STARTING STRONGMAN

tons of gear be tall

actually you should be using gear no matter who you are

Depends on whats available. You don't need to be strong to use the implements (especially not now with all the stuff being made for smaller competitors) but you do need to be strong enough to use whatever the local gym has. Also you really need to have your basics down solid because the whole deal with most implements is that they hate you and wish you harm. If your regular press isn't good technique-wise the log is going to bend you over and skullfuck you.

Any novice powerlifting or Olympic lifting program

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Those are actually pretty terrible as an introduction to strongman because they simply don't work on most of the stuff you need.

GO TO IT
Dum dum

Thats not strongman now is it dum dum.

>get strong enough that you won't be bottlenecked by brute strength at a low level when you train events
>find a crew to train with
>sign up for a comp

Go open, the novice class is pointless participation trophy bullshit that's way too light to teach you anything or prepare you for open.

That really depends on the show promoter. Some comps here, you almost have to go novice unless you're national-level competitive because the weights are fairly stupid for open (not helped by the insistence on ignoring the weight sub-classes. Novice 265? Yeah, I hope you like doing events scaled for 350lb experienced competitors).

Don't you know, there are only two options:
>weights so light dudes will rep them 30+ times in 60 seconds
>weights so heavy they'd raise eyebrows at the amateur Arnold

One day someone will call for something in between, and one day WSM will get half-decent coverage. This is neither of those days.

Eddie Hall started off as a competitive swimmer.

listen kid, no time reading what the retards here wrote.
Get to your Over head, squat and deadlift up to advanced/elite levels, then starts going on specific strongman programs.

Stupid way to approach things. There's a lot more to strongman than just limit strength on three movements. You go that way, you end up taking years longer to be anywhere in the sport because you need to bring up everything else enough to not lose against people who cant pull your 8RM for a single.

And as a novice, you totally don't need any kind of basic strength. Nor could you get that strength from one of two popular strength sports that don't require a ton of specialized equipment, and have plenty of well designed programs for novices.

God you people are retarded.

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I actually compete.

We have a lot of people who come in from powerlifting (less so from pure oly - most of those are ex-crossfit as well so it's a different deal). They almost invariably suck and need so much fucking work on everything that they get smoked by people who can't take their warmup weights.

Powerlifting is not a good base for strongman. You need to be strong, sure, but saying 'do powerlifting to prep for strongman' is about as silly as saying 'train for the decathlon by taking up hammer throwing'.

You want to do general work, do general work. Don't fuck it up by specialising in something else.

Any suggestions? Should I attempt to befriend my local ex-strongmen and make them train me or can I figure this shit out on my own because I would prefer to go at my own intensity.

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>Get to your Over head, squat and deadlift up to advanced/elite levels, then starts going on specific strongman programs.

YEAH IM LOOKING FOR STRONGMAN PROGRAMS BUT I CANNOT FIND A SINGLE FUCKING ONE WHY DO YOU KEEP LECTURING ME U DIPSHIT JUST HELP ME FIND SOME PROGRAMS JESUS FUCK U INBRED MOFO

Building The Monolith by Jim Wendler is a great program.

Use a training max of like 85-90% and do the conditioning he prescribes. Strongman is not about being fat, you absolutely 100% need to be fit if you want to actually place

Powerlifting programs are a terrible base because

A. They focus on 1RM's which is not a common event in strongman

B. No overhead, all pressing is done lying down

C. Usually do not push your work capacity

D. Have no programming for specific events

doessnt Brian Shaw have some strongman academy he is starting

A strongman gym is close to invaluable, if just for having access to all the gear. The sport is remarkably group-centric due to variety of events and the setup time of many things. Nobody likes to spend that long for a couple of sets. You can do well without a lot of familiarity with the equipment but then it kind of relies on being stronger, fitter and faster than the other guys to compensate for shitty technique.

If you're going it mostly alone, the general approach is something like 5/3/1 or some other general strength program during the week and an event day on the weekend (not ideal but a lot of people train this way because they can't consistently get access to the implements). It's hard to have 'generic' strongman programs because of the variety of events and such so most stuff (outside of contest prep) tends to be broad strokes. Most of which boil down to some variant on "lift heavy shit, lift shit fast, lift shit for reps, do your gpp/conditioning" and expect the individual to fill in the details.