The fucking farmers walk

Why did no one ever tell me about the farmer's walk? This shit is so based. It is such an easy exercise but I really feel it throughout the whole body, it's fantastic. All up the arms, my traps and shoulders, my core.

I think I am gonna complete every session I do from now on by just farmers walking until failure. Frick it. This shit rules.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What sort of weight should one be doing for the farmers walk? or is it more about time

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's about time. Or distance. I do mine based on distance and leave a minute rest tops between "sets"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Bodyweight per hand is a good goal

      It's about time. Or distance. I do mine based on distance and leave a minute rest tops between "sets"

      >It's about time. Or distance.
      Time as in quick or long? I prefer to do it for weight and speed.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Time is usually about how long you can perform or hold an exercise, not how quickly you can give in to failure.

        Although if you do distance then how quickly you can cover that distance is a good use for trying to make old time records shorter. I'd do this method for them over trying to have longer and longer sets though personally because I do them in part for conditioning too.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I walk a third of a mile on my treadmill at 3.1mph with 35lb plates in each hand as a warmup before lifting. Gets you nice and limber without overexerting yourself.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Very based and functional exercise

    Load up one side for each rep as opposed to balancing out both hands for optimal stabilizer and posture gains

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this sounds like a nice way to frick up your back

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        For sure if you go too heavy just like most exercises. You should only load up whatever your grip can reasonably handle

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's a great way to strengthen the obliques actually

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          damn I need this then. I've got a womanly hourglass figure. Can I use dumbbells for it? I've got loadables that go up to about 50kg each, is that going to be too light to get effects?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >I've got a womanly hourglass figure
            post bod, for science

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I don't want to, I know I look like shit right now, I don't need other people to point it out. I stay more motivated by just not looking at my body and staying the course (losing weight, lifting weights), since if I just focused on what I look like, I'd be depressed for the next year because realistically it's going to take at least that long of steady lifting to look halfway decent.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah dbs work fine. I've done it with a trap bar too. I prefer trap bar cuz I can load it better

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              how much do you farmers walk compared to deadlift?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                About 40-60% of my 1rm. I do them in 6 minute intervals. Every minute on the minute I run as far as I can with them, stop, turn around, and repeat. Once the 6 minutes is up, that "set" is done. I never do more than 1-2 sets on the same day because they light me up.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Had never thought of that, thanks anon

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yes this sounds healthy, really massage out those intervertebral discs

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Loading one side is the patrician's move. It forces the opposite side to contract and strengthen, whereas balancing the load just squashes you down AND is less than what a deadlift is anyway. So its useless.

      Start with a 35 pound dumbell - go for a walk until some part of body gives out. Switch hands, turn around and walk back. progressively ,oad as needed.

      Just dont walk around with two fully loaded dumbells. Stupid.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    new athlean x video just dropped
    >farmers walk: 15 things you are doing wrong

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >It is such an easy exercise but I really feel it throughout the whole body

    you have literally never done a farmers walk in your entire life. imagine thinking you feel that shit in your entire body. fricking idiot.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      frick you, you stupid insecure b***h.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >It is such an easy exercise but I really feel it throughout the whole body

        you have literally never done a farmers walk in your entire life. imagine thinking you feel that shit in your entire body. fricking idiot.

        kys morons

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >you have literally never done a farmers walk in your entire life.
      Have you,moron?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This, you feel it in your forearms and shoulders. I never feel it anywhere else.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I don't feel anything
      >therefore everyone else is a fricking idiot
      I will think about you the next time I walk around the room like a swole penguin.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I did tell you about it 2 months ago :/

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's fine but it's just an assistance exercise.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Can I do a light weight farmers carry on the treadmill for hypertrophy across my whole body?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Not really. Farmers aren't very good for hypertrophy. It's more of an isometric strength exercise for grip/forearms, upperback, posterior chain, etc. It's why people stress good range of motion on exercises for hypertrophy.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >OPs pic
    >weird physique
    >can't tell why, just looks off
    lanklet's curse

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      pencil neck, looks like he might have small legs compared to his upper but tough to tell with pants on

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      first glance can tell he long asf

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I do them too, and but i walk like a drunk man lol
    I'm doing 2 reps with 10kg playe for probably 30m~ i'd say, then 2 at 20kg
    I'm doing them on socks since i have orthopedic insoles (flat feet), don't want to risk fricking them up with the added weight

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    try walking backwards on it, i feel it even more walking backwards

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Your pic is fricking stupid. He should be activating his calves by walking on his toes. Do deadlifts if you want to activate arms and shoulders, fricking moron.

      Farmers walking backwards on your tip toes is the ultimate exercise. make sure you alternate which way you turn your head to look behind you to stay symmetrical

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >the gym dyel is doing farmers walks with 40lb dumbbells and blocking your path to the water fountain again
    yikes. i tried them once loading up a trap bar with like 3 plates and power wallking on the turf area but it felt useless when i could just do more deadlifts

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >trap bar
      you didn't do a farmer's walk.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Your pic is fricking stupid. He should be activating his calves by walking on his toes. Do deadlifts if you want to activate arms and shoulders, fricking moron.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >mfw some insane motherfricker was doing overhead barbell walks
    He is just a loud roiding curlbro to and sometimes he comes to the gym in flip fricking flops.Dunno if I respect him or cringe

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Now wrap a hand towel around each kettle bell, grab the ends of the towel in each hand and try that.

    Thank me later

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    if you're just trying to get jacked and stacked there's better options (stimulus to fatigue wise). You'll find once you make some gains and start doing working sets above your bodyweight per hand you're totally spent and frequently ripping callouses.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Every dyel does this shit. That and those walking lunges.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      we don't lift, we are carrying

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    *fixes all your posture issues*
    *makes your forearms strong as frick*
    I love this exercise bros

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