Intro

My name is James Whisman (Jimmy). I have been training strongman for a few years now and I am currently preparing for the Georgia's Strongest Man contest. I thought I would start a blog about my contest prep to show what the sport of strongman is about. The contest is in June, so I have about 20 weeks to prepare. The show date has been posted but the specific events have not been posted yet so I am training on a general program now that I will make more contest specific once the events are posted at http://nastrongmaninc.com/upcoming/.

Right now I am doing 4 week mini-cycles that follow this pattern:

Week 1
85% 1RM for 4-5 reps
Week 2
90% 1RM for 3-4 reps
Week 3
95% 1 RM for 2-3 reps
Week 4
100% 1RM for 2 reps -- I use a rep conversion chart to predict what the new 1RM will be and start the cycle over.

I have been following this workout for about 4 months and have had some great gains with it.

I have entered this contest 2 times before placing 3rd in 2006 and 2nd in 2007. I decided to take some time off from competing in 2008, but and really ready to begin competing again. I hope you'll join me as I prepare. I'll be heading to the gym in a couple hours to start today's training. I am actually starting week 4 of the cycle right now. I had a great week 3 so I am hoping for big numbers this week.




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