5
Dips 4×10
DB Lateral/Rear raises 4×10
French Press 3×20Straight from the gym to get the bullet train to Tokyo and checked into the hotel for the next few nights.
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ITPP is very good IMO. I ran it at 250mg per day for 2 weeks in the lead up for a competition and the difference in my recovery between events was drastically improved from normal.
I’ll be running it again in the lead up to the next show and will run the same dose for the first two weeks then drop down to maintenance dose of 250mg three times a week after that.
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Thursday was a rest day for me but a lot of steps completed as we did a bit of sight seeing around Kyoto and the surrounding area. Last session in Osaka tomorrow morning before we relocate to Tokyo for the remainder of our trip.
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Apologies guys I got locked out the site for some reason. All sorted now so a couple of days to update you on:
Wednesday I trained in the morning and got my axle squats done up to a top set of 285×5 then sandbag work and calves. Left it at 5 easy reps on the squat as the set up I was using was a little sketchy so no risks. Did sandbag lifts in place of my atlas stone work I’d be doing if o was home then finished with 4×20 on SL calf raise.
We then went out for all you can eat sushi with the guys from the gym. You meet some amazing people in the iron game and a language barrier didn’t get in the way of a great evening with like minded strongmen. Very enjoyable.
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Tuesday – day one in Japan.
Had nap when I got to the hotel then ate and got to the gym for my session with the Chickenlegs Crew (their chosen name haha). Great bunch of guys and we got round the language barrier via lifting stuff and gestures – the meathead way. I didn’t push things as I was struggling a bit after the day of travel but good to get it done:
Sandbag to shoulder 128kg for several singles
Circus DB Press up to 88×3
Incline Bench Press 135×3 145×3 155×6
Pressdowns 4×10
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Early start Monday morning for a flight to Tokyo. Still bizarre losing a day as Its now Tuesday morning here as I sit on the Bullet train to Osaka.
Going to get in the gym hopefully later today as I’ve been out in touch with some guys who train strongman out here, first time to get to the hotel and get some food.
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Morning session at the farm. Took the walking stones for a full 20m this week. Slowly increasing the distance on these as they wreck your hands doing a hook grip on them. Progressing them slowly toughens up the skin around my thumbs avoiding any nasty tears. Followed that up with plenty of singles on the 140kg sandbag to shoulder.
Evening session in the barn was deadlifts:
Deadlift 340×7
Leg Press 4×10
CG Pulldown 4×10
Back in the suit this week but the pulls felt like trash. I really think I’m better on deadlift for reps without the suit. I’m not taking it with me to Japan tomorrow so we will see how next weeks session feels belt only and make a decision moving forward.
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Hi Yunus
You are not far off but you are getting some lumbar rounding during your lift off the floor. Pay attention to the section on my video regarding engaging your lats in the initial stages of set up to help support your spine through the movement.
You’ll see in your video that with each rep your hips start higher and higher making this rounding a little worse. If you can get those lats locked in and start position correct your deadlift will fly up as there’s a lot of good things there.
As I said before time to move the weight down a little and do some more reps to really nail that start position.
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Change in plan for today so took my rest day and I’ll train again tomorrow.
Spent the day catching up with friends watching the rugby at Twickenham. Not a great result but I had a great time seeing everyone and enjoying some nice food.
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Following on from this, to help with your form I did a deadlift tutorial on YouTube a couple of years ago which should help if you struggle to get your form correct. Search for “Adam Bishop How to Deadlift”
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I suspect with this approach and the fact that your back is very fatigued afterwards for multiple days that your form is breaking down during this top set as you are chasing a weight.
I personally would strip the weight back and lift in a higher rep range (8-12) while ensuring that every rep looks the same. Film your lifts for multiple angles if possible to ensure this happens.
Back off sets work great with deadlifts, I tend to use a bigger back off for the sets than I would for a press for example. Each back off set I’ll drop the load by 10-15% so it looks like this:
Set 1: top set
Set 2: 85-90% of top set
Set 3: 70-80% of top set
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Morning session at the farm. 14kg bag toss for distance for 16 reps total then onto atlas stones – singles up to 180 then a run of 100-160 working on speed between the stones. Evening session back in the gym looked like this:
Log Press 113x10x1 (EMOM)
Dips 4×10
DB Lateral/rear delt raise 4×10/10
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Rest day. Got the dogs out for a walk this morning then stuck at home for the rest of the day as the boiler had a service and the hot tub got a new control board – hopefully that should be problem solved with it.
New training week kicks off tomorrow with bag toss and stones in the morning.