Half The Man

So it’s been a while. Since my last update I have changed quite a few things about the way I train and what I am training for.  I have decided that I am going to sideline the olympic lifting for now and concentrate on an up-coming amateur strongman competition. The reasoning for the strongman coming [...]

Well it appears as if I haven’t updated this in a while so I thought it was about time. In my last post I went on about the milestones that I have achieved and how I managed to get there, so in this one it seems only fair that I dwell on the set backs [...]

So since the last journey update I have been hammering my weaknesses to try to improve the main lifts, the snatch and the clean & jerk. Lately I have been doing a lot of front squats, jerks, presses, power snatches and drop snatches to try to both build technique but also improve my confidence under the [...]

Long time, no update. Well since my last visit I have moved away from the Medvedyev program since my technique was pretty much on-point it was now time to just start putting the reps in under the bar. The new program that I will be running from is a modified Westside style program which runs [...]

Well firstly I should apologise for not keeping up with my journey progress, I have been a little sidetracked at the gym lately. So, when I last updated my blog in regards to my journey I had just started to learn the power clean and power snatch lifts in preparation for running a full olympic [...]