Tuesday, July 31, 2007

We Have Grown

Fatigued, over the inane ramblings of a little person arguing that light weight gripsters who close the same gripper as a larger more well developed gripster is stronger. How can this be? Could it be that the bigger guy spent more time developing his WHOLE body through powerlifting, bodybuilding, strongman or highland games training? The best grip guys are the ones that hammer the weights hard and eat well. Size is relative.

If you are content with having a body that resembles a guest of Dachau and closing a bigger gripper, then by all means do so. Just don't tie up bandwidth looking for excuses.

Monday, July 30, 2007

Rock Lewis 600 Pound raw Bench

July 27th 1007 Raw Bench Nationals in West Virginia. 242 Class

Monday - 7/30

Lower back was no good today. The weather change yesterday from hot and humid to cool thunderstorm, then hot and humid again sealed my fate. So I bagged any weight work. I tuned into Gilad on Fit-TV and rolled around on the exercise ball and rubbed Neosporin into my torn thumb.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Sunday - 7/29

8AM - Lower back has been cramped all week. Fired up Sleep's - Jerusalem in the garage and spent awhile doing 45 degree hypers and reverse hypers. If you have this cut, then you have an idea how long I was out there.

Right thumb started bleeding during warmups. Frig.
Did a pile of Titan's and other odd's and ends to get the blood flowing.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Saturday - 7/28

Wide awake at 4AM. Went to work to drink coffee and take care of a few things.

Skipped grip. Right thumb web still tender, and I'm lazy.

YMCA

Hammer Lat Pulls - sets of 20. Started with 1 pair of 45's, ended with 5 pair. Was going to add another pair (York plates are thinner than Iron Grip), but decided I'm too old.

Rope Pulls - 5x20
Smith Press, Hammer Laterals - 4 laps
Hammer Seated press - 4 sets.
Medium heavy arms.



I'm going to pop in the Cavemen pilot episode and have a cigar.

Looking forward to the MGC5 results. We need something to makeup for the Tex "No Set a #4" Henderson, Al Capone Vault moment.

Friday, July 27, 2007

Friday - 7/27

530AM - Had a few snorts of vodka last night. It is beyond me how the Cossacks managed those dances.

YMCA

Close Grips - 5x10-12 finished w/ 315
Hammer Inclines, Declines , Flat. Fairly heavy. Pretty good progression. Will deload a few workouts then re cycle.

Rope Face Pulls
Odds and ends.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Jesse Marunde - RIP

Thursday - 7/26

Hot and Humid. Bad for pinching, but good for sitting on the deck and sipping some Jack and herfing a LaGloria.

8AM
Reverse Hypers, 45 degree hypers, Romanians

Grip Training
Right thumb a bit torn going in.

Right - Plate Pinching - Stopped when thumb tore fully. There is something about the stinging pain that shuts off the thumb muscles. ;)
Left - Blob50 Pinch work
Single Hand sledge walks
Titans Telegraph
EZ Curl Reverse curls

From The Onion:

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Wednesday - 7/25

530AM

YMCA
Hammer Lat Pulls
Hammer High Rows
Rope Pulls
Hammer Seated Press
Smith Press -> Hammer Laterals
Arms

Fairly heavy on the lat movements. Medium on the rest.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Gynecomastia Natural Training

Norrin finds himself totally repulsed by such a training method, so he has locked himself in the back shed. All forms of coercion have failed to lure him from that woeful, dark place.

What do bitch tits and bodyweight training have to do with combat conditioning? Is corrective surgery not the recommended protocol?

The iron game gets stranger every day. ;)

Tuesday - 7/24

530AM - Rain all night, temp dropped into the 50's. Lower back a mess.

Reverse hypers, 45 degree hypers. Lotta reps.

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinch
Left - Blob50 Pinch work

Single Hand Sledge walks
Titan Telegraph

Monday, July 23, 2007

Monday - 7/23

530AM

YMCA
Close Grips - 5x10 end w/ 315
Hammer Incline, Hammer Decline, Hammer Flat - Hitting one heavy set. Adding each week.
Rope Pullovers
Cybex stuff

Yesterday's grip workout was about the same as Saturday's, except arms were sore from Saturday's lat work. Also worked in some reverse curls.

