Strongman Training Split

Diet and Nutrition
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Christian,
I have been competing in Strongman competitions now for about 6 months. I have found that the workouts required to succeed at this sport are the most strenuous I have ever encountered. My problem is that I love RDL’s and and am somewhere around 650-700 for a 1RM. I have been doing my deadlifts as close to every ten days as possible, but with stones, power stairs, and tire on weekends my back is fried and I can never get a good olympic workout in. Asumming I will be doing events on Saturdays, what kind of three day split involving at least Power Snatch for an olympic movement would you suggest for the gym during the week. I also need to focus on overhead strength. I thank you for your opinion and your time.

Brad Cardoza, CSCS

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I’d recommend working on pressing strength Monday’s (bench, push press, log press, that sort of thing). Pulling strength on Tuesdays’s (cleans, snatches, rowing, RDL, 1/2 deadlifts, etc.) and leg strength on Thursday’s (Back squat, front squat, partial squats, etc.). Friday and Sunday’s are OFF days.

On Wednesday I’d recommend plenty of abdominal work and either a bodybuilding-type workout or GPP session.