Mobility Prep
Rogue Farmer’s Walk (16” pick)
115x50’ in 5.89 seconds
165x50’ in 6.78 seconds
205x50’ in 7.64 seconds
255x50’ in 8.65 seconds
285x175’7” in 37.64 seconds
Stone of Steel Loads (62”, tacky towel)
138x5
182x3
225.5x1
275x7
Uphill Car Pushes
Car+1 person +700 in trunkx157’6” in 60.00 seconds
Stretching
Comments: The day didn’t start off great haha. Plan was
to sleep in and try and be rested. I did get some good sleep but I was still
feeling tired. My eyelids felt heavy and I kind of wanted to not train today
and go and take a nap. Also the tight right biceps. But I had plans. I was
going to sleep and get a lot of sleep this weekend but that also meant that the
hours I was awake that I needed to do stuff. One day for training and the other
for doing chores. Chores as in clean the saplings out of the gutters and put
together my squat rack. My car battery died from me not driving it very much
but it was almost five years old. So had to wait until AAA arrived to make sure
and get a new battery before I’d actually start training. That wasn’t until
after 3:00PM so a bit later than I planned to be starting my training. I was
debating taking allergy medication as I couldn’t tell if I was tired of feeling
the ragweed. It was actually nice weather out today. Warm but not so much that I
was drenched. Warm-ups felt ok. Lower back a bit stiff from the heavy rack
pulls. Honestly, to be expected with going up so much in a short time and
considering the circumstances. In any case, farmer’s walk to start this session
off. Plan being doing 50’ runs up to the top weight that I’d do for a max
distance run. Rather than make it the weight to begin with as handles plus
whatever to get to 10lbs more than last time, I started with the
plate-quarter-plate start. My thoughts being that the next time, I could go for
3 plates a side and it would make more sense to do these jumps and get used to
the extra set of a heavier weight before the top weight. Also give me an idea
of where I am when it comes to something not so light for the short runs. I did some empty sprints beforehand to make
sure I was feeling good. Knees didn’t bother me. My times improved starting
back at the lighter start weights so that is encouraging. My lower back was
feeling really stiff after the set with 205lbs and I was wondering how anything
heavier would go honestly. Time between sets with the farmer’s is a long
process I realized. Taking off the collars, resetting the course is taking
about 15 minutes I think. Need to make sure weights stay on. The next set felt
heavy to start with the pick but I felt I could move pretty good. I don’t have
much data with these handles with short and heavy runs really as most of the
time, I was just doing long runs before switching over to the top loaded
handles at the strongman gyms. For the top set, max distance again. The
neighbors’ trailer was moved a bit so I could do the run from just a little
further back from where I was doing stuff today to have a 200’ course. Again,
just having that in case I got there. Rather have it than not really. I was
feeling my lower back that I was concerned I wouldn’t pick it up safely and
then that I’d peter out shortly after getting 50’. Thankfully neither of those
happened. My legs did get tired though and I slowed down a lot after 100’ or
so. I feel just under 25’ shy of the end here. Kind of both hands this time.
This was not a PR as I’ve done a little further with 295lbs per hand. My
thinking is that when I was doing these before, my deadlift numbers were much
lower and I was doing the heavier stuff on the opposite weeks. So next up was
stone of steel stuff. As it was later in the afternoon then I would’ve liked, I
was thinking about how to move things along. My thought was to just keep the
yoke at my yoke height so I would be loading over 62”, same as the sandbag from
last week. With the changes for the upcoming next block of training, I figured
that I might as well since it would make me work on my extension. I was also
advised to use tacky towel on all sets going forward to ease the stress on my
biceps. It has been a long time since I used one and it was noticeable
immediately. The pain was a lot less. But I remember how much of a pain it is
to film so I just kept my phone camera recording the whole time so I didn’t
gunk it up. Empty implement felt smooth. Had a little hiccup on the second rep
with the next weight and had to push it over. I was keeping my eye on the right
biceps as I did these. Taking my time as I can’t really rush things back over
with the setup I have. No rush. So then on to the working set. Moment of truth.
I wasn’t sure how these would go since I’ve never tried going above 60” on the
stone of steel. Still getting clearance. Plan was 7-10 but since I had
increased the load height by 5”, I was going to just do 7 today as to minimize
the stress to my biceps, getting things moving and that it would be enough to
progress. I got 5 lifts before I had slippage. Number 6 it was slipping and I
put it down and retacked. Slippage when things feel secure is how I pulled the
right biceps a few years ago. Not risking that crap haha. Got the last two reps
pretty easy after that. Definitely feeling these in my lower back and
hamstrings and forcing myself to use my ankles to extend too. Last time was
pushing. My options had been a car for 60 seconds or do three sets of prowler. I
figured that the prowler stuff was going to take longer than car push. I also
was noticing from past training stuff with max distance that I was stopping
under 40 seconds so I figured I needed to push into this territory to even
things out. So I put all the weights I had out from the farmer’s walk plus some
extra to get 700lbs in the trunk. Come to find my father was out getting
groceries. So I ended up asking my mother to assist me. She did things
perfectly with the start, times and stop. I started a bit down the street as I
didn’t want to worry about getting too close to the trailer but that wasn’t a
problem as the weight was a enough to make the tires depress in the rear and
make the start tough to get moving. Almost stopped right at my driveway for an
easy unload. Stretched and cleaned up. It is looking likely that I won’t be
competing in 2020 but I’m set for 2021 with USS Nats.
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