I will do my best to help you.
First bit of advice, go to the NASS website and find out who your State Chairman is, and make a post on their message board, the Anvil, asking if anyone in your area trains. Even if you don't train with them on a weekly basis, learning form on things like tires, stones, logs, and axles is key. Its also really hard to come up with exercises to simulate them in the gym sometimes.
In the gym, I would stop focusing on bench press. Bench pressing doesn't help strongman much. Once you get pretty good at the events you can add some back in, but I would never make it a priority. Instead focus on a lot of mid and upper back work. Just about every event will hammer these parts in some way, so they need to get used to taking punishment and developing huge work capacity.
How many kegs do you have? I would recommend doing less throws and spending more time learning to press them and load them. Filling them to different weights will help this. Awkward cleaning and overhead pressing is very crucial in strongman. If you have ever heard of a continatal clean, I would practice it. If you don't know what it is, I will try to find a video.
A cool exercise to kind of simulate stones is to load up one end of a barbell like in a T-Bar row and pratice picking it up, it will help.
Exactly how you break down your gym time is going to depend on how many days a week you can train and what your weaknesses are, so if you can give me as much info as possible it would be really helpful.
The other thing to really consider is that good strongmen are explosive. So learning to Oly lift, or at least using dynamic exercises is big. Power will come into play big time. Exploding through a stone or tire will help you out a lot. Same with a log or axle.
Danny
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