[Adam Bishop]

Great following your prep for the British.

What are the events and weights at the show?

Thanks Markus

The events are:

200kg Shield Walk for distance
350kg Axle Deadlift for reps
155kg axle clean and press for reps
Sandbag over bar (4.5m bar and 6 bags from 18-28kg)
Atlas Stones 120-200kg

[Adam Bishop]

Another standard recovery day for me today.

Morning walk with the dogs, make sure I get all my meals in, sauna session and finishing the evening with the hot tub before bed.

Very much Groundhog Day at the moment haha.

[Adam Bishop]

You’re really out of sync right now I think you’ll have to shift your bedtime back gradually over a short period and commit to a standard wake time and stick to it.

I do something similar when I’m travelling to compete abroad and looking to shift myself onto the local time. In the week leading up to departure I’ll shift my bedtime and wake time back or forward an hour each day until I’m on the desired time zone.

This approach could work for you to get you back on track IMO.

Once you’re there it’s exactly as Kuba said it’s all discipline ensuring you stick to your new sleep schedule.

[Adam Bishop]

Cracking session today. Felt super strong and had to resist the urge to ramp the weight above competition weights haha.

I feel like things are progressing nicely towards next weekend.

Axle clean and Press – 156×1 then 146×3 (easy work)
Seated Pin Press – 130×3 (plus 70kg band tension
Pressdowns – 4×6

That was it as you can see I’m into my taper now where I’ll drop out the volume for the next 10 days leading up to the competition. Intensity stays the volume goes. This is different from a deload where the intensity would drop as I look to reduce fatigue while maintaining the neural aspect of high intensity training. Effectively I’m limiting muscle damage while maximising the neural stimulus.

[Adam Bishop]

Woke up with my body feeling pretty good today. Definitely adapting to the axle deadlifts now which is great.

Recovery day for me so morning walk, massage and sauna session today.

Feeling good for my press session tomorrow

[Adam Bishop]

Good pull session today, the axle deadlifts felt much improved from last week. Kept to the same reps as per plan.

Axle Deadlift 330×8
Leg Press 4×6
Back Extensions 4×6
Sandbag Carry 3x60m

It’s looking like my deadlift is back on track for comp day in 2 weeks time

[Adam Bishop]

Good session today. Trained this morning before the rugby started which was a bit earlier than usual but strength wasn’t affected. Hit all my reps at the correct loads.

All loads at 70% 1RM this week for 4×6 on each exercise:

CG Pulldown
SA Cable Row
High Incline DB CSR
Hammer strength chest press
DB Curls
Bent over cable Pressdowns

[Adam Bishop]

Body feeling a little beat up today but nothing too major.

Spent some time in the hot tub this evening before bed.

Volume session tomorrow morning.

[Adam Bishop]

Smashed an awesome events session today. Needed it big time for some confidence and it delivered. Everything feeling easy and strength feels on point.

Shield walk – 3 runs total up to 50m
Axle Speed Pulls – I put these in for some technical work as well as adding some additional fatigue before the final two events.

Bag toss – 2 clear runs with 18/20/20/25/27kg bags all over the 4.5m barrier.

Atlas stones – one motions up to 180kg then a lap and load single at 210kg. Finished off with a fast run of 120/130/150/180kg

2 weeks to go let’s see how this week goes.

[Adam Bishop]

A much needed recovery day today. Body is feeling the added volume on the axle press yesterday especially in my knees where some tendinitis seems to be rearing it’s ugly head again.

Walked this morning, had an extra nap in the day and got in the sauna for 25min.

Hopefully I’ll be feeling a bit fresher for my events session tomorrow

[Adam Bishop]

Great pressing session today with everything progressing nicely on the axle. Time to drop the log press out and focus on the axle as I taper towards Brits.

Axle clean and press – 156x3x1 and 135x1x4
Seated Pin Press – up to 120×3
Cable Pressdowns – 4×8
Leg Press – 3×20

[Adam Bishop]

Solid rest day today. Had a massage and had a great chat with my sports psychologist as we sorted some mental strategies for the lead up to Britain’s Strongest Man.

Feeling in a much better place after the session.

Finished off the evening with some contrast baths.

[Adam Bishop]

I felt like England didn’t threaten them at all either , I think we missed Faz and Manu a lot in that game to really get things going forward , if they had them I think Scotland would of struggled to contain them as easily. I think no Courtney aswell is always a hard one, he just works so fucking hard, and is a total pest , and adds that extra line out option aswell.

Hamish Watson is also a fucking beast! He went 14/14 tackles , and was just everywhere

Can’t argue with any of that.

I do question why Eddie feels the need to play a centre on the wing and a utility back in the centre though. Marchant would have added a greater attacking threat in the centre but England clearly had a pre-determined game plan of kicking the ball in behind Scotland so probably why he selected Daly at 13. Pretty negative tactics considering Eddie was going on about bringing in a new brand of English attacking rugby ?

[Adam Bishop]

Back in the barn for another deadlift/lower day. Finally back to pulling from a standard height on the axle as my TFL is healed and feels completely normal again. The pulls felt a bit laboured unfortunately but I have to remind myself that it’s expected due to the injury taking away training time from the floor, the axle making the pull hard and all the other events in the week eating into my energy reserves. I plan to add in some speed pulls to Fridays events session to help with this and to add a fatigue factor to the other comp events I’ll be training.

Axle Deadlift – 330×8
Leg Press – 4×8
SSB Squat – 4×8
Back Extension- 4×8
Sandbag carry – 3x30m

[Adam Bishop]

Morning guys and girls ?

Lovely weekend away , I really needed it as my body was utterly destroyed and I was mentally

Exhausted from this push so far and juggling everything that we juggle atm , it’s surprised me this last month how much harder it is now to be in “ competitor mode” , and do what we need to, to successful keep the business growing – on the daily the levels of communication with our staff , supplier + manufacturers and our customers, is increasing and it’s certainly difficult to mentally manage fatigue, as always when I get too stressed , I will hand over communication To Corinne and she will take over whatever I was doing when I can feel I’m about to lose my shit at someone , this helps A LOT . A couple circumstances last week with suppliers that I had to do this ( don’t read work emails while in the gym Jordan, you will always be a cunt when you reply lol ? )

Ate a ton of shit over the weekend, laughed A LOT , met tons of hilarious people in the hospitality section at the stadium – big diff between Murrayfield and twickenham, Murrayfield feels like a posh comedy club , the food is amazing , and the atmosphere is very funny and social , everyone wants to chat with you , you could easily go and sit at some random person table ( even though it’s laid out like a restaurant ) and just talk and they would legit want to chat back and just have a laugh with you ( I love this about Scottish people , well the ones I have met through bb and rugby )

Twickenham is very posh, you couldn’t just mingle like that, it’s quieter and less rowdy, it’s very much “ we are VIPs in our hospitality box”type feel. It’s nice to experience both, I just don’t like pretentious people – would be cool to have the layout of twickenham with the atmosphere of Murrayfield!

I’m gutted England lost , but feeling the atmosphere when they won, was special , and they played fucking well!

I was 275 this morn, so didn’t actually put back on as much weight as I expected , I thought I would be back at 277 , especially after stopping on the way back yday and loading up on subway ! It’s been forever since I had one and you can add hash browns now to them haha! Obv went in with double meat, double cheese, double hash browns , couldn’t even close the fucker hahah

Subway do hash browns now!! I’m off out for a while ?

It was a really interesting game. Eddie made a couple of bad coaching calls IMO but Scotland looked the more dangerous attacking team and definitely deserved the win.