How about a 2000lb club for beginning Strongman
500lb Squat
500lb Deadlift
500lb Benchpress
250lb Strict Overhead Press
250lb Barbell Back Lunges(Barbell on back got to do at least 1 each leg)
I wouldn't be worried about the Bench Press but now to get into the MetRx World's Strongest Man contest you've got to do an Unstable 440lb bench press for reps. It's part of the Strength Series prelims, now.
And I'm looking for a cheap little Squat Rack for outdoors so I can do some super heavy walking lunges. I just believe in the strength gains there in the core as well as the legs.
500lbs on Squat and Deadlift was suggested to me as a starting point for Strongman because of the strength needed in the core. Lunges are one leg at a time so I'm thinking I'm pretty sure 250lbs is right there with it as far as core strength.
Anyway, 2000lbs would be a nice starting point. I think Brooks or the Brawn guy put the 300/400/500 in their book as the strenght standard but I was kind of dissappointed that benching made it over a real lift that really strengthens the Core, Overhead Pressing. Overhead Pressing was the original Powerlift before they replaced it with benching over judging concerns. Just putting it in there for recreational lifters I guess I would put the weight at somewhere between 200lbs and 250. Hoffman puts it at 215 for the 198lb+ people in his old York courses. Those were the heavyweights back then. We've come a long way since.
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