Strongman.Training
Coaching
16 April 2024
So you wanna be a strongman coach? Here are the keys to getting started: Get Yourself a Good Coach Hiring a good coach is essential to your learning and development as both a coach and an athlete. It’s truly a sport of “lift, learn, pass on.”
Coaching
21 February 2024
PACING is arguably the most overlooked aspect of a max rep press event. Placement on press events is often decided by 1-2 reps and there are lots of ties, so every rep matters. Planning your pacing is a useful tool in maximizing your timed set on comp day. Here’s how to make it happen.
Coaching
12 February 2024
Max weight events can result in some of the most exciting moments of a competition, but they can also tank an entire competition when mismanaged. We have experienced both, and as always, we want to help you avoid competition disaster. So let’s take a deep dive into exactly how max events work and how you can best coach for and promote them.
Coaching
31 January 2024
Whether you’re brand new to coaching or you’re a seasoned pro, it matters how you act at a competition. When coaching, you represent your brand and the sport at large, and you set an example for your athletes and for future coaches.
Promoting
23 January 2024
In my humble opinion, choosing event weights is one of the hardest – and most critical – parts of promoting a strongman competition. If you go too light, people are bored and tired and complaining of “rep fests.” If you go too heavy, too many people zero, and then it’s sad to compete and sad to watch and no one is happy.
Promoting
17 January 2024
A smooth, efficient, and informative rules meeting lays the foundation for a smooth and efficient competition. Talk too long and you’ll lose people. Withhold too much information and you’ll leave people confused and open the door to discrepancies and questions all day.
Coaching
20 December 2023
By Cody Abell (aka @strongest_tattooer) I began competing in strongman in August 2016 and quickly became known for winning medleys, especially front carries. While some of that came from a natural ability, a lot has to do with how I train for – and coach – medleys. Here I’ll lay out some key elements to consider when programming medleys for your clients or yourself.
Business
6 November 2023
If you’ve used Stripe, Venmo, PayPal, Square, Iron Podium, or any other third party payment processor this year, there’s a good chance you’ll be receiving a 1099-K at tax time.
Promoting
17 October 2023
One of the first decisions to make when promoting a strongman competition is what events to have. In almost all cases, it is 100% up to the promoter to choose the events, weights, and overall structure of the competition. If you like overhead events, you can literally promote a show with 5 overhead events. Hate overhead events? You don’t even need to have one.