Moving blog

For anybody who cares, I'm moving this blog to bigtallox.blogspot.com.

Tuesday night strongman training in AF

We did the yoke walk.  I did 350-ish EASY, then did 480-ish pretty EASY, and then tried 603, here's the video...

Man, pretty hard, but they all said it was really good for my first time trying.  

I could only stay for doing the farmers walk once with what I think was about 140 pounds on each side.  Piece of cake.  Russ said I had good technique and would not change anything.  Wow, a lot different than benching, lol.

Tuesday DE bench

DE bench in AF

12 sets x 3 with only purple bands.

Tricep rope push downs/face pulls.

A guy there was asking about my bands and wanted to try it to see what it felt like.  I've seen him there before, he can bench 315.  He asked how much "weight" were the bands, and I said it was about 125 per band at the top ( top for me ).  He wanted to try it, I said i'd spot him because it will feel really unstable.  I told him.  I lifted off for him, the bar wobbled all over and basically went right down to his chest.  It didn't just fall, I mean he was pressing it, so he wasn't going to get hurt but I think it really surprised him.  I said I liked how bands kind of mix it up and keeps you from adapting.  I think he got the benefit of it, he asked me where to buy some bands.

ME squats

ME squats with reverse bands

warm up ( straight weight )

bar x 8

bar x 8

135 x 6

reverse bands

315 x 3

405 x 2

495 x 1

585 x 1

The point was for me to get used to just holding the weight, ie I didn't care all that much about hitting parallel.  Anyway, the weight felt light.  Here's the 585

More grip work.  I got 180 pounds on the rolling thunder on my right hand.  Very cool.

OK, one more sill video, measuring my hand span

Measuring my handspan since a 7'5" friend on youtube says his is 12", so I had to know how I compared.  I guess it's kind of related to my grip training.  I've read average for a man is about 8".

Another silly video

I was frustrated with being too big for my truck, so I made this video to convince the wife that I need a bigger on.

Height check, ie too BIG for front door.

6'8" ( actually a little over ) 330 pounds and time to get a bigger/taller door/house.