 Want to learn some secrets from strongman training? Listen to this Our next caller is Dan from Alberta Dan. What's going on, man? Hey guys, uh, first I want to say Thanks for the opportunity to talk to you guys and thanks for all the content put out. I've found it really helpful What I was wondering from you guys is how would you recommend programming for a strongman style event like? specifically what is the best way to Incorporate carries sled drags It pushes I've done a couple competitions over the past years my performance in these events have been pretty mediocre and after Three years. I'm having a hard time just improving my performance I find the weights easy to move But what my difficulty is is lowering my time for each event Last year I tried doing maps and a ball at all of a performance and then event specific training and Found not much improvement. So I'm just not sure what I'm doing wrong Okay, Dan. I got I got that sometimes every once in a while we get a question where I have the perfect answer Wow, it's weird literally created Do you have map strong I do not know we're gonna send that to you so since it was written Yeah, so we wrote map strong with Robert Oberse. He's a Professional strongman competitor. It was literally written Strongman style training. That's the best program that we have for exactly what you're asking for I'm gonna send that over to you But because the answer is so easy and fast. Let's get a little bit deeper. Let's talk about your well Let's go ahead. Let's talk about what is good something he said specifically that I think is very unique to this program That is going to benefit him tremendously and that's the work sessions Oh, yeah, that's that's what he just talked about how the weight and his strength seems to be fine But his he's not improving his time. This isn't quite Yeah, so I mean the work capacity that you get from training those work sessions is I guarantee every one of your events You you're faster. Yeah, it's it's it's literally perfect for what you're asking for But the other side of the question I was asked has to do a little bit more with your nutrition I want to make sure that that's not holding you back. Are you tracking your food and fueling your body properly? I know strongman competitors benefit from having a little bit more size and weight on their bodies and so if you're if your Nutrition isn't fueling that it can definitely make things a little bit more challenging. Are you tracking your food? I Do not track my food currently. No, okay. What's your body weight and how tall are you? I'm six to arena. I'm Sitting on my heavy side for me at 215. Okay, normally when I'm ready for competition I'm down to like 190 190 size. Okay, so I would track your protein Let's get you at least 200 grams of protein and maybe double that in carbohydrates and then you can make up the difference With fat in your diet to hit the calories that you're looking for and try to break that up throughout the day Just because it's easier to digest it's that's a lot of food and then map strong dude Map strong is gonna be perfect for what you're looking for You should see some performance gains with map strong because it was literally designed To help people do better at strongman competitions and then people who don't compete who they when they follow map strong They just get the the muscle and aesthetic benefits and typically looks like a well-developed back Glutes traps and shoulders. Those are the muscles that tend to get developed the most in that program Great, that sounds awesome. Thank you. No problem down. We'll send that over to you. All right Yeah, Dan's been listening to the show I thought we've been trolled right there No, you know Actually, okay, so this is a good topic to kind of add or he's really smart and just one of the yeah That's that that was my other great, you know, you know sounds like you wouldn't have no any good ideas I you know, I'm trying to get aesthetic looking and I also would like some performance and I'd like to feel more No, you know this is a good topic because it's when you're looking for Performance in a specific either sport or in a specific way Nothing is gonna improve your performance like training specifically for that So you can get general improvements in performance like a squat is going to getting better a squat is gonna improve your legs General performance, but if you want to get really good at sprinting You're gonna want to do specific exercises for sprinting in this case. It was strong man competitions So, you know anabolic is gonna help a little bit performance is gonna help a little bit Especially if he hasn't trained before that to lift heavy and they have to move with the weight Which is a whole another you know dynamic component to strong man lifting also rounded back type Lifting and so we have all of that is incorporated in that program So it's the perfect one and I will say this this is and I did not expect this until I followed MAP strong And then I say oh, I can't wait to see what the reviews look like It's one of the most popular programs that we have for both men and women, but women Women yeah Yes Yes, it's saying it's such a popular It's probably one of my top three favorite maps programs just for overall muscle and strength Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe