Accelerated Eccentric Bench -Tendo Unit

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I think heavy deads would help in feeling what heavy weight feels like in your hand as wel as help your grip strength. If you did a couple sets of heavy deads then walked over to the 56 for a standing WOB it might help you mentally. Sort of like throwing a heavy hammer followed by a super light hammer. It would feel like a bluegrass fart compared to laying out some real yard furniture.

Here is my suggestion:

Meatheads - try OLY lifts (more than usual) but stick to your meathead stuff (as much as possible) this offseason and see what happens next year.

OLY guys - try meathead stuff (more than usual) but stick to your OLY stuff (as much as possible) this offseason and see what happens next year.

You will all be better for it.

They both work!

And as many say, you are only as good as your weakist link!

Strengthen it!

My game is tight......

Wayne Hill wrote: Word. And how's the back? -Wayne

It blows dog balls, I would have to train my arse off for a year + just to get back to where I was in 04.  Without further injury, this would be great.  (They say if I DO,  I could be F'ed forever.)

I am seriously thinking about some fusion surgery.  Like Myles has said, Injury does not cure an illness.  I am Ill to the extreme, and since I had to stop, my life has changed so much (not all that good).

I get angry (as can be seen by all), but I want everyone to understand that for the most part, it's just me dealing with a really tough reality, I have been learning to understand it.

Peace, Roy

Steve D wrote: So Craig, when are you going to do some field research on the dark side and start working in some form of O lifts? You might find yourself throwing even further or not.

Eh...that's just too much work at this point in my career.  I do wish i would have really learned them earlier in life though.  My O-lifts consist of one to two days before a game, snatches and jerks with 135lbs for CNS stimulation.  That's it.

C. Smith wrote: Peter is right about "feeling stong" and having benchmarks to realize this.  For me, in season, as long as i can go in any day of the week, hit an easy 405 ATG front squat, 315 push press, or 635 dead, then i feel im equipped to throw.  Those number are quite a distance from my maxes or off season workouts, but they let me know that i will be able to throw. Roy - well done.

On that note, there was a HG guy down here who wouldn't compete if he couldn't hit about a 600lb deadlift the week before a games. That was his marker which gave him confidence.

I have had two guys try the Heavy Events that are of interest to me.  One guy was about 220lbs and could Clean and Jerk 400, the second guy was a 165lb powerlifter that could do a quadruple bodyweight deadlift.  The oly lifter competed in my "C" Class, his first games, and cleared 15ft with the 56lb weight.  The Deadlifter competed in the 190's and with the 42lb weight, cleared 11ft. 

The mistake that a lot of people make when they talk about Oly lifting for explosive power is they assume Oly lifters only do oly lifting, when in fact a good oly lifter, such as my friend in the above example, did a lot of plyo stuff, sprints, etc.