Weigh out the pros and cons of this beloved strongman staple to decide if tire flips should be part of your training cycle. Caution: biceps are placed in a high-risk position.
I’ve competed at nine different national championships across four different weight classes and three different divisions, including both amateur and pro — but I’ve never won. Until now.
Bridging the gap between immobility and action, this lesson served as another opportunity to reshape the students’ negative associations with exercise and revamp their workout creativity in OSU’s backyard.
I only trained the events once or twice each and hadn’t hit competition weights on any of them. But I hadn’t done a strongman competition in 2017, and between PT school and my relocation to Virginia, I wasn’t giving up the chance to compete.
Go from Steve Urkel to Brian Shaw by eliminating these weaknesses.
Have you ever tried actually PROGRAMMING your GPP?
Unless you live under a rock or in France, you know that incorporating Strongman events into training has become a popular way to add variation to any program.
A lot of guys who train for Strongman don’t put much thought into assistance work, if at all. Assistance exercises can improve specific attributes and get you through your sticking points in many cases.
