That is/ was the plan! Believe me, if it was an active choice, I would have opted to crash face first into the wall instead of sacrificing my hand.
Edit: In case this wasn’t clear: I didn’t stumble exercising, I fell over a carpet on the floor
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It would be more impressive to make up something better than “fell over the carpet”. Not like we will ever know, so think up a better story!
@cyrrex that’s true but I thought the initial story (fighting of several men, armed with two hand swords to save a hot girl and then getting laid in the hospital) was exciting enough already.
Saw the surgeon today. Wound looks okay to me and decent to him, haha. It’s all wet and both edges are white. It also isn’t closed yet, which is something he didn’t seem enthusiastic about (not worried either). He tried to pull one edge over, using those clamp plasts again. I will return Monday to get the stitches out on both sides (well what’s left of them on the right hand anyway.
He reckons I will have to keep pressure off the hand for the whole next week though. “Everyday movement is okay but don’t lift something like a case of water bottles” … I didn’t really dare to ask about my strongman training at that point, haha.
These last days I have mainly been ding nothing. Some walks here and there if the weather allows for it. Will take the last of the antibiotics tomorrow morning and will probably do a frankenstein-squat session tomorrow or Saturday. Rest of the week will be similar (walks, band good mornings, frankensquats) and then I can hopefully return. I will pick up where I left off on deadlifts but the rest will need some thinking, especially upper body. May take a few weeks longer (new build up) in pursuit of my OHP goal.
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Well that is just me failing to read that part of the story. Stick with that.
Tbh. the story grows from each time I tell it… Which must mean my memory comes back, not that I would ever make stuff like that up!
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Traumatic experiences are like that
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I thought the rule in strongman was that if it isn’t specifically disallowed, you can do it? Did he specifically say you couldn’t start farmers walks again?
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I heard keeping wounds dry prevents infection → Infections stops healing
Chalk keeps hands dry → strongman training requires chalk → strongman training prevents infection → strongman training will help @Koestrizer heal
Logic 
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Weeeell…
@anna_5588 or just glue that shit together with tacky! Genius 
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I’ve shoved chalk powder in torn callouses and blisters. Didn’t do much.
Not really a comparable experience, but a couple years ago I exploded some callouses doing some stupid DL challenge. The sheer pain it caused for a few weeks just trying to grip a bar for pullups (or whatever) was enough to prevent me for doing those things. Sports Tape actually helped a lot, just wrapped it over the open wounds. Probably not super hygienic, but there was lifting to do.
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For callouses it’s not unlikely to apply super glue and try to just stick what’s left of the skin on top. At least that’s what you do in comp. I very rarely rip callouses and I think for the most part it’s an avoidable mistake. If I do I find sports tape to be a good measure as well.
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My ripped callouses fix is:
- Super-glue, if I still have to continue doing the thing that ripped the callous #climbing
And to heal,
- Fill up the wound with some Rhino Split, go to sleep, wake up and it has healed well enough to go do deadlifts.
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01.05.
Finally some lifting again. Body feels stiff from all the sitting around. It misses the iron and the movement.
1 front squats
5 @ 60 kg
3 @ 80 kg
2 @ 100 kg
1 @ 120 kg
1 @ 130 kg - PR
3 x 5 @ 100 kg
Very decent showing. Not all out or 1RM like at all but not effortless by any means either.
Belt squats. This took a huge amount of trial and error but I might be on to something in terms of diy setups here, guys! Take a look at the video, I think a lot of you might be able to replicate something similar in any gym. Unracking and then finding the groove and right foot position (see 5 plate set) is awkward (gets worse, the deeper you want to squat. Would be easily fixable with a training partner though). Not perfect since I can’t break parallel but pretty good for now! Not sure how important that is anyway since it works the legs, eliminates the lower back and spares my hands 
2 belt squats
10 @ 1 plate
10 @ 2 plates
10 @ 3 plates
10 @ 4 plates
10 @ 5 plates
3 band good mornings
1 x 50
Notes:
- did some in Frankenstein grip and some crossed arms where I would lightly lay some finger tips on top of the bar. On most sets I did crossed arms with the hands hovering above the opposite arm. Made no difference tbh.
- I am pretty confident that I have a 140 kg front squat in me. I definitely feel the effect of the box squats, I believe because I barely get tipped over and after an initial slight cave in of the knees, I was able to drive my knees out and my glutes just catapultated me through the rest of the rep!
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Nice PR!
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Thanks. Still a poor ratio compared to back squats and pressing but we are getting there. The front squat has always been challenging for me.
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Squatting is looking good lately. Things are going well, don’t mess them up by rushing to hit big PRs. Slow and steady!
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No big PRs for me at this point. I’ll probably do one more week of front squatting which will look similar to today’s training and then I’d like to get back into box squats.
I have found a program that interests me and that I think I can make work with box squats and a little tweak to make assistance more strongman like. That said, it is percentage based. How would you approach that situation if you were me: a) max out and see where you’re at without peaking for it. B) take the most weight you’ve done recently and use that (I did 200 kg for 2 singles on a shitty day a few weeks back). Or c) assume a max that you think is realistic?
Hit a triple at RPE9 and multiply it by 1.1?
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I guess option B?
I would not take a max attempt. Just in my own experience, it’s too easy to get all worked up and hit “Psyched Up Max” instead of a “training max.” Then I’m starting the program off fatigued and all the numbers are too high and I’m crushed in 3 weeks.
In my opinion it’s best to be slightly conservative when you’re using a % scheme. Especially when you’re running it the first time. You really want to get to the end of the program. By then you’ll be fatigued and the weights will be pretty big anyway.
That will make the first few workouts pretty easy, but that’s OK.
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