journey to strongman

True, essentially the more you eat, the less your body produces etc is my understanding of it. However that will only work to a point.
 
MoNkeE said:
Are you having the/other cholesterol-high foods at other times during the day?
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I have no idea what else contains high cholesterol :confused:


5x5 50kg squats legs were aching from yesterday morning
5x5 55kg bench
4x8 14kg dumbell chest flys
3x10 each arm 14kg bicep curls
then ran out of time
 
Great session yet I was done in about 35 minutes which makes me feel like I didn't do enough

5x5 squats 90kg did 8 on the last set
5x5 OHP 45kg
1x5 deadlift 70kg
1x5 deadlift 100kg
1x9 deadlift 120kg
2x10 (lift it upto shoulder then ohp) 40kg whats its called?
 
Got up a bit late this morning

Bench
1x5 bar
1x5 40kg
1x5 50kg
1x5 60kg
1x4 65kg failed on the 5th
2x5 60kg


Squats
1x10 bar
1x5 60kg
1x5 100kg
1x5120kg

Wanted to carry on at 120kg but had no one to spot me just incase

Skullcrushers barbell

3x10 30kg

bicep curl barbell

3x10 30kg

tricep dips till I failed then home, Should be going boxing this evening aswell
 
This mornings sessions

5x5 squats 110kg

5x5 Bench 65kg looks like I am finally gaining some strength

then jumped on the cable machine and went until my arms were dead working triceps and biceps
 
been doing the general weight lifting 5x5 since

today I went to a strongman class

warmup was two people holding resistance bands and you had to pull them to get the weight off the floor (bloody impossible) but great fun

KB russian swings x10
KB lunges x10
atlas ball 30kg onto shoulder x10
pressup - move over atlas ball in pressup position - pressup x10
jumps onto box x10
burpeee jump over tyre burpee x10

managed 2 and a half rounds in the circuit in the time slot I was knackered

then 3 x 200kg tyre flip

then had a deadlift session with the guys perfected my form

loads of deads starting at 60kg working my way up

1 rep max 160kg really happy with that :)
 
Usual weights during in the week and then strongman on saturday again

Keg - floor to overhead working on technique - 20-30-40-50-60 then staying on 60 for reps

the beasting
20 minute
EMOM

Axel bar thrusters - bar only 23kg fat bar
tyre walk around - feet on tyre and walk around it with hands
Keg GTOH AHAP - stuck with the 30kg keg so I could smash the reps out
KB duck carry - 38kg

then had a play around with sand bags

Sand Bag carry
50kg too light
75kg easy
100kg Hard but felt good. could maybe of gone higher but smashed this out for reps

Yolk Walk
Pretty knackered by this stage of the day

first time on the yolk so nothing to scream about

150kg 30m there and back.

Still aching like mad this morning, Bring on next saturday Loving this class
 
Strongman training again on saturday

more a conditioning class lots of burpees.
lots of GTOH movements
lunges
OHP

Then worked on my stone over yolk technique

80kg was feeling easy
got the 90kg up and over twice
Tried the 100kg but just didn't have any energy left.

Will have to give it another bash when less fatigued. and get that 100kg over

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This Morning:

Bench 5x5 75kg - slowly going up really struggled on the last set but happy to see that weight going up

Dead lift : 10 reps 120kg
7 reps 140kg

Then smashed some various bicep & tricep exercises.

Feel like I need to get a belt for my deadlifting
 
Wedding done : its Strongman Time

Wedding is now done and dusted.

