You’d be best off finding a buddy local to you and convincing them to do it with you. Or train with you some & go watch to support you.
Oh there’s camaraderie, but strongman is much more casual than powerlifting. Everything about it feels casual and less organized, from the local to the absolute highest level in the world. In powerlifting you have such little time doing such a tiny singular thing, and so much going into it. Strongman may have twice the events, run twice as fast, it’s a shitshow for warmups, and these people will likely be doing 3+ shows that year. Everyone stands in a line waiting for their turn, nervously chatting away, until right before. At meets, people are usually more in their heads sooner, listening to music, visualizing, etc.
next to Eve and offspring, Sports have to be the next greatest gift God has given man. To give it your all, and then to sit there and get lost in someone elses effort, to feel their success and failure. It's both poetic and violently male at the sametime.
A lot of people love that, like my wife obviously. Even the biggest shows, there’s more of a sense of pressure & intensity, but at the core you can tell this came from a group of guys meeting up in a mall parking lot to take turns picking up heavy kegs & such.
Happy New Year!
My ART doc gave me a few drills to push blood through the areas I need to target, as well as for tractioning and improving mobility to take stress of it. Doing those daily.
I am in the same boat as you brother lol... we do the best we can even despite the injuries. Sorry to hear about all the troubles.
I don’t want to imply that nothing is improving, just that 225 was not a safe weight to deadlift with my lat even Tuesday, and baby weights on bench are still painful. And I don’t know the timeline for when things will be back in business, so it seems like a good time to throttle back.
IDK what weight you WANT to be at, but thinking about the break that Kleen has taken and what I have learned about fasting in terms of improved lipid profiles and it's anti inflammatory potential, would this be a time to maybe chill in that regard, throw in a couple fasts and see if it helps both from the inflamation side of things and lipids?
Ultimately I’ll need to be more muscular than I am, but I’m fat enough I wouldn’t push any further. So losing some fat & weight for now would be just fine. I may throw a short fast in sometime soon, if I can set it up right.
Sorry to hear things are flaring up and not feeling great, wonder if it would be a little better once you are over whatever crud you have?
Great job still getting the work in, that on the door at your gym, pretty true statement and wise words.
It was the back door of the strongman room at a friend’s gym we went and trained with the other weekend, my first deload session. Great place about 3 hours from here with a regular commercial gym then a full powerlifting/crossfit/strongman area they’d bought out next door & merged.
That sounds awsome, I just got the green light to build a powerlifting area at the boxing gym. We had a room upstairs and some chick was running yoga classes up there and she couldn't get enough clients. The owner has had a lot of ppl looking to join but they want more weights and there's a PL gym near by that shutdown. The building is steel and concrete on every floor so there's really no weight limit so we're getting new equipment and some more strongman stuff. Were looking to put 2 power racks, a deadlift platform, a log press and a leg press in there to start. He's getting a cable crossover machine that can be used for pretty much any cable exercises too. Just something he wants up there. I have a decent amount of room to work with. You have any suggestions? I was about to DM you this and then I saw your post about that gym
Hey @Smont glad to you see posting again. I know you’ve been through some shi$&. Hoping things are getting better for you.
Very exciting stuff! Beyond what you mentioned, a Lat Pulldown w/ low row/cable attachment/footplate is ideal if you guys don’t have one downstairs, and a Glute Ham Developer is something cool that really can’t be replicated that easily. In addition to GHR, it’s a great place for sit-ups, back extensions, and preacher curls. If you can’t find a GHD for a price you can afford, get a cheap back extension somewhere. But for the same floor space the GHD does more. I think it’s one of the best machines for most athletes, because the way it builds hamstring size & strength directly correlates to upright movements like squatting & jumping. And stronger hams mean more stable, resilient knees.
Awesome to see you felt good enough to squat some big weight.
That’s a sexy score!
Sorry to hear man. I bet a little GH would go a long way with you right now.
I believe I would have done 315 if I’d properly loaded it, but that’s still not that great of a bench even with zero eccentric for me. Even if I got 10% from the lowering phase, that wouldn’t even be a 350 bench at nearly 250lbs.
4 already, man time flies! Glad you had a great time sounds like he did too, lots of good memories!
