20th January 2008 – 375 mm handles; 186 kg and 196 kg walks, 2 sets of 20 metres each
The last time I did Farmer’s Walk was on the 8th August 2007 – today I did them for distance totalling 80 metres in 4 sets. I used a regular grip rather than a hook grip.
I was [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2008
Dead Walk
Squat Cycle II
13th January 2008 – stance 800 mm, beam 765 mm; 181 kg and 174 kg squat.
Introduction
This is the second cycle of squats the first being reported here.
To cut a short story short, on the 10th January 2008 I started the 2nd Squat Cycle and on the 13th January squatted 181 kg;
Sunday 13 Jan 08 13:40 51MIN 77KG [...]
Deadlift Cycle II
2nd January 2008 – stance 800 mm, beam 240 mm; 208 kg mono and 183 kg no mono – click on the photo for an animation.
Introduction
This is the second cycle of deadlifts the first being reported here.
What I did
The basic layout of each session of deadlifts looks like this;
LIFT WID DEP
8′ SUMO mono 800 240
2 [...]
Visitor
Russell has a go at the Sumo style deadlift and tube Kick Backs
The last time Russell came round to lift was on 23rd January 2004 – he showed impressive upper body strength by working up to a 159 kg bench.
It seemed a good idea for him to do another session. I lead the way [...]
Hydraulics
Jon demonstrates a regular deadlift – click on the picture to see a gif animation; see here for an explanation.
Without hydraulic action from the torso a lifter would lift almost as little as the average HITer…
When scientists first calculated how much weight the spine should be able to lift they were somewhat surprised to discover [...]