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December 09, 2011

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what is a substitute for the rope climb

To do Strongman stuff, shouldn't one get at least a little strong first?

Lifting odd objects is more functional than doing the olympic lifts. If you're going to scrap anything, get rid of the snatch. Problem with that video is they are doing an advanced strongman lift. Lifting a axle overhead is not useful. Lifting it off the ground is useful though.

Functional strength should be built by lifting things you are likely to encounter in the world.
1) logs
2) sand bags
3) other people
4) furniture
5) stones
6) bags of manure

Most of the effort in training should be devoted to learning how to move these odd shaped objects from point A to point B.

Hahaha, yes I've seen this video making the rounds and getting LOLs everywhere as well.

Freddy is right, the "continental" clean as these girls are demonstrating it is 100% standard in strongman, and is a LOT easier to do if you have a big power belly or at least a thick powerlifting belt. I had an axle in my garage in IL, and would basically, with a pronated grip, deadlift the badboy onto my belt, switch grips, budge it up to just below my chest, and then perform a mini-hang clean and get it on my delts for the press. I could actually clean and jerk like a barbell up until about 242, after that it was way too hard to get under.

Variety and "different training modalities" are good, but I see nothing but herniated discs in the future of these poor girls. Get strong first is good advice.

want to play with an axle bar and atlas stones, too.

HAHA. SKINNY CROSSFITTERS.

The only thing that bothered me about the video was hearing someone say, "dip, drive, dip". Such a worthless cue, IMO.

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