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Saturday - 7/21

At work at 430AM to unbork something.

730AM

Reverse Hypers, 45 degree hypers, Romanians

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinch
Left - Blob50 pinch work
Single hand sledge walks
Titans Telegraph

9AM - YMCA

Hammer Lat pull - 5 sets of 10, added a pair of 45's each set. Finished with 5 pair and a couple little ones. No more room.

Hammer Low Row - Same as above

Face Pulls - 3x20
Hammer Seated Press - 4 sets, fairly heavy.
Smith Presses - Hammer laterals - 3 laps
Arms

Friday, July 20, 2007

1200 Pound Bed Ridden Man


Who the fuck was feeding him? They should be jailed. Did anyone think of just tossing him a few apples a day?

Excuse me while I vomit.

Story at BREITBART

A Lesson in Constitutional Law

Ray Lyman taking the Scranton City Council to the wood shed.



I love this area.

Friday - 7/20

530AM

YMCA
Close Grips - 5x10, quick pace, end with 3 plates.
Hammer Flat, Decline, Incline - Working into heavy weights.
Rope Pullovers
Screwed around on Cybex Machines.

Whether you use a set or not in your gripper workouts, if you are closing a bigger gripper than last month are you stronger? If you are closing a much bigger gripper than last year, are you stronger? Whether you use a set or not, are muscles generating the force to close the gripper? We grow fatigued of the petty sniping that endlessly spews from Fictional Hand Land. Things must be slow. ;)

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Thursday - 7/19

530AM - HUMID - You can smell the rain approaching.

Reverse Hypers, 45 degree hypers, rows while on 45 degree hyper.
Still a bit cramped.

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinch
Left - Blob50 pinch work

Single hand sledge hammer walks - Focus on the thumb. Great movement.
Titans

Greetings to our frequent visitors from the University of Michigan!

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Wednesday - 7/18

530AM - Still humid

YMCA
Hammer Lat pulls, Hammer Low Rows, Rope Pulls - 5 passes
Hammer Seated Press, Smith Press, Hammer Laterals - 4 passes
Arms

Hands are "puffy"

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Tuesday - 7/17

530AM - More Humid

Lower back "crampy"
Reverse Hypers, 45 degree, Romanians.

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinch
Left - Blob50 pinch work

EZ Curls Reverse curls - +90lbs x20 (bar wt. not included)
Single hand sledge walks
Titans Telegraph


Humidity is unforgiving to pinch.

Howabout the Fictional Hand group informing us that the colored grippers, the 49 they have been trying to unload since around June 20th, have appreciated in value because they have just raised the price $10.00!

Monday, July 16, 2007

Monday 7/16

530AM - Humid

YMCA

Close grips - 5 sets of 10+. Finish with 3 plates
Hammer Incline, Decline, Flat. One pass. I've been adding more plates per week.
Cable pullovers
odds and ends

Lower arms not as sore as expected.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Mike Bridges Wins USAPL National Title At 50

Mike Bridges totals 1,896 in the 198's. This guy is 50 years old! I'll say it again, he is THE best to ever hit the platform.

Some discussion HERE at the USAPL forums.

Sunday - 7/15

9AM

45 Degree hypers, Reverse Hypers, Trap bar DL's

Grip Training

Everything slippery and cold. So I grabbed a broom and swept the floor.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Saturday - 7/14

Popped wide awake at 4AM. So I went to work to get some shit together.

730AM

Reverse Hypers, 45 degree hypers, Romanians.

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinches
Left - Blob50 pinch work
Single hand sledge walks

YMCA

Hammer High Row - Added a pair of 45's per 10 rep set. Finished w/ 5 pair plus some change.
Hammer Lat pulls - same as above
Hammer Seated Presses , Hammer Laterals
Hammer Preacher curls
Cable work for tri's

Lack of sleep made it hard to concentrate. Rest of day will be devoted to cigars and relaxing.

