For some time now mates of mine have been coming over to my place on Saturday mornings for our regular strongman workouts. These mates come from all walks of life from Policeman through to lawyers but the one thing we have in common is we have a passion for working out and in particular working out using strongman type exercises. We don't have a massive amount of space but we are capable of doing lots of various exercises because we use our imagination. You have no doubt I'm sure read various articles about building your own workout gear. We have done just that as well as utilising existing equipment to really develop a wide array of training gear. We have built our own farmers walks as well as a sled that we use for pulling or sprints that can be easily loaded with weight by just chucking a kettlebell in it. A Typical workout looks something like this:
- Farmers Walks x 3 sets for 30 seconds or until failure
- Sandbag Jumps x 3 sets of 8 or 30 seconds (we use a sandbag that weighs 50kg and jump onto a bench that is about 40cm high
- Kettlebell swings using a 40kg Kettlebell x 3 sets for usually 30 second sets
- Stone lifts to the shoulder x 3 sets of about 6-8 reps (I bought the stone seen above from a nursery that I found it in, it weighs about 50kg
- snatch or powercleans using the existing olympic bar x 3 sets
- Seated sled pulls for 15 meters with various weights x 3 sets
- 2 handed Kettlebell (20kg KB) cleans and presses x 3 sets for 30 seconds
- Finish with stone carries utilising an 85KG square stone I found in a local park (see below)
- Chins and Dips to failure on a chin & dip station