[Adam Bishop]

Relatively solid showing at Giants Live Glasgow tonight.

I went into this show with the goal of treating it as a training session to prepare for Britain’s strongest man in 5 weeks time and it worked well.

Solid on most the events but I definitely felt the difference of not being totally fired up for each event.

Finished 5th overall and got some prize money – job done.

Focus turns to getting in perfect shape for Britain’s Strongest man in 5 weeks now – I’m not letting go of that title!

[Adam Bishop]

Update – I’m up in Glasgow ready for another Giants live competition tomorrow.

Got a flight up here and made it to the hotel in one piece. Just resting up and making sure I get my food in tonight before we get to it tomorrow evening.

Events are…

Nicol stone walk
Log press for reps
Deadlift for reps
Car walk
Stones

Should be a great competition with a capacity crowd.

[Adam Bishop]

Another vote for Rolling DB extensions here!

Way less stress on my elbows that standard skullcrushers

[Adam Bishop]

Great double training day today. Feeling fresh and full for the weekend.

AM Session
Circus Dumbbell in prep for Brits. Worked with the 78kg Thomas Inch dumbbell (globe style) for some singles then a speed set of 5 from the floor. Used this as a bench mark time for 5 dumbbells as we increase the weight in the coming weeks.

Finished with some more nicol stone walks to prepare my thumbs for this event at the weekend.

PM Session
Press hypertrophy focused session. 3 exercises for pecs and delts.

Hammer strength chest Press – 5 sets
Incline DB Fly – cluster set
Push ups – rest pause set

Seated DB Press – 5 sets
DB lateral Raise – cluster set
DB Reverse Fly – rest pause set

All done and dusted in 40mins. Time to push some carbs down my neck as I’ve still got 3 meals to get in before bed!

[Adam Bishop]

I would just take a steady warm up and see how it feels. If pain free train as usual, if not only do movements that are pain free.

[Adam Bishop]

Another Cryo session today followed by some soft tissue work focused on my triceps, quads and bicep into pec tendons. Grim work.

Spend the rest of the day graying not to move too much while putting away plenty of food as I ramp things up towards the weekend.

[Adam Bishop]

Couple of ideas for DB variations…

Seated
Standing
Lean away single arm lateral raise
Chest supported (slight forward lean)
Bent arm/straight arm
Seated with a deadstop each rep

[Adam Bishop]

I agree with Rich’s great assessment.

I have put out a how to deadlift YouTube video a while back which might help you if you wanted to assess your form from the floor and stick with it.

Search on YouTube for ADAM BISHOP HOW TO DEADLIFT

[Adam Bishop]

Great lowerbody session today.

Axle Deadlift – working up to a top set of 10
CG Pulldown – cluster set
SA DB Row – drop set

Leg Press – 5 sets
Back extension – 5 sets
Standing Calf Raise – rest pause set

I travel up to Glasgow this weekend for another competition so reduced the total volume of the session but still got some good work done. Pushing the food in again as I make sure I go in heavy and full into this comp.

Also had a session with my Osteo this evening so body is feeling pretty good. Great start to the week.

[Adam Bishop]

Back in the barn tonight for my session. Arm focused session:

Long rope push downs – 5 sets
DB skullcrushers- cluster set
Fat grip straight bar Pressdown – drop set

Alternate DB Curl – 5 sets
Seated DB curl – cluster set
DB Hammer Curl – Drop set

This is kind of sessions I need to do more of as I need to build some more mass in my triceps and biceps to aid me in my pressing and pulling events.

[Adam Bishop]

It depends on what sector you want to work in.

Let’s assume you want to coach people. If you want to coach professional athletes as an S&C coach you would be best getting a sports and exercise science degree or the like. Most positions in the professional sporting world require this. Be warned – the hours will be long and the pay will be lower than you expect!

If you want to help general people in the fitness industry (ie the public) achieve their sporting or physique goals and build your own business then an PT qualification is a good option.

You can obviously do both of you have a thirst for knowledge and a passion for learning.

My final advice: get coaching people straight away in any way you can. While working as an S&C coach I interviewed hundreds of people fresh out of uni with degrees and even masters but many of them had little to no physical coaching experience and did not know how to connect with athletes face to face. The lost art of coaching is a real problem in the industry as things become academic driven and coaching moves online.

[Adam Bishop]

Back home after a couple of seminars on Friday and Saturday.

Great to coach people in person again, I really enjoy seeing people improve their lifts.

Spent a lot of time in the truck so I’m stiff AF – some stretching and hot tub this evening to get me loosened up for tomorrow

[Adam Bishop]

Yeah 5g taken at any point in the day. For ease it might aswell go post workout in your shake with some protein and carbs.

[Adam Bishop]

It depends what you want from it. I tend to agree with JP that excessive, uncontrolled swinging is not the way to go however if you want to use the Rev Hyper as tractioning method for the spine then a super slow eccentric is not needed.

I would employ a squeeze at the top of each rep and allow the lever arm to swing through while maintaining some form of tension

[Adam Bishop]

Events training

On the road this weekend with a couple of seminars/appearances so grabbed an events session with my old training partner Danny.

Focused on speed yoke and sandbag runs with plenty of build up sets.

Big plus was that my knee and hip didn’t give me any issues ??