Herderdude Takes On The Strongest Man in Pittsburgh

Thanks boys. I'll have a film crew for tomorrow. I'll throw up Lamonster's lifts, too. See if we can't coach him up. 370 should be ambitious.

I already had a guy who was in my flight at the Monster meet agree to help me into my shirt. I expect to see some improvement from working with guys who know shirts.
 
What a rinkydink operation. The venue is a bustling expo, the biggest one in Pgh, and we're tucked in a silent back room with one warm up rack per lift.
 
herderdude said:
What a rinkydink operation. The venue is a bustling expo, the biggest one in Pgh, and we're tucked in a silent back room with one warm up rack per lift.
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Lift angry, throw weights, pillage the expo like a Viking.
 
The reasoning behind the issues is that the competition doubled in size today. The meet director is sharting his pants. Should see some good lifting today.
 
herderdude said:
The reasoning behind the issues is that the competition doubled in size today. The meet director is sharting his pants. Should see some good lifting today.
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While that complicates logistics, like you said it should fuel some competition.
 
So, I bombed. Ant is having a good meet. 370 crushed me, it's because I haven't been lifting the past few weeks and haven't been going from the chest "raw raw".

Then the Rage wasn't getting seated, so a fellow competitor offered his Super Katana. 425 flew off my chest, but I lost the groove halfway up.

Third attempt, the cuffs were so tight that I lost feeling in my left arm, and I couldn't even support it out of the rack. 425 would've been smoked if I knew how to bench in a Super Katana. NomZ, I don't know how you do it.

(The guy whose shirt I borrowed was a 181, and his shirt was bigger than mine. Fml.)
 
Best squat so far was 605 raw by a SHW, biggest bench was 510 single ply by a 259, and we're currently on deadlifts. Lamonster missed his first squat at 405 (depth) and then came back and hit 435 and 460, then benched 295 and missed twice with 320. He's opening with 455 on the pull.
 
Sorry about the bad luck so far, now you know what to change for next time. What class are you in and what are you pulling? How about your buddy? Goodluck on the rest.
 
CountryLiftin said:
Sorry about the bad luck so far, now you know what to change for next time. What class are you in and what are you pulling? How about your buddy? Goodluck on the rest.
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I'm a 220 and I'm not pulling. I hurt my back really bad a couple weeks ago. I just hit 315 in the warmup room. It went slow and hurt a bit. Couldn't do it last week, so it's a positive sign.

What I need to change is not borrow a shirt and lift in the weeks before my meet. So not ready.
 
Ant smoked 455 and 500. I called 545 to make it 1300 and he stalled at the knees. He had a great day.

460/295/500 for a 1255 total. The 460 was to the floor, he just missed 320, and 500 was smoked.

Eyes on the RPS RawDawg Nationals August 17th in Myerstown, PA. It's a four hour drive, but it'll be my last chance at a full power meet as a Junior. 13 weeks out, and we'll be ready. Keep an eye out for my new log, I'll let you guys know when I get it up.
 
Great meet. Biggest squat was 605. Biggest bench raw was 500, shirted was 510. Deadlift we had a 198 carved out of granite smoke 600 and 650 and then hitch with 700.

66 year old guy squatted 475 and deadlifted 535. He kicked the plates on his opener and covered his face in chalk for his 550 third attempt deadlift. He looked like an old-ass Zulu warrior, but he was so awesome.
 
Sean1332 said:
Sounds like a fun day at least man. You'll bench again soon enough.
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Don't you worry, man. No more goofing around with the shirt, no more slingshot work, time to get back to raw power.
 
herderdude said:
Ant smoked 455 and 500. I called 545 to make it 1300 and he stalled at the knees. He had a great day.

460/295/500 for a 1255 total. The 460 was to the floor, he just missed 320, and 500 was smoked.

Eyes on the RPS RawDawg Nationals August 17th in Myerstown, PA. It's a four hour drive, but it'll be my last chance at a full power meet as a Junior. 13 weeks out, and we'll be ready. Keep an eye out for my new log, I'll let you guys know when I get it up.
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Sounds like a good day for him, and Goodluck healing up your back. I made it from not being able to deadlift for 8 months at all back to pulling 500+. Don't rush yourself and heal, but when your ready you've got to kill it in training.

