TRAINING LOG: Andrew Kanzig

Need to make myself more accountable, decided to start posting to my training log again.  Here it goes:

Flat Bench - 135/2x5, 185/3x5, 225/3x5, focusing on moving weight quickly and explosively, when touches to chest, pow!

Core Crushers - 95#, 3x5 to each side.

Lateral raises - 35/5, 40/5, 45/5, 50/5

Abs - 4x20

Did some free throw shooting afterwards to loosen up.  Always seems to get the "deadness" out of my upper body after a workout.  Need to seriously think about investing in a Tendo Power Factor unit.  Will be working on some hammer and stone throws indoors for tomorrow.  Going to try to alternate one day lift, one day throw, vice versa.

Andrew, just a thought on the alternating thing.  My current regimen is Throw one day, lift the next, then take the appropriate amount of rest/recovery before the next throwing day. Currently that is about 3 days for me, maybe different for you.  My next game is in mid September.  My theory is that I am fresh for the more technical throwing session so I can get as much as possible out of that.  Last night was 24 solid throws with 30# Stone and 19 solid throws with the HWFD.  Tonight will be deads and push press.  Not as technical so it is easier to maintain form when a little tired.

Just my $0.02

What time Saturday Big Swole?

See you at ten.

7/24/11

Practice with Duncan, Mark, Nick, and Kyle.

Braemar style OS - went pretty well, still need to work on driving forward with my back foot and blocking harder.

Sheaf - once we got the uprights up (which took a little while to get a fairly tall sheaf tower up with only 5 people) practice went well.  Threw mostly 20 pound sheaf, made a PR of 26', just missed 28'.  Threw the 16 a couple of times, lost a bet to Duncan that I would be the first to top out the 36 foot tower, lost miserably mind you, should have tried this first before throwing the 20.

WOB - still working on getting that good pull, extending up high and straight, letting go at the top of the movement, not out in front.  Had the height on 13, but no dice.  For some reason, being 6'9" should allow me to dominate at this, but just not getting it where I need to, must be a timing thing.

Overall a good day.  Looking forward to a couple of weight days in the gym and another throwing day this week, maybe 2.

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Fully understand.  I'm only 6'3", but I have the arms and legs of someone that is 6'7".  
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I know what you mean, my reach is like for someone over 7 feet tall, I think that the shorter muscles are easier to make explosive.  In proportion, to get my body looking like some of the guys smaller than me that out throw me (i.e. humongous thighs, shoulders, etc) I would weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 400-425 lbs.  I just cannot handle that weight with my crappy joints, so trying to keep it lean.  I go 350 now, just can't imagine adding another 75 lbs.  Insane! 

Acute hip injury slowing me down.  Was able to get a very brief workout done.

Stone throws-got 2 reps in.  Manager at gym comes in and says, "sir, I'm going to have to ask you to stop throwing that in here."  I replied to the effect that there have been about 6 managers of the place since I started working out there and the rest of them approved my throwing implement (since it is an indoor shot put).  He again asks me to stop.  I do and start walking to take it out to the car.  Another person working there asks him, was he throwing a hard ball in there.  I whip around quickly and say, "no, you stupid motherf**kers, it is an indoor shot, made to throw indoors on wooden floors, you stupid f**ks." 

Come back into the gym.

Bench press-3 sets of 5 with 225.
Chest flys-3 sets of 10.

Too pissed off to even finish the rest of my workout, left before I made that prick's head beat-up my hand.

Will try for a better workout tomorrow.