The price we pay?
Have the years of heavy training increased the size of my heart due to the extreme temporary increases in blood pressure?
1/25- Accessory Work (Back and Bis)
I apologize for once again being so behind on my posting. I still need to post about my experience coaching at the Special Olympics Southeast Meet on January 21st as well as my latest health issues.
1/24- Raw Fat Bar Bench
I’m feeling better from the med infusions, but still have a long way to go to get my strength back.
1/19- Raw Squats using the OBB Power Handles w/the first video in a while
I seem to have good days and bad days with my joint pain. Today was a good day.
1/12- Upper Accessory (Chest and Tris)
Training was decent today. I’m still weak as poo, but at least I wasn’t in too much pain.
1/10- Upper Accessory (Shoulders and Tris)
My wrists didn't feel well enough to bench, but I was at least able to get some accessory work in.
1/5- Raw Squats
Unfortunately my strength still seems to be fading. I can't even begin to explain how incredibly frustrating this is.
1/2/17- Upper Accessory (Back and Bis)
I’m still hoping that within the next couple of weeks my autoimmune symptoms will begin to subside
12/29- Lower Accessory
I didn't have anyone to squat with today and have to admit that I didn't have the motivation to do it on my own.
12/27- Raw Bench
Last week I couldn’t bench at all due to the joint pain in my wrists so this week was a step in the right direction.
12/20- Upper Accessory (Back and Bis again)
Regardless of what holiday you celebrate, remember that just being alive is a gift.
12/16- Upper Body Accessory (Bis and Tris) and my first drug infusion
I'm not sure how my life got to this point, but I'm damn sure going to do everything that I can to get back as close to "normal" as I can.
12/13- Upper Accessory (Back and Bis)
I’m still adapting my training to deal with my limited work capacity and the potential for muscle tears while on prednisone.
12/9- Lower Accessory and a visit from my online client Micah
My knees weren’t going for squats today so I just did some accessory work.
12/6- Upper Accessory (Back and Bis) and hoping for the best
Thank you for continuing to read my log through all of this. I hope that my experience and road back can help provide useful information for some of you.
12/1- Raw Squats, giving back, and a rant on social media
On Saturday Daniel Tinajero, Jo Jordan, Trinity and I helped set up a paralympic bench and gave some bench instructions with Charlie Merritt at the Paralyzed Veterans of America in Sanford. We hope to make this a more regular event and to get more of the disabled veterans involved as we go.
11/29- Raw Bench/Accessory and some progress with my medical issues
I keep falling. I’m ready to finally stand back up.
11/23- Rep Bench and Accessory work and the latest update on my ongoing ...
Appreciate what you have. It won't last forever.
Elitefts is having a great Better than Black Friday sale including The H...
The Home GHR which is on sale for almost $70 off! This is a great deal!!!
11/9- Bench and my visit to the GI Doc: “He’s dying.”
The doctor said he would like for me to get to a point where I forget that I even have a disease. That would be nice.
11/7- Lower Accessory
My autoimmune issues were kicked into full gear this week and my joints were killing me. Rather than not lift at all I did what I could to get some blood flow.
Full Meet Results from our Orlando Barbell APF Southern States on Octobe...
We hope to see you at our next meet on February 18th!
11/4- Raw Cambered Bar Squats w/the first video in a while
Nothing too exciting to see here, but I’m moving a decent amount for having to still deal with a good amount of joint pain from an undetermined origin.
11/1- Shoulder Saver Benching
At this point I'm really hoping that the Humira I was on caused muscle weakness, because otherwise I just suck.
10/31- First Deads in a while and another trip to the doctor where I’m l...
Unfortunately I’m getting stuck in the usual endless cycle of treating symptom after symptom without ever getting to the root cause of the problem.
Gone, but never forgotten, our brother in iron and member of the OBB fam...
Orlando Barbell isn’t an ordinary gym, we’re a family and losing one of our own has been devastating.
10/27- Accessory work and an update on my ongoing medical drama, with a ...
I have to admit that this whole experience has been so depressing that I had thoughts that I would never compete again as my body seemed to be deteriorating. Now I have renewed hope.
9 years of of meets on Powerliftingwatch
I thought I'd post something cool that the powerliftingwatch site does that I didn't realize until recently.
Orlando Barbell APF Southern States Roster
I hope your training has gone well and you'll be taking the rest of the week off to rest up for the meet this weekend.
10/10- Back and Bis and surviving Hurricane Matthew
Other than losing a couple small limbs in one of our trees the power stayed on and we had no damage.
9/30- Upper Accessory (Back and Bis) and some more variety with the OBB ...
We'll be hunkering down for hurricane Matthew over the next couple of days. This looks it's going to be a rough one.
9/29- Raw High Box Squats w/video and my arthritis plans
I’m still weak as poo, but this is the heaviest I’ve gone on squats in a while.
The hits just keep on coming. It looks like I, along with my other issu...
As always, things can always be far worse, but will share what I’m having to deal with.
9/28- Raw/Metal Catapult Benching
I have been competitively powerlifting for over 20 years. Within that time I have competed raw, single ply and multi ply. I hold the highest all time total of 1930 at 148, the third highest total of 2045 at 165 and have broken over 35 world records, over 25 of which I still hold. Through […]
9/27- Raw Rack Pulls
once again, things could always be worse and I hope to continue gradually returning to normal.
9/19- Raw Speed Pulls
I keep hoping that I’ll be able to post that I feel great, but it’s not happening, at least not yet.
9/15- Raw High Rep Squats
We’ll still follow the same M2/Minimalist method of utilizing a gradually increasing range of motion by using a high box for heavy, parallel for high rep, then low box or no box for speed work.
9/7- Light Bench
I’m still incredibly weak from coming off of corticosteroids and suffering from adrenal fatigue. Hopefully I’ll continue to improve and will be able to stop complaining about this soon.
9/2- Easy upper body
I'm hoping to feel normal and be strong again soon. These ongoing uncontrollable autoimmune issues suck ass.
9/1- Raw Speed Squats with a short, non exciting video
I'm still trying to get back into the swing of things.
8/31- Light Raw Bench
The only reason I went light today is because I’m weak as poo right now and had no other option.
8/26- Raw Fatigued Squats
Appreciate what you have, it can always be worse. It also helps to remember that no matter how bad a situation is it will eventually pass. Everything changes.
8/23- Still trying to get back into the swing of things. Back at with s...
Bear with me, everything passes and I’ll get through this. As always, things could always be far far worse.
8/12- Raw Bench
Unfortunately somehow our Blast Straps walked out of the gym recently and by the time I realized it, it was too late to review the security footage. Either way I bought some with my rewards points and remembered how much of a welcome addition they are for variety.
8/11- Raw Hatfield Squats w/video
Hatfield Squats seem to be the latest trend at OBB. Since I had never done them before and could use the variety I thought we’d give them a try.
8/9- Some bench warm ups and a trip to the ER
Up until a couple of years ago when I had lost 15 lbs, couldn’t keep any food down, and finally caved in and went to the ER
8/8- A rough raw deadlift day w/video and some advice on dealing with on...
The more you feed into it, the more you satisfy the critic. That’s exactly what they’re looking for. Delete it, block them, let it go and move on. I can assure you you’ll be much better off.