Friday, July 13, 2007

The Never Ending Saga of the Colored Grippers

Like most of you, we received notice today from the Fictional Clubhouse, that 15 of the $45 colored handle grippers remain. It sure is taking a long time to sell these "hot" collector's items. ;)

But do we have to be subjected to further insult that the already overpriced colored handled grippers are going up in price by $10.00, if we don't act fast?

We wonder what these magical colored handled grippers will be selling for in August.

Join us in relegating these grip trinkets to the dust-bin of grip irrelevance. ;)

Friday - 7/13

530AM - Cannot get out of my own way.

YMCA

Close Grips - 5x10+, end with 6 plates
Hammer Flat, Incline,Decline - 1 Pass, have been tossing extra plates on each week.
Rope Pullovers

Tired today, had to force things a bit.

Half tempted to stay home and watch the Transformers movie.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Thursday - 7/12

530AM - Humid as all hell.

Reverse Hypers, 45 degree hypers, trap bar deadlifts - High reps

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinch
Left - Blob50 pinch work

Reverse curls w/ ex curl, single hand finger walks with 16lb sledge and titans telegraph.

It has thunderstormed everyday this week. Everything is slick.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Wednesday - 7/11

530AM - Bit fatigued

YMCA

Hammer Lat, Hammer High Row, Hammer Low row - 4 passes. Medium Heavy weights.
Smith Press, Hammer Laterals, Hammer Seated Press - 3 laps
Light arms

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Tuesday - 7/10

530AM - Still sick but improving. HUMID

Reverse Hypers, 45 degree hypers, Romanians w/ Trap Bar

Grip Training

Right - Plate pinch
Left - Blob50 pinch work

Reverse curls w/ EZ curl (bar wt not included) +90lbsx15, +120lbsx12
Single Hand Sled walks w/ 16lb
Titans Telegraph

Monday, July 09, 2007

Monday - 7/9

Head full of snot. It is affecting my balance. No workout, aside from projectile spitting. Accuracy is getting downright scary. ;)

Sunday, July 08, 2007

Sunday - 7/8

Still sick from neck up, but it is tiring. HUMID.

9AM

Reverse Hypers, 45 degree hypers. Too much snot in my skull for high rep deadlifts.

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinch
Left - Blob50 work

EZ Curl Reverse Curls (bar wt. not included) +90lbsx10, +100lbsx10, +110lbsx12

Single hand finger walks with sledgehammers.

Not bad.

Saturday, July 07, 2007

Kevin Nash Discusses Chris Benoit on Hannity and Colmes



Kevin Nash swats down these 2 pinheads with logic and coherent thought.

The broad filling in for Sean Hannity, proves to be a bigger moron, than Hannity, when it comes to this subject.

When are the "authorities" going to raid Al Gore III's doctor's office? ;)

Saturday - 7/7

In work at 5AM to straighten a few things out.

730AM
Reverse Hypers, 45 degree hypers, Romanian Deadlifts w/ trap bar

Grip Training

Right Hand - Plate pinch
Left Hand - Blob50 Pinch work

Titans Telegraph
Single hand walks with sledges (8&16lb)

YMCA

Hammer Low Row - Sets of 10-12, Started w/ 1 Pair of 45's, ended with 5 pair.
Hammer Lat Pull and Hammer Hight Row - supersets - sets of 10 - 4 cycles.

Hammer Seated Press/Hammer Laterals
Arms
Abs
Political complaining.

Still sick. I'm going to wash a car, then relax with a cigars all day.

Friday, July 06, 2007

Friday - 7/6

530AM - Still sick.

YMCA
Close grips - 5 sets of 10. Ending w/ 315
Hammer Flat, Decline, Incline - 1 pass. Added more plates than usual
Kelso overhead cable shrugs
abs
shot the shit

Thursday, July 05, 2007

A Glorious Victory for the USofA

America reclaims the hot dog eating crown at Nathans. If this is not a tale of human drama I do not know what is.



Pay attention to the slow motion vomiting.

THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR ON FOX NEWS

More roid rage nonsensical discussion from the media about the Benoit murders. This time on Fox news. Warrior does a good job swatting down both pant loads.

Thursday - 7/5

No workout. Sick like a friggin animal.

