I thought about this while reading that thread with the one guy who knows everything about powerlifting and bodybuilding.
If you could create a new competition or sport, with the only requirement being that it has to incorporate lifting weights as a major component, what would you put together?
Unicycle deadlifting
If you’ve ever Deadlifted and ridden a unicycle you are a unicycledeadliftist, even if you’ve never actually done the two together or competed a UDLF (unicycledeadliftist federation) competition.
I really like strongman for a GPP test.
To make it different from strongman, I would include a jump test or a sprint test.
So we would have 4 lifting/moving events announced close to comp (all pulled from the strongman/street lifting world). Probably before those events is where we would put either a jump test or a sprint test (or something like a bronco)
A list of Strongman and street lifting events:
Sandbag carries
Front squats
Pressing
Weighted dips
Weighted chins
Sleds
Deadlift
Farmers carries
All would be either AMRAPs with a fixed weight and time or rising bar style. Carries for a fixed distance (or as far as possible without dropping the implement). Jumps can be for height or distance and single leg, double leg, or whatever. Sprints would be fixed distances for time unless it’s something like a bronco then its just for time
Getting heavy grocery bags from the car into the house. Obviously anyone who has ever lifting anything or walked (run?) at a brisk pace has been training for this without even realizing it.
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I think the sport is expanding.
But how to score it? Distance, number of bags, total calories moved?
If it didn’t have the world’s stupidest weight class rules, I would have dug Strengthlifting.
Squat, strict press and conventional deadlift for max single. Solid idea.
I really liked the Tactical Strength Challenge that StrongFirst used to put on. 1RM Deadlift, AMRAP Pullup, and a 5 minute KB Snatch test. Felt like a really good combination of absolute strength, relative strength, and strength endurance. Just never got popular for whatever reason. I did it in 2022 and there were legit like 7 people total who showed up. Not much of a competition when that happens, but I’d still do it again.
@freshyfresh I dig this street lifting you are talking about. I’m looking it up and wouldn’t you know it they did a comp earlier this year that was like 10 minutes from my GF’s place. Kicking myself for missing that. I’ll have to be on the lookout for next time.
Good point, and more importantly, would you consider people that do this recreationally, or who simply perform such training without competing in judged events actual athletes under the sport or not?
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I was going to do a comp too! I had to miss it but luckily there’s another one locally soon
You’re gatekeeping. I identify as a grocery bag carrier because I used to carry my lunch bag my mom packed for me. It’s food in a bag. Therefore I trained as a bag carrier, so I am internally validated as a bag carrier.
And no, you can’t see pics of any of this.
I wold like to see a decathlon-type thing that mixes traditional weightlifting, strongman, target shooting, moderate length running or swimming, chess and some sort of combat.
Actually you’re a strongman too. Bag carrying is specific enough for farmers walks, which is a strongman practice.
This applies of course only if you identify your bag carrying as strongman.
This. I would like it even more if you could push press the weight. It could quickly turn to jerk competition though, and that would be dull.
I also want to try strongman some day.
Yeah, if I want that, I would do static monsters strongman, which also isn’t bad.
I would probably go for strongman if there would have been low level competitions around where I live.
I trained “like a strongman” (deads, squats, OH strength, strength endurance and most typical events) for year and a half. But I wanted to something to anchor my training in, so I went back to PL after a long break. It’s much more popular sport here (probably everywhere), and my gym does PL meets 2-3 times a year. So it was a conventional choice.
There has been a lot of opposing of competing in the other thread, but nothing makes your training more focused than clear attainable goal, such as upcoming PL meet.
That’s my favorite part of that thread
I’ve always thought the clean would make a good competitive lift. Bar starts on the floor, clean it.
in some cases it can get you over a plateau.
Concept 2, Erg, High Pulling!
