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- Sep 8, 2010
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Well I was helpin my moms today.
She wanted to build a rock wall along her dog runs. So we went and filled up the back of my truck with several large stones anywhere from 70 to 150 lbs.
No biggie.
We got back with the rocks and she wanted this one rock by her old garden moved. It was a large flat rock about 10 inches thick.
It was probably close to 3 feet in length and about 1 foot in a half the other way.
So I got it on its edge and it had to way right around 350lbs Im guessing. So I squatted down bear hugged and picked it up and put it in the wheel barrow, now let me stop...on a bad day I can still deadlift low 6's on a good close to 700.
This rock was close to 1/2 that but it wasnt a bar and it was all I could to get that thing up and into the wheel barrow, reminded me of the Ayers stone walk that strongmen competitors do or the Atlas stones. Most guys make it once down and 1/2 way back with the Ayers stone...I wouldnt have made it 15 feet.
Functional strength like that is incredible it takes a lot of synergy with all those muscles working at one time, and a bar would have made that rock seem like a peice of cake.
It takes specific training using those elements in their raw manner to really become proficient at doing it.
This is nothing that I hadnt realized or said before, but its been a long time since I had to perform a task like that myself and needless to say that shit was tough.
Koudos to these athletes, incredible to say the least.
Bodybuilding has certainly made me stronger in one dimension but that kind of functional strength comes from lifting more than just weights.
She wanted to build a rock wall along her dog runs. So we went and filled up the back of my truck with several large stones anywhere from 70 to 150 lbs.
No biggie.
We got back with the rocks and she wanted this one rock by her old garden moved. It was a large flat rock about 10 inches thick.
It was probably close to 3 feet in length and about 1 foot in a half the other way.
So I got it on its edge and it had to way right around 350lbs Im guessing. So I squatted down bear hugged and picked it up and put it in the wheel barrow, now let me stop...on a bad day I can still deadlift low 6's on a good close to 700.
This rock was close to 1/2 that but it wasnt a bar and it was all I could to get that thing up and into the wheel barrow, reminded me of the Ayers stone walk that strongmen competitors do or the Atlas stones. Most guys make it once down and 1/2 way back with the Ayers stone...I wouldnt have made it 15 feet.
Functional strength like that is incredible it takes a lot of synergy with all those muscles working at one time, and a bar would have made that rock seem like a peice of cake.
It takes specific training using those elements in their raw manner to really become proficient at doing it.
This is nothing that I hadnt realized or said before, but its been a long time since I had to perform a task like that myself and needless to say that shit was tough.
Koudos to these athletes, incredible to say the least.
Bodybuilding has certainly made me stronger in one dimension but that kind of functional strength comes from lifting more than just weights.