Best of luck with the shoulder rehab.

Sunday:

Axle C&P:
80x3x3

Keg/Sand Bag Medley (~15m):
2rounds: 60, 80, 100kg sandbags, 60, 75, 90kg kegs.

Finished off with back and bi's. The axle is awful, zero rotation which means to go from belly to rack you have to fully release the bar. Definitely an interesting challenge.

Cheers, bro's. Hopefully I can restrain myself in training and keep up the rehab.

I have always found that as long as I keep my shoulder blades pulled down and dont allow them to roll forward or up when I DL, DLing usually makes them feel better when I am rehabbing shoulder issues.

During this most recent rehab, I also found that when the shoulder is really bad, sumo pulling is easier on the shoulder than conventional because of the starting position arm angle. Your arms are a little more straight down with sumo, rather than a little more out away from your torso with conventional. Hopefully that made sense.

That does make sense. I hurt the left one on a straight leg DL where I just let it get too far out in front (my shoulders wouldn't have been locked down properly either, just a sloppy rep). I didn't think of sumo as an option.

Rack pulls/block pulls would be another option.

15th April:

Front Squat:
120x5x3
ss with ab wheel

Press:
60x5x3
ss with side bends

Good Morning:
90x8x3
ss with facepulls, pull aparts


18th April:

Axle C&P:
82.5x3x3

"Truck" Pull:
320x3

Stones:
up to 140kg to 1.28m (8cm over comp height)
118x3

Overall a decent couple of training sessions.

19th April:

100kg keg/310kg sled drag, ~13m
2 reps, plus a bunch of warmups

100kg sandbag carry, 30m
4 reps

Lat pull downs + incline biceps curl to finish.

Had a bit of spare time today, so went in to do some conditioning stuff, just get a feel for some of these events.

20th April:

Deadlift:
145x6x3

Press:
50x8x3

Shoulder rehabs.

Feeling a bit flat and a bit short of time. Shoulder was ok on deadlifts, but still pretty light.

25th April:

Log:
80kg for a couple of lousy singles
72.5kg EMOM for 10

Carry and Drag:
170kg sled + 120kg sandbag, 5 reps

Was feeling a bit pukey by the end of this, conditioning is pretty trash. Missed a session this week due to a work trip, so that's not helping much. Need to write up a program today and try to stick to it.

Tuesday

Deadlift (ss with abs):
150x5x4

Press (ss with rows):
60x5x4

Front Squat (ss with abs):
110x5x4

Curls, facepulls, band flies


Thursday

HBBS (ss with abs)
140x5x4

Push Press:
70x3x5

Zercher Lifts:
110x3x4

Hammer curls, BB split squats, facepulls

Keeping rest to 3:30, trying to get the conditioning up, focusing on accessories that get a bit of quad strength and core.

2nd May:

Truck Pull:
Worked up to a few runs of 250kg with the rope.

Log:
80kg x1
72.5kg x3x3

Atlas Stones:
140x1
150xf

Feeling a bit fatigued given last weeks training. Got the 150kg stone almost up and the 140kg was the fastest single at it I've done, so making progress there. Conditioning leaves a lot to be desired.

4th May

Deadlift (ss w/ ab rollouts)
220x1
180x5x3

Press (ss w/ db rows):
62.5x6x3

Front Squat (ss w/ obliques):
100x5x3

Facepulls, curls and band flies.

Really nice session, 220 was slow but not max and I was glad it was still there.

Ugh, I forget to update this. Currently two weeks out from our regional strongman event. Events are:

Harness Truck Pull 20m
Log Press for reps: 85kg
100kg Keg Carry/Backwards 250kg chain drag medley for 20m each
100kg sandbag for max distance.

We've loaded up the sled with 455kg and pulled it ~15m, I think I can get 3 reps on log, move ok with the keg/chain and have managed a near max 80m on the bag carry. I don't think any of these are that competitive, but considering the start to the training year I feel ok for where I am at. Nationals qualifying 4th place will be acceptable.

After falling down an rabbit hole on the internet, I have become interested in short steel bending so have been mucking around a little bit with that. Nothing impressive completed, just trying to learn the technique.

The better question of the day is when are you gonna get vaccinated bro? My girlfriend is from Mexico and she just walked into the walgreens here in Texas and was instan vaccinated in 5 minutes for free.

New Zealand power rating down. USA climbing back to #1, good riddance to the orange clown.

New Zealanders rightly don't have to give a ****. They've basically cleansed their islands of COVID and when there is a tiny outbreak they stamp it the **** out.

They're safe as can be, so they can take their time on getting vaxxed. In fact, the most ethical thing for them to do would probably be to send all their vaccines to India or someplace that hasn't got their **** together. And it wouldn't surprise me if part of their delay is related to something along those lines.

