Gym events and Greg Alvarado hits 565

Greg Alvarado hit a 565 bench with a near miss at 600 at this past Southern States



Greg does a combination of shirted work and quite a bit of heavy raw training.   He follows a different protocol, but lately he has been making some great gains.  I predict he will very soon break into the top 5 bench list at Tampa Barbell.

On another note, something funny has happened.   A lot of the gym has converted over to the rotating schedule, giving it a try.  This is pretty cool, as I think it has a lot of potential.  Again I caution that its benefits will be negated if you miss many days,  but it is off to a decent start.   It is ironic.  One of the benefits of having the gym on mixed schedules was a more even distribution of equipment as the weekly guys were often on different exercises.   Now,  we have everyone pretty much doing the same thing again thus negating one of the benefits.   May have to buy a fourth monolift and eliminate the preacher curl station.  :)

I could put people on alternating rotating schedules so while one group does upper, the other does lower,  but then we lose the unity of people all pushing each other.  

So we roll with it.  I predict some will have great success,  some will say "the hell with this dumb stuff", and it will be an interesting ride.

Approx 3 weeks till the TBB hosted SPF Outlaw meet.   Lots of work.

Remember guys:  I am counting on everyone Friday and Saturday  December 9th and 10th.