Seems pretty brutal. Has Symonds attempted this yet? My goal would be 24:00, including 6 minutes of segmented rests. Would require an average of 89-90 meters a minutes for the 18 minutes of carrying. Equal to bodyweight.
Record: 4/28/2021. 25:42
Seems pretty brutal. Has Symonds attempted this yet? My goal would be 24:00, including 6 minutes of segmented rests. Would require an average of 89-90 meters a minutes for the 18 minutes of carrying. Equal to bodyweight.
Record: 4/28/2021. 25:42
Farmers walk is not too hard for distance runners. Carrying the weight that low to the ground doesn't require exceptional strength, like for example, a bench press would and plus runners already have good endurance.
I agree. All about time. The quicker the harder.
Maybe 24 min is like a 4 min mile. Maybe harder. Great challenge. Maybe I'll do this vs. Symonds!!
STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""-""""--'-"--^' wrote:
Farmers walk is not too hard for distance runners. Carrying the weight that low to the ground doesn't require exceptional strength, like for example, a bench press would and plus runners already have good endurance.
How much do you carry when you do farmer's walks? How far do you walk? Most of my HS runners had problems carrying 45 pounds in each hand for more than 1 minute.
The challenge isn't lifting the weight or walking with it. The challenge is gripping the bar. I routinely did a farmers' carry as part of a fitness class. I'd do bodyweight reps of 60m and recover while my partner did his rep. After 6 reps, I couldn't make it back without dropping the weight.
This is harder than it sounds.
fisky wrote:
The challenge isn't lifting the weight or walking with it. The challenge is gripping the bar. I routinely did a farmers' carry as part of a fitness class. I'd do bodyweight reps of 60m and recover while my partner did his rep. After 6 reps, I couldn't make it back without dropping the weight.
This is harder than it sounds.
Carrying the trap bar seems a more difficult way to carry 200lbs. I think carrying the weight at your shoulders across your back might be easier and allow for faster walking. Although you might need spotters on either side for safety.
Easy for me to say from behind my keyboard in my moms basement tho.
That seems like an odd way to do a farmers carry for time. Firstly I would have thought kettlebells or dumbells would be easier on your stride, but he's also bending his arms, so his whole arms are gonna get thrashed as opposed to going straight arm and it just being grip
fisky wrote:
The challenge isn't lifting the weight or walking with it. The challenge is gripping the bar.
Bingo.
lease wrote:
fisky wrote:
The challenge isn't lifting the weight or walking with it. The challenge is gripping the bar.
Bingo.
My grip is unusually strong. I did over 80 feet once with more than 3x my bodyweight- 305%. I had weights in each hand equaling 224lbs. Each. These were official farmer walk handles, a little thicker than your typical bench press bar and nicely knurled. I'll also use grip chalk.
This record is just your bodyweight. So if you are 145, - carry 145. I imagine each lap a little slower than the next. Grip would certainly be giving out after 15- 20 minutes. Heart rate will certainly be soaring near the end as fatigue sets in. I will train for a couple months and go for WR in October. Someone asked about training grip- static holds for time help.
Keyboard Expert wrote:
Carrying the trap bar seems a more difficult way to carry 200lbs. I think carrying the weight at your shoulders across your back might be easier and allow for faster walking.
May be true, but that'd be a different challenge.
Reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVV9pd5BYKgGrip is the determining factor.
A runner may have less weight to hold but unless you've done pull-ups or deadlifts your grip is simply going to give out.
I'll have to open the link but can this be done jogging? Jogging/shuffling with intermittent breaks may be the best way to go about this.
Also, any gymnast or mountain climber would destroy this record.
Alan
Yup its like 85% grip.
If your hands arent calloused in all the right spots already, ya aint ready for it.
You'd want to be able to dead hang for at least 2 mins as a start.
I feel like top climbers would be good at this
Runningart2004 wrote:
Grip is the determining factor.
A runner may have less weight to hold but unless you've done pull-ups or deadlifts your grip is simply going to give out.
I'll have to open the link but can this be done jogging? Jogging/shuffling with intermittent breaks may be the best way to go about this.
Also, any gymnast or mountain climber would destroy this record.
Alan
Yes of course jog/shuffle legal.
