July 11, 2010 - Events

Dynamic Warm-ups

Sandbag Carry and Sled Drag Medley
250x120'/450x60'
250x120'/550x60'
150+100x60'(farmer walk style)/700x60'

Arm-Over-Arm Pulls
450x45'
650x45'
850x0' (too much)
750x45'

Tackyless Stone Loads
240x3 to 51"
290x3 to 51"
324x1 to 51"
354x1 to 51"
385x1 to 51" PR+31lbs

Comments: Hell yeah I felt good today. The other guys were already going at it when I got there and since I had no plans to do 2.5" axle deads (training heavy deads this week) or yoke (did it Friday) I had to wait a little while before I got to do some events that I was up for. Joe and the others are training for a specific show (or following along) so all the events they did were based on the events at that particular show. One event was a sandbag carry and sled drag. For their show it's 60' for both implements but since I have a show with a sandbag for 120', I just did the sandbag down and back and then pulled the sled. I felt awful on the first run with the sandbag. It seems to take me a bit to get all loosey goosey with it. Second run was better. I was going to say that's enough of that but then Zack does a sled drag with 650lbs and I get an itching to do it too. Of course, I was sick of the sandbag so I decided to farmer's carry the two light sandbags (100lbs and 150lbs) for 60' and then pull the sled loaded with 700lbs. The walk was easy but boy was it tough to get that sled moving. I slipped on some loose gravel and fell down. I had to get it out of that spot so I could actually walk and Joe helped me get it to the side away from it and I finished the run. It was really tough. I then did what I had wanted to do last week, arm-over-arm. 450lbs was really easy but it was pain resetting the sled with the sandbag weights. I just don't like walking with the sandbags if that's not the exercise. Stupid sandbags. 650lbs was a bit tougher and I really had to use my legs. I tried 850lbs but despite all my efforts, I couldn't get it to budge. I took a few minutes rest and took off 100lbs to make it 750lbs and exerted myself to get that pull done. Up next was stones. My original plan was to do my extension drill but since it was just me and Joe, and it was hot and there was still a lot of stuff to put away (tires, sandbags, sled) I went with no tacky and aimed for the 385lbs stone. 240lbs was easy but that damn 290lbs just likes to mess with me. Always mocking me, taunting me with it's density and small size. Both 324lbs and 354lbs were really easy to lap. I had a bit of a sliding issue getting 354lbs in position as it slipped on my shorts. I knew that I was going to get the 385lbs stone today no tack. It came off the ground and then slipped. I got deeper and up it came. That was the easy part. I could feel it wanting to escape and I did my best to squeeze it and extend. I got it up. Awesome.