Adam Bishop
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Well that didn’t go to plan unfortunately. Picked up a pec minor tear in the muscle on the first event and it got worse over the course of the comp – couldn’t squeeze the stones properly on the final event. Gutted.
With a couple of pec heavy events tomorrow I’m going to just do the deadlift to restore some pride before I bow out of this one. Very disappointing but such is life
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Pretty chilled day over here in Colorado.
Had interviews and also got an IV done to help rehydrate after my days travelling.
A bit more to do today with the athletes meeting and press conference this evening
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Ensure you are wrapping your strap correctly and maybe add a little chalk to them if they are still slipping.
If you are putting your straps on correctly there should be no reason for the bar slipping out your grip
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Made it out to Colorado and I’m settled into the athlete hotel.
Really long journey so very excited to get some sleep!
The Shaw Classic team really do know how to look after the athletes with trifecta food, condiments and plenty of water waiting for me in the room as well as the itinerary for the next few days.
Interviews lined up for tomorrow and I’ll get an IV done to rehydrate after the flight.
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Final preparations done before I fly out tomorrow.
Physio session in the morning with some general work on my back, knee and tricep.
Massage in the afternoon on the usual TfL/ITB and quads.
Body is feeling gtg and ready to lift stuff
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Monday’s training:
Bag toss – two sets of 20/20/25/27 over the 5.5m barrier
Throws felt great yesterday. The bags were sailing over even with the higher barrier height. That was all the training I did, just minimal work to get myself moving and the motor units firing without any risk of building fatigue.
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Yeah I agree with the above. If you could only go for one I’d say join in is the more potent IME.
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Chilled Sunday for me. Got out for a walk with the dogs as usual and kept myself rested ready for this week.
I’ve got some very light training tomorrow and Tuesday before I fly out to Colorado on Wednesday
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Bit of a frustrating pull session today. I’m just not getting on with the Inzer suit how I thought I would.
Pulled a smooth 430kg deadlift today but it felt like I was pulling raw as the suit gave me little to no pop off the floor.
Got the session done but it was frustrating. Anyway I’m back full circle now and back in my original single ply metal suit that I used to pull 454 in 2021. Probably wasted several weeks fucking around with suits but never mind.
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Food went down a lot easier today thankfully so probably just feeling a bit sorry for myself yesterday.
No training again today as I get really for some big pulls tomorrow. Tapering for a show is no fun as I love lifting and it’s tough to drop volume and train less in order to lift more. Part of the job so we get on with it.
Nice walk tonight with the mrs and the dogs Tyson decided to chase a greyhound today and they both looked like they were having the time of their lives. For those that don’t know Tyson is a 2.3kg chihuahua haha.
Time to get some sleep before we rip heavy shit off the floor tomorrow
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Rest day for me today.
Bit of a struggle getting my food in today but I forced it down. Each meal took me like 30min to eat which was a pain in the dick.
Body is feeling pretty good other than my appetite being off. Another rest day tomorrow before heavy pulls on Friday.
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Final proper pressing session of this prep.
Log strict press 157×1
Log push press 177×1
Seated chest Press 160×5Pretty straightforward session today all with minimal volume and maximum effort haha.
Also had a physio session in the morning, a massage session in the afternoon and a trip to Costco for food – all in all a busy day for me.
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Very good events session today. Everything felt very easy and I managed to flip the heavier fingals finger for a couple of easy flips today which was not possible last time I trained the finger.
I’ve left fingals finger training to the very last moment as I spent a lot of time on it earlier in the year and I wanted to make sure my tricep was as strong as possible this time round. Very happy with todays efforts.
Stones also felt effortless getting back on the 210kg stone and completing a fast 100-180 run.
Bag toss – 20/20/25/27 (2 sets)
Fingals finger – 2 flips
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Hi Andy – just an addition from me.
Really make sure you get full supination ROM back, I’ve found this really helps when you start loading the bicep.
Train your other side as normal so that you have a benchmark to work to and assess how far you are off full strength.
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No training today but a lot of work done clearing out the farm training base and getting a container in the lock up to keep the stones dust free.
I really didn’t realise how much strongman kit I have haha. I soon realised when I had to move it all out the way though.
Also managed to set up some bits I’ve had in storage so the split sled leg press and the monolift got put back together and are ready for use.
Back down the farm tomorrow for a couple of low volume events.