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I plan to do a little axle and saxon practice tomorrow so the comp won't be my first time touching either in 7 weeks. Main thing is just making sure I can at least lift the starting weight so I don't zero out. The Sorinex saxon's rounded corners make it deceptively hard compared to my bar. That's cool you're within the realm of possibility for prize money. I either need to lose 95lbs this week or add 190lbs to my deadlift to pull a double. Saxon I'd have to pull 318lb which is just laughable...

ACE of O-1 Recap We had 21 participants from 6 countries including multiple all-time greats competing in an all 7” O-1 drill rod contest taking place from 1/7/24 to 4/13/24. The difficulties were P Q R 11/32 23/64 with 2 attempts per bar, one point scored for each difficulty bent, and overall time used to break ties! Without further ado… Congratulations to THE ACE of O-1 DEREK GRAYBILL!!! Derek bent all five bars in one session and further strengthens his grasp on GOAT status by dominating the strongest field ever assembled! Alex D and Sergey also bent all 5 bars, coming second and third based on time and each had brilliant competitions as well. Alex D bent all 3 letter bars in cordura singles in a majestic display of power and skill and Sergey dramatically conquered the Final Boss on his second and last try after running out of time with one hit to go on his first attempt. They were the only 3 to successfully bend all 5 bars and deserve to be distinguished with podium finishes! Alex G and Andrey rounded out the Top 5 with four points each after successful 11/32 bends! Thank you to everyone who participated, there was amazing performances throughout the competition! Some that jump to mind are Austin scoring the first point of the contest with a 9 second bend of P and that going wire to wire as the fastest bend of the contest! Robert Miller defeating all 3 letter bends and getting faster as he went while being 36 years older than our youngest competitor Andrey who scored a Top 5 finish at only 21 years old!!! Dmitriy Anisimov reducing his wraps from his first two second P bend and then bending it twice as fast! Juha and Carl-August, one of the all-time greatest Double Overhand and Braced Benders respectively, smashing bends and giving the newer benders a chance to compete against greatness!!! HUGE THANKS to Jan who had an excellent competition as well and without whose help this contest wouldn’t have been anywhere near as awesome! Also Huge Thanks to Todd for judging all my bends, love you dawg! Personal Recap: I almost can’t believe it’s over! All it took was buying the drill rod then cutting, grinding, cleaning, labeling, recruiting, packaging, shipping, judging, updating oh yeah AND BENDING!!!!! Including the most important single bend I’ve ever attempted. This was likely the most competitive lineup ever assembled for a single contest and I was in 8th place with 3 points and out of 23/64 (blue) and only had one 11/32 (green) chance remaining … fortunately Derek spent the week teaching me how to bend and I came through in my last chance to move me all the way from 8th to 4th Place Overall! What a contest if I may say so myself

That was an awesome competition! I actually joined insta gram just to follow along.

Spent most of the late afternoon & early evening cleaning out my under house storage. I’m thinking of making myself a grip cave. The only issue I have with my garage is the limited space to do any exercise I have to move stuff around. I thought if I sort out a grip den then I can leave stuff just laying around with any problems like falling over kit . Another reason is I can fill the new space with grip kit lol. I’ll get some pics tomorrow.

yes it will clash with your grippers especially if you are doing hard table time. However still doable if you make sure you aren't training both intensely, so if you work with light reps on grippers but going heavy on table its ok. If you want to progress specifically on grippers then you should not go hard at practice and mainly train technique at 60% or less.

Thanks Joe! My wife said I should stick with sandpaper at next year's pinewood derby workshops...NO power tools!!!

Phew! Heal fast young padawan. I am really looking forward to coming, but I have not lost the weight I hoped to lose or trained at all. So I will be coming in finding out my pre-training baselines, instead of chasing PRs and $150 prizes. On the bright side, I did lose enough weight to come in as 80kg for arm lifting, and usually I need to cut the last few days to get that low. So I may be able to get down even a little further, maybe 170 pounds, and at least make it look like I MIGHT do a double BW axle or a 1.3 BW Saxon. But at 170 and untrained, those feats will elude me, as I have never come within 10 per cent of either.

Six weeks after my woodworking accident and just over a week until Maryland's Strongest Hands. Happy to say that things are healing up crazy fast and strength is slowly coming back. Clearly I goofed up my training schedule with this little detour, but feel very fortunate. A few millimeters deeper and things could have turned out very differently for me. Looking forward to meeting/competing with @Vinnie and @maidenfan in-person. @lder runs an excellent contest so it should be a great day no matter my total points.

Mon (3/25) Bench Press (1x5) 135 (1x3) 185 (1x3) 225 (1x2) 260 (1x1) 300 Wide-grip Bench Press (1x3) 185 (1x3) 225 Pull-ups (1x15) Grippers - 20mm (1x3) Trainer (1x3) #1 (1x2) #1.5 (1x1) #2 - 102 (1x1) #2 - 114

Plate curls 17.5x8 20x8 20x8 both hands If I can just 8 solid reps on my 20lbs plate I can start adding again... the 10+5+2.5=17.5lbs is the thickest I want to do... 10lbs sledge Curls 11"x5 12"x5 12"x5 Rear Levers 19"x5 20"x5 20"x5 Pronation supination 8"x5 9"x5 8"x5 Weighted ring push ups and ring rows and squats High reps with the Chest Expander Chest Krusher 4 springs Leaving in 1 week. My cousin wants me to drive from Lakeland to Pensacola to see him.. The dude is the man, US Marine Corps flight instructor. I'm just not sure I can handle driving 7 hours with my uncle I'm traveling with. Unless we go with my uncle (his brother) we are visiting. Flying with him is going to be hard enough. I told my aunt and uncle to have alcohol, something to snort, something to smoke and and something to inject when I get there (I'm kidding about everything except the alcohol part)

[b]Thursday[/b] [u]Hammer DB Curls[/u] to 90kg/198lbs dumbbell x 10 reps [u]Skull Crushers[/u] to 100kg/220lbs (PB) x 4 ugly a** reps [u]Standing Reverse BB Wrist Curls[/u] to 52.5kg x 8 reps (PB for reps) then 60kg/132lbs (PB) x 4 reps