Post up when you start a new log, ill try to follow, and I need to check out how close that meet is to me.
 
CountryLiftin said:
Sounds like a good day for him, and Goodluck healing up your back. I made it from not being able to deadlift for 8 months at all back to pulling 500+. Don't rush yourself and heal, but when your ready you've got to kill it in training.

Post up when you start a new log, ill try to follow, and I need to check out how close that meet is to me.
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I definitely will, dude. I have three weeks of therapy type stuff and then it's cube method time. It's listed as being in Coplay PA. Where are you located?
 
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Here's my near miss. The real bad one is coming up soon.
 
Aaaand this one was embarrassing. I cannot explain to you how numb my arm was from borrowing a 181's shirt.

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Here's the new log. Let's make it happen:

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herderdude said:
What's up, guys. I was informed at my last meet about another meet on May 11. After searching for it, I found out that it was actually a strongman competition. I would have never guessed I'd have the opportunity to do this kind of thing, but I'm diving headfirst for this bad boy.

I'll be in the Junior Middleweight division, which is a top weight of 231.

I'll list the events along with my current maxes.

Log Press
180# for reps
My Max: 215x3

Farmer's Walk
180# for 100' with one 180 degree turn for time or distance
Mine: Slick 130# dbs for 40 or so feet. Gonna have to hope for good teeth on the implement.

Tire Flip
700# for 90' time or distance
My Best: 405ishx20, not timed (this was five years ago weighing 180)

Atlas Stone Carry
75# for 60' with one 180deg turn for time or distance.
Making stones this week to train.

Car Deadlift
Weight of car: ?? Can't be much. Every division is using the same car.
My Max: Hm. Never tried a car. Straps allowed here.

Goals:

Win the Log Press. I have a strong overhead press and I have a buffalo bar to train the log. If we can drive with our legs, it will really come down to my conditioning.

Improve my conditioning. I need to prowl, prowl, prowl. These events are for reps, time, distance. That is going to take much wind.

Finish the Farmer's walk. Nuff said. I'll train strapped and unstrapped to train the hands and the rest of the muscles used for the Farmer's.

Get good at Stones. These will build so much upper back it will be ridiculous. Stones might be the thing that causes me to bench 405.

Get video of me deadlifting a car. ;-)

Improve my biceps health. This is going to be a biggie for benching in the future and also for using the stones. I find it hard to believe the event involves a 75 lb stone. I carried a 100lb plate in my yard until I got bored.

Last, but not least, try to win the damn thing. I think these are reasonable goals, but you never know who or what mammoth creature will show up.

I'll be purchasing The Cube for Strongman to get some ideas on how to train, but I have some of my own.

Log Assistance: Press, push press, Z Press (named after legendary presser Zydrunas Savickas, sit on floor and press), Pin Press, Klokov Press, pullups, incline bench, facepulls, standing overhead triceps ext

Stones: BB Rows, Snatch Grip Deads, yoke marches, husefell carries

Farmers: bb static holds, strapped farmer's walks, shrugs, learn hook grip

Deadlift: work on rep work, work on touch and go deadlifting.

Tire Flip: Cleans, pull-throughs, incline press, finding a tire to flip.

Come on in, let's get strong and take an in-depth look into a discipline that does not get much coverage.
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what's a Buffalo Bar?
 
BradZahringer said:
what's a Buffalo Bar?
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A buffalo bar is a bent bar for squatting. I was actually mistaken, I used a Swiss bar, which has parallel handles. That's a great tool, it gives the same feel as the log with some extra range of motion. Good for incline presses, flat presses, and of course standing presses.
 
herderdude said:
A roll of snuff for some hands-on squat coaching? I'm not sure who owes who!

I like how we revived my old thread here. Lol.
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Haha, I didn't even notice. Probably because my legs are shaking furiously and I can't think straight, lol.

You drove 45 min out of the way to help a brother out, so it's clear cut to me.
 
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