Tom's training log...
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| Tony |  | ... | 24-03-2011 @ 07:03 |
 Is partial to the odd bender. Member 6, 10239 posts SQ 280, BP 192.5, DL 317.5790.0 kgs @ 102kgs Eq | So much hate. | ||
| JC | | ... | 24-03-2011 @ 10:29 |
 technical retard Member 172, 36827 posts SQ 310, BP 205, DL 335850.0 kgs @ 108kgs UnEq | Huge lifting mate On the other stuff....does being a great lifter automatically make you a great coach? The success of great players as coaches in other sports would suggest otherwise | ||
| Steve | | ... | 24-03-2011 @ 17:18 |
nothing to hide, please follow my life on webcam Member 255, 3732 posts | Tom_Martin said:To Rob and any one else, I hope you don't think I was disrespecting Tony Stevens, I wasn't. He's let me know I *SHOULD* train differently than the way I have been doing, deadlifting heavy 3-4 times a week isn't a good idea to him, and I can't possibly recover. This is what he told me. By 'doesn't get how I train' I ment that stopping me from pulling it on that particular day isn't going to make any difference, because I'll be deadlifting heavy again tomorrow anyway. It would be interesting to discuss this again in 5 to 10 years time - if you ignore the weights you lift, you are still pretty much a beginner. Most people who are new to the sport can train virtually every day and still make great progress. It will be interesting to see if you can continue to train the way you currently do when you start to get closer to your maximum potential. | ||
| Tom_Mutaffis | | ... | 24-03-2011 @ 17:39 |
 from the great ex soviet state of Georgia Member 2280, 85 posts | Tom - Great job on your world record deadlift (and power shrug). Which deadlift suit do you use and how did you size it? We have fairly different builds but I am looking to get a new suit and was wondering what you would recommend. If it helps I am about 171 cm and 102 Kg and will be pulling conventional style. | ||
| MarkClegg | | ... | 24-03-2011 @ 18:43 |
 knock knock !! who's there ?? OLD SCHOOL SUGDEN Member 212, 11439 posts SQ 325, BP 212.5, DL 370907.5 kgs @ 100kgs UnEq | Steve said: It would be interesting to discuss this again in 5 to 10 years time - if you ignore the weights you lift, you are still pretty much a beginner. Most people who are new to the sport can train virtually every day and still make great progress. It will be interesting to see if you can continue to train the way you currently do when you start to get closer to your maximum potential. Get out of this boys bedroom and go and ruin someone elses fun !!!! I deadlift max three times a week with him and I started training in 1994 now the fact that 99% of powerlifters are lazy boring f**kers isn't Toms problem is it ? NO it's not .. | ||
| Steve | | ... | 24-03-2011 @ 19:25 |
nothing to hide, please follow my life on webcam Member 255, 3732 posts | MarkClegg said: Get out of this boys bedroom and go and ruin someone elses fun !!!! I deadlift max three times a week with him and I started training in 1994 now the fact that 99% of powerlifters are lazy boring f**kers isn't Toms problem is it ? NO it's not .. Tom is an exceptional lifter and I am a great fan how he trains and I am certainly not saying what he does is wrong. I've always thought powerlifters should train far more. I hope he continues the way he is going and goes from strength to strength. I was simply trying to make a sensible, adult comment about whether he would be able to keep this quantity of training up. I guess only time will tell. I'm pretty sure you haven't been deadlifting to max 3 times a week since 1994 - it will be interesting to see if you are still able to do that once you start to reach your full potential on deadlift. Did you snatch, clean & jerk, pull and squat to max 3 times a week as a weightlifter? | ||
| tz1127 | | ... | 24-03-2011 @ 23:59 |
 Member 1419, 2281 posts SQ 175, BP 105, DL 240520.0 kgs @ 82kgs UnEq | Steve said: It would be interesting to discuss this again in 5 to 10 years time - if you ignore the weights you lift, you are still pretty much a beginner. Most people who are new to the sport can train virtually every day and still make great progress. It will be interesting to see if you can continue to train the way you currently do when you start to get closer to your maximum potential. Shouldn't more advanced trainees train even heavier and more frequent? After all a greater level of stressor is required to induce extraordinary level of adaptation? | ||
| Tom_Martin | | ... | 25-03-2011 @ 00:29 |
