Diary of a novice strongman

Charlts

Cheers dude, I've seen loads of people I haven't seen for ages today and everybody has noticed the difference. Quite staggering the difference when looking back through the pics.

Charlts

Deadlift day tonight with a real focus on speed, really pleased with how the deadlifting is progressing and back day is definitely becoming my favourite day. I got a compliment from a bodybuilder about my back tonight which might have something to do with it!

Dead - 60 x 15, 60 x 10, 100 x 5, 140 x 5, 160 x 5, 180 x 5, 180 x 5, 180 x 5, 180 x 5, 180 x 5, 180 x 5
Bent over row - 60 x 10, 80 x 10, 90 x 10, 100 x10
Plate late pull down - 100 x 10, 100 x 10, 80 x 11
Low cable row - 14 plates x 10, 15 x 10, 16 x 12

Charlts

Struggled through tonight's session everything felt heavy so teeth got gritted and work got done. Mrs C slowly getting happier spotting me although once up to working weight one of the bigger boys jumped in.

Squats - Bar x 10, x 10, 60 x 10, 80 x 10, 100 x 5, 140 x 5, 140 x 5, 140 x 5, 140 x 5, 140 x 6
Trap bar deadlift - 125 x 5, 145 x 5, 185 x 3 - These were really fast, I absolutely hate trap bars!
Front squat - Bar x 10, 60 x 5, 80 x 5, 90 x 6

Charlts

Messed my food up today by forgetting mid morning and mid afternoon meals, so I've been hungry as hell all day! Really enjoyed having Mrs C train with us tonight, she's putting in tons of effort and going great guns, her highlights tonight 30kg 5x5 strict press, 35x2 push press and she cleaned a 40kg log first attempt before doing it for reps!! Really proud of her she's starting to enjoy reaching the point of failing a lift so she knows where she's at.

Strict mil press - bar x 20, 40 x 10, 60 x 5, 80 x 5, 80 x 5, 80 x 5, 80 x 5, 80 x 5
Push press - 90 fail straight into 80 x 2
Log clean only - 80 x 5, 100 x 3, 110 x 1, 120 fail, 115 x 1, 115 x 1
Dips -  25kg x 5,  25kg x 4,  25kg x 4
Seated tri push down - 70 x 12, 56 x 12 (one handed), 56 x 12 (one handed)

Charlts

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Charlts

Cheers dude, there's going to be some mega stuff coming from him over the morning weeks and months!

Charlts

Mrs C and I had a really quick events session as I'd been at a shooting competition around 8-3.30 and the gym needed to close. Really pleased with how fast I was moving, the new structure of not training on Friday is working well so far.

Arm over arm into sled drag, 20m each way - 60, 100, 150, 125

Barrel carry and press, approx 50kg, 15m each way - 90m, 90m, 60m sprint

Charlts

Mixed one tonight, started well, caught up with some friends I'd not seen for ages which involved standing around for 20 minutes gassing and that threw me a bit as I'd gotten stiff and slow. So I dropped the weight back and refocused on speed, as the session progressed I felt better and looking forward to a max effort deadlift day on Saturday. After the talk on here yesterday on rows,I decided to try pendlay rows and really like them. Mrs C and I had a great 40m tyre flip sprint race to finish, she used a 125kg tyre and I used a 220

Deads - 60x12, 100x10, 140x10, 160x5, 190x5, 190x5, 190x5, 170x5, 170x5, 170x5, 190x3 (really quick)
Pendlay Row - 60x10, 70x10, 80x10, 80x10
Plate lat pull down - 80x10, 80x10, 80x10
Tyre flip 220kg tyre - 40m sprint

Spencer Jackson

Some great info on here, your strong man training looks very well organised. Keep updating for us all to follow.

Spencer