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Wednesday - 7/4

YMCA closed as all U.S.A businesses should be today.

Sick from the neck up. So I forced a workout in. I should have not done grip stuff 2 days in a row, but could not resist.

830AM

Reverse Hypers, 45 degree hypers. Did more than usual.
Trap Bar Deadlifts

Grip Training

Right Hand - Plate Pinch Work
Left Hand - Blob50 Pinch Work

EZ Curl Reverse curls - 3x10 +90lbs (bar not included) pretty strict. I rarely ever do any curls to failure.

Single hand sledge hammer walks as described in the DieselCrew Book. Used 16lb sledge with athletic taped handle. Hands ruined after this, spilled coffee all over floor because of hand tremors.

DieselCrew Sledge Hammer Conditioning E-Book

I just started perusing the DieselCrew Sledgehammer Conditioning e-Book. It's an info packed 49 pages. These cats know what they are doing. I have never failed to pick up a tidbit, whether it's in a 30 second video clip, or one of their tomes. They have competition backed credentials, so you know you won't be wasting your time as you would with the all the Un-Proven guru charlatans on the net.

Get over to the Gripboard and click the Contributor Bug and make a donation, depending on what level you pick you will get a DieselCrew KettleBell e-book. I'll be diving into the Kettlebell book later.

While you're in a forum supporting mood, get over to George's Moving Sale at Grippermania and buy a fucking shirt.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Tuesday - 7/3

530AM - Woke up with that "pre-sore throat feeling"

Romanian Deadlifts w/ Trap Bar. Did not feel like walking out in 48 degree air to hit reverse hypers.

Grip Training

Right Hand - Plate Pinch
Left Hand - Blob50 work

Finished with single hand Titan's telegraph

Felt sick and tired. ;)

I just perused the New Ironmind catalog, what the fuck? Page 12 states that if you want to "pretend" you are stronger, set the gripper to an inch? Do they not publish a book that has Nathan Holle demonstrating his technique where he sets the gripper to 1 inch? Is he pretending? We will review further. We suspect that there is a bit of "Fictional Hand" creep as well as the influence of some old-timers who feel that their accomplishments are being handily surpassed, and have a need to be remembered.

We have a sneaking suspicion as to who the hand model is.

Again this is just our opinion, if you disagree, start your own friggin blog. ;)

And who in the FUCK cares that the RED and BLUE Overpriced Fictional Hand Grippers are still available? 52.00 fucking dollars shipped? Are grip people that fucking stupid?

Smarten the frig up people.

Carry on.

Monday, July 02, 2007

Monday - 7/2

530AM

Close Grips - 5x10, ending w/ 3 plates per side
Hammer Incline, Decline, Flat - 1 Pass, went fairly heavy.
Kelso overhead cable shrugs - 4x10
Kelso Lat Pull Shrugs - 1x50

Odds and ends.

Lower arms sore today.

Sunday, July 01, 2007

Chris Benoit - Date Rape Drug Speculation

This is getting stupid now.

From the AP:

...But in the wake of the lurid events that played out in suburban Atlanta last weekend, the New York Daily News has learned that another drug may have been part of a deadly cocktail that could have caused Benoit to snap. According to sources familiar with his drug regimen, Benoit was a known abuser of the drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate — or GHB, also known as the “date-rape drug.” Benoit was known to have used GHB with former wrestler “Gentleman” Chris Adams when both men competed for the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the late `90s. They used the drug together until Adams’ death in 2001, according to sources who knew both men, and friends say Benoit was still using it as recently as two years ago....

Read the restt at the Clarion Ledger - HERE

Sunday - 7/1

8AM

Reverse Hypers, 45 degree hypers, Trap bar deadlifts.

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinch
Left - Blob50 Pinch (Using ramp slides, as seen in Iron Grip DVD).

EZ Bar Curls (Bar wt not included), +90lbs x5, +140lbs x 15 - Loose form, NO LIMBO.
5 foot Olympic Bar, 1-3/16 steel. It is "husky".

Curls with Triceps bar (bar wt not included) +110 x 20 or so.

Improvement.