The Surprising Utility in Strongman Training for Beginners & Intermediates

I fell in love with strongman accidentally. I was gifted admission to a seminar on the application of strongman tools into GPP training and my assumption was that it would be a fun day with my personal bias towards training: short, heavy efforts. 

What I learned that day, I couldn’t unsee. 

Soon this party trick of a strength sport (strongman) seemed to check a ton of boxes for me as a coach. It might be the most high utility, low risk access point to intensity for beginners, I thought. 

Frankly, the size of the implements and their lack of handles does so much right out of the gate. As you can see from the image above, Jerry is having no issue understanding violent hip extension. While I trust greatly in the quality of the coaches at DEUCE Gyms, I humbly offer that the implement itself brings intuitive problem solving where barbells and dumbbells and kettlebells simply don’t. 

When the mover behaves in the way the training intends, everyone wins. And, I’ve yet to see a shorter path to intensity and a faster uptake of skill than in the tight feedback loop of learning afforded by the strongman tools we embrace so much at DEUCE. 

We’ll keep looking, but in the meantime… strongman is our best friend for loading beginner and intermediate lifters.