Soldato
Well played brah.
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Soldato
Evening 'snack' because I didn't have much lunch :
2 slices wholemeal
~70g pb
Pint of milk
2 scoops whey
50g peanuts
Banana
All important cuppa T
Dem calories
2 slices wholemeal
~70g pb
Pint of milk
2 scoops whey
50g peanuts
Banana
All important cuppa T
Dem calories
Caporegime
Looks good.
Try peanut butter with nutella on toast. win.
Try peanut butter with nutella on toast. win.
Soldato
LiE speaks the truth. They compliment each other so well :X
Caporegime
My quick write up!
Events:
Novice
overhead medley - 45kg dumbell, 65kg keg, 75kg axle, 85kg, 95 yoke
deadlift- 200kg olympic bar reps 75seconds
tyre flip - 400kg head to head
carpull- arm over arm uphill, astra= 1 person in seat
load and carry(5 metre to platform)- truck tyre-oak block-65kg keg-100kg dumbell-125kg husofel stone
Only my 2nd comp, so nervous as hell through out the whole thing.
I got lucky with the running order, being 14th out of 15, so was able to watch others do everything first!
First up - overhead medley. Someone had nicked the 58kg DB that was to be used in the opens, so they were moved to the 50kg and us dropped to 45. I'd been practising this on a circus DB and knew id get the normal DB that we were using.
From there I just wanted to get to the yoke and give the horrific thing a go.
DB - done, keg - easy, 75kg axle - was tempted to try and snatch this but sense got the better of me, quick clean and press, log - easy (glad I've been doing a lot of log pressing lately!). Onto the yoke, lots tried but so far only 1 person had got it. It was a touch higher than I'd been practising with which meant less leg drive. 1st attempt was poor, 2nd attempt flew up.
2nd place
200kg deads for reps: I'm a pussy with hands that rip easily and normally use straps, bar was near on cheese grater for me lol. Think it was some style of Texas power bar, straps not allowed boo lol
10 reps, took a breath, 3 more. Took a breath and got 14th to the knees but then started seeing stars. Dropped it and bumbear kept me steady
13 reps - joint 2nd
Tyre flip, have only tried a 500kg tyre which I've never flipped, so anything here would be good for me.
First flip I got to knee then stupidly pushed up on to my toes which strained my calf. Pushed through and shook leg off.
2nd flip did the same thing again! Got it over though. And then luckily got a third, calf was killing by now.
3 flips - joint 3rd. Well timed break for lunch.
4th even - arm over arm car up a hill. This was the one event I expected to do well, had practised on a transit and was confident.
This was quite a hill though and the rope was a little slippery (not an excuse, we all used the same and others did better). I ****ed this up, just getting over 10m, one of the worst to do it. Bad timing to **** up
Dunno where I come, can't have been many behind me though.
Last event loading medley: any hope of coming in top 3 (amazed I was in a position for this before car pull) was gone in my mind but seeing many people fail the husofelt stone made me need to get it to make some points up.
Tyre to highest platform seemed hardest thing for everyone, I saw a few swing it up and did that too.
Railway sleeper was next, up easy for all. 65kg keg is just 65kg, having pressed it earlier just cleaned to chest and ran it to platform. 100kg DB was 2 hands on handle clean to belly and popped up to platform. On to the clearly difficult husofelt - got it onto my lap then popped it on. Happy
Think 4th on this - slowest to do all objects.
Overall 4th, missed 3rd by one point!
Overall I'm over the moon, very well placed and only 1 bad event, but I am disappointed with myself with the arm over arm.
The Muscle Inc guys were great, well run and well paced comp
I'm now home with cake and coffee. I love the cake!! (lemon drizzle tonite!)
Apparently I'm going to be in the local paper (with a picture!) doing keg press lol
Events:
Novice
overhead medley - 45kg dumbell, 65kg keg, 75kg axle, 85kg, 95 yoke
deadlift- 200kg olympic bar reps 75seconds
tyre flip - 400kg head to head
carpull- arm over arm uphill, astra= 1 person in seat
load and carry(5 metre to platform)- truck tyre-oak block-65kg keg-100kg dumbell-125kg husofel stone
Only my 2nd comp, so nervous as hell through out the whole thing.
I got lucky with the running order, being 14th out of 15, so was able to watch others do everything first!
First up - overhead medley. Someone had nicked the 58kg DB that was to be used in the opens, so they were moved to the 50kg and us dropped to 45. I'd been practising this on a circus DB and knew id get the normal DB that we were using.
