Fri, 26 May 17

Block 12, Wave 2 - Early Events @ Iron Strong CF

I trained events early today on Friday since I will be running the Salisbury Summer Strongman Slam tomorrow and will not have the time or desire to train.  For anyone who has never worked or run a competition, it makes you far more tired and sore than actually competing.  So since I was at Iron Strong most of the day setting up and getting the athletes weighed in, I decided to train the events from the competition to break in the new equipment I had made by The Metal Shop.  They are a local metal work company and they do absolutely outstanding work.  They are the ones who modified my prowler a few years ago as well as my friend Jeremy's prowler.  They made the deadlift platform frame with built in band pegs that Dave and Lisa have at Iron Strong CrossFit and everything they do is top notch and built to stand up to the stupidest stuff that we meat heads can throw at it.

Axle C&J (clean each rep)

complex x 70

complex x 120

complex x 160

2x210

1x240

4x240 - All power cleans

13" Deadlift (w/ Proloc wheels)

10x145

5x345

2x435

1x525

1x550

Farmer's Walk (turns @ 40')

80' x 110

80' x 220

80' x 250

I had new handles made to the specs of my old handles that have been beat to hell from 10 years of training and competitions.  These are the new hotness and I love them.

Carry & Drag

80' x 230 keg/80' x prowler + 370

S4 Competition Death Medley

Axle C&P - 1x240
13" DL - 1x550
Farmer's - 80' x 250
Carry & Drag - 80' x 230/80' x prowler + 230
Stone Over Bar - 1x200 to 56" with 15' carry and duck under

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I used the Open Men's middleweight division weights in the Salisbury Summer Strongman Slam for everything except I lowered the drag weight slightly and the stone was lighter, but higher and the duck under was an unintended tactical error that increased the difficulty.  I thought this was a great idea until about half way through the keg carry on the carry and drag and for the rest of the medley I wasn't sure I would maintain consciousness.  Overall this was an awesome training day and everything is set for the inaugural Maryland United States Strongman competition tomorrow.  Huge thanks to my former (and greatly missed) training partner, Mike Collela, for catching the stone after I tossed it over the bar.  He was there with his girlfriend, Gen, who was weighing in for my competition and who also did the t-shirt design for me since I am the most unartistic bastard ever.