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Intermediate Strongman

A 25-minute strongman-style strength and conditioning session with carries, presses, and pulls.

Warm-Up

5 minutes. Raise heart rate, open hips/hamstrings, and prime the hinge and shoulder drive.

Jumping Jack
Jumping Jack45 sec
How to

A full-body cardio move that trains coordination, calves, shoulders, and hips.

  1. Stand tall with feet together and arms at your sides.
  2. Jump your feet out as you raise your arms overhead.
  3. Jump your feet back together as you lower your arms.
  4. Repeat at a steady pace, landing softly each time.
Form cues
  • Stay light on your toes
  • Keep your chest tall
Common mistakes
  • Landing hard with locked knees
  • Letting your arms swing out of control
Inchworm
Inchworm30 sec
How to

A full-body walkout that trains your core, shoulders, and hamstrings.

  1. Stand tall with feet hip-width apart.
  2. Hinge at your hips and place your hands on the floor.
  3. Walk your hands forward to a high plank.
  4. Pause with your body in a straight line.
  5. Walk your hands back to your feet and stand up.
Form cues
  • Brace your core in the plank.
  • Keep your legs as straight as you can.
Common mistakes
  • Letting your hips sag in the plank.
  • Rushing the hand walkout.
Bodyweight Good Morning
Bodyweight Good Morning12x
How to

A bodyweight hip hinge that trains your hamstrings, glutes, and back position.

  1. Stand tall with feet hip-width apart and hands behind your head or on your hips.
  2. Soften your knees and brace your core.
  3. Push your hips back as your torso tips forward.
  4. Lower until you feel a stretch in your hamstrings.
  5. Drive your hips forward to stand tall again.
Form cues
  • Keep your back long
  • Hinge from your hips
Common mistakes
  • Rounding your back as you lower
  • Squatting instead of hinging
2 rounds · 10 sec rest

Main Strongman Circuit

18 minutes. Heavy carries and compound lifts for full-body strength and work capacity.

Farmer Carry
Farmer Carry45 sec
How to

A loaded walk that trains your grip, core, shoulders, and posture.

  1. Stand tall with a weight in each hand at your sides.
  2. Brace your core and pull your shoulders down and back.
  3. Walk forward with short, controlled steps.
  4. Keep the weights steady and your torso upright.
  5. Set the weights down with control when finished.
Form cues
  • Stand tall as you walk
  • Keep the weights by your sides
Common mistakes
  • Leaning back or to one side
  • Letting the weights swing
Sandbag Front Carry
Sandbag Front Carry45 sec
How to

A loaded carry with a sandbag held at your chest. It trains your core, upper back, grip, and posture.

  1. Stand tall with the sandbag held tight against your chest.
  2. Brace your core and keep your ribs down.
  3. Walk forward with short, controlled steps.
  4. Keep the bag close and your shoulders level.
  5. Stop at the target distance, then set the bag down with control.
Form cues
  • Stay tall as you walk.
  • Hug the bag tight to your body.
Common mistakes
  • Leaning back to support the load.
  • Letting the bag drift away from your chest.
Push Press
Push Press8x
How to

A powerful overhead press that uses your legs to help train shoulders, triceps, and core.

  1. Stand tall with the weight at your shoulders and feet about hip-width apart.
  2. Dip straight down a few inches with your chest up.
  3. Drive through your feet and press the weight overhead.
  4. Lock out with the weight over your shoulders, ribs down.
  5. Lower the weight back to your shoulders with control.
Form cues
  • Dip straight, not forward.
  • Finish with biceps near ears.
Common mistakes
  • Pressing before you drive with your legs.
  • Leaning back as the weight goes overhead.
Barbell Deadlift
Barbell Deadlift6x
How to

A weighted hip hinge that trains your glutes, hamstrings, back, and grip.

  1. Stand with the bar over midfoot, feet hip-width apart.
  2. Hinge down and grip the bar just outside your legs.
  3. Brace your core, keep your chest up, and push the floor away.
  4. Stand tall with the bar close to your body.
  5. Hinge at your hips and lower the bar back to the floor.
Form cues
  • Keep the bar close
  • Drive through your whole foot
Common mistakes
  • Rounding your back as you lift
  • Letting the bar drift away from you
Bent-Over Row
Bent-Over Row10x
How to

A bent-over pulling move that trains your upper back, lats, and arms.

  1. Stand with feet hip-width and hold the weights in front of your thighs.
  2. Hinge at your hips and keep your back long, with arms hanging down.
  3. Pull the weights toward your ribs, squeezing your shoulder blades back.
  4. Lower the weights with control until your arms are straight.
Form cues
  • Keep your chest proud.
  • Pull elbows back, not out.
Common mistakes
  • Rounding your back as you row.
  • Jerking the weights with your body.
3 rounds · 15 sec rest

Cool-Down

2 minutes. Bring breathing down and re-brace the trunk.

Front Plank
Front Plank2 min
How to

A core hold that trains your abs, shoulders, and glutes while keeping your body in a straight line.

  1. Place your forearms on the floor with elbows under shoulders.
  2. Step both feet back and lift into a straight plank.
  3. Brace your abs and squeeze your glutes.
  4. Hold for the set time while breathing steadily.
  5. Lower your knees to the floor to finish.
Form cues
  • Keep your body in one straight line
  • Push the floor away with your forearms
Common mistakes
  • Letting your hips sag toward the floor
  • Lifting your hips too high
Loaded Carries as Your Neural Foundation

Loaded Carries as Your Neural Foundation

Farmer Carries and Sandbag Front Carries aren't just conditioning—they force co-contraction of your deep spinal stabilizers, traps, and grip musculature under axial load, the exact demand strongman events place on your body. The offset weight distribution of the sandbag also trains anti-rotation stiffness that a barbell can't replicate.

Where Brute Strength Meets Metabolic Chaos

Where Brute Strength Meets Metabolic Chaos

Strongman uniquely demands maximal force output while heart rate is already elevated—your Push Press and Deadlift here aren't performed fresh, they're trained in a fatigued state intentionally. This mirrors competition reality, where you're pulling an 18-inch deadlift minutes after a loading medley, requiring both peak strength and lactate tolerance.

Compressing Adaptation Into 25 Minutes

Compressing Adaptation Into 25 Minutes

The Inchworm-to-Bodyweight Good Morning warm-up sequence primes your posterior chain through active hip hinge patterning before the Deadlift and Bent-Over Row demand it under load—this specificity shortens neural ramp-up time. To personalize intensity, adjust Farmer Carry load so grip fails before your legs do; that's your true limiting factor to progressively overload each week.

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