Diary of a novice strongman

Charlts

Depends on the bar, on a normal sized bar sets of ten, on the big coke can sized one sets of 5. There's blokes with 20  kilos on me I've seen doing weighted pull ups and dips.

Charlts

Today's events session in one word, brutal I feel like I've been beaten up! Got a yoke pb of 50kg, after hammering arm over arm which it turns out is a good event for me!

Arm over Arm into sled drag 20m each way - 60, 80, 100, 150, 100.
Yoke 30m - 50, 150, 230(pb), 250(pb)
Farmers 30m - 65, 85, 85

After that my lower back was in pieces, so did lots of stretching to prepare for an afternoon of cheating on my nutrition!

Charlts

I'll keep this post for the videos of what we've done yesterday and today and keep editing it with more content. First up the first lot of tyre flipping from Fridays session, on the group Facebook page there's loads of cool vids of the sort of things we get up to!

                                                                https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=705963862760701       
Friday axle 65kg
                                                                https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=705982972758790       
Friday axle 80kg
                                                                https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=706006226089798       
Arm O Arm, into drag
                                                                https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=706022629421491       
Bambi on ice meets 250 yoke!
                                                                https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=706043996086021

Nanonano

Great read cheers!

silent ninja

Great tyre flipping!! That looked like a good cardio session as well

You go to a good gym, especially the rowler and strongman stuff you have access to. I wish I had something like that around here.

Charlts

It's one of the best S&C gyms in the country, anything you ever need is there and we're lucky that all the gym owner cares about is that people improve each session. Tyres are probably my favourite conditioning exercise, you definitely end up blowing hard!

One of the members is part of a documentary on drug free strength athletes the teaser is here!

                                                                https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152840417321531

sheriffwoody

how much were you lifting mate when you first started?
i remeber i could barely bench 40kg back in the beginging. have you always been lifting heavy etc?

wish i could train with a group of people like you, would make for a lot more gains i think.

Charlts

I wasn't so meticulous at recording sessions in the beginning as I had a PT doing it for me, the only ones I remember off the top of my head are dead and bench which were 120 and 60. All the sessions are high intensity and none really go light unless it's learning/relearning form.

Having such a great group is brilliant, there's always encouragement and everybody helps each other out a lot. We've all got similar goals in that we want to get stronger and less fat so that's cool.

sheriffwoody

shame the round trip is a bit too much lol

Charlts

You'd be more than welcome to join in as well. Wifey and I worked out that during the 20 odd minute drive to the gym we pass 14 other gyms on the way, it's a really cool place.