Obtaining my goal!

Back in August, when I started my training at WCLEA in Hinton, I started a weight routine at the academy gym, which at first was just to get in shape to keep my back strong and in alignment as well as to deal with the boredom of being away from home.

They had us on a workout routine and began testing us once a month to track our progress. The testing consisted of max bench, max chinups, max situps & pushups in one minute, plus running goals. Being an old guy there I took upon myself to out do the young guys, more to set an example (that old guys can do it too) to them than anything else.

When I began my max bench was 205 pounds, 6 chinups, 56 pushups and 52 situps. With some coaching from my buddy Chuck, at the end of the 16-weeks of training and going to the gym faithfully at least 2-3 times a week, even when I was home in Medicine Hat, I achieved the following; 275 pound max bench, 10 chinups, 81 pushups & 56 situps and a 5 km run in 24 minutes.

My goal however was to get to over 300 pounds on my max bench but they didn't test us anymore after November, so I took it upon myself to reach this goal on my own. So yesterday Blair & I headed into the MHPS gym and I was ready to go for it!

Doing several reps of 225 pounds to warm up.

Hoo-Ya! There it is 315 pounds, one time, up & down!

Now that I've met my goal I can take it easy and let my shoulders heal up!!!

So now I've started Blair on his routine, he spent more time doing cardio than weights but he did manage to do several reps of 65 pounds on the flat bench!