Is the Farmers Walk just a meme?

Give it to me straight lads

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  1. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    no, but doing it with 20kg per hand or whatever that is, is a meme
    you should be picking up like 90% of your deadlift one rep max and walking with it as long as you can
    it wont be very long. its not supposed to be. if you want to do cardio, do cardio

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      this
      dont do 20kg
      i wouldnt go as far as 90 of deadlift max but yes they have to be heavy and you shouldnt be able to walk long ways

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        >i wouldnt go as far as 90 of deadlift max but yes they have to be heavy and you shouldnt be able to walk long ways
        If you have 18" farmers handles you should really be able to carry more than your deadlift max for 50 feet or so. I've not pushed the weight on farmers for a while because my next comp only has 100kg/hand but when my dl max was 260 I could farmers 140/hand for 15m.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Time under tension you stupid Black person.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Fr

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          no cap?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >90% max DL
      >the lift where you just pick the weight straight up
      >use 90% of that max and walk for a minute
      Frick you're moronic. Stop ego lifting. Just walk further. Go heavy but not to moron levels.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        t. weak homosexual sissy

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        >for a minute
        No homie for like 20 secondd

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      but how could i lift half my 2 handed max unilaterally anon that doesn't make sense

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        my max farmers walk for 25' is close to 100 lb heavier than my DL max

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Farmer's carry should be heavy, for even more of a challenge only one hand down, one hand back. Puts more focus on core.

      You wanna do heavy deads, do that. This is a different exercise.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      I do 66% of my 1rm. Farmer carry 200 lbs per hand and carry them around 150 feet.

  2. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    >trains grip
    >trains core stabilization
    >trains work capacity
    Love me some farmers walks but I don't have the equipment to do it at my current gym.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      What gym doesnt have dumbells?

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        They don't have 60kg+ dumbbells, anon.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Understood. What about barbell suitcase carries?

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          >60kg+
          Jesus Christ. My hands/forearms hurt just by lifting a 15kg dumbbell when I do shrugs.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            It gets better with time. Just keep on lifting

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            do you even lift?

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            That's what I started doing shrugs with when I first started lifting. You need to work on that grip strength homie.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            lift more and eventually you will
            don't let anyone discourage you from getting stornger

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            Any weight claim (except bodyweight) on IST is 4x reality.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            keep lifting

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Just do pinch grip on a couple 45s

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          I had great results with a trap bar.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          Try Ed Coan's side holds. Set a barbell up in a squat rack at just under waist height. Then pickup the bar like a suitcase and hold it.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Use the trap bar.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      What are you gay? You don't own two heavy things? You don't have a couple toolboxes? You don't have a duffel bag you can throw shit in? Quit being such a pussy anon you're a grown man.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bring bags of sand

  3. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Probably the most underrated strenght exercise of all time. Core will get strong as frick, grip will get strong as frick, forearms and traps will get fricking massive. Too bad 99% of commercial gyms don't have neither space nor equipment for them.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      This. If your gym doesn't have space to walk far enough in the weight area, do what I do and be a dickhead and use the basketball court or the "grass" area a lot of gym have for sled pushes and shit.

      Idgaf if y'all don't want freeweights outta the freeweight area, I ain't skipping them farmers.

  4. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    one of the best exercises no one does.
    light weight and walk really far
    heavy weight and short distance
    its great.

  5. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    every roider should be shot. simple as

  6. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    based exercise. it trains something you probably do more often than any other exercise. picking things up and putting them down elsewhere. straight up carrying stuff over a distance is human as frick.

  7. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    does this go in your pull day under PPL or is it something you can do as an accessory on any day?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's kind of a personal choice, it shreds my traps like nothing else so I put it either on pull or legs depending on how sore I am.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      It doesn't matter. I treat forearms and wrists as it own category, a sort of "floating" workout that can be done on any day in addition to my regular schedule, depending on how I feel.

  8. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's only a meme with light weight. And by light I mean less than about 40pc of your bodyweight. You can AND need to move serious weight doing farmer's walks.

  9. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'd do farmers walks if they weren't so time consuming and boring. Deadhands are basically the same and train more of your body

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Deadhands
      What are those or do you mean dead hang?

  10. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    As part of general strength training, yeah it's kind of a meme, or at least not the greatest use of your time and effort
    If you have mild injuries in your arm shoulder or back though, light weight long duration farmer walks are decent rehab, I do them on an "as needed" basis

  11. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    can I a trap bar for farmers walk? my gym has 30 kgs of dumbbells

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      yes, you will lose a bit of stability training since there are fewer degrees of freedom but trap bar is a good way to get them heavy with limited equipment.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        see that shit is moronic because the whole point of the exercise is to train stability and when you're essentially doing an autism shuffle you're not training stability anywhere near as much.

        just because you can physically pick up the weight doesn't mean you can "do" the weight for the exercise.

        farmer's walks should be done with a normal stride, or close to normal.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          The point of training farmers is to get better at farmers. If your competition has 150kg per hand for 20m then good luck trying to carry it with 'normal stride'.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't see why not

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        yes, you will lose a bit of stability training since there are fewer degrees of freedom but trap bar is a good way to get them heavy with limited equipment.

        cheers lads

  12. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I could only see myself doing a farmers walk on a treadmill with dumbells in hand or something. Normies in the gym have 0 sense of direction when people are working out these kind of movements

  13. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    My favourite exercise. I do them almost everyday but only with 20kg dumbbells.
    Would it be better to suitcase carry with 40kgs?

