Another Fun Sunday, 11-03-02

[b fold the truth]

WoW...talk about a fun one. Nice and cold here Temp was about 50, windy, and raining...hehe...gotta love strongman.

Rack Pulls from 17"
lots of warm ups
675 x 1 (not too hard, partners said it looked EASY)

Seated GM's
135 x 5 x 3 sets

High Bar Squats
295 x 2 paused and VERY easy

St Calf Raises
135 x 15 x 3 sets

Carry and Drag Medley
Farmers 50', sled 50', 3 rotations non-stop.

Atlas Stones (they are FUN in the rain)
285, 310, 340, 360(miss)

Leg Raises and Spread Eagle Sit-Ups

As a note...I don't reccomend going to Applebees on Saturday night and having their boneless buffalo wings with the 3 mile sauce on them. OUCH!!!!

B True

 

[b fold the truth]

Setting up for a rack pull...

675

Set of Farmers Holds...

 

[b fold the truth]

Bearrito doing a rack pull..

245 Stone PR for the big guy!!!

Timed Holds...oooo the pain..

 

[b fold the truth]

Cheese doing a rack pull...and the 10th time we had to listen to "More than human"...lol

Farmers

Stones in the rain... 285

310

Cheese and I on Saturday night...

There is just something about strongman that motivates me. Makes me feel like a primitave animal inside and I can let it all out on Sunday. We are out in the driveway, cold, raining, wet and tired...picking up large rocks that rip the skin from our arms as blood runs down them. We don't care...we just keep trying. Through it all...we just keep trying...

B True

 

[emptywallet]

Ok, thats it. I'm alot weaker than you guys but I don't care. Sometime in December I'm going to fly to whereever you are and do a sunday's workout with you fellahs. I'm serious. There's nothing like the feeling you have at the end of the day when you go throw a workout like that. See you soon. I'm in texas, where you boys at?

 

[Thaibox]

Makes me feel like a primitave animal inside and I can let it all out on Sunday. We don't care...we just keep trying. Through it all...we just keep trying...

B True

What its all about
hooah

 

[spatts]

I like the last one best.

Hi, Cheese!

 

[RusPA81]

Training in the rain. That is hardcore.

 

[b fold the truth]

Ok, thats it. I'm alot weaker than you guys but I don't care. Sometime in December I'm going to fly to whereever you are and do a sunday's workout with you fellahs. I'm serious. There's nothing like the feeling you have at the end of the day when you go throw a workout like that. See you soon. I'm in texas, where you boys at?

December 14th...on a Saturday. Fly into Nashville...there will be a few people doing the same that Friday to train on Saturday. It aint about the numbers it is about the effort. I don't care if you can't squat the bar...if you give it all that you have...that is all that it takes in my gym.

B True

 

[coolcolj]

Looks cold there now

 

[b fold the truth]

I like the last one best.

Hi, Cheese!

Yep...since you have had the pleasure of meeting Cheese in the flesh...lol...you know how much fun he can be to be around. He LOOKS innocent but that is just a disguise If I could only tell the stories about Saturday night (involved him, hot wings, beer, water, and a large Mexican woman licking hot sauce...and him in a coon skin hat dancing). The fun never ends.

B True

 

[skaman607]

I'm sure you got that one on video

 

[zackdarnell]

Sounds like a fun day, B.

EmptyWallet- Have a look at this:
http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=186920

 

[beastboy]

Looks like fun!

 

[b fold the truth]

Uhhhhhhhhhh....

What was I thinking...I am sore!!!!! My lower back is FRIED!!!!

B True

 

[SAGAT]

once again good stuff bfold. by the way, do you think rack pulls can be a good replacement for deads when having back problems?

 

[bigdelt69]

B- what part of KY are you from.

 

[DrBones]

Sunday, bloody Sunday..

 

[b fold the truth]

once again good stuff bfold. by the way, do you think rack pulls can be a good replacement for deads when having back problems?

NO...I don't think that Cheese or Bearrito will say that they are either. ALL of our lower backs are killing us. It seems to target our lower backs a lot MORE!!! It puts us in a position where it is nearly ALL lower back, no speed, no hams, no hips...all lower back.

Pull from the floor...like it is meant to be done.

B True

 

[SAGAT]

thnx for confirming that for me! i figured as much.

 

[b fold the truth]

B- what part of KY are you from.

I live in Western Kentucky...about 20 minutes West of Land Between the Lakes.

B True

 

[big_bad_buff]

b fold, how often do you workout with the stones? and how can your body put up with that? seems like you would blow your back out just trying to lift a 285 sphere of the ground, (just TRYING) i can't imagine how much damage this is, or could be on your body. doesn't seem like there could be a good technique or form to lessens the tremendous amount of stress on your lower back trying to lift these bad boys, or is there?. i give it a 100% in the gym also, but using very controlled movements when dead lifting, or anything that puts a lot of stress on the lower back, are you ever worried about this?...i have always wanted to ask a strong man about this, and your as good as any EH!

my dad blew a disc in his back, and he couldn't even return to his job for 6 months after surgery, so i'm always very carful with it, i do not want back problems.....piece.

 

[b fold the truth]

Our life, in all sports, are not done in controlled movements. When a football player makes a tackle, comes off the line, swings a bat at the mound, goes up for a dunk or a lay up, etc...they are not in a "controlled manner" with a tightly arched back.

Most people hurt their back when doing something in a "rounded back" fashion...so why not strengthen your back in the same manner?

A 285 pound stone is very light to me...VERY light. I have loaded a 404 pound stone to a 44" platform before. It takes practice and raw, brute strength.

I do the stones about once a week in some form or fashion and will probably take a break from them about once ever couple months as I focus on another event. The stones are fun but they can also tear someone down...especially if you can't get it off of the floor. They will play with your mind and make you wonder why you can deadlift 600+ but can't budge a 300 pound stone.

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