10 Miles Back Again

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Work for today:

Snatch: 4 x 2 @ 40kg

Deadlift: 5 x 5 @ 120kg

SLDL: 3 X 10 @ 110kg ss. 20 back extensions

Pendlay Death March: ~ 40m @ 18kg

Notes:

  • Short on time (35mins until i had to pick little man up) so cut conditioning again.
  • Was meant to be 112.5kg on the working sets but it was looking way too easy, so added a bit. Would have been more, but I was in a hurry.
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Everyone likes a good snatch :wink:

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My ā€œplanā€ was actually written as ā€œcleans/snatchesā€, and I figured weā€™d get more mileage out of a good snatch pun. Glad to see I was right.

Disappointed in @Cyrrex for being beaten to the punch.

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I donā€™t understand. A snatch is an official weightlifting move, they do it at the Olympics and stuff. No joking matter, you guys are strange.

There is nothing I like better than seeing a clean snatch, especially from one of those enormous Korean girls.

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How would jumps be a good sibstitute for a sled? I am curious about your reasoning.

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I am not entirely sure they are, but I kinda view the sled as a speed/power move. So is jumping. Fast twitch activation. I guess it depends what you are trying to get out of if, I think a sled is a completely different animal depening on how you load it.

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I partly agree. The sled can be used as a power/ speed training device but often isnā€™t. If you were going for short sprints with medium to heavy load, I can see your point. Still box jumps are too different of a plane of motion for me to consider the two interchangable.
I guess it really depends on what you are trying to get out of either exercise.

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Definitely not interchangeable, because what really mimics pushing a sled? Still, it does indeed depend on what you are trying to get out of if.

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@Koestrizer @Cyrrex from the look of the program, I assume the intent behind the sled is conditioning and eccentric-less leg work, which unfortunately leads me to stair master or steep incline treadmills if I canā€™t rig up a workable sled alternative in the gym.

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Stair master with a weighted backpack?

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Spitballing here, but how about a sturdy wheelbarrow, loaded down as heavy as you can. If you can move it up a slight incline, even better. Will fry the grip too. Use straps probably.

Noise shouldnā€™t be bad either.

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@Cyrrex thatā€™s a hard pass. I remember how bad stairmasters unloaded.

@T3hPwnisher thatā€™s definitely a workable solution. It would also be a pretty good long term solution, because if Iā€™m going to run 531 for a whole year, I see a lot of ā€œsledā€ work in my future.

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Up a hill might work, but otherwiseā€¦wheelbarrows are specifically designed to be easy to push. Putting enough weight will just break that shit.

But yeah, I want videos of him wheeling bricks up a hill.

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Dead start incline treadmill sprints.
Laurence Shahlei promoted these years ago and he is one of the fastest strongmen ever.

Dead start = donā€™t turn it on.

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There are solutionsā€¦

But yeah: conventional will just break, haha

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LOL I doubt Dagill has access to that.

But hey now, we are being stupid. Sledbarrow. He needs to take a regular wheelbarrow, remove the wheel. Replace it with a sled-like attachment, from a ski or a snowmobile. Or even a plow.

Oh shit, just get a plow. You can just plow your back yard every day and also your neighbors. Maybe even plant some potatoes.

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Yeah, if noise wasnā€™t the issue, I was gonna just take off the wheels. Itā€™s how you could make cheap sleds back in the day. Trying to keep it on the quiet side makes things tough.

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I just read ā€˜stairmasterā€™ above and thought we were back to gym options. Sorry, brain is checked out for the day.

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Iā€™m kind of expecting to get my hands on a sled of some sort anyway for next year, since itā€™s such a big part of the methodology.

That being the case, it might be smarter to just find somewhere on the way between the gym and home where I can push a sled in peace, and make sure I get a model I can fit in the back of the motor. I can think of 3 places off the top of my head.

@Koestrizer we kind of are. 2 days a week, my lifting will be done at ~11pm at night, which means gyms when they reopen or things I can do quietly in my garage gym. A full blown sled is neither, however itā€™s definitely possible to just drive to a grassy field on my way home and go crazy without bothering anyone.

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I realized we are doing things the hard way anyway: tire sled solves about everything.

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Minimal noise, easy to build, high resistance with the rubber drag.

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