Strongman Competition Container Comp 7.11.09
Did my first Strongman competition last saturday at Jason Talbot's container in Harby Leicestershire. I travelled down with Pat 'Homemade' Hodgson fairly early and managed to get a great sausage and bacon butty at Harby petrol station cafe before the comp!!
The competetion started at 11am after a briefing about the rules of the comp from JT.
First event was the Overhead (in medley format), first implement was a 62kg very thick handled dumbbell, which went up pretty easily. Then onto the 110kg Yoke, mission accomplished without too many worries. Third lift was 110kg thick log bar, I struggled with this due to handle placing as it was such a big diameter log, I ended up trying twice to press out so moved onto the next lift which was the 120kg axle, I continentalled it onto the belt and then straight up to the chest and overhead. Final lift was a double attempt at a 69kg Inch dumbbell which I failed just to lock out on with a few seconds spare.
With my pre-nerves out of the window, I set upon the second task - deadlift. Started with a 220kg (50mm)axle, then 250kg trap bar and 155kg each hand farmers walk bar deadlift final lift was a failure at 275kg olympic bar deadlift - I managed to get the weight off the floor by about 4 inches but thought better of really fighting it to save myself for the rest of the competition.
Third task was the medley which was 140kg each hand farmers walk 15m, 300kg tyre flip for 2 reps and 175kg duck walk for 15m. Once again I scraped through the whole lot in 88.9 secs and a bruised foot from glancing my foot with the farmers walk bar. This really got me blowing big time!
Final event was the atlas stones 120kg,135kg,160kg and 180kg. I got the first 2 stones up without too much trouble but ended up with no tacky left on my arms so couldn't even get a grip on the 160kg atlas stones - a little bit dissapointed with this as I think I was capable of getting the third stone up. However, you learn from these things.
Overall, the comp was a great experience with a lot of great guys supporting each other. Hopefully I will make it into the Adlington Push/Pull meeting in January, which will certainly give me something to train for as I was far from trained up for this one (only 3 sessions in the last few months as I've been training for my Hammer Bash event)
I would highly recommend to anyone to do this comp and train with Jason on saturdays at the Container for about £3 a session. Jason also sells atlas stones for a very good price (i bought a 120kg stone to get some practice in) Check out JT's site atlasstones.co.uk
Links To Utube videos of Comp with time in mins/secs where my events start
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDpp7E1xJYs 3min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvlHhARe7M4 2min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wzvmcPlPMw 40 sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG9VxTplkbI 6min 40
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