Attempts at Strongman

Work has been crazy, I work in carpentry and our online business is taking a huge jump. Changing our primary sale website to one with about 10x the traffic of the previous. To make that deal, we made an agreement to shorten a 2 week lead time for custom product down to 6 days. Very doable with a couple of tweaks, but the transition period of finishing all orders with a 2 week lead time and starting those with a 6 day lead time requires man hours. Going camping for 5ish days starting this evening, including testing out two new paddle boards. Will be nice to decompress after a few 14+ hour work days primarily spent manufacturing.

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6/23

High bar back squat, cloth belt
315 for 20 singles, between 10-45 seconds rest between

Power snatch from hang
115x3x8

“Kirk” high pulls
Pretty much a normal high pull but de- emphasizing the hips and focusing more on the pull like an upright row. Felt kind of like a Kirk shrug with extra ROM
115x10x5

10 banded squats, 10 banded good mornings
10 rounds, no rest

Trunk work

6/24

5×20 cable row
5x20 face pull
5x10 rear delt fly

Even closer grip bench, middle finger on smooth
10 paused cable rows between each set
Barx5
Barx5
95x5
135x5
155x3
185x3
205x3
225x2
245x2
265x2x6

Banded neutral grip bench
Bar & red band x 10
100 & red band x 10
100 & black band x10
100 & black band x10
50 & purple band x10
70 & purple band ×10
70 & purple band ×18

Rear delts have been sore with my arms hanging at my sides. I had been looking through my past programming and realized how totally ive been neglecting horizontal pulling of any kind, outside of the occasional face pull. Been dealing with some neck and upper back pain, and I can’t reach my graston tools up there on myself. Figured some better proportioned training could help. Also, have a 100 lb medicine ball on the way. Gotta love Titan Fitness and their free shipping.

6/26

Push press
12 rows with 44 lb Kb between each set
Barx3
Barx3
95x3
135x2
155x2
185x2
205x2
225x2x6

Banded landmine press
+25 & red band x12
+25 & black band ×12
+35 & black band x12 x 2
+25 & black band×12

6/29

Medicine ball toss over shoulder
100 lbsx5x5

Lunges holding medicine ball
100 x 16 x 3

Straight leg situps, you guessed it, with medicine ball
100 x 10 x 5

SSB box squat, 2 box and 25 lb plate height
225 x 10 x 5

6/30

Close grip bench
10 seated cable rows between each set
Bar x 10
Bar x 10
Bar x 10
95x5
135x5
185x5
225x3
245x3
265x3
275x3
305x1
Add knockoff slingshot, pause at bottom and top
225x10x4

Bunch of single arm tricep work and band pull aparts

7/2

Non traditional lifting, but I threatened power bombs on my 270+ lb bjj drilling partner about 30ish times. Pick up from guard, setting him down nicely. My everything is sore, gym is 85 or so °F and classes left me very dehydrated and tired. Walked in the door, took a 2 minute shower and went straight to bed. Woke up, still pretty sore. My meathead brain takes over when I roll with people larger than me.

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7/8
Hotel Gym, very reasonably equipped. Only real limitations were no chalk and no AC (I sweat too much for no chalk or straps, bar was floating on puddles in my hand).

Giant set of
Strict press:ramping weight
Db Row:50 lbs x 12 per arm
Dips: bw x 8
KB reverse curl: 20 lbs x 10
Everything after the strict press stayed the same, done after each set of press. Just lifting press for convenience. Went up in 5-10 lb increments to get in a lot of volume

Barx5
Barx5
65 x 5
75 x 5
80 × 5
85 × 5
90 × 5
95 x 5
100 x 5
105 x 5
110 x 5
115 x 5
120 x 5
125 x 5
130 x 5
135 x 5
140 x 5
145 x 5
150 x 3
155 x 3 x 3

KB snatch, starting from floor and switching arms each rep
25 lbs x 100

Ab wheel SS/ cable rotation
X8/×12, increasing weight until hard to lower slowly

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Another potentially very dangerous car accident, in no harm to me. This makes two in 3 years.

Front right tire went flat going 80-85 on the freeway, and as the rim hit the pavement, the wheel sheared off the lugs and I ended up riding my frame for a few hundred yards. Somehow didn’t roll, slide any weird directions, and didn’t hit any other vehicles. Best part, walked half a mile of freeway on either side in both directions, no sign of the wheel. I’m assuming “Jesus take the wheel”, was taken literally as penance for not having a more severe accident.

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Glad you’re safe man
also


‘Blue Tacoma, California
Rays of gold are shining on ya
Wheels rolling on an old Toyota‘

Crazy enough, after sliding along the frame for a few hundred yards, she’s up and running after 7 hours in an O’reillys parking lot.
Still never found that wheel though


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Bought two 60 lb kettlebells, found a great price. Right around $85 with 3 day shipping for both. Quality control seems a little lacking though. One is matte finish with a little texture to the grip, other is high gloss and very slick. Can’t complain too much at the price point, but unboxing was a bit surprising.

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Jesus christ. Good you’re safe! What a dilemma.

Sure you weren’t going 88? Your wheel could be in another time.

What year is your Tacoma? What bumper do your have? I recently got 2019 TRD.

I have an 08 TRD Sport. Gen 3 mounts might be a little different. I found mine on eBay, not a brand but a small business fabricator. That thing has taken 6 deer with the only damage to the pickup itself is/was the grill insert being chipped. Also handled skidding on the ground a bit without much of a mark. I’ve been very, very impressed so far. Big upgrade from the factory bumper I may have dented in hitting a sandbar at 40 mph trying to keep up with my buddies in jeeps.

As you can tell by my stupidity, misfortunes, and otherwise general struggles with vehicles, I like to buy old and run into the ground :sweat_smile:

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Outside of my little trip to the guest gym, a little jump training and a couple of odd lifts balanced out any semblance of training for the last week. Working on planning out a bit of a conditioning/volume based training block for the next 12-16 weeks, might peak a bit at/near the end and tests where lifts are when conditioning is more a focus than 1RM percentage.

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That was the big one. Regardless of any other issues, usually scenerios with speeds that high and a wheel leaving the vehicle entirely don’t end with sliding in a perfectly straight line without injury to the shoulder of the freeway.

Have started off the past couple days with Airdyne work, primarily done only with the upper handles. A 1 minute sprint, 2 minutes moderate pace is much more miserable than I thought it would be.

That’s a pretty wild accident dude, sweet that it went as well as it could have.