Get snipped before you end up with another kid. The Gods are sending you warnings.
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Yeah probably so… It’s a warning or a sick joke by them.
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Are you familiar with Archer? If so, I imagine Yogi is Archer when he is the king of Pirate Island
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Sounds like Anadrol 
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Multi-Part Confession:
- 6-12 months ago I couldn’t imagine training with a training partner again, not worth the time trying to get someone caught up and going in the same lifting ‘direction’ as me, now, after listening to all sorts of podcasts from truly strong people, I really, really want to have a training partner that is stronger and better than I am and see what I can do.
- I’ve been kicking around the idea of actually hiring a coach/online trainer (Wenning and Panora would be the first two I look at, at this point in time) simply to see how strong I can get, I really have no urge to compete, just want to be a strong son of a bitch, haha.
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I’ve liked going solo the past few years. Maybe it depends on if you want to be methodical with your programming or want competition with someone.
I guess the two don’t have to be mutually exclusive either.
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Man, if I wanna be surrounded by dudes that motivate me to become as strong and dangerous as possible, I’ll just go to prison.
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Really though, you’ll only be tested if you’re sent to prison on grounds that upset the Vatican.
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I’ve always been the strongest person in any group I’ve trained with (I’m not that strong, not blowing smoke lol), and it’s always made me super uncomfortable at contests when I suddenly see guys who are bigger, and (not always) stronger than me.
It’s also really cool at the same time. For example, training alone for a major contest and then arriving and seeing basically clones of yourself, makes you become hypersensitive to competition atmospheres, and thus I’ve always performed so much better because of it.
Also, this has probably been posted a million times, but while we’re at it… how fucking annoying is it explaining to people that you compete in strongman? @littlesleeper @T3hPwnisher @Koestrizer @flipcollar @strongmangoals. I need to change my rhetoric of “you know those giant bear men who lift large stones and pull trucks?” because it never works and I’m in dire need of some better way to explain the insanity.
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I usually say “The stuff on EPSN where the guys lift the stones” and it gets the point across.
Usually they guess I am a bodybuilder, so at least it means I look like I lift.
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Okay, I say that too, I guess I just have shit luck with the people I run into.
Now that I thought about it, the true worst thing is when they say “Oh yeah! My niece does the Spartan Race!” or “My friend does Crossfit, he is insanely strong and super dedicated! Haha!” Proceeds to show me video of him catback deadlifting 315lbs
Wowza.
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I have two different approaches: “you know those guys who pull trucks and lift giants stones… It used to be on TV/ Eurosport” or “you know these ‘your mother pulls trucks on DSF (tv station) jokes’… Well I am basically doing that but fully colthed”
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If people think bodybuilding, powerlifting, crossfit or weightlifitng, I don’t get too bent out of shape. When they start talking about Ironman or Toughman, I have to correct it, haha.
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Oh yeah the running stuff happens to me as well (because they are literally called strongman run here) - it is astounding that someone Looks at me and considers the possibility of me running
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At least you guys all look the part. After my first comp someone asked “hey what’d you do this weekend?”. When I told them I competed in a strongman comp, they looked at me like I was nuts. Had to assure them there is indeed lightweight classes haha.
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I still get those looks when I lift at a commercial gym. There are guys that are physically bigger than me and when I ask if I can “work in” for squats, they start removing plates and I have to tell them to add another 45 lol.
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Hahaha, dude, when I just got out of high school I was working construction, and at the shop we had access to all kinds of huge tires ranging from 200-500kg in weight. I remember grabbing a forklift and taking out the 300kg tire I own currently, and attempting to flip it. It was my first go at any strongman implement and at the time I was a 500lb deadlifter and 300lb overhead presser, so I figured I could do it. NOPE. I was able to get it off the floor but could not finish.
THEN, one of the concrete foremans, who never lifted a weight in his life, walks up to the tire and flips it, albeit with a struggle, nevertheless gets it over, and basically heckles me and gives me shit for being a “strongman”. It felt really, really bad. That summer I literally flipped it 100 times in one workout. Took me like an hour to do it but I did it.
Then I tore my calf on it last year, and at this point in my strength career, it’s a breeze of a tire. I swear that thing is cursed or a blessing.
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Haha man I feel like every young dude that’s into lifting and winds up in a trade gig has a story like that. I worked in a machine shop so there wasn’t quite as much physicality, but one of the guys that had been there a while had the most absurdly large hands I’ve ever seen.
He was a few inches shorter than me, but his hands were probably 40% larger than mine. They were so comically out of place that they hid how strangely over developed his forearms were. Grip was most certainly never a concern for that guy.
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It’s probably mostly because I’m tall & fat but I’ve been hugely pleased that whenever I’ve mentioned to someone that I plan to compete in a strongman contest, the reaction has been “oh cool” and not “… really? You?”
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There’s three kinds of hand sizes that I’ve become aware of. Small, normal, and inhuman ape baseball mitt hands.
The latter most I still don’t know what purpose that serves for a person. They usually also have massive arms to compliment. My dad is that way, and most of the guys I knew who worked construction were as well. It could be acquired through vigorous hand usage, but my hands have been beat the FUCK up from strongman and grip work throughout the years, and they show no signs of leather ape man baseball mitt hand syndrome.
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