[Adam Bishop]

Birthday Deadlifts

Terrible sleep last night unfortunately but took a big old hit of JPre Stim and got on with it.

Deadlift 400×2
CG Pulldowns – 2 work sets
Seated row – 2 work sets
WG Pulldown – 2 work sets
Pec Dec Reverse Fly – 2 work sets
SA DB Row – 1 set to failure

The goal was 3 reps on the deadlift but a 3rd rep just want there today unfortunately. Big positives in that I held a good position throughout the lift even when the bar stalled on me. This was a stiff bar PB so I’m looking forward to moving back to the deadlift bar next week.

[Adam Bishop]

Happy birthday adam ????

Thanks Nick.

Another day older another day slightly more broken haha.

I get to celebrate my birthday with some heavy heavy deadlifts later so watch this space ??

[Adam Bishop]

Had a trip into Guildford today to put my truck in for a service so I made a return to my former place of work to train in the Quins gym and catch up with the guys. Had an awesome session as well which was a bonus:

Military Press 140×4 125×3 112.5×3
Paused Press 100x3x3
DB Lateral Raise – 2 work sets
SA cable lateral raise – 2 work sets
Cable red Delt fly – 2 work sets
Seated DB Press – 1 set to failure

[Adam Bishop]

Terrible night’s sleep last night unfortunately but luckily it was a rest day today so I could afford to take a longer than usual nap which helped me out a bit.

Spent the day catching up on some financial paperwork and spent some time in the hot tub this evening.

Hopefully I’ll get a better nights sleep in tonight as I want to hit a good press session tomorrow.

[Adam Bishop]

Ok so we are into the final week of this wave where we’ll be hitting a heavy triple on our main movement each session. As such I dropped a bit of the volume from my squats today as I want to save a bit for a big goal of mine on Friday – Deadlift 400×3 on the stiff bar.

Here’s how it went down today:

Back squat 280×3
Leg Extensions – 2 work sets
Hack squats – 2 work sets
Seated Leg curls – 2 work sets
Prone leg curls – 2 work sets
Seated calf raise – drop set to failure

Really excited to finish this phase off and change my split up as I move into prep phase for the strongman season. Not long to go now.

[Adam Bishop]

Costco for me. I go through a lot of their rib eye steak and chicken thighs. Very good quality.

[Adam Bishop]

Hit some good numbers to finish off this phase of incline pressing today. Looking forward to seeing what I can press when I push it more in the coming weeks

Incline Bench Press 180×3 162.5×3 145×3
Paused Incline Bench 127.5x3x3
DB Fly – 2 work sets
Hammer strength Chest Press – 2 work sets
Banded decline press – 2 work sets

[Adam Bishop]

Hi Clark

So your form overall looks good to me with some small work ons:

1. I’d like to see you sit back a little more to bring your shoulders directly above the bar instead of being out in front. At the moment with your shoulders in front of the bar on some reps you’re causing your hips to rise early in the lift. Sitting back a little bit more will take some pressure off your lumbar spine, allow you to lead with your hips rising first and bring in more drive from your legs.

2. It’s tough to see on the video but are you lifting with a bent elbow? Work hard on keeping those arms long. I like to flex my triceps hard at the start of the lift to force them straight.

3. I’d actually bring the bar further forward in your stance as I feel it’s a little bit too close to your body for a guy of your build. (This should also help with point 1). Imagine the bar is a saw and as you look down place your feet under the bar so that all your toes would be cut off.

I have a full deadlift tutorial on YouTube which might be helpful – just search “Adam Bishop How to Deadlift”

As for your pain towards your upper lat it does look like you are working hard to engage your lats which is great. I sometimes get a burning sensation towards the top of my lat/into my armpit when I am bracing hard. It usually settles down quickly for me. This is just my personal experience though – if the pain persists I would seek the advise of a physiotherapist for sure.

[Adam Bishop]

Little to nothing going on today.

Ate my meals, spent some time in the hot tub and watched the rugby on tv.

Back to a normal training week tomorrow, the final week of this block before we take things up a notch.

[Adam Bishop]

Saturday arms session

Body was feeling it from the pull session yesterday so happy to be training a less stressful bodypart. Still making progress on all movements so I’m happy.

The usual 2 work sets for all of the following:

Long rope Pressdowns
Bent over Pressdowns
Reverse grip Pressdowns
BB Curl
Seated DB Curl
Standing Alt DB Curl

[Adam Bishop]

Felt a bit fatigued today, unfortunately my lack of quality sleep seems to be catching up on me so I really need to sort the ACPAP for the new year. It’s on order.

Anyway still got my work done today, I just decided to put all my energy into my top set of pulls before moving onto my accessory work.

Deadlift 380×3 (proper grinder today!)
CG Pulldowns – 2 work sets
Seated row – 2 work sets
WG Pulldown – 2 work sets
SA DB Row – 2 work sets
DB monkey shrugs – 2 work sets
DB CSR – 1 work set (6/5/4/3/2/1)

[Adam Bishop]

Second press session of the week for me today. Shoulders feeling much stronger each session.

Military Press 137.5×4 122.5×4 110×4
Paused Military Press 100x3x4
DB Lateral Raise – 2 work sets
Cable SA Lateral Raise – 2 work sets
Seated DB Press – 2 work sets

[Adam Bishop]

You’re welcome Kris, glad I could help a bit. Good luck with the rehab!

[Adam Bishop]

2015 this post was from me haha, let’s remove the toe elevated portion to the hip hinge – aside from that no other opinion has altered

Ad, it was deficit trap bar pulls , everyone can get into that ? Can’t they ? Haha

Of for sure and deficit deadlift with a trap bar is a different story! Agree with you there.

[Adam Bishop]

Thanks for taking the time to reply Bish, that meal actually sounds really easy to get down so I might have to give it a go at some point.

Thanks for sharing the inside info on what happens at an elite level, I have competed in a number of local strongman comps and have always found them atmosphere amongst the competitors to be really positive and encouraging.

Having competed as a BB I found that the subjectivity of judging an cause friction between people, where as with strength sports you can’t really argue about the results… It is what it is.

Are you missing the S&C role at Quind at all? I imagine that you built some strong relationships with players and staff over there so it must have been a difficult decision to make, although balanced against winning WSM you will probably say it was a no brainer actually….

Regards

Matt

Yeah for sure mate I certainly miss training the guys and the people I worked with at the club but I’m not missing the working hours and paperwork/meetings etc.

No regrets going full time into strongman as of yet