Hey everyone, it's been while I know but I've been swamped with gym training, event training, Peggle and unfortunately my second year exam period. Good news, however, is that I've finally got some decent videos up from The Cauldron and The Warehouse. I've been working really hard to perfect the technique of the events due in upcoming comps, and with the help of former 105 England's Strongest Man, I've had mountains of advice passed on to help me improve even faster.
I'll be the World's Strongest Peggle Champion too.
Now sadly, my first ever comp has had some changes since I last started yelling about it. The 100kg log is now a 100kg axle. No biggy... except for the past 4 weeks of log training. I whinge, but it obviously has a ton of cross over and last week I pretty much had it sorted, so I'm not really fussed to be honest. The annoying thing is that the already significantly heavy novice comp had it's weights bumped up by 10kg. That includes the farmers and all 5 stones, meaning the last stone is 130kg. Now considering I can barely get the 105kg up, I'm definitely buggered.
But anyway, some training videos!
The Warehouse is a bitchin' gym in Leicester with a huge array of tasty things to play around on. One of those being a car deadlift frame. And a car.
Now I'm not too sure on the weight but I highly doubt it's the same 220kg in the handles as I have coming up in Dartford. Either way, you can see that I eventually figure out the tekkers and get it rolling by the end. I also got a little carried away and forgot about my belt, but I'm not sure if that was a bad thing or not. I could breath easily and in actual fact I ended up essentially half squatting the car rather than deadlifting it. Perhaps that's the way to go...
Next up was the log, which I've now totally changed since the technique seen in the video.
As you can see, I literally push up with my (stupidly wide stanced) legs and finally push solely through with my triceps. While that's great, a friend of mine (ProjectGoliath) mentioned that I should try 'double dipping'; That is dipping once again instantly after the initial push. This allows me to lock my arms first and then push up with my legs. After all, a 90kg squat is far easier than a 90kg strict press. Since then, I've hit a 90kg axle overhead with relative ease, so it's definitely working.
Next up was another event I was unsure of, but things turned out really well. The arm-over-arm sled pull.
No I'm not constipated, that's my incredibly gay 'war cry' for pulling along a 250kg tire, 160kg sled and a 85kg spence trying his best not to fall off. It's disgustingly difficult, but this was at the very end of the session and my hands were hurting so bad that they went numb, allowing me to pull this hunk-o-junk, albeit fairly slowly. I can't imagine the up and coming van pull will be this difficult as once the initial weight has been moved, I'll have the inertia of the car rolling to help me out (yeah physics!).
Finally (well, there's more vids but you don't need a description on all of 'em), there was the farmers walk. Now being obviously blind to anything relatively easy, all I could see laying around the gym were shitty little handles or thick axle-style handles. Seeing as I fancied keeping my palms, I opted for the thick handles and proceeded to look like a bulldog licking piss off a stinging nettle. You'll see.
It's not even a full 20m, I could barely get my hands round the thing initially and started like 3m past the starting line. Even then, I finished 2m before the end so all in all I managed a measly 15m. I severely disagree with thick handles, especially 100kg in each hand. Saying that though, it was obviously a wicked grip workout and although I've got 20kg more in the upcoming comp, I can't see my grip failing on regular handles.
That's pretty much it for now guys, check back in this week or the next for some Cauldron videos, I've got an early morning sesh tomorrow and hopefully another Warehouse visit in the week too. If you want more videos (and there're a few of my training partners too), obviously just browse my channel and watch us attempt strongman.
Will probably end up working for the rural RAC.
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