Weird Tales of Da Strongman

**robert da strongman** · 05-23-2011, 02:42 PM

some pre-pre workout music!!

**robert da strongman** · 05-26-2011, 02:03 PM

http://thelifeofastrongman.blogspot....this-week.html

good mornings 405x2 5 sets....these always get looks in the gym.
machine shrugs 540x10 5 sets
1 arm rope rows 60,80,100,120,140x8 drops 110,80,50x10 20x15
wide grip pulldowns 120x10 6 sets
face pulls 50x15 7 sets

**BEAST MODE** · 05-26-2011, 03:15 PM

Nice heavy training! I love doing GM's and racks and getting those looks!

**robert da strongman** · 05-26-2011, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by BEAST MODE

Nice heavy training! I love doing GM's and racks and getting those looks!

Thanks

**robert da strongman** · 06-02-2011, 02:52 PM

http://thelifeofastrongman.blogspot....-showtime.html

z-press on smith machine 135,185x5, 205x3, 225x1----tried 245 but it went only halfway
HS shoulder press 180x10 5 sets
dumbbell side raise 15x15 6 sets

reverse grip pres on smith 245x3 5 sets
pushdowns 40x20 7 sets

elliptical 20 minutes HIIT

**robert da strongman** · 06-03-2011, 03:35 PM

http://thelifeofastrongman.blogspot....tal-today.html

deficit deads 135, 225, 315x5, 415x1, 465x0---tried twice but it was going nowhere.
power squat machine facing in 630x8 5 sets drops 540, 450, 360, 270x8
leg press 360x 75 reps---rest paused

elliptical 20 minutes

**robert da strongman** · 06-06-2011, 02:50 PM

http://thelifeofastrongman.blogspot....my-lumber.html

zerchers from knees 275x5, 4, 3, 2, 1

seated zercher good mornings 135x5 5sets --- these were tough just to get in position. arms are nicely bruised an battered.

low row with rope 100x10, 150x10, 200x5 3 sets, drops 150x5, 100x5, 50x20 --- did these like the arm over arm pull. the rope was brutal on my hands.

machine shrugs 360x10 6 sets

face pulls 50x15 8 sets

elliptical 20 minutes HIIT

**BEAST MODE** · 06-06-2011, 03:16 PM

Good song choice!

**robert da strongman** · 06-06-2011, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by BEAST MODE

Good song choice!

they had the hair metal on in the gym today...did a little headbanging

**robert da strongman** · 06-07-2011, 03:03 PM

http://thelifeofastrongman.blogspot....ner-jokes.html

hang cleans bar, 95, 135x5, 155 6 singles
split press bar, 95, 115, 135x 2, 155 5 reps
hi pulls 275x2 5 sets
holds 450 20s, 15s, 10s

elliptical 20 minutes HIIT

**BEAST MODE** · 06-07-2011, 07:03 PM

Solution: just don't watch/read the news. Nothing they talk about matters anymore. It's all bs to entertain a society w/ an ever increasing case of ADD and decreasing IQ.

**robert da strongman** · 06-07-2011, 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by BEAST MODE

Solution: just don't watch/read the news. Nothing they talk about matters anymore. It's all bs to entertain a society w/ an ever increasing case of ADD and decreasing IQ.

Very true.

**stephaniewicked** · 06-08-2011, 05:43 AM

Happy birthdizzle robbbbbb!!!

**BEAST MODE** · 06-08-2011, 09:19 AM

Feliz cumpleanos, el duderino! Happy 40th bro!

**robert da strongman** · 06-08-2011, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by stephaniewicked

Happy birthdizzle robbbbbb!!!

Originally Posted by BEAST MODE

Feliz cumpleanos, el duderino! Happy 40th bro!

thanks you 2!

**musclegoddess65** · 06-08-2011, 10:23 AM

I knew today was your Bday... totally spaced it was the big 40....

hope its a great day for you....

**robert da strongman** · 06-08-2011, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by musclegoddess65

I knew today was your Bday... totally spaced it was the big 40....

hope its a great day for you....

so far it is...thanks

**stephaniewicked** · 06-08-2011, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by musclegoddess65

I knew today was your Bday... totally spaced it was the big 40....

hope its a great day for you....

You're really 40??!

**robert da strongman** · 06-08-2011, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by stephaniewicked

You're really 40??!

yes i am....

**stephaniewicked** · 06-11-2011, 06:25 AM

Originally Posted by robert da strongman

yes i am....

Hoooooly! Haha, I thought you were way younger dude... nice! Lifting keeps ya young I guess!!

**robert da strongman** · 06-11-2011, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by stephaniewicked

Hoooooly! Haha, I thought you were way younger dude... nice! Lifting keeps ya young I guess!!

haha...thanks.

**robert da strongman** · 06-11-2011, 10:32 AM

http://thelifeofastrongman.blogspot....1/06/wall.html

Power squat facing in 720 5x5
Power squat facing out 540 5x5
Leg press 450 75 reps

**robert da strongman** · 06-11-2011, 03:10 PM

So july 16 will be my first masters comp....cfl strongman in lakeland florida. Just found another one in september...port st. lucie. Open masters.

**robert da strongman** · 06-12-2011, 11:21 AM

http://www.nastrongman.com/pdf/2011/2011samson.pdf

the entry for the september comp

**BEAST MODE** · 06-12-2011, 07:38 PM

pretty fuckin heavy!

