you ever read my log? lol. I’ve expressed frequently my disdain for them. It’s probably a solid mix of ‘I’m really shitty at them’ and ‘they hurt everything’. And granted, not all carries are the same. Yokes are the absolute worst. I simply won’t enter a show with yoke as an event. I would consider it if the yoke weight was 500 lbs or less, but that never happens. I’m equally shitty at conan’s wheel. I shouldn’t enter shows with that. I’ve taken last the 2 times I’ve done it in comps. And I’ve been SO FAR behind the winners. I don’t completely suck at carries for distance with no drops, because while I’m extraordinarily slow, I have a better grip than pretty much everyone I compete against. So I can just carry implements forever lol. farmers handles, frames, and kegs aren’t as awful. I’m good with a sandbag because I have a fast pick, and the weights don’t tend to be too heavy. And duck walk is not that difficult in general.
Yeah I guess you have talked about disliking them. I guess I remembered you just not being very good at them, and that was why you didn’t like them.
I feel you though. I like farmers carries & the like way more than the yoke (unless it’s a front rack) or Conan’s. speaking of the yoke, a comp I was looking at had a yoke for the under 175ers at 600lbs. I mean, I’m sure a bunch of guys can do it, I’m just not one of them lol.
I’ve actually never done a duck walk, and honestly wouldn’t know it if I saw one.
That’s what is really cool about strongman though. With all of the different variations of events, competitions are really anyone’s to win within reason.
I’ve got a duck walk in my comp next weekend, that’s the only reason I’ve done it at all. It’s basically a handle you hold between your legs and carry the implement with your feet spread wide to accomodate the size of the implement. it’s really awkward, hence the name. But it’s not real heavy, 220 lbs. hopefully that description doesn’t suck.
600 lbs for the 175 class is really heavy. That’s 50-100 lbs over what I generally see for that class for local comps. You ever watch Patrick Castelli with the yoke though? He’s a 175 guy and I’ve seen him damn near running with an 800 lbs yoke. Just unreal.
Yeah that paints a picture. It sounds awkward as hell lol. I’ll probably avoid it unless it just looks like a great comp or is close to home.
Yeah I was pretty surprised. Otherwise it sounded like a fun comp, but I didn’t want to go in with a nearly assured zero, or leave with an injury. I haven’t, but damn. I’ll have to check it out. The strength of some of the top competitors in my class, or any class for that matter, is just amazing; and humbling.
I don’t mind yoke. One of the last comps I did had an giant cross and that was absolute hell. If it wasn’t that it is basically a combo between a Conan Wheel, duck walk and a keg where for some fucked up reason you carry it high on your chest and upright then it was that every second step smacks you in the nuts and if it isn’t your nuts it’s your face.
Stupid sport haha
The single most efficient way to make any part of the body bigger is to make the entire body bigger.
The body has a blue print and ratios it wants to stick to. Your body will not let you go very far outside your own DNA’s blueprints. Even with a shit ton of drugs this is limited.
If you could every curl bro in the world would have 20" arms on 160 pound body.
and I dont mean to keep replying to you, its just the sides we take on this that makes for good dialogue 
Squats nor Deadlifts are necessary but lower body training is for optimal (or any long term) results. Those are just the 2 most efficient ways to train the lower body. Easy substitutes are Deficit Trap Deads and Lunges.
We have a difference in philosophies on this one. Using is the same as practicing as the same as training etc. You may not be building your squat strength directly but you are building strength.
We need to combine, Dragon-ball fusion style. Carries are the only thing I’m semi-competent at.