Dan Thomas, Armwrestling, New Year cup 2010

filmed by my own fair hand!

Great footage Leon well done Dan

I know it sounds impossible Angie, but you'll give Dan a big head

Love to see Dan pull in "full confidence" Mode.

yeh hard to believe Leon

Dean wrote:

Love to see Dan pull in "full confidence" Mode.

You will get to see the new and improved fully confident me in 2 weeks.

what training have you been doing dan

On Monday i hit the gym after work for hand and wrist, heavy curls with thick handle, static holds, heavy rotations, rolling thunder dead lifts, pinch grip etc, then i armwrestle in the evening,
Tuessdays, Thursdays and Saturdays are conditioning days, lots of kettlebell drills, sand bag lifts, suspension training, bodyweight circuits.
Wednesday and Friday are hand and wrist again with arms, i do lots of static holds but seated with my arm parallel to the floor and my elbow tucked into my thigh. I lean forward so there is a 60 degree angle between my upper and fore arm, sometimes sitting up to open the angle out so I can be strong in a more exposed position. I also do preacher hammer curls, reverse grip ez bar curls. I also like to hit my back heavy with cleans, rows, seated rows, chins.

Basically i split my training into armwrestling, heavy days and core/conditioning days.

It's working well, but i'll only know how well in 2 weeks.

By the look of it, it's paying off m8.
Keep at it and well done.
Hmmm, this may be Dan's year.

Dan 'Nosferatu' Thomas at rest. You can't train all the time!

Should be good at all weight groups its going to be tough !!!

David

Hi Dan hope all is well? What's your weight at the min?
Also your training routine is extremely packed how is your body coping with the workload and are there any signs of over training?
Also whats your diet like during pre n post training?
Thanks

that's classic david!

Hmmm was just wondering with all that workout,
when does your body get time to recover :?
not surprised you have no lady friend there would be no time to fit her in

Hi Paul, my weight is 92-93kg, i have a week off from work leading up to the comp, so i'll be taking the last couple of kilos off then.

My training is very intense so i'm only in the gym for about an hour, 2 tops. My conditioning workouts involve whole body training with very little time to let my heart rate drop, if you've ever seen an mma fighter train it's similar to that, my heavy days are just 3 exercises for hand and wrist, 1-2 for the arms and 1 or 2 for the back, then different exercises on different days. Armwrestling is the usual, sparing against every one, static pulls against 2 hands in top, hook and back pressure.

I eat a huge amount of protein every 2-3 hours, with complex carbs and some fats, i'll have a shake when i finish work mixed with espresso, then 30 minutes later i train. when i finish i have another shake then in the following hour i'll have a meal.

I get 6 hours sleep every night 8 on Friday night and rest on Sundays.

I did start to feel the effects of overtraining so i stopped training for 3 days, upped my food intake and got more sleep. It sorted me out completely and i came back stronger.

sound like a lot to me dan.but everyone training is different

Best of luck Dan hope to see you at the NYC

I trained with Craig sanders on sat and haven't been able to lift a weight since, 4 hours of hard pullingleft my arms wrecked. Fine today though but don't want to train as I am training tomorrow.

Just worried that there is only going to be 1 or 2 in my class and all my training will have gone to waste. At least I can use it as a base to build from now.

What class are you Owen?
Thinking 110s then there should be a few Matt fox maybe? Garry ricketts,Neil pickup,,Marvin if still 108?

I'm sitting at 132 mate but my natural weight is between 105-110 so I could come down to that if there is always going to be a 110 class. Usually it's over 100 so with a few real monsters out there I've been trying to get as big and strong as possible.

Hi Owen
Neil added a 110 class for this event il find out tonight if I can get time off if so you won't be alone iam going pull 2 classes righty

MIGHTY PAUL wrote:

Best of luck Dan hope to see you at the NYC

I'll be there mate

Cheers Paul! It's typical as I have intentionally gained wait for this one and there doesn't look like there will be any pullers at it!!

Hmm intersting Who ate all the pies