Another Tough Owl workout. Overall, this one was a little easier than the first one but only because I was acclimated to the exercises and the guys competing. I managed to get in some time on the tire and became very acquainted with the Atlas stone…to the tone of smacking my chin with it. The tire decided I wasn’t beat up enough and left some nice bruises on my arms.

All weights are estimates, we have no reliable way to weigh a tire this huge or a safe way (on the field) to weigh the Atlas stones.

Workout
Farmer’s walk: 100ft , 125lb each hand (I think, I slapped 2x25lbs on each handle)

Tire flip: 2x100ft , 1x75ft in ~45secs. Approx weight ~200lbs

Atlas stones:
3×5 150lbs
1×12 150lbs (AMRAP 1 minute, competition time)

Slater’s Log clean & press: 1×3 135lbs (weight is approximate since we don’t know what the log itself weighs. Weight is log + 2x25lbs plates)

So far, my weaknesses are still the C&P and Farmer’s walk. In the gym, I can regularly do standing military presses or overhead shoulder push-press up to about 115lbs without struggling too much but we have to reset after each rep, so we’re forced to clean and press this god awful log each time. Farmer’s walk is another story altogether. I can easily walk the handles, even with a transition at the end, their dead weight is about 80-90lbs. I’m OK with added plates until we get to add 25lb plates to each side, that’s when my grip starts going out. It’s not so much that I can’t lift the weight, the handles are shearing my grip apart after about 60 feet, which is 40 feet short of the 100 ft distance we’ll use in competition. According to the lift sheet, we’ll be adding 2x45lb plates to each handle in competition and I literally cannot even lift that. Not only are my hands not that strong, my traps aren’t that strong yet either.