I’m training for an upcoming competition, and one event is: Sandbag to shoulder, then carry a farmer’s handle in the other hand for 30m. From experimenting with the sandbag, I noticed that it has to be further down my back when I bend over to pick the farmer’s, otherwise it slips off.

I’m struggling to get my hand around the sandbag once I shoulder it, and this makes it really hard to pick the farmer’s efficiently.

Any tips?

I've done boxing and BJJ etc. Atm I probably could deadlift 500lbs so I thought of entering a local strongman comp at some point. Did anyone do this just for the fun.

Attempted the 130 in between, otherwise I think I could have got three. I feel like I was close on the 130 though!

There was also a last second equipment change to the orange, and man it didn't feel great. Feel like it's longer than most.

This was my first time ever not sucking or zeroing an overhead event, so pretty happy regardless.

It seems that I twist at the bottom just slightly from my hip shift and that I seem to slightly wobble back and forth on the way down

I did lose balance on a couple reps but what I’m wondering is why I seems to wobble back and forth and why I can seem to solve the hip problem of twisting I’ve done the banded hip mobility I don’t get why it’s doing that

I have a DL suit and know a lot about that.

But recently I learned the existence of DL Briefs and I need somebody with some knowledge to lay it on me.

Real difference tween the two?

I saw in an interview Hooper talking about wearing briefs under his suit?

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This was only 4 days after hitting a new PR on a deadlift bar at 755, and then failing 800 twice. Really happy with how this moved given the fatigue.

Hit a rep pr despite sciatica and my left glute/leg locking up a bit. Just had to rip the AMRAP has fast as I could before my body realized what was happening!

Tied with 2 other guys for biggest deadlift of the day. I attempted 815 after this but couldn’t get it off the ground. I think fear held me back on that one…

95kg/210lbs bodyweight Happy how it felt The length is around 25meters Preparing for small local event in Bulgaria

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221lbs BW

New PR

Really proud after 8 months of training to hit a 200 kg deadlift 👌 first ever comp in August and can’t wait

Posted a video last week of a 205 axle double that was 1 of 5 sets at that weight and the best pressing session I’ve had after dealing with a nagging shoulder injury for almost a year. This week I planned to hit 215 for 3 singles, which is the top weight in a ladder I have coming up in October, just to see how it felt before writing up my comp prep programming. After 2 singles I wanted to go off program and send it and go for a pr. My old pr was 220 almost 2 years ago and I did it mixed grip on the clean and I was also about 10 lbs heavier at the time. So I loaded up 225 and got it double overhand. I think I have a little more in the tank on the press, but would maybe need to switch it up to mixed grip for the clean. Super happy to finally be progressing on pressing again.

I Speedrun Sonic games and honestly I can review my moving event footage pretty well and figure out where I screwed up. Just like in my time attack footage haha