I have been waiting for YEARS to find out how you swing so fast and powerfully. Please bring more videos on the sledgehammer and how you'd incorporate them into workouts! I will personally watch those videos 1.000 times so you don't have to worry about views :-D
Love this as an exercise! Almost everyone can do it and it has practical application! I learned how as a kid when we processed wood for extra money. Is that a Gransfors Bruks splitting maul? Nice!
I went to a rage room yesterday, and wondered why my sledgehammer would slip from me at times. It was a great workout and I feel I may purchase one just for working out purposes. Thanks for this video
I did this along with car pushes and skip squats during lockdown, when I couldn't get any equipment. Absolutely awesome giant set and immensely brutal!
It isn't strength related but my friend and I (I'm actually legally blind with no depth perception) would practice our form and aim by splitting a log as many times as we could. Split it in half, split the half in half, and so on, re-centering the log every time with the swinger not moving. It was fun, stress relieving and occasionally got into a nice endurance workout. Plus, you can start making bets on who can split the really thin pieces. Anyway, thank you Brian! Yet another of your videos I'll be implementing on my way to buying a custom program!
This was incredibly helpful thank you! and yes absolutely let's see those sledgehammer workouts! I actually havent done any tire flipping or sledge work in a while but was considering putting it back into my training at least until its still warm enough to go outside lol (Vermont here)
Bro you should totally take part in the Axe cordwood challenge! Theres a main Facebook page by the same name and theres tons of participants from around the world! The challenge is to see how much wood you can process with an axe within a year... which includes felling, limbing, bucking splitting and then stacking using only an axe.. no saws allowed and bucked pieces must be split. The challenge takes place every year and starts on the new year day and ends at the end of December.. so you still have some time to partake in the cordwood challenge! I love seeing your bushcraft videos and would love to see some videos of you bucking some logs and reviewing axes.
The feeling of sludge work is so satisfying. I have to work the side hit in my routine. Always enjoy you posts bro much love!! You were going hooligan on be tire man!!
Great video Brian. I forget how many people may never have swung a sledge or an axe before and this was a great tutorial on how to do it. Also just a great refresher for me to keep my technique right. Thanks man.
When driving a steak in the ground with a sledge you can do all you stated….plus as you make impact flip the head of hammer quarter turn …with that you’ll come down off of the steak and using that momentum you can then even more quickly come around for next impact…👍👍👍👍
I'd love to see more sledgehammer work and other GPP work using tires or other implements. I've been using an old radial tire for rotational swings against a tree in my backyard. Less damaging to the tree and still killer workout.
Few years ago I was at an archaeological excavation, where we had to dig through a thick layer of clay soil mixed with cobble with a pickaxe (hard as f*ck). Used a slighty diffenent technique (gripping tight the whole time and purposefully squatting down to give the strike more power). For about one week that was my workout, beside carrying buckets of dirt.
While I’m too old and broken for strongman training I do love to swing a hammer Given your common sense approach I’d love to see your workouts. Do you sell programs, if so I’d certainly buy a GPP program from you 👍🏼
I use both hands with one foot forward, about 10 reps then change, "not so good with the coordination on the left😔" but I'll try centering myself and see how it feels. Great post Brian, as always👊
Solid video. Well articulated about the movement, range of motion and breathing points. Do you have suggestions on a sledgehammer program starting out ? How do you pick the best weight hammer to avoid injury? Thx
I generally use it as a warm up! I didn’t realize it didn’t matter if I switched arms. Also what is a good base number. I am now at 20 reps per arm for 3 sets!!! I use it as a warm up or a finisher. All the Best!!!!! And yes it would be great to have a workout to go by!!!!
I’d like to hear to hear what the sledgehammer workouts are. I just do them for 30s at a time as part of a giant set so I could use some creativity with these
Hi Brian... Thanks for the sledgehammer workout... I've been looking for these this week and found some Vikings using 2 sledgehammers for their workout... Nothing like the old ways. More sledgehammer exercises would be most appreciated... How did you read my mind? Do you have some special gift that your not telling us about?
u really should do some striking on a heavy bag routine for the people. nothing is more functional and its more likely people will need to defend themselves or someone, so it is very practical for real life. the majority of viewers here are into strength training but adding the striking would be a geat dynamic addition. in this new age its more likely we would need that vs chopping a tree. few people live in remote areas or have a need to destroy a good a tree .
I'd love to see how you incorporate sledgehammer work into your training. I love swinging a hammer for my conditioning, but I'm pretty sure I could be using it more effectively.
I don’t have a tractor tire, a place to put one, or access to a gym with one. Can I do this with like a bucket of sand? I know there won’t be a rebound effect, I’m just wondering if there is another way to do this without a tractor tire.
Will used to switch right and left every other stroke. The motion is more like spinning with a sledge hammer. lol Unless of course you are actually splitting wood
I don't think I've ever seen someone swing a sledge that fast and hard. If there weren't other people in the video I would have sworn you ran this video at 2x speed.
Sub maximal weight ….and we have no context of intent of training…so criticizing form without understanding what the exercise intends to improve just proves who’s the idiot….touch and go deadlifts done sub maximally are not particularly dangerous
Amazing. I’m 46 competing in my first strongman comp dec 11 and I want things for building stamina and I get bored with running and biking so this can help I think. I’m working for that 2 minutes high intensity hope to get about 5 minutes. Anyway thanks for the info and would love to how to add to my programs. Is it best for push days, pull days and so on.
