Triskaidekaphobia - Joshua's Training

**Joshua** · 30th April 12, 12:45 PM

I was attending the Dunedin Highland Games on Saturday 28 so I didn't get a workout in then. However, while travelling in Baltimore on Wednesday 25th I at least stepped into one of those crappy "Fitness" gyms and did the following:

Front Squat Reverse Ladders:
3x135lbs / 61.4kg
2x205lbs / 93kg
1x225lbs / 102.3kg
3x185lbs / 84kg
2x215lbs / 97.7kg
1x245lbs / 111.4kg

1x275lbs / 125kg

Push Press Reverse Ladders:

3x135lbs
2x145lbs
1x155lbs
3x145lbs
2x155lbs
1x165lbs

1x225lbs

Workout was done on lunch break at work, about 40 minutes. I was huffing and puffing by the end of it. Being at such a frou-frou joint made me feel like this guy.

Oh, and in the hotel every day I did HIIT in Tabata style on either the elliptical or on the recumbent bike.

**Joshua** · 30th April 12, 12:48 PM

Missed workout Saturday, a friends car broke down around the corner from me and friends do come first.

Yesterday I did two laps around my "walking trail" (about 2.75miles each lap) with two separate dogs. I guess 5.5 miles of walking in about an hour's time counts, right?

Tomorrow I'm going to try and get some time in with some old strongman buddies and do some tireflips and overhead lifts.

**Joshua** · 2nd May 12, 11:01 PM

Tuesday I went to a friend's strongman gym to get in a workout. I did Olympic Lifting, and Car Deadlift (it's a hinged deadlifting apparatus with parallel handles).

Cleans
2x3 @ 135lbs / 61kg
1x3 @ 155lbs / 70.5kg
2x2 @ 185lbs / 84kg
1x1 @ 225lbs / 102.3kg

Clean Pulls
1x3 @ 275lbs / 125kg
1x3 @ 295lbs / 134kg

Car Deadlift Apparatus (the weight lifted is quite hard to quantify on this, as it is lifted on a lever, so I will just put the number of plates on and the sum total of weight - seeing as it is a partial movement - and more closely related to a leg-press than an actual deadlift)
1x3 @ 6 plates (270lbs + 100lbs implement, around 168kg total)
1x3 @ 8 plates (360lbs + 100lbs implement, around 209kg total)
1x1 @ 10 plates (450lbs + 100lbs implement, around 250kg total)

**Alan H** · 3rd May 12, 11:58 AM

I'm of the opinion that walking counts. So does cross-country skiing, bicycling, and other "leg speed related" activities.

**Joshua** · 3rd May 12, 04:31 PM

In that case, I swam 12 laps today on my "lunch break", then went back to the pool with my son to roughhouse a bit. All in all about 2 hours in the pool, 45 minutes of which was pretty damn difficult (I suck at swimming).

I'm hoping the Westin in Dallas has a decent gym nearby. Not holding my breath though...

**o1d_dude** · 7th May 12, 10:05 PM

Given the wide variety of throwing motions involved in the HG, pretty much any sort of general physical preparedness is helpful. I'd kinda recommend staying away from jogging, tho. All it seems to do is strip muscle mass from the upper body and if you're lucky, you get to keep some of your lower body mass.

**Alan H** · 9th May 12, 10:25 AM

What Kit said.... However, stuff like basketball, when teamed up with weight training and throwing, seems to be fantastic. Mike Baab does this.

**Joshua** · 13th May 12, 10:44 AM

Cleans and Deadlifts yesterday.
I don't have my log in front of me right now but my final clean was 105kg / 231lbs
Final deadlift was 175kg / 385lbs

Walked around downtown afterwards after watching a crapfest of a soccer match between the Tampa Rowdies and the San Antonio Strikers.

**Alan H** · 14th May 12, 10:12 AM

Hey have you got any throwing lined up?

**Joshua** · 19th May 12, 02:01 PM

Unfortunately, no. Our season doesn't really start until Fall, I've already signed up for a games in October. As far as throwing practice goes, there are some pretty severe scheduling constraints (wife is in school at night, so I'm watching the kid), I get in my gymwork on Saturdays (can't pull out of those, I help coach two other lifters), and sunday my *** is kicked from only getting to lift one day a week. I'm using my "lunch breaks" (I work from home) to swim laps at the pool 2x a week.

Speaking of lifting only one day a week, here was my very good workout today.

Squat-clean barbell thrusters (perform a full clean then do a thruster with it, every rep)
3x40kg (88lbs)
3x70kg (154lbs)
2x80kg (176lbs)
1x85kg (187lbs)

Squat Cleans
1x80kg (176lbs)
1x90kg (198lbs)
1x100kg (220lbs)
1x105kg (232lbs)
1x107.5kg (236.5lbs)

Deadlift
3x120kg (264lbs)
3x160kg (352lbs)
1x170kg (374lbs)
1x180kg (396lbs)