As quick as February flew by, March seems to slow to an almighty halt… Does anyone else feel like its been a long month of not much going on?
Anyway, here’s the rundown of what Team Savage have been up to!
Pauls been working hard on his Push Press for a fair few months now, he’s hit multiple rep PB’s out the rack and off the blocks and just hit a PB on Axle Clean and Press of 75kg x3 which is 2.5kg added to his max. Great stuff!
Dan T is also working on his pressing and has hit PB’s in Strict Log of 90kg (+17.5kg) and Push Press out the rack of 105kg (+5kg). Dans pressing is also increasing nicely.
For Dan and Paul, their weak area is pressing, they’re both shaped very differently, but both have long arms in relation to their other proportions which is why pressing is where they lag. It goes to show though, regardless of body type and natural gifts, with a little bit of extra focused work you can get round problems and start turning them into strengths.
The boy wonder Jo has had a few shoulder issues this month caused by an angry bicep tendon attaching at the shoulder, luckily we managed to keep him moving and with the use of a speciality bar, transitioned some of the movements and switched focus to pain free variations meaning we ended up hitting multiple rep PB’s on the SSB Squat with the highlight being a 180kg single. There’s always a work around and while it may not be ideal or optimal, its still possible to make progress!
George C hit a nice PB on Axle FTOH of 90kg in the Strongman club, we’ll add to this in the next couple of weeks as well as adding to his deadlift so watch this space. He’s new and making great progress with his crossfit background. A big win for George is also improving his comfort in the Squat which is something we’ve been working on in and outside of our sessions.
I’m starting to realise everyones pressing wen’t up in March as George F also hit a nice PB on Axle FTOH of 120kg (+5kg), this was competition weight for BNSF so for him to hit it pre competition in the manner he did was a weight off his mind. George also competed in BNSF Northern Englands Strongest Man and did himself proud coming 5th in his first opens competition. After a rocky start on the deadlift medley (strap related and proof we need to bring his mixed grip and hook grip up) he matched his PB on axle and then wen’t on to win the sled medley, take a 2nd or 3rd place in the farmers and complete the stone run finish top 4 on that event too. If it wasn’t for the strap mishap it would have been an almost perfect day and he would have been pretty close to a top 3 spot and qualifying for Britains. You live and learn and this experience has help identify what we need to work on to come back stronger next year.
A quick shoutout to Sean W to finish! He trained for BNSF then got Covid in his last week of training before the taper, completely taking away his lungs and work capacity. Its unfortunate and life happens. He mad the correct call not to compete. He did compete around 3 weeks earlier in Ashingtons Strongest placing a respectable 3rd, hitting a PB of 300kg in the Silver Dollar Deadlift and capping off the performance with an amazing stone run!
Awesome work by all of my guys in March and onto more milestones in April!
Last thing I want to talk about is credentials, I saw a post by a coach with his ‘credentials’, all of which were things he had achieved. Now i’m not playing this down, but in my opinion, you credentials are not what you have achieved, but instead what you have helped others achieve… At least if you’ve been in the game a while.
Just saying.
Over and out until next time
Adam
