Myles!!!! Thanks so much for checking out my blog! How have you been?
Yes, the garage sessions are done in the garage. Coach Coffee gave me an Olympic bar and some bumpers when I moved here so I could train the lifts and we have some dumbells.
That’s a good idea about doing your overhead squats in the rack from the bottom. They are such a great exercise. Let me know how that goes!
Really cool about your saving the message from last year. Meant every word of it and I knew you’d be back kickin’ butt in no time. No way anything was gonna hold you down long! Hope you’re doing great. :)
Love the web site. Are the garage sessions done in your garage? Impressed huge you do overhead squats. I can’t do them still after the knee gig. Have been thinking of getting in a rack and sitting at the bottom and trying to come up with them. I told C about this last week, but thanks again so much for picking me up when I was in that dark place last year. I saved that and was reading it again last week.
Hey Kara,
I just started competing in powerlifting and was able to qualify for the USAPL nationals with a raw total from my first meet. I don’t currently have gear, but was thinking it would be a good idea to get some and learn how to use it before that meet. My coach was telling me you have some pretty impressive numbers in the various lifts and might be able to give me a few tips on where to look for powerlifting gear and if there are any tricks to using it.
That’s awesome you qualified for USAPL Nationals raw! Good stuff. I’d be glad to help you out however I can with Powerlifting gear.read more...
Hey Kara,
I’m trying to decide whether to pull sumo or conventional. My strength training background is mainly Olympic Lifting like yours and all the deadlifting I’ve done is Olympic pulls. Have you tried both sumo and conventional? Which is your favorite? And is there anything other than personal preference which can help someone pick whether they do one technique or the other?
So funny you mentioned doing Olympic pulls. That’s almost ALL I do and ever have done for my deadlift training…even for sumo powerlifting deadlifts! Heavy snatch and clean pulls. When meet time gets close I’ll do a couple of sessions sumo with and without the suit, just to get used to the technique, but my training is almost exclusively Olympic pulls.
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September 1, 2010 at 9:40 am
Myles!!!! Thanks so much for checking out my blog! How have you been?
Yes, the garage sessions are done in the garage. Coach Coffee gave me an Olympic bar and some bumpers when I moved here so I could train the lifts and we have some dumbells.
That’s a good idea about doing your overhead squats in the rack from the bottom. They are such a great exercise. Let me know how that goes!
Really cool about your saving the message from last year. Meant every word of it and I knew you’d be back kickin’ butt in no time. No way anything was gonna hold you down long! Hope you’re doing great. :)
August 28, 2010 at 9:39 am
Love the web site. Are the garage sessions done in your garage? Impressed huge you do overhead squats. I can’t do them still after the knee gig. Have been thinking of getting in a rack and sitting at the bottom and trying to come up with them. I told C about this last week, but thanks again so much for picking me up when I was in that dark place last year. I saved that and was reading it again last week.