Jordan Derksen
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12-04-20 01:16 PM - Post#905294
Dan, I just watched one of your youtube videos on loaded carry recommendations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYvBnAIT8UY
You mention to constantly cycle the type and weight on the loaded carries. Very good recommendations. This summer I took loaded carries seriously for the first time, I did them 3 days a week. At first it was great, I varied load and distance, but I never varied the type of carry. I always just did farmer walks with my kettlebells; rotating through double 24's, 32's, and 40's and moderating distance based on load.
It didn't take long and I got wicked hand pain especially between the thumb and index finger. Naturally I stopped, and my massage therapist said that my hand tightness resembled a massage therapists hands ha ha. So, dealing with that still a bit but it's getting better.
I won't be doing these again for a while, but eventually I want to work on them again. For easy strength we are supposed to pick one exercise to do for 2-6 weeks. Here's where you face palm from the dumb question. My question is does this rotation of loaded carry types apply to easy strength? Or are we supposed to pick one type of loaded carry as well? Maybe I didn't vary the load and distance enough to have truly easy days, but I definitely over did it doing only farmer walks.
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Dan John
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12-04-20 03:19 PM - Post#905304
Don't take this wrong, but you really made something really simple so complex you lost me.
IF you choose to do LCs...vary them each and every ES workout. Waiter walks, rack walks, singles, doubles, drags, pushes whatever...
If you want to go easy, go lighter. Waiter Walks are great forlight days.
Daniel John
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Jordan Derksen
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12-04-20 03:36 PM - Post#905307
Hey, if you didn't have idiots around to test your programs how would you idiot proof them?
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DanMartin
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12-04-20 04:03 PM - Post#905310
I'm the one-eyed man among the blind, I just do one weighted carry...the suitcase walk. I like Farmer's walks, and I've done my share of Waiter's walks. YMMV of course, but like Dan said don't over think it.
Between Suitcase walks and side planks, I'm covered.
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Matt_T
Total Posts: 379
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12-04-20 05:47 PM - Post#905312
Make yourself a human barometer.
Nice out? Farmers walk, waiter walk
Pissing down? Rack carries, suitcase walk (no banging the door frames), march on the spot
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Dan John
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12-04-20 06:40 PM - Post#905315
Excellent stuff here...
Daniel John
Just handing down what I was handed down...
Make a Difference.
Live. Love. Laugh.
Balance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude)
Sleep soundly. Drink Water. Eat veggies and protein. Walk.
Wear your seat belt. Don’t smoke. Floss your teeth.
Put weights overhead. Pick weights off the floor. Carry weights.
Reread great books. Say thank you |
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DanMartin
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Excellent stuff here...
To digress, when I mentioned I do side planks I had to follow Dr. McGill's* progressions because I could not do the side plank to start. Now I can.
The McGill Big Three are the Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion. I digress once again. (I have those little oblique things now.) I usually workout in the morning. In the afternoon, my chain link fence let's me know that it is present and accounted for. YMMV
*Dr. McGill feels strongly about one kettlebell weighted carries. He prefer's them to Farmer's walks. I believe his progression is...suitcase carry, rack walk, bottom's up walk.
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vegpedlr
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12-04-20 08:25 PM - Post#905319
Overthinking is my primary sport, but for some reason, when it came to carries, I don’t. When I trained in a gym, I typically just did farmers walks, heavy as I could due to lack of space. When I trained at a bigger gym that had a decent selection of KBs, I mixed in rack carries and mixed carries. I always saved them for last and winged it by feel. Feeling fresh? Do more. Feeling flat? Farmer walk out and back and call it good. Now I mainly do suitcase or rack carries as active recovery between sets of swings.
Despite my lackadaisical approach, carries have been a game changer for me on the bike.
On a separate note I read about a set I call Reverse Cook. Start with a farmer, when your grip fatigues, switch to rack, then waiter. Anybody try something like this?
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Steve Rogers
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12-04-20 10:45 PM - Post#905322
I've done the standard Cook Drill by not the Reverse.
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Dan John
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12-05-20 08:34 AM - Post#905330
In a way, "if I could do it all again," I would have focused on the Suitcase Carry.
Probably more hills, prowlers and sleds...less squats, too.
Probably not break my nose six times...
Daniel John
Just handing down what I was handed down...
Make a Difference.
Live. Love. Laugh.
Balance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude)
Sleep soundly. Drink Water. Eat veggies and protein. Walk.
Wear your seat belt. Don’t smoke. Floss your teeth.
Put weights overhead. Pick weights off the floor. Carry weights.
Reread great books. Say thank you |
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AAnnunz
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Now that I've been forced to train at home (again!), my goto "carry" has become the sled pull. Not only is it great for conditioning, but I can get a decent upper body workout by doing high-rep chest and near vertical presses, rows, triceps extensions, curls, I/W/Ts, and face pulls as I pull. I do suitcase carries when I bring plates back and forth from my garage to/from the sled, of course.
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Edited by AAnnunz on 12-05-20 10:15 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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iPood
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12-05-20 11:20 AM - Post#905334
In a way, "if I could do it all again," I would have focused on the Suitcase Carry.
Probably more hills, prowlers and sleds...less squats, too.
Probably not break my nose six times...
Squats broke your nose?
"I think we often spend too much time focusing on max fitness
and not nearly enough on maintaining our minimums.
It seems we need to think sustainable rather than obtainable.
Meaning whatever we do today, we can do it again tomorrow.
Never taking so much from ourselves that we can't."
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Dan John
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12-06-20 10:59 AM - Post#905357
These are things I would change if possible.
Daniel John
Just handing down what I was handed down...
Make a Difference.
Live. Love. Laugh.
Balance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude)
Sleep soundly. Drink Water. Eat veggies and protein. Walk.
Wear your seat belt. Don’t smoke. Floss your teeth.
Put weights overhead. Pick weights off the floor. Carry weights.
Reread great books. Say thank you |
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DanMartin
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