  14. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    >get cartwheel
    >fill it with earth
    >walk around
    Just do the legit farmers walk and not the onions one

  15. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've been doing 60 lbs dumbbells for 1 minute for 3 sets on a max incline treadmill. I want to try going really heavy but I don't know how long I should aim to walk for

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >60 lbs dumbbells
      Not enough

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      how the frick do you stop and start the treadmill

  16. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I do long distance Farmer's Carry. Like 1.5km, not allowed to put them down, swing them up onto shoulders to rest grip, drop back down when that position gets tiring. Body has improved from it, especially traps. It's legit.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      How much weight big boy

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        2x40lbs.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm aiming for a kinesthetic/fight club body and mental fortitude and it has helped in both regards. The most profound difference is hiking in hills. Recently took a 10 mile hike that used to be kind of tiring and it was easy.

          Nice. I might unironically try this out.

          • 12 months ago
            Anonymous

            After you trial it to see what kind of distance you can do, and if you decide you like it, I've found that using landmarks is helpful.
            "I have to walk to the intersection 0.75km away and then all the way back home" works as an unassailable motive for doing the exercise, and so the inner demon that says
            >"we're too tired. Let's set the bells down and rest"
            always loses his argument because the reply is:
            >"But we can't put them down until we get to the intersection and back home."
            It's a great method for atrophying the part of the self that likes to quit.

            I'm a fricking brainlet who loves this exercise but don't know how to progressively overload it.
            High weight low distance?
            Light weight far distance?
            Strenght? Time under tension? Forearm size? Stronger grip?
            Really overwhelmed, decided to do suicase carries, which help my core but not my grip.

            What is your goal? Lighter weight + longer distance won't give significant hypertrophy, other than your traps, but it does seem to give a nice, sculpted look. If you were going for bodybuilding progress then you'd probably want much heavier weight.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is actually a proper simulation of a farmer walk instead of carrying 100lbs in each hands across the room like most of these morons do.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm aiming for a kinesthetic/fight club body and mental fortitude and it has helped in both regards. The most profound difference is hiking in hills. Recently took a 10 mile hike that used to be kind of tiring and it was easy.

  17. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm a fricking brainlet who loves this exercise but don't know how to progressively overload it.
    High weight low distance?
    Light weight far distance?
    Strenght? Time under tension? Forearm size? Stronger grip?
    Really overwhelmed, decided to do suicase carries, which help my core but not my grip.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      like anything moron. keep all variables the same except one, which you progress.

      i would do 2 laps of my gym for 5 sets with a rest between each set. whenever i could do all 5 laps without dropping nuts at some point i would up the weight.

  18. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    How do you program farmer carries? Like 5 times max distance? Or a set distance? How many times a week? Treat it like any compound?

  19. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Good exercises for strength sport however it’s pretty useless if you are a body builder

  20. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Only if you ego lift.
    That muscle that makes you shrug should be completely contracted during the entire walk.

  21. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Farmer Carry with two kettlebells at different weights, switching halfway? Better to do one weight and switch sides halfway instead?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      i went with a 44/48 kg kettlebell combination for a lap around the field (each kb only existed once so it had to be uneven), switching every quarter lap (and having a break to rest my hands). in reality it doesn't matter, as long as you keep your body straight and don't do crooked shit it will have an effect. it's not a problem to do things unilateral, as long as you maintain good form. it's all about what you want from it. more cross body stabilization will probably come from more uneven weight, more core/general strength from total weight.

  22. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    1.push
    2. pull
    3. hinge
    4. squat
    5. carry

  23. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can you do these on a treadmill for longer distances? Or is that a moron move that’s going to get me hurt

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      yeah if you want carpel tunnel and neck cramps all day go for it. The idea of light weights for ling distance with farmers is the same as "weighted training clothes" people. No, walking around with a heavy backpack is not a replacement for squats and walking around with 40lb dbs is not a replacement for properly heavy farmers.

  24. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I bought 2 buckets and I've been filling with water and carrying them while walking back and forth, I carry them for 3 minutes then walk without it for 3 minutes. Over time I increase to 6 minutes carrying, 3 minutes not, 9 minutes carrying, 3 minutes not etc and when I hit 15 minutes I increase the weight in the bucket and start over
    Is this a waste of time?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      No this sounds like a good idea. I'm a big fan of things like this.

  25. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    I actually prefer suitcase carries (same thing but one arm at a time). I use them mainly for core stabilization and I feel like suitcase carries are way more effective.

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