I would love to challenge a gymnast or climber. Fun, but I thunk I have the advantage.
I'm not either, but I am a multiple WR holder in pullups. Gymnasts actually lack grip endurance. Climbers do not, but lack miler/5k endurance unless they train for it.
Who knows? Unless you have the courage to try.
STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""-""""--'-"--^' wrote:
Carrying the weight that low to the ground doesn't require exceptional strength,
Oh my god bruh you’re so stupid
Good lord, he looks (and, I think, even sounds) so different these days. Wikipedia says that he was 5'10" and 127 lbs. in 2015. How does a world-class marathoner (from a family of genetically gifted distance runners) go from 127 to such a heavily muscled 195 in his late thirties? (I realize that this has probably been discussed at great length on this board, but I haven't followed his post-retirement life much.)
Avocado's Number wrote:
Good lord, he looks (and, I think, even sounds) so different these days. Wikipedia says that he was 5'10" and 127 lbs. in 2015. How does a world-class marathoner (from a family of genetically gifted distance runners) go from 127 to such a heavily muscled 195 in his late thirties? (I realize that this has probably been discussed at great length on this board, but I haven't followed his post-retirement life much.)
While it may seem shocking to the outside observer, it's really not that surprising. The dude was dedicated in running and he's dedicated in making the gains. As for a grip strength boost, he should take a page out of the MLB book and find some Spider Tack or whatever they call that stuff that the cheaters use.
Now if a person who was already lifting for many years made sudden gains, in that case I would expect steroids. There's a possibility, though im not accusing him, that Hall used TRT/synthetic testosterone because he appears to not produce testosterone naturally very well if at all and that is actually a tell tale sign of TRT use because the body stops producing test naturally and even permanently if you use synthetic testosterone. His obsession with God also makes him untrustworthy, which probably seems ironic to most but once you understand human psycology, it makes sense.
Farmerted wrote:
My grip is unusually strong. I did over 80 feet once with more than 3x my bodyweight- 305%. I had weights in each hand equaling 224lbs. Each. These were official farmer walk handles, a little thicker than your typical bench press bar and nicely knurled. I'll also use grip chalk.
This record is just your bodyweight. So if you are 145, - carry 145. I imagine each lap a little slower than the next. Grip would certainly be giving out after 15- 20 minutes. Heart rate will certainly be soaring near the end as fatigue sets in. I will train for a couple months and go for WR in October. Someone asked about training grip- static holds for time help.
80ft would be like a 200m while this challenge is more like a 10k. It is going to feel real easy for the first 5 mins and then the difficulty will just amp up. It would be interesting to do a 400 and see how WR pace feels
Sort of wish he did dumbbells instead of trap bar. But this is an interesting challenge.
ddidididid wrote:
Farmerted wrote:
My grip is unusually strong. I did over 80 feet once with more than 3x my bodyweight- 305%. I had weights in each hand equaling 224lbs. Each. These were official farmer walk handles, a little thicker than your typical bench press bar and nicely knurled. I'll also use grip chalk.
This record is just your bodyweight. So if you are 145, - carry 145. I imagine each lap a little slower than the next. Grip would certainly be giving out after 15- 20 minutes. Heart rate will certainly be soaring near the end as fatigue sets in. I will train for a couple months and go for WR in October. Someone asked about training grip- static holds for time help.
80ft would be like a 200m while this challenge is more like a 10k. It is going to feel real easy for the first 5 mins and then the difficulty will just amp up. It would be interesting to do a 400 and see how WR pace feels
Sort of wish he did dumbbells instead of trap bar. But this is an interesting challenge.
Yes, but I was carrying over 3x BW. Carrying BW, would be easy at least for the first lap. After a half mile short 50m bursts with planned rests will increase in frequency. I'm not worried about grip. Just the over all fatigue and energy drain - especially after about 15 minutes.
Avocado's Number wrote:
Good lord, he looks (and, I think, even sounds) so different these days. Wikipedia says that he was 5'10" and 127 lbs. in 2015. How does a world-class marathoner (from a family of genetically gifted distance runners) go from 127 to such a heavily muscled 195 in his late thirties? (I realize that this has probably been discussed at great length on this board, but I haven't followed his post-retirement life much.)
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Training...and TRT....
Alan