Yeah man, I’ve been climbing pretty consistently for a quite a while now and my hands are firmly entrenched in the ‘normal’ category. I’ll take it, as the inhuman baseball mitt hands are just too much haha.
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I’m like pwnisher. My go-to is generally ‘have you ever seen worlds strongest man on tv? it’s like that, but at an amateur level’. Or if that goes over their head, a description I like is ‘lifting or carrying heavy odd objects in various ways.’ It always depends on what familiarity a person has with gym stuff in general. I have most of the staple events on my instagram, so sometimes I’ll just show a few videos.
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I start with “its the sport of the God’s” and if they press on I’ll just say “it’s lifting or moving awkward and heavy things in a bunch of different ways, you’d know it if you saw it”.
Then I’ll take out my phone and show some photos of contests I’ve done, I usually go for a stone load.
One time, a guy asked me to send him the photos… that was a bit creepy, I just told him to look up my Instagram (which has no strongman photos).
This approach gets me about a 20% success rate. My previous attempts got about 90% of people thinking I did woodchopping. I’ll take that lol
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I don’t have to explain this to anyone because I don’t compete (large and weak are a bad combo), but I can’t believe none of you reference Game of Thrones.
I’ve never seen an episode but even I know the final season is out thanks to social media and people talking about it.
If I had to describe strongman to people then I’d just reference Thor’s character and say “I do what he does.”
"We do skull crushing but not on real people, we use coconuts as a proxy for a human skull. They save human skulls for the important shows.
The winner gets to skullfuck the partner of the person whose head they crushed"
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Confession: I just vaped vitamin B12. I found myself with a nice energy/clarity boost. It’s like the watered-down version of 5-Hour Energy in an e-cigarette. Since I can’t drink coffee, I may be using it exclusively before my training sessions.
Confession 2: I’m scared that my nutritionist was the person to give this to me.
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This is usually when you find out people think Thor is a weightlifter.
I usually scroll through the posts for guys I like to read, really don’t read the rest.
Flame-Free.
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I’m walking on a treadmill and can’t be bothered to read any of that. I’d rather stare at the time elapse on this hamster wheel.
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Thought I saw an ab vein yesterday then realised I’d dropped a piece of spaghetti. I really should wear a shirt at dinner time !!
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Recommend couch stretches and sitting in a deep squat pushing your knees out and maintaining neutral spine position for as long as you can hold (aim for 10 minutes).
Fro me lower back tightness is all about rolling my ‘upper glutes’ on a lacrosse ball. Im thinking of the outer edge of each glute where it attaches to your back / side. No idea what the area is properly called, but if you stand relaxed with your hands on your hips basically wherer your thumbs are.
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This was under appreciated.
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The Iliac crest. The ilio-tibial band is also a good group to keep limber.
Just hit 260 x 10 on the squat. I know this is baby weights to most of you, but I’m so fucking proud
Sorry for the shitty background music, had to cover up the one in my gym or yt wouldn’t let me upload the video…
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Nice man! Getting closer to that 300+!
Btw I fucking HATE those squat racks. Worst ones ever made.
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@isdatnutty I consider those squats racks to be Shit also. Rather be re circumcised than ever use one of those.
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Unracking the bar seems so odd to me on that one. And when I squat (especially front squat) the bar hits the spotters so it’s the worst one for me.
I’ve been using a squat stand for so long now that even using a rack seems weird to me. I don’t like squatting inside of a rack.
But I do LOVE the squat racks where the multigrip pull-up bar is right above you. That would be a nice addition eventually to the home gym.
Awesome job, and 260x10 isn’t shitty weight at all, be proud bro.
But, I’m a fan of low bar - think you might do better by switching to low bar.
Congrats!
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That was the first type of squat rack I ever had anything close to a disaster in.
I had just come off a bad cold, I worked up to mediocre weight. I squat down and I get a bit lightheaded and pitched forward but I save it.
I didn’t think to stop, I added 10kg, squatted again, got pitched forward again but I couldn’t save it and I fell backwards and gave my head a good whack.
I didn’t squat again for a few months after that haha. Come to think of it, I’m not sure I’ve squatted in that style rack since.