BEYOND STRONG

WSM 2008

Overall after Log Lift

Poundstone 43.5
Pudz 40.5
Dave O 36.5
phil 31.5
travis 29.5

Poundstone won the log lfit with 10 reps, Mariusz second.

Nick

WSM 2008

Results from the final so far after 3 events.

Ostlund  8  9  10  7.5  34.5 
Poundstone  9  8  7  9.5  33.5 
Pudzianowski  10  6  6  9.5  31.5 
Pfister  6.5  10  9  2  27.5 
Ortmayer  4  7  5  7.5  23.5 
Wenta  4  5  8  2  19 
Bergmann  2  4  4  6  16 
Mitt  6.5  2  1  4  13.5 
Haugen  4  1  2  5  12 
Hollands  1  3  3  2  9

Dave Ostlund is winning with Pounstone close behind. Mariusz has WORK to do!

Nick

Bands

I have had no choice but to rest yesterday and think about this whole Oly lifting 'plan'. Gary John, older brother of Coach Dan John, simply posed the question to me, 'What do you want?'. Gary is a wise man despite his 'dumb luck and chance'!

I've decided then not to decide.

Yesterday I went to gymnastics which wasn't much fun.Too many kids latching on to the Parkour craze and the usual burst of enthusiasm after the Olympics. I warm-up, threw a few sumersault and left feeling, well, very good. And that in part is one of the solutions. I just need to enjoy the moment and not the future. I love training. Love it! I spoke with my good friend David Horne yesterday and he said, 'Why can't writing be like training? I never let my training get interrupted but writing there always seems to be an excuse not to write". I couldn't agree more.

So here's what I enjoyed today.

Kettlebell Warm-up of goblet squats, presses, rows, figure 8's, swings, snatches, side bends and windmills. I still cannot press anything overhead with my right arm.

Power Pushups - 80lb green bandsx12, 80lb green and 40lbs mauvex10, 2xgreensx6. Go here for Power Pushups. I have had my Power Pushups for 6 years now. Awesome bit of kit that you can use for everything from speed benching to dips to punching drills.
Face Pulls - Iron Woody blue bandsx20, doubled bluesx20, blacksx20
Power pushup Chest Press - 2xgreenx3 (too heavy), green and mauvex5 (still too heavy), greenx16
Green Band Iron Woody Pull Aparts - x15x15x15
Bicep Curl with Blue bands Iron Woodyx8x8x8
Tricep Overhead Ext with Green Iron Woodyx15x15x15
Side/Front raise/Cubans/Press combo - 1x5 each with light bands
Power Wheel - max extensions on rollouts. Getting very close to a full rollout!
Stretch

Laurence texted me today and said he is really pleased with how he went at WSM and that he can now 'hang with the big boys'. Here he is with Jimmy Marku...

Photo courtesy of mariuszfan1

May I have your attention please: GAME ON

http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap-armstrong-comeback&prov=ap&type=lgns

Things are about to get real interesting again.  I say #8 is a done deal...

WSM 2008

Here are the finalists for World's Strongest Man 2008

Group 1
Poundstone
Bergmann

Group 2
Pfister
Wenta

Group 3
Mitt
Hollands

Group 4
Pudzianowski
Haugen

Group 5
Ortmayer
Ostlund

No word from Loz yet but he has performed above and beyond expectation! Well done to Big Terry for again making the final. We heard Mark Felix pulled or tore his bicep during the stones event so we wish him the best. Well done to all the British Lads; Loz, Terry, Mark, Oli and Jimmy. The USA has a strong contingent in the final and Arild looks good too. I think Mariusz will fight to the end for this one.

Nick

WSM 2008

Results before the beginning of today. Unfortunately TWI/WSM don't like to tell us, THE FANS, the results so we have to find out from here there and everywhere! Of course in it's own way this is kind of fun and exciting. Not complete but what we know...

Group 1:
Poundstone 25
Felix 22
Bergmann 21.5
Missing results from Dymek
One event left

Group 2:
Pfister 22
Arsjo 16
Skog 15
Missing results from Wenta, Oli, and Tobias.
Two events left

Group 3:
Missing deadlift results, it looks like Mitt, Hollands, and Janne might all be in contention.
Two events left

Group 4:
Mariusz 18
Shahlaei 17
Arild 16
Shaw 15
Two events left

Group 5:
Travis 27.5
Dave >18 (need DL)
Marku 18.5
Missing a lot of results from the other guys
One event left

Nick

WSM 2008

This report is from Marianne, Loz's girlfriend.

"Yesterdays first event was fingals fingers. Loz did 4 out of the 5 but in a time that was 25 seconds faster than Britain's last year! So a good PB. He nearly did the fith finger but ran out of time. He placed 3rd in this which was a great result!

In the afternoon it was truck pull. Loz broke his toe on the very first pull on the rope which was really bad luck :-( He carried on though and managed to get 4th place. We think he would have been third if not for this - Marius and Shaw did amazing times.

After a lot of painkillers and a sleepless night, todays event was the squat. Loz obviously wanted to go for it as you can't pull out of World's unless you're half dead!!

The weights were: 260kg, 280kg, 300kg, 315kg, 330kg, 350kg, 365kg.

Loz managed the fastest time of the day!!!! He came first in his group and accross all groups beating Marius and Siders too!!!

Results below: SQUAT LIFT

1st - Loz - All 7 in 25.67secs!!!!
2nd -Aril Haugen - All 7 in 26.07 secs
3rd - L.P. Jean - All 7 in 33.66 secs
4th - Brian Siders - 6 lifts
5th - Marius Pudz - 4 lifts in 13.77 secs
6th - Brian Shaw - 4 lifts in 18.5 secs

With two events to go the group is as follows:

1st) Marius 18 points
2nd) Loz 17 points!!!!!
3rd) Arild 16 points
4th) Shaw 15 points
5th) L.P.Jean 12 points
6th) Siders 6 points

Looking good at the moment! But axle tomorrow so we'll see what happens."

Terry Hollands is winning his group.

Derek Poundstone leads his group with Mark Felix in a comfortable 2nd place.

I am not too sure about the other groups but there is no doubt the British are putting on quite the show.

Nick

WSM 2008

Forget my squatting Laurence just won the squat in his group beating Mariusz and Arild and Brian Siders!!!

This is incredible stuff from Laurence...WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nick

Squatting deep

I am trying to force myself into deeper squat positions for the Oly lifts but it is not easy and probably not the best idea with my hips and lower back. Stretching is helping but slow.

Today...

OHS - bar, 90x5, 135x3x3x3
FS - 135x5, 220x3, 265x3, 310x2
Squat - 310x3, 350x3, 400x2
FS - 310x1
Romanian Deadlift and Shrug - 135x3x3, 220x3x3, 265x3x3
Face Pulls - 95x20, 155x20
Band Pull aparts - x20x20

Stretching later.

Nick

WSM 2008

This is from Laurence's brother Harry who came 2nd in the Cully Strongman Competition at the weekend. Well done Harry!

"loz dislocated his big toe on the 1st pull in the truck pull but still managed to come 4th, currently loz is lying in joint 3rd with arild haugen, brian shaw is in 2nd, and mariusz is in 1st place."

Joint 3rd with Arild!!!

Thanks Harry!

Nick