Farmer Walks

[Horse95]

When is a good time to throw these exercises in? I do not compete but my friend just got some and I want to use them without overtraining. On what kind of days do you guys like to train this exercise?

[kook]

Can you tell us the plan you are using, or plan on using when you get better, as in days of week pressing pulling squatting, and then also some goals. If your not going to compete, do you want the strongman training for conditioning/things of this nature, or are do you want to get real strong walking with weight?

[Horse95]

Currently i run , i guess you would say some what of a modified Westside Split. It started out pretty westside. Benching, Squatting and Deadlifting once a week with some lighter repetition days in in the week. I don't overhead press at all except for some very light dumbell military press on days i bench. Goals are to become stronger and introduce myself to a new stimulis. I feel my body is accomodating to my simple plan. I don't consider myself a strongman but enjoy the athletes and love the exercises. I'd just like to shake things up a bit and not let my body adapt.

[Evidence]

I see my Farmer Tordepos have motivated you to join huh brotha? I'm shedding a tear in joy :-).

[kook]

Iron God wrote a nice piece about strongman conditiong, which might be a good place to start, Hopefully he has that saved somewhere and can post it up.

[kook]

after thinking for a bit, without any thoughts about competing,

I would probably put farmers in as an accessory on your squat/DL day. Long runs with decent weight.But you could also once in awhile Use this as your main movement at the beginning of this day, 50-100ft with max weights.

For some reason I thought you had mentioned getting a sled? but don't see it now, At any rate I would put heavy sled dragging at the end of your pressing day, again longer runs with decent weight. Sled dragging is pretty easy to recover from as you don't really get any negative portion of it, and so I wouldn't worry so much about overtraining.

[Evidence]

I have the farmers in my garage and I have a sled and was looking to eventually add a yoke and a log. I don't compete and either does my friend. I have spoken to Steve Macdonald before about this and he gave me an extremely detailed plan and I was thankful for it but I don't think it was appropriate for me since I don't do exclussivly strongman competitons. Was trying to apply some russian bloc principles to some athletic training and trying my best to implement farmers into my routine. My friend trains with me (Horse) and I'm glad he brought this up.

[macrophage69 alpha]

personally do them on shoulders days, though dont powerlift any more. Tend to use for endurance as opposed to absolute strength, much longer "walks". Varying hand and should position to train delts, traps and rhomboids (as well as forearms). Though will stroll around with the 150's for a bit.

[Polski Byk]

Are you training for strongman or you adding these to a courant routine?