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I made the transition from PLing to Strongman - at least, I should say that I have been in the process of doing that for roughly the past year. Here is what I can tell you from my limited experience.
1) Find a SM who knows what they are doing. I have been very privileged to be able to work out with and be trained for it by one of the best there is. He and his brothers, and the rest of the "crew" have become some of my best friends.
2) SM will show you where you strength flaws are in a hurry.
3) It hurts like hell sometimes. Be prepared for lots of bruising. And just wait for your first experience with tacky.
4) I train a modified PL style in the gym 4 days a week and event train one day a week. The SM day is the longest and most intense, often lasting 4 straight hours.
5) After a few sessions of event training, my functional strength shot through the fucking roof. Its one thing to DL 700, it is entirely a different thing to C&P a 300 lb axle or load a 400 lb stone to 54" (still working on that stone) or run with a 700-800 lb yoke on your back.
6) Most events are less than 90 seconds. This means you will be in an anaerobic state. You need to train to deal with being O2 depleted. Just pull a 50k lb truck 80 feet or do a 5 stone medley and you'll know what I'm talking about. The best thing for this that I have found is to do work on a rower set at its highest level and go balls out, 110%, for 500 meters.
If you want to give this a try, PM me and I'll see if I can help you find someone in your area that might let you come and give it a test run to see how you like it. Even more than PLing, and certainly more than BBing, I have never come across a group of athletes that are more interested in helping the beginners than SM. They are, with very few exceptions, one of the most welcoming bunch of people that I have ever had the pleasure of being with.
And to answer your other question about age, I am old enough to vividly remember JFKs inaugural address, and I just started this a year ago, and I can hang with (after a shit load of hard ass training, and some great coaching) just about any amateur I have come up against.
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1) Find a SM who knows what they are doing. I have been very privileged to be able to work out with and be trained for it by one of the best there is. He and his brothers, and the rest of the "crew" have become some of my best friends.
2) SM will show you where you strength flaws are in a hurry.
3) It hurts like hell sometimes. Be prepared for lots of bruising. And just wait for your first experience with tacky.
4) I train a modified PL style in the gym 4 days a week and event train one day a week. The SM day is the longest and most intense, often lasting 4 straight hours.
5) After a few sessions of event training, my functional strength shot through the fucking roof. Its one thing to DL 700, it is entirely a different thing to C&P a 300 lb axle or load a 400 lb stone to 54" (still working on that stone) or run with a 700-800 lb yoke on your back.
6) Most events are less than 90 seconds. This means you will be in an anaerobic state. You need to train to deal with being O2 depleted. Just pull a 50k lb truck 80 feet or do a 5 stone medley and you'll know what I'm talking about. The best thing for this that I have found is to do work on a rower set at its highest level and go balls out, 110%, for 500 meters.
If you want to give this a try, PM me and I'll see if I can help you find someone in your area that might let you come and give it a test run to see how you like it. Even more than PLing, and certainly more than BBing, I have never come across a group of athletes that are more interested in helping the beginners than SM. They are, with very few exceptions, one of the most welcoming bunch of people that I have ever had the pleasure of being with.
And to answer your other question about age, I am old enough to vividly remember JFKs inaugural address, and I just started this a year ago, and I can hang with (after a shit load of hard ass training, and some great coaching) just about any amateur I have come up against.
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