Wondering when to push beyond contest weight for reps and how to structure your training program for optimal performance without compromising recovery?
As an athlete, a powerlifter, or weekend warrior, strongman training can be extremely beneficial. Here’s how to program it in.
Direct arm training will reduce the likelihood of a biceps or triceps tear, strengthen the tendons, improve pressing strength and grip.
You see it all of the time. That one person in strongman training who posts the same lifting videos on social media every day—oh, look, he’s deadlifting again. Sure, he is an amazing deadlifter, but unfortunately for him, the sport isn’t called “being a good deadlifter.”
When I began strongman I was terrible at the yoke, even though it was in almost every competition I had competed in. With it being so common, I had no choice but to improve. Here’s what I learned along the way.
If I could go back in time to when I first started in this industry, I’d force myself to follow these five rules of training. Those of you starting now should listen.
In weightlifting, the bar has the power and your body will move around it. In strongman, your body has the power and the bar will move around it.
He critiques each of the following movements: Weighted Car Deadlifts, Axle Press, Stone Over Bar, Yoke Carry/Sleg Drag, Triceptecon Press, SS Yoke Bar Box Squats, Car Deadlift, Press Medley, and Keg Carry.
The familiarity and genuine interest in one another is a recurring theme at the most successful gyms I’ve visited since starting this project. This is what I found in Cromwell, CT.
During my trip to this Columbia, Maryland gym, I witnessed first-hand the hospitality of Jon Ward and his strongman crew.
This New Jersey gym brings together the best training methods to spread the Strongman culture.
In Mooresville, Indiana, owner Aaron Molin has amassed an amazing training facility to help grow the sport of strongman — “The Barn” is where all the action takes place.
What good is that 500-pound squat if you’re taking a knee in the fourth quarter desperately gasping for air?
One of the most important rules that I can’t stress enough to other coaches, assistants, interns, and anyone else who will listen is that SAQ is not conditioning!
Strongman training has always been considered circus sideshow-ish.
These are just a few ideas to get you thinking and incorporate your kids into event training day and moving alongside you.
The lifts are challenging and fun and will provide a new challenge.
