The weight being lower makes the pick easier in my opinion. Also being able to hold the uprights and create a shelf for the bar to sit on makes it more stable. Bit once you start moving the balance is not easy and it smashes your midsection and lower back for sure
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Makes sense.
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Super creative/resourceful, would have loved to see the bystanders reaction to this going down!
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The reactions as I kept loading more plate was funny.
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What is an Axel Pick?
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I think he meant āaxle.ā
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No I spelled it wrong, my bad
What is a Axle Pick?
Heās standing up with it from the rack.
Spine stiffener.
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As @DaCharmingAlbino said, just taking the axle from a high safety in the rack and standing up and holding it for 20-30 secs. Trying to mimick picking up a yoke.
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Thanks, Iāve never done strongman before. So I donāt know what some of the exercises are
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half the time I donāt know what to call stuff, so I make up my own name - LOL
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Literally how it all started anyway haha.
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Do you march in place with it once youāve got it up?
I did some just standing and the last one I walked (stumbled) forward the length of the rack
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Monday 16 March week 3
Axle clean and
50 x 3
60 x 3
Add belt and wrist wraps
72.5 x 3
Add elbow sleeves
82.5 x 3 - good
82.5 x 3 good
82.5 x 3 good
SSB squat - Rogue SSB bar
Bar x 5
60 x 3
80 x 3
100 x 3
Belt
131.8 x 1
141.8 x 4 x 4 sets (312 lbs)
These were Fkn hard. Plenty of back used to get the last reps up. Ugly but still got it done.
Leg ext
90 x 13 x 3 sets
Big pump
Db incline bench
25 x 4 just to feel the angle
35 x 8 x 3 sets -(77 lbs)
These were tough, last set was a max rep.
Dumbell row
42.5 x 8 x 3 sets (94 lbs)
This was a good session, axle wasnāt perfect but strength on the press was solid. Squats were probably too hard but I guess you donāt get stronger doing east things. Onward.
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Depends on the yoke too.
I did them in the rack with a barbell before I owned a yoke.
But unlike todayās yokes, my yoke had bolted uprights not welded which means every step the loading pins wobbled and my loading pins were thigh height and on an angle.
I felt they were both equally difficult to walk with in the 600# range but also a bit different at the same time.
A stable yoke will always be a tad easier to handle.
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Iāve never done strongman, but I did apply this to my powerlifting training. Make the training as hard as you can, and at the competition things will feel way easier
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Iām going to reference the Worlds Strongest Man 1996 qualifier with the heat with Mangnus Samuelson (he didnāt even make the final that year).
That yoke was dangerous as frick, two truck engine blocks with no support. They were sitting on blocks for the lift off so everyone who carried them had to squat it down and throw it forward and duck out of the way, absolutely crazy. One guy fell and it scrapped his head against the ground, like WTF.
This is the second time Iāve referenced 1996 WSM as Gerrit B. Performed IMO he of WSM greatest deadlifts of all time!
I found the heat with the yoke, you see how the leg wobbles and they can catch themselves, that part is harder with a barbell on the shoulders versus the load being lower. The load at the top just throws you down when you get to like 600+ -
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Great work, mate! Thats a fkn good session.
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I absolutley love watching that old stuff from WSM. So many great meets back then.
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