Hi everyone!
As the topic states, my name is Cam Clowser and this is my training log! I will provide a little background on myself to start and then start logging from there.
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Career Background- Full time chiropractor within a hospital system in Virginia for the past 3.5 years. I am also a Pain and Rehab team member, as well as a Performance Coach team member for the Barbell Medicine crew for the past 4 or so years as well.
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Lifting Background- I start lifting in 8th grade as a means to improve my athletic potential for football and track purposes. I gained more structure of sorts in my high school football weight room where I developed my love of strength and physical activity in general. This wa obviously more “athlete” focused activity which eventually grew into a bodybuilding type focus as I started to enjoy lifting more. After graduating high school in 2013, I decided not to pursue organized sports in college which pushed me further into the lifting realm. I continued with a heavy bodybuilding focus from 2013-2015 mostly and then started into some powerlifting type movements due to a powerlifting slant at my university. In this time, I met Austin while he was in medical school locally and lifted at my university gym. He became my coach for approximately 5-6 years and helped me develop a similar coaching style and my own personal progression with my best numbers powerlifting wise being:
Squat-585
Bench-395
Deadlift-725
These numbers are “gym numbers” but I have competed multiple times with a national competition appearance and medal while in my doctorate program early on.
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Injury History- swollen spinal cord w/nerve damage-2011 from football. Fractured left tibia plateau-2012 from football. 3-4 grade 2 adductor strains (both right and left legs) over the course lifting from 2018ish-2023 so far. 2 grade 1-2 pec strains (1 on each side). Suspected disc herniation w/radiculopathy in the left leg from the hip to the foot-2019 to current. Those are what I would consider my “major” issues over the years that have haulted training progress for a significant amount of time each occurrence.
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Coaching career thus far- coached 100+ athletes across both pain and rehab situations and performance based situations. Ranges from everyday recreational athletes to competitive collegiate and competitive national level powerlifters.
I hope you potentially find this interesting and informative about how I cope with day to day stress, performance ups and down, and potential injury situations (hopefully these are not often lol).
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