Heather's Training Journal

Saturday, April 8, 2006

Hey Everyone!!!!!

Thank Goodness it is finally the weekend!!! I told you guys I so look forward to them now...I feel like I never get to sit and rest anymore, LOL!! But, on the otherhand I am all excited because I am heading to Florida this week on vacation~ROADTRIP BABY!!! I love roadtrips! My favorite are motorcycle trips but this one is going to be via car, but still bound to be an adventure!

I have been running around like crazy lately, so much going on! Where to begin? Well, for starters there are a lot of new treats coming to my site, lots of new fresh faces you guys should really enjoy! I have been taking some of my new girls on photoshoots with me and they are like old pro's already! Just wait till you see the pictures...

Claudia and Elena both competed in the Stronger Then All 2 Strongman Contest in Connecticut~as did several of our other training partners, and they all kicked ass...We had 4 guys and 2 girls competing and they all put on really strong showings! The events this year were absolutely brutal~the chain yolk walk, the thomas inch dumbell clean and press, the deadlift for reps, the log clean and press, and finally the medley, with the Conans Walk using the chain yolk, then the keg walk, finishing up with the duck walk. The chain turned out to be one of the most brutal of all strongman apparatus because as you move it swings, so a lot of it was a matter of controling the device...a lot of people took hard spills this event and it was really tough. The men had one pro-card up for grabs in the lightweight class, none for the ladies.

You can check out some of the pictures below~
A special CONGRATS TO CLAUDIA WHO TOOK FIRST IN THE LADIES HW CLASS, AND TO ELENA WHO TOOK SECOND IN THAT CLASS!!! YOU BOTH MAKE ME PROUD!!! I will say it was nice for once to be a spectator at a contest instead of competing!!! I got to show my love and work the camera and the video camera, LOL!! Nice relaxing day for me hah!! The boys ranged from 5th to 13th, taking home some cool tee-shirts and goodies! More strongman contests are coming up this spring and summer and I will be competing...stay tuned for details!

I had an awesome photoshoot with the always brilliant LES FROM DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY! One of my great new finds, Maria, tagged along and we shot some really sexy new stuff...check out the members section in the next few weeks for the goodies...Maria wil be stepping onstage later this year in her first figure show!! Also getting ready to compete is Nicole, who you can see in the back training gallery with me that went up last night. Nicole will be competing in figure this June for the first time and is sure to look awesome onstage! These 2 are definitly worth watching....

I have been having some really awesome training sessions lately~among them were 2 high volume workouts, one for legs(hams and glutes) and one for back...

The details...

Ham and Glute Workout

Warmup 2 sets of stiff legged deads with just the bar, alternating true stiff-legged stance and wider bent knee stance.

Working sets
95x12 locked knee/superset/95x12 bent knee
135x12 locked/s/s/135x12 bent x 2 sets
155x12 locked/s/s/155x12 bent
85x20 locked/s/s/85x20 bent

Walking Lunges
65x2 laps which is about 25 reps
95x2 laps
105x2 laps

Step Ups
85x12 each leg
105x12 each leg
105x12 each leg

Giant Set
Hack Squats full range down to the stoppers x 3 sets of 12
s/s
Standing one legged ham curl x 3 sets of 12
s/s
Lying Leg Curl x 3 sets of 12

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Back Workout

Light warmup
WideGrip Pulldowns s/s Behind the Neck Pulldowns
3 sets of 10 each

Rack Deads
135 x 12 x 2 sets
185 x 12
225 x 10 x 2 sets
135 x 20

T-Bar Rows
Supersetting inverted grip with wide grip
3 sets of 10 each with the last set being a triple drop set with 8 reps per drop set

Low Rows
Using a wide inverted grip, 3 sets of 12

Low Rows
Close Grip, 3 sets of 12, with the last set being a triple drop set

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Well all, hope you enjoy your weekend~time for me to run! I leave you with some new pics~some from the Strongman, some from the photoshoot with Maria, and some from training with Nicole! ENJOY!!!

'Till next time,
Keep pumpin' hard!!!
XOXO
Heather Lee

Nicole and T-Bar Rows!