Thursday
Might have some errands tomorrow so...
Two hand pinch
Every one of the last few workouts I'm thinking '130kg'. A little bit of visualization.
to 106.2kg x 1, then 5 x 2 reps (a very good workout)
Showing posts with label world records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world records. Show all posts
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Thursday 2nd May 2013
Thursday
Lovely sunny day - off out soon with luck - hence am grip work
V/Gripper
to
L/H: 5/5+B x VN, TnG, 1, 1, 1 reps
R/H: 6/6 x 1, 1, TnG, 1,1 reps
2HP - max
to +81-kilos x 1, 1, 1/2, 1, 1, 1 reps
Lovely sunny day - off out soon with luck - hence am grip work
V/Gripper
to
L/H: 5/5+B x VN, TnG, 1, 1, 1 reps
R/H: 6/6 x 1, 1, TnG, 1,1 reps
2HP - max
to +81-kilos x 1, 1, 1/2, 1, 1, 1 reps
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Tuesday 26th February 2013
Tuesday
Monday night, stiff and annoying back and all I did an ad-hoc Millennium dumbbell lift for some visitors. Today back still aches plus a head ache on waking (rearrange pillows I think) and yet my hunger for the August 3rd attempt at a world record 2 hand pinch means...
V/gripper work
to
L/H: 5/5 x 5 x 1 reps
R/H: 5/6 x 5 x 1 reps
2HP (volume)
to +70.5-kilos (93.2kg) x 3 sets of 3 reps
Monday night, stiff and annoying back and all I did an ad-hoc Millennium dumbbell lift for some visitors. Today back still aches plus a head ache on waking (rearrange pillows I think) and yet my hunger for the August 3rd attempt at a world record 2 hand pinch means...
V/gripper work
to
L/H: 5/5 x 5 x 1 reps
R/H: 5/6 x 5 x 1 reps
2HP (volume)
to +70.5-kilos (93.2kg) x 3 sets of 3 reps
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Bigger numbers please
Last week, today, and in under 2 weeks times there will be or have been a handful of grip competitions. One event seems to have come on in leaps and bounds - Ironminds Silver Bullet. In this you take, for guys, a fresh (ideally straight out of a packet) CoC 3 and using their new little widget (essentially a small section of gripper handle with a cord from which is suspended a 2.5-kilo disc). You close the gripper onto the widget, in itself as feat of hand strength and then keep it closed.
Just a short while ago Mark Felix held the record with some 40 odd seconds and yet in the past few weeks its gone to 46+ and now it's 52.49 seconds (Alexey “Tank” Tyukalov). The only other records we've seen this kind of progress on have been those which are essentially new events. Not knowing the limits of said events makes it a lot easier to make progress in short order.
The purpose of this article is to ask why we're not seeing NEW big ass numbers being created on the standards. I'm think specifically the 2 hand pinch going beyond Jedd Johnson's 120+ kilos / 264lbs. But you could easily include the Vulcan gripper, double over hand deadlift on the Apollon's Axle and so on.
I'm old school and I am sure my hunger for such raising of the bar has come about by result of my dipping my toe back into the competition waters. Hell, there was a point last year - with a bunch of otehr shit going down to distract me - when I cared not one fig for ANY contest results. But I m training, I aim to do well and I want to see BIG ASS NUMBERS. I want to see National, International and world record numbers go up!! Sp come on guys stop being so damned careful. I know there can be a game played by doing just enough to win but that's what your first three attempts are for - raise the damn bar!!
Just a short while ago Mark Felix held the record with some 40 odd seconds and yet in the past few weeks its gone to 46+ and now it's 52.49 seconds (Alexey “Tank” Tyukalov). The only other records we've seen this kind of progress on have been those which are essentially new events. Not knowing the limits of said events makes it a lot easier to make progress in short order.
The purpose of this article is to ask why we're not seeing NEW big ass numbers being created on the standards. I'm think specifically the 2 hand pinch going beyond Jedd Johnson's 120+ kilos / 264lbs. But you could easily include the Vulcan gripper, double over hand deadlift on the Apollon's Axle and so on.
I'm old school and I am sure my hunger for such raising of the bar has come about by result of my dipping my toe back into the competition waters. Hell, there was a point last year - with a bunch of otehr shit going down to distract me - when I cared not one fig for ANY contest results. But I m training, I aim to do well and I want to see BIG ASS NUMBERS. I want to see National, International and world record numbers go up!! Sp come on guys stop being so damned careful. I know there can be a game played by doing just enough to win but that's what your first three attempts are for - raise the damn bar!!
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