Hey everyone,
I would like to experiment with farmer carries in my training. My question is how you would suggest best incorporating them into a BBM template. I am about to run either G S & C or powerbuilding.
Knowing that farmer carries can be stressful, for the purposes of fatigue management - Is it best to swap farmer carries in for one of the programmed exercises or to add farmer carries into the GPP as HIIT/in lieu of direct ab work, etc.?
I’d love to hear your thoughts,
Andrew
AKD,
I don’t think you necessarily need to replace a programmed exercise with them, but replacing your HIIT work with some Farmer’s walks seems reasonable.
I think starting by working up to a load you can carry for 20 -30 yards (ish) and doing 1 “trip” with a weight that challenges you every 2nd minute would be a good place to start. I would start lower in volume, 4 passes or so and then work up week by week from there.
-Jordan
That sounds very reasonable, thanks. I’m glad you don’t think it’s necessary to replace a programmed lift. I’d rather include it in GPP but wanted your input. Thanks for that.