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It is the day after Canada Day and as a proud Canuck I celebrated by eat meat, drinking a few beers and having a good time with my friends. So, one advil, several glasses of water and big breakfast of bacon and eggs later, I was ready to hit the weights again.

Saturday is our upper body strongman practice day, so we focused on log pressing and atlas stones. We used to do three events per session but found the third one to be pretty pathetic. Better to focus on two events than spread yourself out on three.

If you don't have a strongman log or a fat bar, then just use a barbell for now. But even if you don't plan on competiting in strongman, using a fat handled implement to train heavy with will take your performance to the next level.

As for stone lifting, you can always hit a park or woods and play with a big stone you come across. Or, there is always the option of using a giant sandbag. Either way, stone lifting is a man maker, so try to include it in your training.

Here is the workout we did to prepare for the next strongman contest:

• Mobility Work
• Dynamic Warm-Up
• empty barbell complex
• A1 Fat Bar/Axle Clean and Press
• as a warm-up
• up to 165lbs x 2 x 2
• A2 Fat Gripz Pull-Ups
• 4 x 8
• B1 Strongman Log Clean and Press
• worked up to 250lbs x 1, 1
• B2 Fat Gripz Pull-Ups
• 6 x 8
• Atlas Stone Lifting
• 240lbs stone x 5 x 1 with a controlled eccentric (grabbing it and putting it back down on the ground)
• 300lbs stone x 2 x 1 same as above
• No tacky used on any stones as I am trying to improve my squeezing strength
• C1 Dumbbell Row
• 4 x 10
• C2 Triceps Toss
• 4 x 10
• heavy triceps extension

Here is a good demonstration video on how to do the log clean and press.


Here is a good video demonstrating atlas stone lifting.