Pure strength: Strongman edition
Time to transfer this here. My old log http://startingstrength.com/resource...continued.html
On Saturday, April 29th I did my first strongman competition. It was in the rookie u80 class. Five weeks before the contest I got the final confirmation that I could compete and I moved to a gym which has strongman equipment.
I weighed in at 77.2 kg for the competition. We had only three events: log press for reps, car deadlift for reps and farmer's walk for time. Log was 62 kg and in training I was doing fine. Not so in the comp. Their log was bigger and I had issues with it. On the first rep I got dizzy and dropped it behind me. Lost valuable time while I gathered myself and returned the log to the platform. Second rep was good, the third one I missed again and the 75 sec was up.
Next up was the car deadlift for 75 sec. We were lifting Nissan Juke (180 kg in 75 sec). I was confident about this event before the contest, but bad log press made me doubt myself. The only warmup I had for this was five pulls at 100 kg on a bar. Nevertheless, I did three reps as planned. I tried pulling it two more times but my hamstrings were done.
Last event was farmer's walk with 80 kg per hand for 15 + 15 meters. I practiced this for a longer distance with a turn at the end. In the comp we did 15m, drop, turn and 15 back. Did it in 26 seconds which seemed like good time.
All of this was enough only for the last place out of six. It was still fun, I got to meet new people and got new motivation for training.