I got myself a tire yesterday and today I flipped it 55 times.
It's a 23.5R25 weighing about 300kg. Surprisingly it's not that heavy but more of a cardio exercise. Did one set of 10 flips, then sets of 5 making sure to focus on technique.
From here on out until 10th of August it's only presses, farmers, tire flips and kettlebell swings (as a finisher) for me.
Have been hanging around in a swedish strongman-group on facebook for a while, have gotten a lot of good tips for my first strongman competition like:
- Only train the specific events
- Rest the whole week before the competition
- Use lighter weights with proper technique
- don't try heavy yoke for the first time days before competition
- eat food
- sleep
It's a bit funny, last year there were only 2 people from this town competing in the strongman event, it was about 10 people competing all together but only people that live in this small town gets the "title". This small town I l live in has a very generic sounding name in Swedish, meaning "grassy smallholding", it's like in america where there are places called Springfield or Greenville ... anyway... the title is for "the
Worlds Strongest Springfielder". But if it's only two people competing for it that would by default make the runner up "
the Worlds Weakest Springfielder".
But if you're the worlds weakest you can only get stronger...
I've found out what the events and weights were last year. They were:
Tireflip 270kg
Farmers Walk 90kg
Yoke 180kg
Deadlift. 3 lifts with weight of your choice, min 100kg...
Pressmedley 40kg-70kg
If it's 70kg log press it will be "easy"... if it's a 70kg circus dumbbell I don't think I could pushpress it yet...
As for the Deadlifts I'll just have to hope the farmers walk and swings has enough carry over to deadlifts I don't make an absolut fool of myself. Hopefully I get a chance soon to try the yoke, otherwise I'll take the advice and just use light weights before competition.
Some hummus, vegetables and stupid salsa. So difficult to make food look good on camera...
My vegan+wheyprotein diet is going well. Looking forward to go 100% vegan after the strongman event. I usually eat 100g of oatmeal+proteinpowder+apple or banana for breakfast and casein+peanutbutter+banana for an evening meal and one "proper" vegan-meal with nuts and fruits as snacks if I'm hungry.
My two go-to recipes are:
Hummus+raw vegetables and "Stupid Salsa".
Brown Rice+Green Lentils+carrots+onions+leeks+garlic+kebab spice+Sriracha (and "Stupid Salsa")
I call it "
Stupid Salsa" because it's so easy to make it's stupid. It's diced tomatoes, diced cucumber, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, sriracha and dried pizza herbs (basil, oregano, marjoram). Goes well with almost everything. Just put it all in a bowl and let it sit while you cook your lentils, vegetables and rice .
I still eat a lot of potatoes, but haven't found a good protein rich whole food plant based-recipe I like yet. Falafel and potatoes, or cottage cheese and potatoes or soy/wheat-imitation meat and potatoes work fine but are not whole food plant based. I usually just boil potatoes and vegetables and have a protein shake after the meal.