Current Training

My current training regime has changed a lot since last year. After the BNBF bodybuilding competition I burned out because I didn't ease back into my training slowly enough and I'm only just recovering fully now. This set me back quite a bit which is frustrating.

After the BNBF comp I had to pull out of the British finals because I couldn't train for it. After I felt a bit better I started lifting again and training for strongman, which was going well. I had my first competition in the Luss Games which I thought went ok and it was great fun.

I had to start working full time and studying again recently which gave me little time, energy or money to train as much as I'd want. I had to stop training at the gym because I couldn't afford it and didn't have time to travel out. So I started training at my local boxing gym which made me really interested in fighting.

My training focus began to shift towards fighting and as a result I lost a lot of my strength and slimmed down because of all the endurance training. I haven't done any lifting for months, I've recently started working part time again so I've got training time available for weightlifting and strongman now.

On my strength conditioning week I'll train weightlifting and strongman once, which is enough to keep me progressing. Once I get back on course I'll start thinking about competing again, but that's going to take a while.

I couldn't compete in the Scotland's strongest man under 110kg because I wasn't in shape and didn't want to make an arse of myself. If I can progress fast enough, I'll compete next year.

My current training focuses on fighting, weightlifting/strongman and parkour. On my first week I'll have one lifting session and one body weight conditioning session. Lifting will focus on strongman events and power/olympic lifting. Body weight training will consist of sill rings and bar work for upper body and sprinting/plyometrics for lower body.

My second week will consist of two boxing sessions and two hours of parkour.

I realized that one of the reasons I didn't have any energy to train was because I stopped running. Running seems to give me energy, so I'll go running as many times as I can throughout the week.