07 Oct Danny Bellmore – Off Season/ Injury Update

I just completed the 2017 APF Senior Nationals. With just a small set back the meet went fairly well. I finished with a win in the Masters and the Open. I will be going into a long off season with nothing planned as far as meets go.

I had a meeting this week with a specialist on the severity of my neck injury. As it stands we are trying to avoid surgery for as long as we can. The first round of treatment is a heavy prednisone tapper to see if we can calm some of the inflammation around the nerve root. The cause of the impingement is from a severely deteriorated facet joint then add the impact of the plywood and that caused my vertebrae to shift out of line causing the impingement.   In most cases this can be fixed by enlarging the canal where the nerve root exits. Unfortunately, with a worn facet joint enlarging the hole would compromise the integrity of the strength of the area. Then the next option is to fuse that level together. The issue that poses is that they won’t fuse a level and have a non-fused level sandwiched between two fusions so they would have to fuse the next two up from my previous fusion. I opted to try everything else because I will lose a great amount of flexibility in my neck at that point.

This week I had to move training around some due to travel.

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Squat

McGill Big 3

Goblet Squats

Squats

Bar x 20

155×8

245×5

335×5

360×5

385×5

Low Box

205×6

285×6

335×6

Belt Squats

3×10 (Wide Stance)

Leg Ext

3×10

Leg Curls

3×10

Bench

McGill Big 3

KB Swings

Push Ups

Bench Press

Bar x 20

105×10

145×8

195×5

235×5

265×5

295×5

310×5

Pause Press

185×6

225×6

275×6

Skull Crushers

90 3×10

V Bar Push Downs

3×12

Deads

McGill Big 3

Goblet Squats

Zercher Squats (with a harness)

185×5

225×5

275×5

315×5

Belt Squats

4×10 (close Stance)

Glute Ham Raise

3×10

Chest Supported Rows

3×10

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Danny Bellmore

Danny has been involved in powerlifting since 1994. The first swing at a career was short lived due to a major back injury in 1999 that resulted in a 3-level spinal (lumbar) fusion. At that point, he took a 10-year break. Avoiding the gym all together because his body, and back, just never felt right. In 2010, Danny went to handle a good friend at a local meet. That experience re-ignited the fire within and he was back under the bar, never looking back. Danny established an elite total at my first meet back in 2010 and then accomplished a win at the 2012 APF Masters Nationals. Through his win at the APF Masters, he was training using the Conjugate Method, but he wanted a change. He needed a change. Danny reached out to a friend who stated that Brian and the Samson Barbell crew had it going on. In the process of connecting with Brian, he has endured a few setbacks. During our initial discussions, he had torn my rotator cuff and labrum, along with a separated AC joint. The surgery did not "take" and just nine months later, he was back under the knife for a "do-over." During the healing process, he had lost feeling and strength in my right arm. Being pig headed, he waited and waited. My choice to remain stubborn backfired, and I was back in the OR for another spinal (cervical) fusion. Now healed, and a few years under Brian, Danny’s total has moved to 1871 @ 165. He doesn’t like to predict or talk about goals, but he wants more, and feels like he has more. Plans now are to compete at the Senior Nationals in Jacksonville, Florida this June.

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