Farmer's walk appreciation thread?
I just did them for the first time (with 24kg kettlebells) and my forearms got fucking trashed. Wish I started doing these a lot sooner.
How much weight should i do these with on my first try? I am a dyel who deadlifts 255 for 5 and would love to improve my grip strength
>>36200729
I read somewhere that you should start with 50% bodyweight (i.e. 25% in each hand) but that was a bit too heavy for me to grip properly. I'd go with about 40%.
>>36200729
its easy enough to figure out on your own, just grab a pair of dumbbells and walk around the gym with them. start really low, with 25lbs, and if thats way too easy then grab a pair of 35lbs and walk around. keep doing this until you can barely make it back to the rack with the weight.
>>36200729
I'm a fat dyel, that's about where my deadlift is at as well. I use the trap bar with lmao2pl8 on it for farmers carry.
>>36200761
>>36200729
and if you dont like walking around with dumbbells, then just do static holds. i started doing both when i couldnt DL more than 225 without straps (bar kept slipping) and in 4 months i was able to do over 300.
Only faggot dyels do farmer walks. You will be laughed at.
>>36200904
I did them in the conditioning area, which is full of women, DYELs and old fuckers. I'll be fine.
>>36200904
>giving a fuck what other people in the gym think
>>36200745
>>36200761
>>36200830
>>36200841
Thanks for all the replies kind anons. I'll try it with dumbbells and work my way up to the right weights. Hopefully with this ill be able to hit 3pl8 by the end of the semester.
>>36200709
It's funny seeing a workout that is made to simulate carrying around buckets full of feed/ water or bales of hay. Next thing you know there will be a workout made to simulate gripping a bale that is laying on the floor and cleaning it to a position above your head... Oh, wait.
(Raised on a farm)
>>36201027
Don''t you have some cows to molest, you hayseed fuck
>>36201033
Don't you have some intercity black guy to go be cucked by you back alley cum receptical
Pretty sure Farmer's are what gave me elbow tendonitis (might have been curls tho)
careful not to add weight too quickly
>people unironically memewalk
Farmers carry out of the gym done easy:
>Go shopping
>Park car half mile from shop
>Buy a lot of shit and walk it all the way back
Had an appointment at physio one day, instead of parking car at shops afterwards just walked to shops and carried the bags all the way back, really did feel like a mini workout as I had bought so fucking much
>>36201075
>>36201107
Drake fuck off you got friendzoned by Rihanna
>Do a new excercise
>Get DOMS because you do a new excercise
>This excercise is the second coming of Christ
Ok.
>>36201486
I want rihanna to cuck me 2bh
>>36201626
ayylmao
My grip has recently starting slipped around ~300 lbs whenever I go for 3+ reps. Especially on my last sets so yesterday I decided I wanna incorporate farmer's walks into my routine. Today, I have DOMS in my forearms. Feels good man
Will this give me functional strength?
>gym is crowded
>decide to do farmers walks on treadmill
>carrying 60lbs Dumbbells in each hand and start walking on speed 3.5
>a minute goes by
>rest... Decide to up it up a notch
>I will jog with them and won't stop until I can do a quarter mile with 50lbs Dumbbells
>grab the 50s, put the treadmill on speed 5
>start jogging on treadmill with 50lbs Dumbbells
>couldn't hear how much noise I was making as headphones blaring Call on Me by Eric Prydz
>headphone cord gets tied up on dumbbell and headphones jar loose from my ears
>GEDOOOOOSHHHH GEDOOOOOSHHHH GEDOOOOSH GEDDOOOOOSH!!!
>drop Dumbbells from fatigue
>trainers stop me and ask to speak with me in their office real quick
>told never to do that again or risk blacklisting myself from the gym
Farmers walks.... Not even once
>>36202509
>>headphone cord gets tied up on dumbbell and headphones jar loose from my ears
>>GEDOOOOOSHHHH GEDOOOOOSHHHH GEDOOOOSH GEDDOOOOOSH!!!
stopped reading there
wouldn't happen
>>36202420
Yes. Allows you to pick more weight up and hold it easier.
>>36202509
This isn't real.
Every single time I tried incorporating farmer walks into my routine my left elbow started acting up.
What gives? Am I cursed to deadlift sub 4plate forever?
>>36200709
Are you weak man or just a women?
Only faggot lifting this number of weights.
>>36200709
Just did four passes @400lb total for 25yd yesterday. Feeling good.
>>36201027
>buckets of water have significant weight
u weak as fuk bruh
>>36200709
>24 kgs
>>36202762
you sound like a retarded slav
>>36201027
A COUNTRY BOY CAN SURVIVE
I can diddy 385x3 mixed. Started adding farmers walks with 80 lbs?(its in kg) kettle bells 2 weeks ago. 1 month ago I could hardly hold 315x2 double overhand, but now I can hold 335x2 and it doesn't slip out of my hands. I definitely think they do something. I have a track at my gym that's 240m around. I walk around it carrying the kettle bells. At first I had to take 4 breaks around the track, but now I only do 2. I tried doing 1 break last workout and that was not happening. An anyone curious i'm 190lbs 6'
>>36202762
you sound like a retarded arab
>>36200709
I take two 3gal water jugs for two blocks for my work regularly. Walk at a decent pace and don't get tired until I'm at the door to my building.
>>36201027
Oddly enough, part of my daily routine involves carrying 2 x 20kg drums of corn about 100m vertically and 300m horizontally up a muddy hill jumping a gate doing a sort of dead lift to pull the drums over then walking another 50m whilst kicking 400+kg steers to politely persuade them to get out of the way. Usually I try to run back.
