strongman

The newsletter has had some awesome nuggets lately. I love seeing the classic strength sports content. Mark Valenti did a great job with this newsletter. The latest newsletter covering using the standard barbell SFL lifts for highland games was a great article. But I am wondering the...

I always enjoyed reading these and I haven't seen one in a while, so here is my recent meet report! Lift for Lani is a charity strongman event put on by my gym TNT Gym of Excellence to support Crossroads for Women. The weights are determined by bodyweight and class. I competed at 239 in the...

I have recently gotten to 20 sets of 10 kb swings with 72lbs. This is the heaviest I have access to. I am planning to maintain my swings and keep perfect form by doing 10x10 and TGU’s like S&S (I have achieved (m)simple, @120lbs body weight) I am considering doing snatches, but not snatches for...

Most of the coaches are saying about importance of warm up before training. From Pavel's old books I remember that he was not a big fan of doing warm up. I'm training everyday (GTG) so I do not do warm up and i feel good. In exercesises like weighted chin-ups risk of injury is much smaller than...

I remember reading about German strongman Hermann Görner's Die Kette or The Chain in The Russian Kettlebell Challenge. It involves performing a snatch, press, clean and press all with the same arm on progressively heavier kettlebells. I saw this video today (some of you here are probably...

Here's an article I wrote on using kettlebells to train for strongman competition. Shout out to Ollie Quinn and Ben Eisenmenger for the awesome photos! Kettlebell Training for Strongman - Baltimore Kettlebell Club

I've just started training strongman, which is a massive gear change from my SF training of the last few years. I'm signed up to a competition next February so I have a big run up with my training. I've got to say nothing is quite as satisfying as lifting up an atlas stone that seemed almost...

I have just signed up to compete in a novice strongman competition on the 24th of February 2019. This will be 10 days after my 30th birthday. I'm going to compete in the under 80kg weight class - which means in my training I cannot put on any more weight (I am currently a slightly flabby 80kg -...

So I've recently had a few things happen in my lifting career. Firstly I've injured my hip, seen a physio, discussed what to do and agreed on what I can and can't do for the next month. It's not actually very restrictive, just a lot lighter than I'd like. That said I will be patient and spend...