Nice work,good stuff on the big bench as well.
Do you ever do any over head carries?
Thanks Bruce. I haven’t done overhead carries. You done them?
Nice work as always. How much weight are you adding onto the sled now? Do you vary the weight from session to session?
james
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
5/5
sled drag 6 trips
stone lifts/carries 3 carries, several lifts
Upped the weight on the sled. A lot of max lifts with the stones. Totally wiped me out.
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What are “max lifts” on the stones? The max you can pick up or carry for a distance?
James, hard to say how much I’m dragging because my ‘sled’ is a tractor trailor tire. I put a couple boards in the middle and add cement blocks (42.5 lbs on average) for weight. The area I drag is a small hill. I drag backwards downhill and forwards uphill. I vary the weight and distance from no added weight up to 4 blocks and from 50-100 feet. So Sat workout looked like this:
1 cement block up and back (around 75 feet each way), 2 cement blocks, 3 cement blocks
Hope this answers your question.
Skip, I believe the all the objects I carry are between 200-250 lbs. I vary my carrying distances from 2 steps to 100 feet. A lot of times I just lift without any carries. Fun as shit and really brings out your weaknesses. I’m strong from the ground to setting the stone on my lap. But standing up from there I’m weak. Also, bear hugging the stone I’m weak and my endurance is weak. Basically I have a lot of weaknesses to fix.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
James, hard to say how much I’m dragging because my ‘sled’ is a tractor trailor tire. I put a couple boards in the middle and add cement blocks (42.5 lbs on average) for weight. The area I drag is a small hill. I drag backwards downhill and forwards uphill. I vary the weight and distance from no added weight up to 4 blocks and from 50-100 feet. So Sat workout looked like this:
1 cement block up and back (around 75 feet each way), 2 cement blocks, 3 cement blocks
Hope this answers your question.
Skip, I believe the all the objects I carry are between 200-250 lbs. I vary my carrying distances from 2 steps to 100 feet. A lot of times I just lift without any carries. Fun as shit and really brings out your weaknesses. I’m strong from the ground to setting the stone on my lap. But standing up from there I’m weak. Also, bear hugging the stone I’m weak and my endurance is weak. Basically I have a lot of weaknesses to fix.
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I suppose that “weaknesses” is the correct word. I just have a hard time seeing that word in reference to you.
Great work!
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
James, hard to say how much I’m dragging because my ‘sled’ is a tractor trailor tire. I put a couple boards in the middle and add cement blocks (42.5 lbs on average) for weight. The area I drag is a small hill. I drag backwards downhill and forwards uphill. I vary the weight and distance from no added weight up to 4 blocks and from 50-100 feet. So Sat workout looked like this:
1 cement block up and back (around 75 feet each way), 2 cement blocks, 3 cement blocks
Hope this answers your question.
Skip, I believe the all the objects I carry are between 200-250 lbs. I vary my carrying distances from 2 steps to 100 feet. A lot of times I just lift without any carries. Fun as shit and really brings out your weaknesses. I’m strong from the ground to setting the stone on my lap. But standing up from there I’m weak. Also, bear hugging the stone I’m weak and my endurance is weak. Basically I have a lot of weaknesses to fix.
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I suppose that “weaknesses” is the correct word. I just have a hard time seeing that word in reference to you.
Great work![/quote]
You’re too kind Mr Skip.
Made something like this yesterday. Great forearm workout. But I used a 3 inch pvc pipe over the end of an olympic bar.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Made something like this yesterday. Great forearm workout.[/quote]
5/8
1a.squat 135x5,225x5,275x5,325x5,375x5,425x10
1b.(1st rep cleaned)MP 135x5,155x5,175x5,195x5,215x3
2a.db chest press 100’sx8,8,8,16
2b.sldl 135x5,225x5,275x5,315x5
I seem to have fallen into a workout groove lately. Weights twice a week. Stones on the weekend.
425 x 10, that’s freeking sweet.
Man everytime I come in here there is some insane numbers going on 425 x 10 damn…and the 405 bench! Awesome
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
Man everytime I come in here there is some insane numbers going on 425 x 10 damn…and the 405 bench! Awesome [/quote]
Yeah, Steve has a God-given talent for making others feel inadequate…lol.
Or for motivating them…take your pick.
Jack,what can I say? I’m a pretty sweet guy.
Matty,thanks my NY Yankee/NY Jetts lovin’ friend. I may be slightly insane but my numbers…well I’m not so sure.
Skip,290 lb MP. Now that’s something that’ll make others feel inadequate. (and Matty’s BW MP too)
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Jack,what can I say? I’m a pretty sweet guy.
Matty,thanks my NY Yankee/NY Jetts lovin’ friend. I may be slightly insane but my numbers…well I’m not so sure.
Skip,290 lb MP. Now that’s something that’ll make others feel inadequate. (and Matty’s BW MP too)[/quote]
It’s all I have, Steve. Take away my MPs and I am an empty vessel.
Besides, those are aluminum plates 
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Jack,what can I say? I’m a pretty sweet guy.
Matty,thanks my NY Yankee/NY Jetts lovin’ friend. I may be slightly insane but my numbers…well I’m not so sure.
Skip,290 lb MP. Now that’s something that’ll make others feel inadequate. (and Matty’s BW MP too)[/quote]
It’s all I have, Steve. Take away my MPs and I am an empty vessel.
Besides, those are aluminum plates :)[/quote]
Give me MP or give me death
Live free and MP
Something like that?
5/10
1a.cleans 135x2,165x2,185x2,205x2,230x1,1
1b.bench 135x5,225x5,275x5,335x5,365x1
2a.standing db MP 60’sx15,15,15
2b.squats 275x15,15
I was hoping to squat 275x5x15 but after the second set I was done. Didn’t feel like continuing.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Jack,what can I say? I’m a pretty sweet guy.
Matty,thanks my NY Yankee/NY Jetts lovin’ friend. I may be slightly insane but my numbers…well I’m not so sure.
Skip,290 lb MP. Now that’s something that’ll make others feel inadequate. (and Matty’s BW MP too)[/quote]
It’s all I have, Steve. Take away my MPs and I am an empty vessel.
Besides, those are aluminum plates :)[/quote]
Give me MP or give me death
Live free and MP
Something like that?[/quote]
I like the “Live free and MP”
Steve, question about your weight workouts. Are you just playing it by ear? Meaning, go in there and do what you feel like doing, with no set program?
That is what I have been doing, but I fear that it is turning into a plan/program. I need to avoid that. I was making too much progress lifting on a whim.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Steve, question about your weight workouts. Are you just playing it by ear? Meaning, go in there and do what you feel like doing, with no set program?
That is what I have been doing, but I fear that it is turning into a plan/program. I need to avoid that. I was making too much progress lifting on a whim.[/quote]
Skip, I like to do a big lower and big upper body exercise combo every workout. After that its kind of a crap shoot. In my basement its easier to do a squat - MP combo and a clean(or deadlift) - bench combo. Thats why I’ve been pairing those exercises together. I’ve tried to stick to a program but always fall off it after a couple weeks.