Been keeping a training log for 8 months now, but decided I’d start sharing it with an audience, in spite of how many people come along!
20 yrs old
220-231 BW
5’9"
speed pulls w/ 3.5 in defecit+35lbs chains
245x8x2
DB rows
90x10
100+chainsx8,8,8
drop set
90x10
reverse lunge/hip thrust super set
reverse lunge 40 DBx10
hip thrust w/ axle 123x15
no break between each exercise, but 30-1 min rest between each entire complex
blew my hips up and glutes from these!
10/9/12
SOHP
45x8
135x5
155x3
185x5
200x5
215x5, felt good
floor tricep extensions (i stacked 4 2in bumper plates on one another for back support, and attached 30lbs of chains to a 25lb plate and performed one arm behind the head extensions with it while coming to a dead stop with the plate on the bumpers letting the chains pile on the floor; really helped my overhead lockout!)
10/10/12
front squats (2nd time doing clean grip)
45x8
135x5, hips feel tight
225x3
275x2
315x2 easy
340x4x1
pause front squats 35 in chains
275x1 loooong pause, like near 10 seconds, nearly passed out
275x2, all paused
275x3!
100 rep back squats (impromptu, but suddenly felt the urge to kill myself via lactic acid+ make sure i get ALL the glycogen out! :))
135x20
145x20, gahh
155x20, the pain!
165x20 cramping begins
175x20, relief!
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
Awesome. I’d like to know more about my audience (lol), tell me some stuff about yourself, I am interested![/quote]
Lifted for years, but only recently started getting serious. Doing powerlifting, but let’s be honest, strongman is the coolest, thus my excitement at someone actually keeping a strongman training log on here. I haven’t gotten into strongman hardly at all yet, just dabbled a bit with some atlas stones and farmer’s walk in training. My overhead press definitely has a long way to go.
Anyway, nice lifting so far, I’ll be keeping an eye out here for any good strongman training secrets I can steal lol.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
Awesome. I’d like to know more about my audience (lol), tell me some stuff about yourself, I am interested![/quote]
Lifted for years, but only recently started getting serious. Doing powerlifting, but let’s be honest, strongman is the coolest, thus my excitement at someone actually keeping a strongman training log on here. I haven’t gotten into strongman hardly at all yet, just dabbled a bit with some atlas stones and farmer’s walk in training. My overhead press definitely has a long way to go.
Anyway, nice lifting so far, I’ll be keeping an eye out here for any good strongman training secrets I can steal lol.[/quote]
Good to have someone like you along for sure. I should’ve probably elaborated a bit more in the start of the log on my backround but I suppose I may aswell do it now.
I’ve been lifting casually since I was 14, but only started doing strongman training about a year ago. I think I started out pretty strong at my age, but I was a pretty chubby kid (195 when i started!); albeit a 200lb bench press without every touching weights!
500 deadlift
455 back squat (i back squat probably once a year)
385 arm over arm front squat
365 clean grip FS
295 power clean, 305 hang
315x4 jerk/ohp
255 strict
365 bench (probably only around 335-350 atm)
[quote]csulli wrote:
You musta had a huge erector pump after that.
Btw, how often do you train push press vs strict press?[/quote]
I strict press or jerk depending on what I want to work on primarily. At the moment, I really want to get my static strength up, so I’ll be doing strict for a bit. I don’t neglect jerks or dynamic pressing though; on event days I’ll axle c&p fairly often, so I’ll go heavy enough to where a jerk is required. But again, the aforementioned reasons designates what gets worked on, as it seems for me that if I train both equally, neither seem to get any better.
Schedule has been absolute crap lately, slowly getting back on the wagon after stress/other bullshit…
10/24/12
javorek barbell complex w/ 155lbs:
i’m doing this because my body is feeling like crap from me just going going going going and going with hard training, and in some ways this is a bit of a active recovery/deload sort of workout to keep my body in motion, but just slow down the train a bit. i feel this little complex is a great way to do that.
for those who don’t know, the particular complex i did involved parameters of 5,4,3,2, and 1 rep(s) performed with 4 different exercises;cleans,overhead presses,back squats,bent over rows, all done after another with no rest. after all 5 reps with all 4 exercises are done i’m allowed a 10 second rest followed with me repeating the complex but with 4 reps, and so on until i reach 1. it’s KILLER conditioning and really implements the entire body in a way that is really conducive to strongman conditioning and overall fitness.
10/25/12
low back has been tight/in pain lately and my thoracic spine feels CONGESTED (only way i could describe it, i feel just inflexible in the upper back)
Front Squats
135x5
225x3
275x3
315x3,3,5
these were all bar none the most sluggish front squats i have performed in a very long time
the weights werent heavy, but the second i went to squat, i wanted absolutely nothing to do with the workout. i just wanted to rerack the weights and call it, but alas my resolve came through and i sucked it up regardless of how i felt.
box front squats w/ pause (13 inch box)
225x1
300x1
300 30lbs in chains 6x1 HARD!
DB lunges
40x12
90x12
90x8, strained my right glute here, nothing too serious hopefully
DB rows
90x10
100x12
125 20lbs chains x8, controlled eccentric and con, SUPER TOUGH! love these
125x8, controlled con/eccentric
followed this workout up with EXTRA foam rolling! MMMM nothing like a soothing myofascial release for dem glutes! (sarcasm)
stones (these were not loaded onto a platform, instead i just did rep work with full extension of the stone)
160x3-4
tacky on
245x1x6
300x1
farmers
120x120ft
165x120ft
205x80ft
255x80ft sloppy, but very fast pick
255x80ft better
270x80ft
165x100ft messy turn
165x100ft better turn
165x100ft swift turn
Tire
690x80ft sprint, no idea what my time was, trained alone
690x80ft sprint
*both sets consisted of probably like 6-8 reps for the entire 80 feet
I normally wouldn’t include this portion, but after all of this, it is a huge hassle putting all of this equipment back, especially alone; so much so that it could be considered as part of the workout.
ROLLING A 700LB TIRE 150 FEET UP A GRASS INCLINE! took about 15 minutes, felt like some weird crossfit workout that nobody would ever do (lol)
