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Yes to Alan Thrall, no to Scott Herman

Best thing I did was join the starting strongman forum super helpful community and keeping a lifting journal can really help maintain accountability. Atlas stones as a shorter athlete just means you can't be lazy you have explode your way up and basically catapult the stone off your chest. Being shorter you have the…

What other events are there? Is there a novice division?

I use the general strongman program from starting strongman its I think 10 bucks you get a 4 day a week template. I own a lot of the things and they are the male sizes I make my sister train on them to the best of her ability (my log empty is 130 and it murders me) My first contest I only practiced a couple of the events…

What have you done? How experienced are you? What are your goals?

Any pressing movement

Fat gain is inevitable but can be limited with a smaller surplus. Dont do what I did and gain 30lbs in 3 months lol you can also rotate surplus and deficits 6 weeks of SLOW surplus .5 lbs gained a week Followed by 2 weeks of small deficit .5-1lb You shouldnt lose any strength with a small deficit for 2 weeks this should of…

I recommend 5/3/1 as the templates are damn near endless and as long as you keep everything in balance and do was poppa wendler says which is basically summarized as "eat lift sprint kill but have a plan" you can have insane success. Looking back I wish I had spent the last 2 years experimenting with other training methods…

If what you currently are doing is eliciting progress do not change until progress stops.

For the floor you can build a lifting platform its incredibly easy and they are pretty sturdy. Mine is three sheets of plywood with horsematting on the edges to take the impact. However my garage floor was already cracking down the center and I was doomed from the get go I'm moving my dungeon under my house and until then…

I would actually look into something called the Greyskull LP. I think it is a far more solid training plan for a beginner to follow very similar to SL5x5 but there are numerous alterations you can make depnding on yiur beginning goal. The sort of amrap set(he explains it) gives a better foundation to build yourself up from…

I do deadlift training on monday usually involving some leg assisitance work Squat thursdays and saturdays. Depending if you are reffering to weight training, muscle protein synthesis to my knowledge the latest studies have show is only active for 24-48 hours after a training session. So the best thing to do is to keep…

507.5 deadlift at my last meet https://instagram.com/p/BF-CJcqqT4J/

Also! Your press should roughly be around 60-66% of your barbell bench press. Often if you put 5-10 lbs on your press you likeky gained 10-20 on your bench.

If you find your ohp stalling it could benefit ftom added workload to the muscle groups involved. If your press is stalling and it isnt due to technique error then it is due to slowed hypertrophy. When you stall on SL5x5 I believe they say to drop the weight back when you do I would honestly modify the program slightly.…

At least you're doing the key point of eating in a surplus and having a damn plan of progression. Good luck and go grind those reps man.

Where is the pain located and do you do any trigger point therapy? I trained with triceps tendonitis for over a year and a half and finally after the pain shot through my arm so bad I damn near missed a rep on the bench I took a step back. I did a fe things 1. I took 4 weeks completely off the gym 2. I iced and heated my…

The best program is the one you're not doing

I wouldn't say the rest is necessary for muscle recovery. They will help with connective and soft tissue as well as CNS recovery. Muscle is incredibly resilient due to whats known as the repeated bout effect. If muscle needed as much rest as people seem to think then construction workers and the like would obviously just…

I've got 6 tattoos the latest was my entire chest in one session, I was in the gym the next day training. Did everything same as I had planned and had no problems. Same for my two upper arm pieces.

Typically I do my best to never grind through any repetitions in training. I feel it trains poor movement patterns. A good workout is simply achieving the goal of that day whether it be a new 1rm on a log press or a new 20rm on a squat or simply getting a good amount of repetition work on to lead to a new pr down the road.…

I have fallen in love with the Log Press. It's just beyond fun to clean and press that thing.

Hit a lifetime best of 495 on sunday https://instagram.com/p/BCowp_0qTyC/

It's not about where you start though it's where you end.

In 2 months doing 275 is right on track. Bear in mind once you hit 315 consistently adding weight to the deadlift will take time and effort. I just did 495 on sunday at a bw of 210lbs after I did 650lb yoke walk. It was a lifetime PR but it took me almost 4 years to achieve it.

Not a fan of reverse grip. At least as a main movement. i would maybe follow up my bench pressing with it for sets of 10+ Jamie Lewis was doing something like 365 on a reverse grip incline bench

Heavy Romanian Deadlifts. I do a max set of 20 after I squat. After that I do the Death March. It's a Cal Strength movement you can find a tutorial on google. Basically a Lunge/RDL hybrid.

Should also clarify weight training is not Weightlifting Weightlifting is the Olympic sport No standard reistance training.

I've done 6 days a week and been fine. The thing that will give first os either your CNS or your soft tissue. For me I finally agotated my tricep to the point I couldn't keep up that frequency. I was running the Jamie Lewis Destroy The Opposition Program deadlift specialist variant. If I could go back I would simply have…