Went to in-laws Friday night to stay the night with my sons. The wife & I left before dawn Saturday to finish the drive to Lafayette, IN so she could do a local strongman show to earn an invite to USS Nationals as an amateur middleweight. She knows a lot of people going to that, and the events are pretty core strongman things overall she’d like to get back to training.
There was nobody else in her class so it was a shoe-in victory, but it made for a great fun training day and we focused on getting good work in. She pulled a single at 295 double-overhand without straps, ran a fast light yoke/farmers walk medley, did a 3-log press ladder knocking out 10 reps on the last 120lb log, carried a 175 sandbag for 200ft, and loaded a 120lb stone over bar back and forth for over TEN MINUTES. I capped her at 10 minutes of playing around. The stones were far too light for the women for a last-man-standing stoneoff.
Every single show we go to, multiple people will be surprised I’m not weighing in or when they realize I’m not lifting. So if that ever stops happening, I will know I need to quit lifting or try harder