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Stone lifting, it's a lifestyle. My arms are cut up, my back hurts, and I am struggling to stay awake at 8:45pm on a Saturday. That being said, I had so much fun today lifting stones with the Bells of Steel Crew that I wouldn't have wanted to be doing anything else.

This is why I love strongman training so much. You pick some heavy, awkward object, get crazy, then start lifting it with your buddies egging and cheering you on.

Is your training fun? Do you love to do it? If not, find an activity that is fun as hell as to do. Then, and probably most importantly, find or build a community around this activity. Training with a group of like minded and focused athletes is way more fun than training alone and will push you to new limits.

Here are the workouts I did today to get bigger, stronger and tougher.

Saturday AM, Body Weight Drills

• Body Weight Circuit, 3 rounds of 10-20 reps per drill
• reverse lunge
• side lunge
• hand walk outs
• hip thrust
• Russian twist
• t-push-up

The goal of this morning session was to stimulate my metabolism and get some conditioning in. So basically to not be a fat ass. 

Saturday PM, Strongman Practice

• Mobility Work
• Dynamic Warm-Up
• empty barbell complex
• Atlas Stone Lifting
• 180lbs x 3, 240lbs x 4 x 1, 300lbs x 5 x 1, 365 x 2 x 1
• Log Clean and Press
• 175lbs x 5 x 5
• Truck Push
• 2 x max distance 
• I actually think I somehow left my body towards the end of the second set

Going into this training session I really just wanted to get some practice in the stones and the log. Fortunately it quickly turned into a brutal stone lifting contest among my training partners. Luckily I was pressured into trying to lift the biggest stone in our gym, the 365lber.

To be honest I didn't even think I would crack the ground with it, but I didn't want to bitch out so I gave it a try.  I don't know if it was the guys cheering me on or what, but I ended up lapping and extending up with the 365lb stone on two separate sets, loading it on the second attempt. This was a huge PR for me so it was a great workout, but like I wrote at the beginning of the post, I am paying for it now.

Here is a great video demonstrating proper Atlas Stone lifting technique.



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