From there I just wanted to get to the yoke and give the horrific thing a go.
DB - done, keg - easy, 75kg axle - was tempted to try and snatch this but sense got the better of me, quick clean and press, log - easy (glad I've been doing a lot of log pressing lately!). Onto the yoke, lots tried but so far only 1 person had got it. It was a touch higher than I'd been practising with which meant less leg drive. 1st attempt was poor, 2nd attempt flew up.
2nd place
200kg deads for reps: I'm a pussy with hands that rip easily and normally use straps, bar was near on cheese grater for me lol. Think it was some style of Texas power bar, straps not allowed boo lol
10 reps, took a breath, 3 more. Took a breath and got 14th to the knees but then started seeing stars. Dropped it and bumbear kept me steady
13 reps - joint 2nd
Tyre flip, have only tried a 500kg tyre which I've never flipped, so anything here would be good for me.
First flip I got to knee then stupidly pushed up on to my toes which strained my calf. Pushed through and shook leg off.
2nd flip did the same thing again! Got it over though. And then luckily got a third, calf was killing by now.
3 flips - joint 3rd. Well timed break for lunch.
4th even - arm over arm car up a hill. This was the one event I expected to do well, had practised on a transit and was confident.
This was quite a hill though and the rope was a little slippery (not an excuse, we all used the same and others did better). I ****ed this up, just getting over 10m, one of the worst to do it. Bad timing to **** up
Dunno where I come, can't have been many behind me though.
Last event loading medley: any hope of coming in top 3 (amazed I was in a position for this before car pull) was gone in my mind but seeing many people fail the husofelt stone made me need to get it to make some points up.
Tyre to highest platform seemed hardest thing for everyone, I saw a few swing it up and did that too.
Railway sleeper was next, up easy for all. 65kg keg is just 65kg, having pressed it earlier just cleaned to chest and ran it to platform. 100kg DB was 2 hands on handle clean to belly and popped up to platform. On to the clearly difficult husofelt - got it onto my lap then popped it on. Happy
Think 4th on this - slowest to do all objects.
Overall 4th, missed 3rd by one point!
Overall I'm over the moon, very well placed and only 1 bad event, but I am disappointed with myself with the arm over arm.
The Muscle Inc guys were great, well run and well paced comp
I'm now home with cake and coffee. I love the cake!! (lemon drizzle tonite!)
Apparently I'm going to be in the local paper (with a picture!) doing keg press lol
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Caporegime
Good work mate, sounds mental! You did really well.
Caporegime
Yeah, it was a little. We did deadlifts head to head then did tyre flip quite quickly. 2 very back intensive exercises lol
Caporegime
Nice work mate. Excellent effort!!!!
Man of Honour
Wow that's amazing! Would have loved to have come and supported you. Look forward to pics and vids!
Well done on result that's awesome Mark!!!!
Well done on result that's awesome Mark!!!!
Caporegime
Proper pushing the belly out here, worryingly my waist is 7" smaller than chest but here it looks 7" bigger
Quite happy with my form there, stupid shorts to be wearing as cheese grater bar wanted to get tangled in them lol
Caporegime
Over head medley, not much to see but thought I'd post it to show how wobly the yoke press is at the end - it swings like mad!
Caporegime
You should create your own strongman thread. A lot of people might miss your progress and videos in between the bickering and random nonsense and it would be something I'd like to subscribe to and keep a track of. Well done btw
Soldato
Beast deadlifts
Caporegime
You should create your own strongman thread. A lot of people might miss your progress and videos in between the bickering and random nonsense and it would be something I'd like to subscribe to and keep a track of. Well done btw
Thanks and yeah I should do really, was going to do one on sugden anyway so should do it here first
Caporegime
Wow that's amazing! Would have loved to have come and supported you. Look forward to pics and vids!
Well done on result that's awesome Mark!!!!
It's something you should try! Functional strength over static strength in most events, they have 105kg novice comps quite often
I think you'd be awesome at it
Caporegime
Cool vids mate
Would like to try see one at sone point!
Would like to try see one at sone point!
Caporegime
Looks like to you pussied out on the deads tbh, you should have had a few more!
Looking seriously impressive mate. +1 for a log
FF for u90 strongman!!
Not 90, want him to grow again
lolYeah I thought that my grip would go first, but it was ok tbh. Head went before back which ****ed me off tbh, wanted to win that as top only got 16
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