Farmer’s Walk
With Turns (at 50’)
112x100’ in 13.33 seconds
Straight Runs
202x50’ in 7.61 seconds
Max Distance
282x172’7” in 30.91 seconds
Sandbag Rows
100x5
150x5
200x5
Sandbag Load to Platform (58”)
250x10
Sandbag Bearhug Carry (turns at 50’)
250x100’ in 22.76 seconds
Stretching
Comments:
Out to Lancaster to train this time. Nice out which was good
considering some of the programed stuff for today. I went to bed later
than I wanted too. Caught up with people a bit before getting on with
the workout. I don’t know if I genuinely wanted to talk with people or
if I was just trying to put off the workout haha. Warmed up on the rower
again. Felt better this time, even with the week break from it. Calf
work went well. Whatever issue I was having with my one side I got
sorted out so I wasn’t fatiguing as bad. Would have liked to have gotten
to 50 but this is good. Box touches, band rows and biceps stretch after
that. Felt good. Nothing felt achy or tight. Hip airplanes were mostly
good. Lost my balance on one rep so I did another to make up for it.
Then on to the stuff I was dreading. It didn’t look like much on paper
but numbers don’t tell everything. Farmer’s walk to start things off.
Outside with the metal plates. Same warm-up as last session. The
different shaped plates made things interesting. Some of the plates had
larger holes than others so some give in the handles that I usually
don’t have when I’m using all the same style of plates. Knocked over the
cone on the warm-up set with a turn but still improving my time. I put
on the rehband belt for the straight run to get used to it for the
working set. Faster than last time but I feel I can do even better. I
was hesitant at the start of the run with the pick-up as I felt the
plates shift and I was worried it was going bail on me (still haven’t
got a perfect clip situation figured out). Once I knew it wasn’t going
to slide off, I was picking up speed by the end. My stopping caused the
plates in the right hand implement to slide forward a few inches. The
thing that was worrying me was the next set. Max distance farmer’s walk
run. My grip is one of my strengths with farmer’s walk but I still had
doubts swirling in my head. Mostly just variations of “what if I fail?”
so it took a bit to get those thoughts quiet and give it a shot. Not my
fastest run but the name of the game was distance. Got a pretty good
distance. If I can go faster with less fatigue, I feel I can go much
further. After that (a relief to be done), I had sandbag work to do.
Sandbag rows for sets of fives with the last set being the next bag up
from last time. More of prep/warm-up for the next two exercises. Sandbag
loads followed the rows. I wasn’t too sure how to setup this one at the
gym. Both yokes were being used (I didn’t want to be running around
them anyways) so I eventually ended up using box jump boxes and some
rubber mats. I couldn’t get it to the same height as in my garage but it
would have to do (I didn’t realize until I was done there were more
mats). Plan being the 250lbs sandbag for a set of ten as I did several
weeks ago. No time limit, just get the reps at my own pace. Even though
it was just a little bit higher than what I did last time, this felt
really tough. I got five within 60 seconds but it took a bit longer to
get the remaining five. Last rep wasn’t as convincing as I would have
liked but I got the height and the platform wasn’t very stable. Got the
strength but conditioning needs to improve. I took my sweet time getting
the last exercise setup after that one. Final item of the day was a
sandbag bearhug carry. Same sandbag as the loads but doing a course with
a turn. Chalked myself up pretty good and squeezed. First half of the
course I was slow and my breathing was off. Forget how breathing can be
effected on these front carries. Once I made the turn, I got my
breathing under control and picked up speed. Satisfying end to this
cycle and going right into the next one.
I’m a little taller than 6′6″ and I really like to lift weights. I’m a competitor in amateur strongman contests. My hope is to become a competitive professional strongman. Currently I'm training for Northeast Regionals in Monaca, PA on 6/1/2024. I’m not a major competitor yet and I have a long way to go but I’m having fun.
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