**robert da strongman** · 06-12-2011, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by BEAST MODE

pretty fuckin heavy!

not for masters....

**BEAST MODE** · 06-13-2011, 06:48 AM

Maybe not for you, I was looking at those weights though for maybe a dude who was 210ish and may suck down to 200 and do lights...just curious. Would be heavy for me.

**robert da strongman** · 06-13-2011, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by BEAST MODE

Maybe not for you, I was looking at those weights though for maybe a dude who was 210ish and may suck down to 200 and do lights...just curious. Would be heavy for me.

novice...you need to do novice first!

**BEAST MODE** · 06-13-2011, 11:02 AM

The weights are the same though. Only difference would be experienced dudes competing in the lightweight class.

**robert da strongman** · 06-13-2011, 11:09 AM

dude you can do those weights...you handled most of those when you trained at Bryons.
and that was without knowing shit.

**BEAST MODE** · 06-13-2011, 11:22 AM

Not the stones or the log. To me, the presses look pretty heavy and so do the stones. Was it like 350 or something was the heaviest stone for the lightweights? I only did the 200 or the 220 at Bryon's. I'd really just need to find a place here to train those events, and I'm sure I could do it.

**robert da strongman** · 06-13-2011, 11:34 AM

you underestimate yourself. and there are people in your area, hell the owner of nas lives out there.

**robert da strongman** · 06-13-2011, 11:50 AM

feeling a little furry today....

**robert da strongman** · 06-14-2011, 02:43 PM

http://thelifeofastrongman.blogspot....ng-closer.html

Good mornings 495 5 singles
Shrugs 585 5x5 drops 495, 405, 315, 225, 135 5 reps each.
Low rows 200 5x5 drops 150,100, 50 5 reps each
HS row 90 x 20 7 sets
20 minutes hiit cardio
20 minutes treadmill

**BEAST MODE** · 06-14-2011, 07:16 PM

Damn! Serious GM's right there!

**robert da strongman** · 06-14-2011, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by BEAST MODE

Damn! Serious GM's right there!

I can feel my back getting sore....think I impressed a few people in the gym today

**robert da strongman** · 06-15-2011, 04:24 PM

http://thelifeofastrongman.blogspot....ck-rolled.html

Power cleans 205 3 singles
Hi-pulls 315 5 singles
Split press 135 3 singles
Bar end holds 225 30 seconds, 180 45 seconds, 135 60 seconds ---each hand
Grip machine 100x10 5 sets
----went to change shoes for cardio and locked my keys in the locker. Had to get the lock cut off! DUUUURRRRR.

Elliptical 20 minutes HIIT

**BEAST MODE** · 06-15-2011, 04:26 PM

Have fun today? Judging by the song, I'd say you were.

**robert da strongman** · 06-15-2011, 04:28 PM

it was 80's music in the gym today...it was fun.

**BEAST MODE** · 06-15-2011, 04:46 PM

I went and read your blog and saw the other song...lmao...what a great fuckin song!

**stephaniewicked** · 06-15-2011, 05:05 PM

You both suck and are lucky I like ya's.

When I was younger, we owned a video tape that my dad had recorded a bunch of music videos on. Being that it was the 80s, it was all current music (Olivia Newton John's "Physical", Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and Elton John's "That's Why They Call It the Blues" were some of my fave videos on that tape and I used to watch it ALOT!) Anyway, the video for "Jump" was also on there. I was so traumatized by grown ass men with long frizzy hair and bright colored spandex pants doing splits in the air while playing guitar that when I was about 10 years old, I had a dream that David Lee Roth (in his "Jump" apparel) was coming after me to rape me. The whole dream I was terrified and just running away from him. I don't even think I understood what rape even was at the time, but it scared the shit out of me... can't watch the video since. lol

**robert da strongman** · 06-15-2011, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by BEAST MODE

I went and read your blog and saw the other song...lmao...what a great fuckin song!

yeah i was laughing the whole time it played....people must have thought i lost it.

Originally Posted by stephaniewicked

You both suck and are lucky I like ya's.

When I was younger, we owned a video tape that my dad had recorded a bunch of music videos on. Being that it was the 80s, it was all current music (Olivia Newton John's "Physical", Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and Elton John's "That's Why They Call It the Blues" were some of my fave videos on that tape and I used to watch it ALOT!) Anyway, the video for "Jump" was also on there. I was so traumatized by grown ass men with long frizzy hair and bright colored spandex pants doing splits in the air while playing guitar that when I was about 10 years old, I had a dream that David Lee Roth (in his "Jump" apparel) was coming after me to rape me. The whole dream I was terrified and just running away from him. I don't even think I understood what rape even was at the time, but it scared the shit out of me... can't watch the video since. lol

so sorry bout that...VH is awesome

**BEAST MODE** · 06-15-2011, 07:09 PM

I actually like that Rick Astley song a lot. It just reminds me of my childhood and makes me laugh.

And yeah, VH is good...Halen though, not Hagar.

**robert da strongman** · 06-15-2011, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by BEAST MODE

I actually like that Rick Astley song a lot. It just reminds me of my childhood and makes me laugh.

And yeah, VH is good...Halen though, not Hagar.

Right....van halen....best concert ever

**BEAST MODE** · 06-15-2011, 07:19 PM

Oh that reminds me, I'm going to Mayhem Fest next month...Trivium, In Flames, Unearth, Kingdom of Sorrow, Suicide Silence, Disturbed, Godsmack, Machinehead, Megadeth. How's THAT for a concert?