Mobility Prep
Rogue Farmer’s Walk
(16” pick)
115x50’ in 6.09
seconds
165x50’ in 7.01
seconds
205x50’ in 7.63
seconds
255x50’ in 9.50
seconds
295x165’10”
Stone of Steel
Loads (62”, tacky towel)
138x5
187x3
230x1
283x5
Uphill Car Pushes
Car+1 person +720
in trunkx135’6” in 60.00 seconds
Stretching
Comments: Oof.
Missing lifts on the rack pulls doesn’t feel good. I imagine I’d still feel
beat if I was successful with the lifts but missing them has that added sense
of not doing well that gets compounded. I’m not sure if I went for a walk or
not Friday. I was exhausted come Saturday and I felt achy all over. I didn’t
even go for a walk that day. The day was kind of a crapshoot. So that would
mean Sunday would be the day for training hopefully. So achy. I ended up doing
foam rolling before I set to do any of the warm-ups. I didn’t wash the copper
sleeves this week so I was not having any joint warmth. It was hot and humid.
So humid it started to sprinkle rain a bit right as I was finishing up my
warm-ups. Lots of creaks and pops doing my warm-ups but no pain. 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. Plate quarter plate jumps for today. So this
would mean that I’d get to test my speed from last session on the working up
sets before the max distance run. I did some empty sprints to get warm. I could
tell I was slow off the start but I seemed to be able to pick up speed for the
last third. I’m not sure if it was knee aches or what but I did feel slow on
the starts. First two runs I knew started slow but I got some good strides towards
the end. About .20 to .30 seconds slower. Next set about .01 of a second faster
than last time. So essentially the same haha. The heaviest of the 50’ was next
up and that was slow. I knew it was slow but didn’t realize how slow it was.
This was almost a second slower than last time. The pick was a bit harder and I
think that my grip didn’t feel that secure with the humidity. I like not
putting on chalk until the top set to give me that secure feeling. That I don’t
need to be amped for the previous weight. I had to move back the farmer’s
handles a bit for the last set for max distance. My neighbor had parked a car
in the street that made the course less than 100’ so I had to go move the start
two houses down to get enough of a course. Less than 200’. I’m making no
illusions I can reach that distance at this time with the weight increasing.
Especially with this heat. I had thoroughly soaked the shirt to the point it
was a weighing me down. The street is a little steeper down that way too I
think but not certain. I got set and chalked up my hands like crazy. Made sure
to put a line of chalk around the wrists to keep the sweat from getting into my
hands. The weight actually went up pretty darn good. Might have moved up
quicker (in my head) than 255lbs. But I was moving so, so slow. I had at least
given myself markers at 50’ so I knew what I was doing. I was feeling stuff
slipping before I got to 100’. But I kept going and got past 150’. Got to keep
going. I went until I lost the grip in the one hand. About 12’ shy of my best.
But I have to take in to consideration that those distances had been at another
place with different training. The course is way steeper here. Not so much that
it changes things significantly enough like say a ramp. Liza had asked me why I
did these uphill and I told her that I want this to be more of a time under
tension and strength build. The downhill is good for working on moving faster
feet with the weight pulling forward. This was something I had read about Nick
Best doing for yoke and farmer’s walk. It seems to be true. Farmer’s take a
while to setup regardless of start with these handles as I need to make them
secure so plates don’t fall off and reset is easy enough to have it be the same
each time. Yoke is a pain so just alternate for now. Come to find out after I
caught my breath that my camera didn't record the run. Damn it. Into the garage
and out of the heat. Kind of. At least out of the direct sunlight. Stone of
steel again. Plan being work up to about 10lbs more and do five reps. Right
biceps tight as always. Super sweaty and I had to change into another shirt as
it was ridiculous the amount of sweat. Tacky towel for all sets so just kept
the camera rolling. First reps felt the best for obvious reasons. I was getting
slippage on subsequent reps with the tacky not being as strong after the first
lift and not accounting for the fast that my shorts were soaked with sweat too
and I was getting sweat covered implement back. The more sweat, the harder to
lift and the more “pain” in the right biceps. No pain at all when the tacky was
sticking right. Liza came out to watch me while I was doing these. I may have
got distracted loading the stone of steel once haha. I had no illusions that
this was going to be a straight set of five with the sweat. No rush, not
risking things. Urgency will come when it is required for competition. First
rep easy, I kind of just focused and wasn’t responding initially as I was
trying to keep a groove and see how many I could get before a retack was
needed. Turns out two haha. It was nice having her there. Lot of motivation to
not screw up and get injured haha. Fourth rep was a struggle as despite
retacking, I was still sweaty and slipping. Even in my lap and I’m really
surprised I was able to get it. Number five went up as easy as the first one.
Car pushing to end the day in the heat. I took my time unloading all the weight
from the farmer’s walk into the garage. Liza suggested I try pushing her truck.
I gave it an attempt that could be measured with a ruler haha. So that meant
loading all the plates I just put in the garage into my car. 20lbs heavier than
last time. Little slow start but I was able to start picking up speed. Short of
150’ but I’ll take it as I didn’t get slower in my gait and was able to work the
whole time. Took a bit for me to cool down. Cleaned up before stretching due to
tacky. Had a big, late dinner before doing recovery work.
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