Tankweazel - farming gains

[Tankweazel]

I made it back to morning rolling this morning after 6 weeks away (not wanted to get injured before pl comps) and the extra technical work I did instead really showed on my guard passing.

I am still however an awful guard player, but getting the concepts behind rdlr and dlr seems to have helped retention a fair bit.

Will post about lifting when new programming picks up properly.  A coach is currently pinpointing causes of form breakdown (fatigue? volume? not high enough intensity?)

[Tankweazel]

So relearning squat with a fat boy stance because my femurs need to so some where low bar.  Accompanied by finally finding a competition bench to train on so I can have consistency again instead of bench roulette at comps.
 

Note:  I look very much back in the 57s now.

[Tankweazel]

Still struggling on that "Flat bench" but flatter still has some of the training impact it is meant to.

And high bar squats with a wide stance are confusing.

[Sam Ashen]

What did you say to that guy who photobombed your last DL set?  I was having trouble reading lips.

[Tankweazel]

On 14/10/2016 at 6:30 PM, Sam Ashen said:

What did you say to that guy who photobombed your last DL set?  I was having trouble reading lips.

I don't think I can say on this forum.  But there was stuff said to the bench spotter too which cannot be repeated.

[Tankweazel]

Not been consistent with those training compilations as I've been running out of space on my phone and having to bump the videos off the the coaches as soon as I have them.

I did however go silver, gold, silver at a bjj comp this weekend.

Silver in my weight division in no gi.  I was fighting up a weight class and the girl in the final gets 72kg to 64kg then back up in time for her figths.  She was tuff but I stood my ground and chained my passes.  Stepped over too soon on a good over under position allowing her to regard and work for her triangle.  I should have switched hip and used it to walk her legs together first.  But when people are good it's these small mistakes that changed everything.

Gold in my weight division in gi, they were really aggressive and scrappy, I like my patience and pressure passes.  Got kneed in the face 5 seconds into the final but has secured a good passing position so kept my head down and went for it.  Finished on a loop choke because she decided to be a turtle.  There was a bit of drama on this one with her coach kicking off saying it wasn't fair because I'm a judo black belt.

I'm in blue where I'm supposed to be, and wear a white belt till awarded my blue as per the rules.

Silver in gi absolute.  These girls were big, imagine weighing in as the lightest adult and getting to a final vs the heaviest adult and she's twice your body weight.  Lost 6-4, could't finish the omo plata but stopped her getting hooks on back takes and kept mobile in guard.  Racked up a few advantages for things, I don't know because I don't know how advantages work.   I was actually pretty proud of this fight because it showed I had guard skills instead of my usual top pressure and that I was making typical judoka mistakes.

pictures of me getting whacked in the face will become available at some point. 

[Tankweazel]

Have a nice action shot of the no gi stuff I screwed up.

[Tankweazel]

Having dem anxiety issues again, I need to forced myself to morning sparring tomorrow, if I am waking up on time I have no excuse.

The guys at the gym are helping, they're talking to me and including me but not too much.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMB6HDkhDfjAzkH3gDYJyn75V-K5_a86DnmReo0/

Have some derp lifts though.

[Tankweazel]

I'm almost capable of squatting good again :3

[Tankweazel]

Adventuring into Vlog territory now, but high bar wide stance seems to be my jam.

[Tankweazel]

This isn't the worst of it, I need to bench again today.

[Tankweazel]

Two for the price of one.

Some nice SLDLs from Saturday with "tanky flat" bench

I'm getting a deload week this week, but that means low volume and high intensity.

Don't ask what I was thinking on that 145 dl though, it was just awful.


 

[Tankweazel]

Some cheeky bench PRs last night
 

 

[Tankweazel]

Last day of my deload, I talked myself out of a set of 142.5kg on deadlift.  Must try harder.
 

 

[Tankweazel]

Tune in for a two minute argument about bar touching.
 

I'm gonna try and start recording things like my pull ups and struggle snuggles for more entertaining training videos.

[Tankweazel]

I am looking rather lean these days.
 

Considering I woke up the morning after this at a comfy 56.8kg, then yeah, well back to 57.

[wildross]

Yes and i love hands on hips guy in the back right

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[Tankweazel]

On 17/11/2016 at 10:36 AM, wildross said:

 

Yes and i love hands on hips guy in the back right

 

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The coaches are enjoying my backing cast members as much as you guys, especially "mirin OAP" from the body building gym.
 

The end of this week was a bit brutal because I was low on sleed, D3 & D4 had less then 12 hour between them as I'm out of the country and the weekend so needed to smash training in.

[Tankweazel]

Everything took a hit today as I was up at 4:30am to travel back to Glasgow, then train after a full days work.

I am ok with the weights I hit under these circumstances. 

[Tankweazel]

Couldn't deadlift well due to tight hips causing uneven drive, but bench and HB squat felt better.

[Tankweazel]

Some suspicious depth on sumo squats due to weird hormonal hip alignment issues.  Normal service will resume by the weekend.

[Tankweazel]

 

[Tankweazel]

When you look 56kg but are secretly 100kg.

[Tankweazel]

"Openers"

Well, I have done worse.
 

 

[Tankweazel]

Noticeably recovering from fatigue, which is a good sign for the weekend.