 No one believed him anyway. Member 958, 11411 posts SQ 410, BP 215, DL 4251050.0 kgs @ 100kgs UnEq | Tom - I wear the tightest suit that allows me to still reach the bar! It's a 30 inzer fusion. Andy Bolton brought a few sizes to the gym, I tried them all on and picked the 30. I boil it regularly to maintain it's tightness. It also blows out from time to time along the seems, but it's an old suit now... Steve - 5-10 years? I'd like to think I'll have a proper career/family by then! Who knows. I can't see myself treating this sport as much more than a hobby once I get past 30, it's my life at the moment, but it won't be forever. JC - thanks! Mark - bunch of trouble makers my journal readers... | ||
| Tom_Martin | | ... | 25-03-2011 @ 00:32 |
No one believed him anyway. Member 958, 11411 posts SQ 410, BP 215, DL 4251050.0 kgs @ 100kgs UnEq | WHEN I stop training the way I do now it won't be because I CAN'T, it will be because I choose to prioritise the real world a but more... | ||
| bignige1986 | | ... | 25-03-2011 @ 00:44 |
 Taleban says his views on women are extreme Member 639, 3518 posts SQ 10, BP 10, DL 1030.0 kgs @ 10kgs Eq | Tom_Martin said:WHEN I stop training the way I do now it won't be because I CAN'T, it will be because I choose to prioritise the real world a but more... Are you f**kin stoned ? I have a career, have a beautiful daughter/missis and a lovely place to live BUT my sport/training keeps me going and is my own personal relax and i love it.. Your career could be powerlifting ! Not impossible to make money in it mate and im sure its within you  | ||
| Tom_Martin | | ... | 25-03-2011 @ 07:02 |
No one believed him anyway. Member 958, 11411 posts SQ 410, BP 215, DL 4251050.0 kgs @ 100kgs UnEq | bignige1986 said: Are you f**kin stoned ? I have a career, have a beautiful daughter/missis and a lovely place to live BUT my sport/training keeps me going and is my own personal relax and i love it.. Your career could be powerlifting ! Not impossible to make money in it mate and im sure its within you I never said I'd quit altogether, just that I'd train differently than I do now which I think is reasonable.... There's a lot of days in the week where I don't see my home apart from my bed... I can't remember the last weekend I had... | ||
| Flynno | | ... | 25-03-2011 @ 07:15 |
 Member 2215, 237 posts SQ 190, BP 165, DL 245600.0 kgs @ 108kgs UnEq | Sounds like quality!! | ||
| MarkClegg | | ... | 25-03-2011 @ 07:37 |
knock knock !! who's there ?? OLD SCHOOL SUGDEN Member 212, 11439 posts SQ 325, BP 212.5, DL 370907.5 kgs @ 100kgs UnEq | Steve - the bedroom remark wasn't just directed at you my old friend but everyone who seems to be coming in Toms journal and even being slightly negative towards the boys programme .. He uses his journal to give an honest open view of what he is trying to achieve and how he means to achieve it .. I can pick out many journals of a powerlifter doing a standard "template"  Or whatever it is you people call it but this is a guy who believes he can push him self harder to achieve better results .So coming in here disagreeing with Tom is basically disagreeing with his opinions and how can his "opinions" be wrong ? and I never remember Tom saying that he believes others should train the way he does or that he was better than anyone else .. He has had a negative welcoming into Powerlifting !! I don't give a f**k what anyone else might say ! He has .. Steve did I Snatch and Clean and Jerk upto Maximum three times a week ???? Does that question even need answering ?? Well of course I did ! For about 10 years !! I certainly didn't reach a 170kg Snatch through going "WestSide" or following a Wendler or what ever the f**k he's called !! | ||
| Luuuuuukey | | ... | 25-03-2011 @ 08:56 |
 Hill sprints are fun! Member 731, 3253 posts SQ 200, BP 127.5, DL 232.5560.0 kgs @ 80kgs UnEq | Tom_Martin said:I wear the tightest suit that allows me to still reach the bar! It's a 30 inzer fusion. That must be crazy tight! If I remember rightly, isn't the 30 recommended for someone closer to my bodyweight? | ||
| robpalmer1 | | ... | 25-03-2011 @ 09:22 |
Am I elite? Member 1674, 306 posts SQ 350, BP 250, DL 305905.0 kgs @ 93kgs Eq | Tom_Martin said:Hey Rob seems as your here reading at the moment... just curious why you'd bring up that I've only been lifting for 1 year? Is it playing on your mind? Are you trying to mindf**k me? I think you've made great progress in a year, 2 unofficial world records, very impressive. But don't forget I'm still getting better, in all honesty I've just started training seriously since you did your 802 total, so you could say I've only been training for 6 months! | ||
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