29/10/2025
ACT Strongest recap
First comp in over a year, and I definitely have some things to work on!
Learning to navigate a 2-day competition is also a skill I will need to develop, as waking up with a busted body and going back out to compete again is certainly not an enjoyable experience 😂
Events were:
Day 1:
Monster Dumbell 70kg, 72.5kg, 75kg.
This is my most hated event, and I’ve been avoiding it for 5 years, I think my performance reflected that 💁🏼♂️
Farmers walk 120kg to zercher carry 210kg.
I definitely panicked on this one, not my best performance.
Flagpole raise, ascending weights.
This was the only event I won on the weekend, I picked a different strategy and it paid off on this occasion, saving me from having to do a nudie run 😅
Day 2:
Max deadlift 210kg, 240kg, 250kg
Warming up these felt like absolute dogsh*t, so I put my opener at the lowest I was allowed, then when my left arm didn’t disconnect from my body I pushed it a little bit, but not enough to come near the other lads in my division, a little disappointing but not that surprising.
Sandbag throw 15kg, 15kg, 20kg, 20kg, 25kg
Just didn’t have the strength for this last bag, everything else felt fine though.
Atlas stones over 1.3m, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160kg
Again just wasn’t quite strong enough for the last stone, this is also the first stone I’ve failed in a long time so this one hurt, not that it would have been enough to pull me out of last place anyway.
As always thanks to .strongman for putting on a great weekend, thanks to for running the gauntlet with me, thanks the boys in my division for the support and the challenge, and to all my crew who came out to support, you guys know who you are, you are all amazing ❤️
Keen to have a proper crack next year so straight back to training I go.
