Would this work for strongman type training?

[Funky_monkey]

I have a car that i got for free about 2yrs ago. I don't have a license. Do you guys reckon i can take the car apart and use it for strongman training? Hoping to use the engine block as a sort of atlas stone, shield carry or maybe overhead press it, deadlift the heaviest end of the car, maybe try to do bench rack lockouts with one end after i've taken the engine out (Rover Metro 1.0 without an engine probably won't weigh much, i can bench rack lockout 165kg)

Will be in the yard just outside our garage, it's got enough room and it's surrounded by walls, so i can use it for strongman training. Might get a log and a couple of oil barrels.

[gerthebear]

get an sledge hammer and use the tyre for GPP.

and if you do manage to get good use out of the car, that'd be pretty badass!

[Funky_monkey]

You mean hit the car tyre with the hammer? You've never done that one before have you? I have a scar in the back of my head from hitting a claw hammer into the mud as a kid, lifting it up and smacking it into my skull. I know for a fact that the sledge hammer will bounce. I love doing that kind of GPP - going to the skip with my dad, cutting logs, loading 100 50kg bags of wheat into the back of a lorry. I don't do any proper cardio but consider myself in decent shape. I'm still a little kid at heart, but now i want big boy toys. Was looking at making my own atlas stone too, cos £350 is a little too much for me to pay for one stone.

[van_halen]

I have a car that i got for free about 2yrs ago. I don't have a license. Do you guys reckon i can take the car apart and use it for strongman training? Hoping to use the engine block as a sort of atlas stone, shield carry or maybe overhead press it, deadlift the heaviest end of the car, maybe try to do bench rack lockouts with one end after i've taken the engine out (Rover Metro 1.0 without an engine probably won't weigh much, i can bench rack lockout 165kg)

Will be in the yard just outside our garage, it's got enough room and it's surrounded by walls, so i can use it for strongman training. Might get a log and a couple of oil barrels.

If you do this it'd be pretty awesome. Make sure you let us know so we can all come round and have a go :-)

[Welshdragon]

You mean hit the car tyre with the hammer? You've never done that one before have you? I have a scar in the back of my head from hitting a claw hammer into the mud as a kid, lifting it up and smacking it into my skull. I know for a fact that the sledge hammer will bounce. I love doing that kind of GPP - going to the skip with my dad, cutting logs, loading 100 50kg bags of wheat into the back of a lorry. I don't do any proper cardio but consider myself in decent shape. I'm still a little kid at heart, but now i want big boy toys. Was looking at making my own atlas stone too, cos £350 is a little too much for me to pay for one stone.

If you leave the engine in the car and fit handles to the back then it would be ok for car deadlifts - Where did you get a quote of £350 for a atlas stone? - your looking at around £100 for a single atlas stone!

[gerthebear]

You mean hit the car tyre with the hammer? You've never done that one before have you? I have a scar in the back of my head from hitting a claw hammer into the mud as a kid, lifting it up and smacking it into my skull. I know for a fact that the sledge hammer will bounce. I love doing that kind of GPP - going to the skip with my dad, cutting logs, loading 100 50kg bags of wheat into the back of a lorry. I don't do any proper cardio but consider myself in decent shape. I'm still a little kid at heart, but now i want big boy toys. Was looking at making my own atlas stone too, cos £350 is a little too much for me to pay for one stone.

it's mostly performed on big tractor tyre or truck tyres. i knwo a lad who swear by it for his BB'ing cardio training(supplementary style) coming up to comps lol

[altug]

It is not easy to incorporate sledge-hammer work with PL. It is really taxing on your posterior chain.
Using car engine as an atlas stone in/around/outside the house is impossible when you have Turkish mother. She won't let that greasy lump of iron in. :D
Sorry...

[gerthebear]

It is not easy to incorporate sledge-hammer work with PL. It is really taxing on your posterior chain.


of course it's easy, just beat the tyre with the hammer, it's GPP work. if anything it helps you, you're hardly guna get strong from doing it.

[altug]

Maybe hit it too hard or too long. I was in pain for 3 days and couldn't do my deads that week.

[gerthebear]

ah so you got injured from it? you dont have to hit hard. the idea is just recruiting a lot of muscles in the body to swing the sledge and hit the tyre, in turn by perform multiple reps you raise the heart rate etc etc etc