Adam Bishop
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Unfortunately things didn’t go my way tonight.
I blacked out on the log press and the shield carry. Clearly I’m not recovered from the Shaw Classic last weekend. This was my 4th competition in 5 weeks and clearly it was a step too far.
Need to work out if my blacking out issues are down to blood sugars or blood pressure or maybe something else but I do know I need a rest if I want to retain my Britain’s Strongest Man title in 7 week.
Plan is to rest up until then and get myself sorted out.
Disappointed is an understatement but I’ll bounce back.
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I’ll throw in a strength guy answer here…
For my main strength lifts I regularly use an autoregulatory programme I devised that progresses next week’s loads depending on the current week’s performance. If I have a good week and lift several reps over my “goal” then the programme adds more weight to my working weight next week. If I only just hit my goal reps the programme will increase the minimum amount next week (in this case 2.5kg total)
The load for my accessory movements is based off a percentage of my main lift load for that week and any other volume work is just beat the previous week’s load, reps or both.
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Made it to the Athletes hotel in Leeds ready for Europe’s strongest Man tomorrow.
Athlete/rules meeting done and had a big feed.
Now to get an early night and hope for a full nights sleep!
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I’m a fan of heavy row movements for lats. SA DB rows or bent over rows with different grips work well for me. Seated rows and Pulldowns also do the job and I try to vary my grips until I find one that hits the target muscle
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Recovery work done today.
Morning walk with the dogs before getting a cryotherapy session in and some soft tissue work done. Finished with some rounds in the hot tub this evening. Doing everything I can to feel good for Saturday.
Back still feeling the effects of a heavy competition and the travel but it’s moving. In the right direction. I’ll be good for Saturday.
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Yep I agree with JP. Really lock in those lats before you lift and also at the top before you execute the eccentric portion of the lift.
As an addition I would actually elevate the bar by 1-2inches (on blocks or plates) while you work on keeping your lumbar spine neutral through all the reps. Obviously this will detract from the hamstring stretch but once you have your spine locked in on the high rep sets you can return to the floor.
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Thanks mate
No I have not tbh. Only found out it was one of the events last week and obviously I’ve had the shaw Classic and Europe’s to train for. I’ll get a little bit of work in on the handles after Europe’s
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Is there a certain muscle group you feel you are missing more? Eg hamstrings over quads etc?
I wouldn’t be a fan of doing legs prior to back without a rest day personally as they are both big muscle groups.
Could you add in some hamstring work to your pull day while sticking to your current split? Eg including a stiff leg deadlift on pull day. A small addition to give a second lower stimulus without adding a huge amount of volume?
Unfortunately both my hamstrings and quads are lacking and I don’t know if a few hamstring movements on a pull day or quad movements on a push day would do much, when compared to another leg day.
Probably Pull/Legs/Push /Rest/ Legs Split would be better than the one I mentioned above?
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But if I stick to my current split how many hamstring movements would you add on a pull day? [/quote]
I would say two would be a sensible start. One hip dominant like an RDL or SLDL and one knee dominant exercise like a leg curl. -
Is there a certain muscle group you feel you are missing more? Eg hamstrings over quads etc?
I wouldn’t be a fan of doing legs prior to back without a rest day personally as they are both big muscle groups.
Could you add in some hamstring work to your pull day while sticking to your current split? Eg including a stiff leg deadlift on pull day. A small addition to give a second lower stimulus without adding a huge amount of volume?
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A few photos from the weekend…
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At the airport now travelling back to the UK.
Amazing competition experience out here at the Shaw Classic. The fans were brilliant and all the guys put on a great show.
My body is a bit broken after 8 heavy events but there’s no rest for the wicked as I have Europe’s Strongest Man this weekend in Leeds. No training, just recovery work this week as I try and turn things around to be ready to go again in 5 days.
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When you say legs which muscles in particular do you struggle to activate? Quads? Hamstrings? Glutes? Or maybe all of them?
Quads are quite hard to get and calves just burn out instantly, doesn’t matter what rep range or tempo I do [/quote]
Try some single leg step ups onto a low box for quads or even a TKE (terminal knee extension) with a band. Google this one for a video on the set up.Also for quads you could look at some isometric holds on the leg extension machine in differing positions
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Hi Adam congrats on the giants live at Manchester and joining the 1000lbs club. When you were in the 105s what was your best lifts and events ? And did you have to cut a lot of weight before comps?
Thank you.
My best lifts as a u105 were from what I can remember:
Deadlift 330kg
Squat 280kg
Log press 137kgMy best events used to be any moving events such as yokes or farmers and the deadlift events.
Yeah I used to cut from 112kg to 105kg for shows with 24h weigh ins and cut from 108kg for same day weigh ins
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Second day of competition done. I finished in 8th place (out of 16). Generally i’m happy with my perfromance.
I have to go to bed now as i’m proper fooked. I’ll get on a proper write up tomorrow.
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When doing push, I always start wie CBL flies or pec deck as first movement. This helped me a lot to feel my chest and get definitely better results. And believe me, you will not lose strength or something when you are doing a isolation movement first.
Okay ill try that, what about legs?[/quote]
When you say legs which muscles in particular do you struggle to activate? Quads? Hamstrings? Glutes? Or maybe all of them?