Had my first strongman class at the weekend, it was a lot of conditioning

I really struggled, its amazing what 2 weeks of laying around drinking and eating awful does to your body

doing some hill sprints and my knee was giving me loads of grief so back onto squats to sort it out again.

after the session worked on my deadlift i bloody love deadlifting

had 2 coaches watching my form, was bang on apparently whacked my knee supports on and a belt

new 1 rep max 180kg chuffed :D


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The long long term plan is to one day compete in a novice strongman competition

with what I am lifting now I am obviously a LONG way off but something to aim for and The weights are slowly going up
 
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yesterdays workout

400meter sandbag carry @ 75kg
40 deadlifts at 75kg
40 squat thrusts
400meter sandbag carry @ 75kg
30 deadlifts at 75kg
30 squat thrusts
400meter sandbag carry @ 75kg
30 keg GTOH @ 40kg

was absolutely brutal
 
Sundays session

warmup

2 min sprints
3 min burpees

In pairs

100x deadlift @ 60kg
100x clean @45kg
100x shoulder press @40kg
100x thruster @ 35kg (we ran out of time on these only got 10 or so done each)

I ended up doing 65% as my partner was struggling but it felt Good!!

Holiday on wednesday then when I get back Its back to the gym in the week as I have been right lazy only doing the class each weekend
 
kaptainmarc said:
yesterdays workout

400meter sandbag carry @ 75kg
40 deadlifts at 75kg
40 squat thrusts
400meter sandbag carry @ 75kg
30 deadlifts at 75kg
30 squat thrusts
400meter sandbag carry @ 75kg
30 keg GTOH @ 40kg

was absolutely brutal
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That looks like an epic workout! How long did it take you?
 
Did a deadlift session before the class on sunday. wanted to try and beat 180kg PB but I just couldnt get my head in the right place

got 190 kg up but couldn't lock my knees out

Then onto the main workout

in 5 minutes do as many rounds, managed 2 rounds

10x axel bar thrusters @ 40kg
10x burpees whilst jumping over axel bar
10x double over skips

2 minute rest whilst setting up next station

in 5 minutes do as many 50m lengths as possible

KB carry with 36kg kettle bells, Managed 10 lengths it was warm so sweaty palms forcing me to drop at each end and re-chalk

2 minute rest

for 5 minutes constant 100kg tyre drag, no idea how many lengths I did but i was running around like a charging bull

2 minute rest

atlas to overhead 5 minute round

atlas @ 60kg x5
5x pushups on atlas
5x atlas overhead
5x pushups on atlas

Then time was called

Not a bad effort considering I had 6 pints the night before. I really want to get a 200kg deadlift up setting myself that as a target
 
warm up

2 rounds
banded sprints 5x 50m

had 2 people holding me back, felt like i was going to throw up afterwards

then the main workout, 5 minute rounds inbetween each round 100m sprint and 10 squat thrusts

1)Keg , ground to overhead AMRAP @ 50kg

2) Atlas squat AMRAP 50kg

3) Atlas Lunge 30kg AMRAP (went lower due to me knees, these throw me off balance)

4) russian KB swing 28kg AMRAP

no idea how many reps of each I completed, all I know is my butt and legs are sore today!

I really need to find something to do in the week, cant get motivated to just do normal gym stuff in the mornings at the moment.

Going to start doing ROMWOOD everyday to try and loosen me up.

Finishes the day off with some ATLAS over Yolk

started at 40-50-60-70-80-80

then failed 3 times at 90kg kept losing grip on the initial part of the lift

had a 5 minute breather 90 went up and over nicely

Then onto 100kg hadn't attempted this before so was my goal

quick blast of the sniffing salts and a mighty roar up it went, Well happy with this!

sadly there's no 110kg stone so i stopped there, next stone up is 120kg be nice to get that one over
 
Great work on the stones mate! I am going to be giving them a go in a couple of weeks time.

Romwod - I have been doing this for the last couple of weeks and it is really worthwhile and helping me a lot (am still rubbish in plenty of the poses but slow improvements are now starting to happen)
 
Love the stones, real fun piece of kit and makes you realise you may be able to lift a bar but picking up a big round awkward object is very very different!

Its all about the technique with them, luckily I train with people that are competing in competitions so know what they are on about

been doing romwod for 3 days now, wow I'm so un flexable
my ankles feel like they are frozen in one position and my quads are insanely tight! booked in for a massage to see if it helps at all
 
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