No man, I don't think that's the right strategy. What are the consequences of remaining quarantined from the rest of the world? Are they going to be quarantined forever? Why are NZ, Taiwan, and AUS acting like they poor and can't afford it? You saying they vaccinating slow to save Indians?

I don't know what's going on over there but it doesn't seem #1.

Well not Indians specifically. Apparently they are sending out vaccine to a lot of the poor South Pacific countries that are near by, so that is one factor in making it less fast than it could be.

USA#1 definitely has an edge on the vaccine because it controls a lot of vaccine production. Other than UK and Israel, I can't think of any countries that are even close in how quick they're getting people vaccinated. Even Canada is pretty damn slow.

A country like NZ can afford to be a little more deliberate in their vaccine program. If you wanted to be ahead on the vaccine rollout the you had to have acted before the vaccines were developed and pre-ordered a ****ton of all of them because you didn't know which ones would pan out. And you had to be real early in the pre-ordering, because some countries who pre-ordered aren't getting their orders fully filled on time. Ordering now doesn't help at all, no matter how much cash you're willing to throw around.

USA #1 did a ton of pre-ordering. That's part of the reason why we have a shitload of AZ vaccine stockpiled that isn't even approved in the US and we're sending it to Canada so it doesn't just expire. I guess NZ didn't see the need to light their money on fire like this.

Sure, if they wanted they could probably get some shitty Sinovac or something else and shave a couple of months off of getting everyone vaxxed. But just being patient and getting some primo Pfizer (or whatever) into every New Zealander is a fine strategy since they're completely open for business anyway with no community spread.

Another benefit is that by being slower they have the advantage of seeing how these vaccines have performed in hundreds of millions of people before deciding how to proceed themselves. That's a benefit that is often forgotten because most of the vaccines happened to be extremely successful, but if they weren't, then having access to this data before deciding which vaccines to procure would have been huge.

They're not going to be quarantined "forever". They'll probably get everyone vaxxed within the next several months.

So if your choice is being NZ with almost no COVID deaths, minimal lockdowns, and probably 6 months (at most) behind on vaccine available for everyone (compared to US) versus the cluster**** we had here but sooner vaccine availability, it's pretty clear which of those situations is really #1.

If you want to pick on someone, pick on Japan. They're taking their sweet ass time (less than 5% of Japan vaxxed when I checked last week) and still planning on having the Olympics there in a couple of months with people coming from all over the world and no requirement that athletes be vaccinated. That is true idiocy.

As melkerson said, roll out here is pretty patient. Border works etc were highest priority, then rolling through high priority people. Happy to wait my turn.

Thanks to a speedy rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Singapore is now ranked #1 in the Bloomberg COVID Resilience Index, which tracks how the world's 53 biggest economies are handling the pandemic.

It's the first time since the index's launch in November that New Zealand hasn't held the top spot.

Well I gave the Kiwis credit last year but you see they no longer #1.

Scrolling back, I didn't see any mention of Singapore in your prior posts. You seemed to suggest that USA was somehow better than NZ.

According the above mentioned Resilience Index NZ is #2 and USA is #17. USA is moving up, but I don't see it ever overtaking NZ. I'd offer a bet on this, but we all know how that's going to end.

as an Australian, I'm also not in a huge rush to get vaccinated. no real need seeing as it's not here anyway apart from occasional tiny outbreaks that get crushed in days and our borders won't be opening any time soon. all the olds and front line workers are vaccinated now

end of the year will be fine for me, albeit I'm hoping to squeeze my Pfizer vaccine in before I'm 50 in a few months, otherwise I have to get Astra Zeneca which is the blood clot one that I'd rather not have to get

25th May

Deadlift
195x5x3

Press
70x3x3
60x7x2

Bent 3x 20D, 2x 40D and a 6mm shitty bolt. Some pendlay rows and chin ups too. Short training unfortunately.

Auckland Champs 2021

20m 10.5T Bus Pull
1st, 37s

85kg Log for Reps in 60s
1st, 4 reps

100kg keg/250kg chain drag
1st, 48s

100kg sandbag carry for max distance
1st, 140m

So I managed to take it down, beating my mate that beat me at Nationals. Last two weeks of prep had been a bit mixed, came down with a nasty cold and just slept like trash for a while. It ended up being enough on the day. My wife finished her comp, managing the bus pull to completion which was her highlight. Enough to qualify her for nationals in her group if she wants to. My training buddy got second in a stacked u90kg class too. So overall a really fun day, came out knackered but not hurt which is a huge plus.

Next up is King of the Stones in mid July.

Well done, man. I'm really stoked that you shipped one. Status officially elevated from Aotearoan subchampion to Aotearoan champion.

Did you just stop on the sandbag because you knew you had it locked up? Looks like you had way more left in you.