Strong arm competition

[Cornfed]

One of the local gyms is running a "strong arm competition" in a couple of weeks. This competition consists of curling a 20kg bar as many times as possible. They then scale the results using some formula to take your bodyweight into account.

It is probably too late to train for this, but does anyone have any ideas as to how you would go about training for it.

[sponge]

sounds like endurance to me, stay away!! :grin:

[Varven]

yes.. doesnt sound like strenght but more like endurance.

Interesting question though: how would you train for it.

Probably long duration curls on one day.. i.e. pick a weight and try bettering the amount of time you can keep curling it, and then have a speed day where in one minute you gotta gett as many curls as possible..

lol either way id say it sounds very silly.

[Growth]

I would say the only way to train for this would be to grab the bar and act like your in the comp, do as many reps as you can, then wait a short time to recover and get straight back into it with another set.

I would think the key to this type of training would be to mimic the actual event and try to place more strain on the situation. Obvioulsy there isnt too much point of putting anything other than maybe 5's on each end because you need to stay in that massive rep endurace theme. Other than that just doing many sets of as many reps you can possibley do keeping the rest time between sets to a minimum.

Make your you carb up as much as you possibley can before the event, creatine would be a big advantage here too.

[Cornfed]

Well, I did a set of 40 today. It started to hurt a little after that, so I decided to stop. I'm told you have to do roughly 70 to be a contender. I've no idea whether I could actually do that, but I'll give it a try. I'm going to creatine and carb load before this thing. I really want to win it. It's the principle of the thing.

[jono]

the whole idea is flawed. ppl will be able to cheat using shit form etc. they should make them do it on preacher

[Cornfed]

^ They say you will not be allowed to swing or cheat, but of course that will be fairly subjective. It should be an interesting competition.

[jono]

^ They say you will not be allowed to swing or cheat, but of course that will be fairly subjective. It should be an interesting competition.

all you have to do is move ur shoulder slightly and it will be easier.

[Varven]

Theres an arm wrestling competition at uni. One of the local "tough boys" was practicing with some others when his hand broken clean. I believe the humerous ? He yelled in pain, his hand went limp and he was screaming. It was like his hand wasnt attached to him in a rigid manner.. quite humerous. An ambulance was called: it didnt turn up. He was driven to Auckland hospital and reported as an accident cause by now it was swollen to three times normal size and he was in considerable pain.

3 hours of agony was spent in the waiting room after which he was finally taken to see a doctor. LOL the doctor gave him no pain killers apart from panadol. The cast is very huge and impressive.. all i can say is: MORON.

[waldo]

The radius and ulna bones attach to the hand. Although you may have been having a laugh. The humerus forms the upper arm.

[Marcus]

IMO this comp will be very hard to judge because people's form will vary so much & there will be a lot of cheaters.

[Growth]

It should be done on a precher stool or standing with your back flat against the wall.

[Marcus]

Yeah man, something where you're locked in. Even a preacher curl machine where it's hard to swing back.

[Cornfed]

They had the comp today. As it turned out they insisted on ultra-correct form - full extension, balanced and controlled reps with no touching the thighs at the bottom. One chap would place his hand on your back while another watched from the side and would coach you on the form required for the next rep. When they thought your form had deteriorated, they'd stop the count. Supposedly the results were scaled for both weight and age. I'm not sure how fair this scheme worked out to be. It did have the effect of dramatically reducing everyone's rep counts.

The men's competition was won by a large Maori chap with a count of 45. I came second with a count of 42. (Athough the guy outweighed me by ~20kg, he was also older so perhaps that was why he still won). Third place went to the lighter of two guys who did 34. The winner of the women's competition was an average-sized woman who did 69 reps with a 10kg bar. I forget the other counts.

[Growth]

Nice work mate. You must be a bit dissapointed that you missed out on first by a few reps. Good result all the same :grin:

[Pseudonym]

Good one. Sounds like it was an interesting contest.

[deegee]

Well done, pity you didnt get the top spot though.