Strength / Weight Training

10 minutes and maximum reps of snatch.
A friend told be about it and said he did 270. Looked it up and that would place him on world top 3, so either too bad he didn’t film it for documentation or his memory is a bit off.

It sounds brutal!

Here’s some more info:
https://movemoresitless.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/the-secret-service-snatch-test/

In what way do you mean? What has your mate sacrificed? Is he working out for longer/everyday?

I don't expect it to be easy, exercise is hard. Come on you have to admit that flags are impressive?

You can get pretty fit without a huge lifestyle change. I used to be able to flag with a couple of gym classes a week of bodyweight stuff, and one on the rings. That was with triathlon being my main sport. All fairly casual though and I didn't particularly watch what I ate.

That said, your perceptions of what is a lot change. I still trained more than almost anyone
outside my tri/gym circle. I just used race winner as my new benchmark.

I quite liked being faster than most calisthenics people and stronger than most triathletes.
But I wasn't stronger than the proper calisthenics lot and I wasn't faster than the proper triathletes. For that then I'd have needed to focus more and admit that some of the bodyweight stuff was making me tired for swim, or that running doesn't help you get stronger in many other areas.
And to actually get to properly competitive then I'd have needed to take another step up and really count what I ate, or head to the gym before work for a session as well as after etc.

Anyway, all the CSB stuff above aside, you can get a lot stronger without worrying about specialising. You can get faster/fitter/stronger than 95% of the people without having to sacrifice much. Can still drink, sleep a bit badly, miss a few sessions, eat some crap food.

The bits @ChainBreaker will be talking about are the guys that look like they're straight off the front cover of Men's Health. And they'll be micro managing everything and their gym/life balance will, by most standards, be completely fucked.
Worry about getting stronger than the easy 90% of people before you decide if you want to worry about the final 9 or 9.9 or 9.99%

Yeah I'm not trying to be a cover model. So you think every other day training is good if doing a full body workout each time? With a bit of skipping or running for cardio on the off days?

That sounds good

270? When the record is 275?! Is that like Thors home 501kg DL without a camera?

I don't think I'll fair well but I'll give it a go. I dread the DOMS though and issues with lower back fatigue.

I picked up the kettlebell because I want to strengthen my lower back and hams as I'm getting lower back pain 15mins into cycling (would you believe its on a FG track bike...)

I thought I saw a vid of Thor lifting 501kg DL?

He did... Its disputed by some because it wasn't in a competition due to C19 and therefore did it at a local gym. It definitely wouldn't have been believed if there wasn't any camera footage.

I'm saying that without the camera footage, 270 is highly unlikely if the world record is 275 or whatever.

Thanks. I thought I had missed some news of trickery etc. I have seen mention of Thor and Eddie Hall boxing for £1000000 as well. That would prove interesting.

He's swore off strongman so I guess the deal helped him move in that direction.

Just tried snatches. I suspect I'm loooong way from even a 100... My form sucks.

And here comes the DOMS.

It's boring but if you're after results nutrition is an important part of the equation. You can eat through exercise pretty quickly (or not give your body the right stuff to rebuild). You'll get benefits without paying much attention to diet, but you'll make gains and notice results a lot quicker if you do.

I tend to eat fairly healthy anyway. I realised about a week ago that I wasn't getting even close to enough protein though so I've added a lot more in so hopefully that should help.

https://uksupremefitness.com/bull-all-black-cast-iron-kettlebells-25th-june-2020?gclid=CjwKCAjw2a32BRBXEiwAUcugiC3MvNMQvsBBpe8cS54jgCt-hRvEAoTANXhhPkSWlFYplUrI0VPOVhoCDk4QAvD_BwE

In stock in a month.

I wish I could store a bench at mine. They have a good selection of DBs in stock soon to.

Hai guys. I did three pullups yesterday
Three! Count them! Roooooooar!

Jokes aside, at 100kg and being unable to do one last week, I'm feeling pretty chuffed.

Definitely something to be chuffed about Dan. Pull ups for us heavier folks is quite taxing.

Good effort!

I can't believe we both weigh the same.

Lol

Neither can I to be honest.

Has been a good 18 months for me fitness wise. Have lost about 14kg and reduced my body fat percentage by nearly a quarter. Running and riding better too. Very few niggles and injuries. Funnily enough, small adjustments rather than go hard and fail seems to be the key for me.

Lifting weights has made a huge difference to how quickly I can shed the fat. I think I was just stuck in a rut where my body had adapted to the exercise I was doing as overall I haven't really increased levels that much.

I'm really hoping that the weight loss will make a big difference to my climbing.

I found myself fit enough for big days in the mountains but the pace at which I could cover terrain was way off what is required for safety. In mountaineering you need to be able to get across the ice before the sun gets on it for example. You don't really have the luxury of slow and steady. It got to the point that the only way I was going to get faster was to shift some of the timber. Looking forward to challenging myself when lockdown is over. A bit of extra upper body strength won't hurt either.

Fuuuuuuck.....

I'm sure my gfs scales are wrong...

16.54 stone... 105kg

Boom! Excellent work :)

My main question is about how many times a week I should be training. Three days a week or every other day?

I realise I am a bit late to this, but I'd say three days a week sounds better. Not a great difference to training every other day, but that bonus rest day could be good to have whilst your body is getting used to your new training regime.

Run up hills, a lot. If you want to be fast on your approaches, nothing works better. And the crossover is amazing - running up a hill transfers you walking up hill with a heavy pack surprisingly well.
Also, good hill fitness is probably the most satisfying of the fitness rewards.

Fuck I wanna go and run up some big hills.

The problem I had was that I was running up hills too much. The lack of variation appears to have stalled my metabolism.

Doing some more varied speed work has been the main game changer.

That and a whole lot of roller skiing uphill and other cross training.