Watching reruns of WSM and having done some carries yesterday I have a confession.
I’ve never really given enough respect to a front loaded carry / loading race.
Like kegs, sand bags etc. It a pretty brutal work out. Not something to be sniffed at.
Add in that it’s not over quickly (say 3 objects minimum 15 seconds each - 45 seconds) it’s a cardio killer also.
I only have 1 object. And it’s a touch light. I will be looking to make it heavier. But even at a lighter weight you can do a few runs and make this a horrible torture device.
I love the old WSM from the Magnus Ver Magnussen era back.
One of the most brutal things I’ve seen was a refrigerator carrying race where the little Italian bodybuilder guy,I think it was Franco Columbus, his knee just folded in like 3 wrong directions at the same time.
Columbo practiced that ahead of time, with his own home-made version of the apparatus, and showed up with a pre-existing injury. He denied all of the above in court, in spite of having told multiple people before-hand. The ambulance chaser lawyer that talked him into the lawsuit is the reason that the franchise was sold and moved out of the US. He had a knee injury, competed anyway, and then sued. And in typical fashion, insisted that the doctors were wrong and that it was a mild dislocation while at the event. The story changed once the lawyer got to him. I really enjoy the MVM years, especially with Kiri and Badenhorst. Gary Taylor was quite a freak too.
I was watching everything from Big Z, Kaz V’s Capes, Eddie Halls debut, Thor, Magnus - just a very quick history. You know who gets a hard time over in the UK?
Shaw - Like Big Z is a legend. Hall is a hero. But Shaw and his 3 titles are kinda forgotten over here. Which is really unfair.
I mean - Terry Hollands get more air time and coverage than Shaw. And no offence to Terry (he’s a WSM fixture, an insanely strong dude and a total athlete) but his best place is 3rd. And he gets 2x the coverage of Shaw. I guess its a jingoistic thing. And coverage changes for the target audience. But if I were Shaw - I’d be pissed.
Just ingeneral if you ask most people about the last 10 years of WSN and it would be Big Z, Hall, and Thor. I mean Shaw has won it more times than Thor and Hall combined. AND - from what I’ve seen is a nice guy too.
I curled a barbell in the squat rack today. I dreamed I was a barbell being curled by a gym bro in the squat rack last night. Am I a gym bro dreaming I’m a barbell or a barbell dreaming I’m a gym bro?
That’s as close to philosophy as I can get without feeling like going on a puppy killing spree.
I was fucking around with kettlebells and have fucked up my back again. A 310kg deadlift and 260+ for 4 in the last few weeks, fine, but apparently moving a 32kg kettle is too much.
Boscience is a term for what gullible noobs parrot from dubious and/or selective interpretations of actual science by dishonest opportunists or just lousy scientist wannabes who know these dumbasses don’t understand, nor will they ever read the source material other than the abstracts.
What experienced and successful people in the gym tell you should be non-ironically termed “bro wisdom” or some better one that I can’t come up with.
