B FOLD a couple of small questions

[endpoint]

With the type of training that you do...do you see much of a gain in any of the powerlifts.(im guessing that you progress alot in deadlifting....but what about squats and bench press????)

Does the endurance stuff ruin your maximal strength?

before you switched to strongman stuff how did you train (as a powerlifter? body builder?)

thankyou very much....in advance

 

[ZZuluZ]

bFold trains a variation of WestSide with events included.

Thus my bet is that his 3 powerlifts are way up there

-Zulu

 

[Arioch]

I completely agree with ZZuluz.

The events should function as one hell of a CNS/Max effort day. All of the juggling trees and eating anvils will really take it out of a guy.

B-fold. I was thinking about your problem with the bands and how you started to have problems overtraing. I am not sure how you were using them, but I think that as the bands place increased demands on the CNS as well as the SSNS, with the increased drain of the multiple-event type stuff, you would have much less recovery ability than someone who was just performing a couple of max attempts attempts a week.

 

[b fold the truth]

With the type of training that you do...do you see much of a gain in any of the powerlifts.(im guessing that you progress alot in deadlifting....but what about squats and bench press????)

Does the endurance stuff ruin your maximal strength?

before you switched to strongman stuff how did you train (as a powerlifter? body builder?)

thankyou very much....in advance

I believe that my powerlifts slowly increase although I rarely ever give it 100% on my gym lifts. I constantly push that 90-95% range though on ME days. A lot of my events (atlas stones, farmers walk, super yoke, etc..) have a lot of carry over to my deadlift and squats.

As far as the bench press...I am horrible at it. I feel that you can either focus on the flat bench press or the overhead press...and my main focus is on overhead. The flat bench press does very little for any event that I do and the incline and the overhead fit in well.

A lot of the endurance training that I get helps me to be in better shape. I am a big guy, not too lean, but I am in very good physical condition cardio wise. I always thought that because I was in better shape..my muscles could perform better...who knows though.

From 1994-1999 or 2000 I trained at a local gym as a bodybuilder. I then bought some equipment and began training at home to save time and money. From that point I began to train more on the powerlifts and to be creative about my training. I started training more for strength at this point. At one point I weighed 305...all in my home gym.

February of 2001 I bought a small tire to flip and had a 2" thick bar made that I began to train with. I did my first contest in June of 2001 and it just hit it off from there.

The main reason that my powerlifts have declined is that I do not put a lot of focus on them. I don't do box squats to improve my deadlift but to improve my atlas stones and my tire flip. I just don't put much focus on my gym lifts because they don't mean "hoot" on contest day...kinda like having abs to a powerlifter...what does it matter on contest day...it doesn't.

I encourage everyone to try the event training if they can find any equipment. I feel that a lot of these exercises can be good for powerlifters...especially the farmers, super yoke, and the atlas stones.

B True

 

[b fold the truth]

I completely agree with ZZuluz.

The events should function as one hell of a CNS/Max effort day. All of the juggling trees and eating anvils will really take it out of a guy.

B-fold. I was thinking about your problem with the bands and how you started to have problems overtraing. I am not sure how you were using them, but I think that as the bands place increased demands on the CNS as well as the SSNS, with the increased drain of the multiple-event type stuff, you would have much less recovery ability than someone who was just performing a couple of max attempts attempts a week.

Eating anvils...lol...

I love the use of high band tension when doing box squats...love them. I felt that I had problems when I started using them on the bench press (mini bands). They always seem to leave me with sore joints and I really don't need the bench press that much in my routine anyway. My upper body joints, as well as my lower body joints, take quite a poinding from all of my events...so I just dropped the band use on speed bench day.

I do think, after talking it over with Hannibal, that I was going too heavy on my active recovery work with the bands. That may have been my problem. I was also doing the AR work every night...I needed more rest. I was also doing the full WSB routine while doing events...just too much on the body.

I now have it like so:

Sunday: ME lower, Overhead Log press and other events

Wednesday: DE lower

Friday: DE upper

Seems to be working at the moment...

Thanks man

B True

 

[Arioch]

Sounds cool. I actually always wanted to try something like it, but I seem to be getting more delicate as I age.

 

[b fold the truth]

Odd Haugden (sp) is a pro strongman at age 52.

One of my event training buddies is 57.

It is all for fun man...all for fun.

B True

 

[ZZuluZ]

"as the SSNS"

Would you mind explaining? I'm not sure what the that acronym stands for.

I think the problem with bands and overtraining may be the excessive negatives....

-Zulu

 

[endpoint]

If you wish to PM me the answers to this please do so......what are your current SQ DL?

do you think if you focused just on them....they would be higher?


thanks for all your help

 

[b fold the truth]

My Pr's are follows:

Raw BP: 405 x 2
Squat: No freakin clue...lol...mid 5's or better raw
Deadlift: 629 raw a few months ago.

I pulled 607 Sunday easily. You can see it here:
www.angelfire.com/journal2/bfoldthetruth/607deadlift51202

Just copy and paste..it should work.

If I focused on them...they would go up drastically I feel...and in a short time.

B True