Ye. Today had up to a pause single at 177.5kg. Rounded up of course. Compared how it moves compared to my best performances or estimated best performances if I don’t have that.
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Have you thought about adding squatting gear?
Are we talking about geared lifting like briefs or what not? Haven’t thought about it. I wanna get bigger and stronger. Lifting more weight is a fun way to do that. Dunno if gear helps that much. Maybe one day I’ll play around but plenty I gotta do first like the first meet a bit of strongman
Yeah I know what you mean…it would be fun to squat 1000 tho ahahah.
Wonder what it feels like. Extra support everywhere mayeb.
Painful.
No thnx
I have done a partial with 1k. Used to do walkouts with that plus on a regular basis when Yoke was in an upsoming contest. The biggest difference for me came from groove briefs. I have a serious Inzer suit, a few different kinds of wraps, variety of stuff. Raw I had a 650 no,no, no. Suited with wraps (No briefs) 850. I could box squat 585 I think. The groove briefs were the easiest thing to manage and gave nice instant help towards the end of a heavy training cycle. Heavy is heavy. 1k doesn’t feel any different than 850, 1RM is 1RM. But when 1k is the top, 850 feels a lot lighter.
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I think I’ve seen em for sale before. Is like the bottom half of a suit
Yes. The bottom half of a suit is also sold by some places. The briefs I have don’t have legs, they fit more like tighty whiteys - which is better if you are putting a suit on over them.
Isn’t that double cheating?
It’s only cheating if it’s against the rules. Strongman has a distinct lack of such rules.
I’ve yet to see a bloke walk out for a squat event wearing three suits, briefs and 5m knee wraps with knee sleeves on top of em
I did the walkouts in shorts, and the partial too. But I did use them in training for some stuff and in competition when allowed. Because, being natty was already giving away a lot of advantage.
Ordered this in April. Kinda half forgot about it: the StrongArm Sport Power Bar. Gonna compare too me current stiff bar and then donate the worse one the local gym im tight with. Also got in cables/pulleys
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Chill bench day. Got to use me new goodies though. StrongArm sport bar is nice. Probably heavy squats will be able to see/feel a difference but bench not much. Cable triceps extension to finish. The cable is kinda long for my midget rack so have to stand back a bit
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Messing around with the cables. They only exert resistance in certain directions but still getting lot of use out of em. I can add some movements to the menu:
High Rows
Cable Flyes
Face Pulls
Straight Arm Pull Downs
Some arm wrestling stuff too for biceps and forearms
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Shit day of sumo deadlifting. Think I’m not very well recovered overall recently. Could be a lot of things.
Busted out the new stiff bar to hit some conventional deadlifts for kicks. Haven’t pulled just straight mixed grip conventional deadlift in a long time. Felt heavy, ROM felt like triple and the bar’s knurling was probably too aggressive for my liking. Worked up to a triple at 190 heaviest triple I’ve done conventional. Sumo definitely easier. 100% cheating.
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Probably about right!
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FWIW I think double is closer lol