Hugh Hogan Overview Category: Maintainers power and speed Name: Hugh Hogan Age:30 Weight before the challenge: 104kg Weight after the challenge: 105kg Results: Before After Bench Press: 145kg – 165kg Squat: 165kg – 190kg Power Clean: 120kg – 135kg Pullup: 50kg – 60kg Comments: I really enjoyed phase 3 of my program as I was [...]

Hugh Hogan Week 7 Review Week 7 went pretty well. I was back up to where I should be with the incline BB bench (having struggled with it somewhat last week) and I felt pretty good going into most of my sessions. I also started back on the pitch for rugby training this week and [...]

Hugh Hogan Week 6 Review Week 6 was somewhat mixed and I was a bit inconsistent over the course of the week, for example, I really struggled with the Incline BB Bench for some reason. I don’t know exactly why this was but I’m willing to put it down to the disruptiveness of being away [...]

Hugh Hogan Week 5 Review I really enjoyed my holiday and came back to the gym eager to train and feeling pretty fresh. This new phase sees my legs sessions switch to strength-speed while there is a bit more of a hypertrophy element to the upper body sessions. As a result, the volume has been [...]

Hugh Hogan Week 4 Review Week 4 went well. I got my 3 reps out at 142.5 on the bench press which was a new personal best and then I got out my 3 reps at 100kg on Barbell Military press which I was very happy with. I’d had this as a target of mine [...]

Hugh Hogan Week 3 Review I had a good training week. I was able to set a new pb for the front squat, match my back squat pb and up the weight on the bench press to 142.5. I only got 2 reps out but I’m confident that I’ll get the three in week 4. [...]

Hugh Hogan Week 2 Review I have made some strength gains in week 2, achieving a personal best in the Bench Press for 3 reps and Military Press for 3 reps, so I’m pretty happy with that. While I stayed at the same weights this week for a number of exercises, everything felt better than [...]

Hugh Hogan Week 1 Review My bodyweight has probably increased a small bit (by up to 1kg), my body composition has improved as I am definitely a little leaner. I have just trained 7 out of the last 8 days (including 1 pitch session for 7s training)., I have eaten very well and didn’t go [...]