New 2hp Prs

[Guest Squat More]

Note: Video description, those weights are as "official" as it can get in terms of accuracy.

[Jedd Johnson]

WHo was doubting your lifts?

[odin]

Huge lifts, wow!

[Guest Squat More]

Thanks Bob!

I missed the last lift because I had already gone through a squat workout followed by safety squat bar good mornings in my sumo deadlift stance and a 85kg hold for 15 seconds before that. My body gave out, not my grip - posterior chain was just smoked at that point.

[David Mitti]

Coming on very strong with the 2HP bro!!

Very Nice

[David_wigren]

Damn, that is some strong pinch lifting Jon! I struggle at around 80kg, can't even imagine how weights around 110kg feel like.

[Guest Squat More]

That day David, it felt pretty light. Grip was still there, it was the rest of my body that wasn't which is very encouraging.

From now on I will be approaching lifts like I would in a contest, before the first pull seen on video I had done a few light singles with 70kg then a few holds with 85kg, some reps on the TTK to "wake up" my thumb then "opened" with 104kg. If I can open with 104 kg or abouts in May I hope to be good for 118 kilos. I had less than three minutes recovery time in between each rep from the 104 to the 112.

[EricMilfeld]

Huge pulls! You have a contest May 3rd? Any chance you'll make NAGS Nationals?

[Guest Squat More]

Eric

I am a promoter for the 10 year Adjustable Euro comp that David is putting on, I have already had it added to the NAGS calendar. As for Nationals, no - as I have said before I live in Rural northern Canada and flight + accommodation in itself would cost me over 3k not to mention I work in the field of Education and don't think my school division would grant time off of work for a "grip competition". Traveling for a comp is something I would like to do one day, most likely to Arizona and Ohio, just to get the chance to meet my friends Aaron and Chris. Chris and I have more in common than grip, he enjoys trapping, which is something I have grown up doing. Believe it or not, I am Native American and live on a reservation so trapping is a cultural thing I grew up with. I know Chris likes beaver meat, you'd think it was disgusting but it is actually very good, as is muskrat.

I have already gone through the trouble of having all the weights I use on my euro down to my fractional plates, individual rubber quick change spacers and euro itself at 32mm width along with the collars scaled at the local post office to three decimal points on the Kilogram and even shot a video that I posted to Facebook of me and my cousin in the Canada Post office with my weights to verify for David, Aaron and Chris to see - Juha and Ivan who are now on the IGC are able to see it as well, since they are on my friends list. The local postal worker even said if anyone doubted it she would write an official letter as a Canada post worker and sign it that she saw us scale each individual plate - but I don't think people would go THAT far to question it after seeing video of us in the PO with the scale and register with my cousin re loading all the plates onto the pins we used to take them to the post office. She just offered it in case, her husband is an old high school friend of mine so we are on friendly speaking terms.

I have also written up a spreadsheet to assist in quick tabulation of lifts and taking into account the rule of 1kg or 2.2# or less variance between the front and rear of the Euro. I am also considering getting an entire set of precision milled York Legacy 25s x6, 10s x 6, 5s x 4 and 2.5s x 2 as they are supposedly accurate within 2% and taking those to the post office to have them officially scaled as well. Here is a link to said spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkWhKoErs6CsdGNESGFLVHo5ekpKWnZmSHVxX21EbUE&usp=drive_web#gid=0

The names P1 through to P26 are designated to each individual plate for quick calculation of lifts.

As my competition will only have 3 competitors (myself, my cousin/training partner and girlfriend) I wanted to do everything right down to the letter to ensure there is no need for anyone to question me or my venue. My girlfriend is actually hoping to break the womens 57kg record of 31.80 kilos as listed on David's websites records section, she has lifted 32.68kg (I believe it was .68) in my gym in only her third time using the Euro at 42mm width, on Saturday we are going to experiment with widths to find where she is strongest. She was involved in track in high school and for a tiny woman is a spitfire and very competitive. I hope she is the first grip record holder that my small gym will produce. My cousin Reno has shown great promise on the Iron Mind hub, only having used it a handful of times and already lifting nearly 60 pounds on it. He attributes it to splitting wood and picking up and tossing the smaller logs in the wood pile that don't require the chop claw hub style in gloves.

[EricMilfeld]

I see you've covered your "T"s and crossed your bases. Nice spreadsheet.

I've never tried beaver or muskrat. But I have enjoyed venison, elk, and rattlesnake.

That would be awesome to see you break into the top ten on the all-time Euro Pinch list! Sounds like what ya'll lack in numbers will be more than made up for by the three of you with some quality lifting.

[Mike Sharkey]

Damn dude. That's alot of weight. I see you got some spacers. Good luck!!

[cemery]

Jeepers, that's heavy ! Nice job .

[Stephen Ruby]

Wow! You are going to be pushing toward the world record soon with the way you have been progressing! Outstanding job man. You are one of the better guys at applying a well thought out program to your lifting and you see great progress as a result.

Sounds like you have a good group of guys/girls also for your grip contest. At king kong of grip there was only 3 people -myself included- who competed in the northern california event and that was my best contest. Hope to see you on the top 10 list all time soon, I think that is one of the most prestigious lift considering how often the event has been done.

[Guest Squat More]

Thanks Mike, Casey and Stephen.

Stephen, I feel any program or routine will essentially work for someone, granted that it is half way decently thought out and applied. Like the rolling thunder program I wrote up, if more people would bury their ego, just shut up and put the work in, they would see gains. Too often people make excuses and either:

A. They won't give something a shot because they have the silly belief that "everyone is different" and what "works for one person won't work for another" - as I have said before about my 2hp gains, I am just following the basic advice David and Kody both gave me, high frequency (training often, 2-4x a week) and changing up how I train with reps days, sometimes holds, sometimes singles, and even using bands now and then.

B. They take a program that has been proven to work for various people and make changes to it thinking "this will be better" - if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

C. they focus their training all around constantly testing strength rather than building it. You won't gain strength by maxing out on a lift every time you try it, can you imagine how ridiculous it would be if a powerlifter tried to set a one rep max PR every single training session? They wouldn't last very long in the sport, if they made any kind of gains to begin with.

Edited January 31, 2014 by Squat More