TRAINING LOG: Robin Knebel

Additionally, MattyIce is talking about going LW when he's packing up shop. Where did the dignity go? ha

jsully wrote: Sean wrote: Hey, at least I haven't sissied out and gone LW ;) coughjohnoddencough lol.. also, who is "us"? You're one of, like, 3 people on this board under 240.

Portland Highland Games:

Had a great time at the games yesterday. The field was stacked w/ Dan McKim, Matt Vincent, Dan Williams, Spencer Tyler, Jake Sullivan, Andy Vincent, Ryan Stewart, Jon O'neil, Josh Goldthorp, Luke Mckay, and myself. Had a up and down day but had a few PR's so I'm happy with that. Plus it was my first time throwing with this caliber of athletes so overall I think things went well. I finished 7th by one point over Ryan Stewart until they rechecked the WOB scores and saw that he actually finished one point over me by 1 point. No big deal, I had a great time.

Numbers:

Open Stone: 46+ (8th) This was about what I was expecting but was hoping for maybe a little more.

Portland Stone: 13+ (Last) For as much as I love the Portland Games, I dislike this even almost as strongly. I just can't figure this thing out. I like the idea behind it but since I suck at it...no thanks.

HWFD: 37+ (8th) I was hoping to make up a few points here that I lost in the stones but just couldn't put it together. Warming up I felt good but once I stepped in the trig...BLEH!

LWFD: 77+ (5th or 6th?) Kinda felt similar here but not as bad as in the HWFD. My first throw was my best and I came off of that throw knowing I would break 80' today with how it felt...didn't happen.

H. Hammer: 99+ PR (5th) I've been waiting for my practice numbers to show up in a game and they finally did. I actually think I had a few more feet in me because I couldn't get the hammer out of my hands. First throw it ripped the entire middle finger off of my right glove. Second throw was best but it was still sticking to my hands.

L. Hammer: 123' PR (4th) Similar feeling to Heavy Hammer but the handle wasn't nearly as sticky. Previous PR was 118' and my shortest throw today was 120'. Happy with this.

WOB: 16' PR (4th) Been right at the brink of clearing 16' all year and going into the day I was pretty confident it would happen. BUT, then we had a 1.5 hour lunch break and we all stiffened up and I wasn't as optimistic. Loosened up and it happened. On to 17' and I was sure I wouldn't touch the bar. 1st attempt - hit on the way up. On my 2nd attempt - I CLEARED IT...but it rolled over the knock off bar and drug the bar down with it. 3rd attempt hit the bar pretty hard on the way up. Really happy here and 17' is a realistic goal my next games.

Caber: ??? (10th) Caber sucked. All the tacky had dried on my hands. first two picks my hands slipped. First one the caber only got 3-4 inches off the ground. 2nd my hands slipped higher up and both slid out to the side. I was able to get them back under but only at my finger tips. 3rd was a little better but not great. I doubt that it slipping really would have made much of a difference in my placing but it would have been nice to at least get three pulls in.

Don't have another game until Boise in September and then it's off season for me. Gonna spend the next two months getting stronger and might try to lean out a little. We'll see. Great time in Portland and can't wait until next year.

Lift tonight:

Knees were hurting so I switched it up and did some upper body work.

Bench 3x10x225 1x5x275 Moving the bar nice and slow getting a good stretch at the bottom. Haven't lifted in 2 weeks so in just trying to get back in the swing of things.

Military Press 3x8x225

Chest flies 3x10

4x8 with 405 is impressive, then you pull 635. No wonder you're crashing the bar at 17. Good work.

You the man Robin.

Lift tonight:

First off I got super drunk last night with some buddies around my fire pit. Only got maybe 1-2 hrs. of sleep. Felt terrible today and didn't want to lift but I needed to, so I did.

Bench

Strict press

Trice press down

Curls

Decided to jump on the cross - fit like conditioning and tried out the 135x30 clean and press. My buddy, who makes me look like I'm in great shape, went first. He was only able to squeak out 20 reps in 7m6s. I did all 30 reps in 5m15s. I wsant super winded but my shoulders were toast. Think I probably won't do this after an upper body workout.   Did 1 set of 10 and 4 sets of 5.

Also, I made the ultimate sandwich today.   I think I saw it on Craigs training log before and have wanted to try it ever since. The differences that I remember are, I used all 3 rib eyes instead of 2, I did 2 layers of bacon, and my sauce was a bbq/Worchester!/dijon mustard mix. Hardest part was waiting 4 hours for it to sit under the weight.

rknebel wrote: Also, I made the ultimate sandwich today.   I think I saw it on Craigs training log before and have wanted to try it ever since. The differences that I remember are, I used all 3 rib eyes instead of 2, I did 2 layers of bacon, and my sauce was a bbq/Worchester!/dijon mustard mix. Hardest part was waiting 4 hours for it to sit under the weight.

I can't see it making a difference either way, since the weight is so light, and we know we're just after conditioning. 

Gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a shit?

Imma try this tonight!

This is my best light hammer from Portland 123+.

Lift tonight:

Squat 5x5x455, 1x5x495-this sucked. Wanted to rack it after 2 or 3 but pushed it out.

Weighted hyper-extensions X a bunch. Just did them until I couldn't do anymore then did it a few more times.

Grace is a real bitch but I took it to her in 3:54. Matt V doing it in 1:30 seems crazy to me. I guess I outweigh him by 70 lbs and am half as strong so maybe it makes a little since. That's almost 1:30 off my first time last week. I'm expecting to improve a little less next time. She kicked my ads pretty good tonight.

Lift tonight:

Bench

Incline

Squats

Weighted Back Extensions

Wanted to see if I was able to do any pull ups. Weight myself first and was 341 lbs. Started from a hang and did 2 legit pull-ups from a hang. Nothing special but honestly I would have been happy with one. Did a few more sets of two playing around with different grips. Think I'm going to work on this and see what I can accomplish...

Threw with the A's in my local games this weekend as sort of an exhibition sort of thing.  Had a very good day.  PR'd in 5 events...