A quick background about myself and wrestling. I have been Officiating the sport for the last 7 years and have finally reached National Status, which was a bit surprising based on my rough year. This year at the University HS invitational, the University Coaches asked me to come step back onto the mat to help their 120kg train.
Starting January I will be with the team Full time beating up on the younger guys. Ahhahaha got to love it.
Training till then will be 5 days a week with a 6th day every three weeks till January. Once in January I will be training 5 days a week and be on the mat two days a week till their seaskn is done.
I would love to officiate - but cannot make the time.
I competed played coached well into my 30’s im 48 and needless to say broken. In my town - just above NYC I see kids in my commercial gym from teh local HS and I know the coach- a former D1 wrestler
we have lifted toghetehr and extensivly discussed training methodolgy
weigh cutting - shared war stories.- Mine are from the very early 1990s in D1 good camps against the best. sigh.
in my other life- I competed and coached and trained with NYAC in NYC
I wish I had the time - good work
Awesome! I wrestled in high school (215 pounds) and did a few open tournaments while I was in college during football offseason - I had a younger brother, so whenever I was home, I’d go to practice & roll with him (also at 215) and our heavyweight (a super nice guy and good friend of ours who went on to wrestle in college).
I honestly love the sport and would gladly wrestle some today if I had the time and could find an adult crew to train with - I know folks that do BJJ or other MMA stuff but tbh that holds no interest to me - I just want to wrestle. I admire you for making the time - with a young kid & other commitments that I already have, this would be really tough to fit in at this time.
@bagofbro
Officiating doesn’t take a lot of time at the start for your first two years. I only did HS and provincials for Cadet/Juv. Now as a National C official, I have Senior/Junior Provincials than couple bigger tournaments a year to keep my grade.
@ActivitiesGuy
Well, their heavyweight class has not been class for the last couple years. I figured out how to wrestle against their heavyweights and force them develop more this season. I know the cardio aspect has been a big challenge as their main heavyweight has to keep cutting weight to make 120.
Dead Lifts
315@8x1
Main Assistance
RDL 225@5x5
Russina twist 42.5@3x15
Fun Time
Seated Horse Handle Rows 70@20/18
Cardio 2 rounds@6 mins@6.5 mph
Tuesday or Thursday I have a lifting date with another power lifter and really nervous as I never been on a date where we are actually lifting.
So work has changed our OT schedule which will now rotate and make it hard to get on the mats. Will try to make it out but, I guess I will be heading back to straight powerlifting training
