Andy Dominates Conroe!! 4/5/08

[Cajun]

I haven't checked. Try http://www.nastrongman.com, and contests/upcoming.

[redcagepatrol]

Three pages? It's only been up for a day!

Anyways, hope to be there - we have a guest room and three couches that are big enough for people to sleep on if ya'll can handle a baby scream at 5:30am

Kolpecky lives a block away and has an air mattress

[jerryg79]

The party is in Spring, B!tches!

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Krabs, make sure you bring your camera and take lots of pictures of andy whoopin ass.

[davido]

Cool! I guess that solves that. Whitney was already planning to be on a girl's trip out of town anyway. Perfect!

Are you ready? Are you ready? Let's get it awn, c'mon.

We can talk more about it in a few weekends.

[Cajun]

I went to Baton Rouge Sunday to train with the other LA amateurs, all 5 of them. Looks like I'll be joined in TX by some of my rather large statesmen.

If they're interested in carb loading after the contest this could get really interesting.

[Fredo]

excellent. My exhaust guy is having his big anniversary party and barbeque for his business the same weekend. I saw him at Discount the other day and he was asking me if I was coming this year. I didn't have the heart to tell him.

[jerryg79]

I went to Baton Rouge Sunday to train with the other LA amateurs, all 5 of them. Looks like I'll be joined in TX by some of my rather large statesmen.

If they're interested in carb loading after the contest this could get really interesting.

so how did the training go?

[Cajun]

There will be no dominating in Conroe, I won't even be the strongest guy from LA there!

Training went pretty good for my first time with these guys. Worked with their tire (675 lbs) for a few reps. I'm rusty on this one, I had gotten pretty good on the tire over the summer. I did a couple sets of 5 and tried to work on speed. Moved to farmer's walk at 280/hand. This went well also despite not working this in months. My pick up still sucks, but once I get moving I'm decently quick, so that's good. Grip isn't an issue, so I just need to work on getting faster from the ground.

New events were the yoke, chain drag and Atlas stones. Their yoke is a chain yoke (bar across your back like a squat, with a heavy keg suspended by chain at either end). I have no idea what it weighed, but it didn't feel heavy. That said, the chains made it very unstable, but it wasn't too bad. I have a 650lb. yoke as part of a yoke/farmers/sled medley in Conroe, but it's a fixed yoke. The chain was 550lbs, and I smoked this one.

Last but certainly not least were the stones. I worked on lifting and loading the 225 for a few reps, and the guys helped me out with some technique. I loaded the 225, 250, 290, and 315 to a 54" platform. I was able to lap the 410 but not load it. All in all, not bad for my first time touching a stone.

I haven't worked overhead with these guys, but I've been training it in the gym. Since I'll have a 275lb axle for reps in Conroe, I've been training that on my RE Upper day, and have a best of 12 reps with no set downs. If I'm allowed a set down, and I should be, I should be able to get a couple more since breathing is my limiting factor, not strength here. I hit 11 for two sets yesterday, and I felt like crap, so I felt pretty good about that.

I'm starting to feel a bit run down, and may be getting close to overtraining. I'll start tapering the volume down starting next week and see if that helps.

[uglyota]

tire (675 lbs) for a few reps...farmer's walk at 280/hand...650lb. yoke ...chain was 550lbs,... 225 for a few reps,... 225, 250, 290, and 315 to a 54" platform...lap the 410 but not load it....275lb axle.

Jesus H Christ! If you wanna work on that breathing thing I may know a guy who lives in a state with not a lot of air and lots of "stones" May be able to work you into a training program

[jerryg79]

so what's everyone's plan.

You guys should come down on fri. jimmy/fred, its barely a 3.5 drive from your house to mine.

Flem you coming down?

Anyone else, plenty of floor space.

andy you coming on fri night or sat. morning.

If andy is in on friday, i would assume he would need a good night sleep, so we can take it easy, couple 30's of stones hang out and bs. Sat. night is carb loading fo' sho!

[Fredo]

I assume we'd probably come down friday night leaving directly from work. I don't know for sure until I find out if Jimmy has some soccer game or other such crap.

[BMFScout]

no crap, soccer is over. I'm planning on coming in friday night with Fred and pulling a Jerry leaving early on Sunday. I fly out of Dallas around 3:00 on Sunday.

LET'S GIT IT AWN!!!

[jerryg79]

pulling a Jerry leaving early on Sunday.

good, so then i won't have to throw you out!

scott/lynda, coop, karl, frick, kopecki, wolverton, BDR, and other houstonians, let's meet up somewhere over here on sat. night.

[Doug Krebs]

I'm probably in. Blair is going to a girls weekend...