Diary of a novice strongman

silent ninja

The pic with your missus looks like you've just boarded the Rapids at Drayton Manor park. You're doing a dry run, 'visualizing' before the race lol

Rope pulling looks fun. I'm not surprised your grip is so strong

Charlts

I was pretty fried today, after Saturday we were up North with wifey's family and I didn't get much sleep! From watching past videos of my lifting I need to get faster at everything so there will be low reps and loads of speed on the main movements. As a result I'm fecked loving training for speed though so I'll stick with it for a couple of months.

Trap bar dead - 55x10, 55x10, 125x3, 145x3,x3,x3,x3,x3,x3,x3,x3,x3,x3
Pendlay Row - 70x10, 70x10, 70x10, 100x10 - Got egged on by wifey and her PT, ended up surprising myself!
Plate lat pull down - 80x10, 80x10, 100x10, 100x10

Totally wiped out, my lower back is in pieces and like a fool I've arranged to train legs with a bigger boy tomorrow, so I can see me hobbling around all week!

sheriffwoody

100kg proper pendlay rows is fudgeing impressive.

Charlts

I was more surprised than anyone, 70 felt easy and apparently looked it then I got accused of skiving so had a point to prove!

Charlts

Strong pressing session today Mrs C went really well which spurred me on no end! We finished with something my old Rugby master would make us do - 7 lateral raise, 7 front raise, 7 press continuous with a 30sec rest!

Incline bench - bar x 20, 60x10, 100x5,x5,x5,x5,x5
Seated shoulder press - 60x5, 70x5, 80x5, 90x5
Lateral raise machine - 50x10, 50x10, 50x10
Incline fly - 12.5x12, 15x12, 15x15
21's - 12.5, 12.5, 12.5

Charlts

It's happened, I talked Mrs C into having a crack at a novice comp which is in November! Amongst our group we have at least one entry in each class and the events are within her capability now, really looking forward to it!

Event 1 - Axle dead for reps in 60sec - Ladies 70, open men 170.
Event 2 Log lift reps in 60sec - Ladies 30, open me 80
Event 3 - Farmers 20m each way - Ladies 35, open men 95
Event 4 - Yoke 20m each way - Ladies 100, open men 180
Event 5 - Rope pull 20m - Ladies 50, open men 120
Event 6 - Tyre flips, fastest 10 reps - Ladies - 150 tyre, open men 300

Charlts

First go at comp weight for Mrs C on her weak events, she did awesome although both the girls struggled with the yoke as they don't have much in the way of shoulders to rest it on! I did a load of strict log pressing at the start and got close to a new pb, my knee clicked when I dipped on the first go and it really put me off, will get it next time. Really pleased with how well I'm progressing at the moving events, I'm getting loads quicker and once the extra few kgs are gone from around my waist I'll get quicker.

Log ftoh - 40x10, x10, 60x10, 70x10, 80x5, 90x3, 100x2, 105x1, 110x1, 115 fail
Farmers - 75x30m, 95x30, 95x30, 95x30
Yoke - 190x30m, 190x30, 190x30, 190x40 - 10m shuttle runs to practice turns

                               
A little bit of fun on the yoke with Mart carrying the girls

silent ninja

lol the ladies look like they were having fun, like kids on a merry-go-round

"come on you son of a bitch!! leg drive!" haha I like that. That's motivation!
Your strict pressing looks solid. Elbows nice and forward. Good groove going there.

Charlts

Thanks, I'm going in the right direction slowly. I'm a bit concerned about my knee, it cut my dancing with a 2 year old short this evening at a family friends birthday party!! Currently sat in bed with an ice pack on each knee and feet elevated whilst eating ibuprofen.

Charlts

Great time tonight, we've persuaded 4 other people to join in the novice comp in November from our gym so lots of encouragement being shouted around the gym as people got to grips with events and only one nose bleed! Mrs C trained like a demon, I'm so proud of how she's gritting her teeth and attacking everything, as a result she's making massive improvements week on week. The comments she was getting doing axle deads from the bigger boys were brilliant!

My knees are swollen right up and feeling really stiff, so I intended to take a gentler approach to things. After a while I stopped noticing it and had a really good stretch down at the end which helped.

Trap bar dead - 80x10, 120x10, 150x3, x3, x3, x3, x3, x3, x3, x3, x3, x3
Axle pendlay rows - 95x10, 95x10, 95x10, 95x10 (filmed the last set as a form check)
Plate lat pull down - 100x10, 100x10, 100x9 straight into 80x5
Arm over arm into sled drag - 125x20m, 125x20, 125x20

Vid of the last set of rows