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50-lb Fatman Blob For Reps


Jedd Johnson

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I am loving Juha Harju's Grip Monsters Challenges. One of them is the 50-lb Blob to a 50cm Platform for Reps.

I was in the lead with 15 or 16, and I wanted to try to overtake myself. The first time I used the easiest Next Gen Blob I own. This time I wanted to try it with Josh Dale's Fatman Blob. It weighs 53+lbs.

Here's the video. I eventually beat my own number, but I had to go back to the Next Gen to do it. The Fatman was just too tough for me. I think if my back weren't hurting so bad at the time of the trial, I would have gotten 16 reps, but I was having to Row the Blob on many of the reps since my Glutes and lumbar extensors were almost completely shut down.

You'll also see, I couldn't do more than 1 or 2 reps most of the time with my left hand, because it was LIGHTING UP my back much worse than my right hand.

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Jedd, if that's Josh Dale's Fatman Blob (nicknamed SLICK50) that Eaton had on extended loan, it's really tough. I had a difficult time finishing it off w/ a legitimate lift and dropped it multiple times before getting it to lockout; it was easier if you "cheated" and lifted it on the flat spot as Eaton showed me. So, you lifting it for reps is really impressive, well done Jedd!

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Thanks Bob. Yes, that is the Fatman that is here. It has definitely maintained a slickness to it, that is for sure. I love the fact that all Blobs are different as far as the surface is concerned. Thanks for posting brother.

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I wanted to challenge myself again with this drill, so I made this the main section of my Grip workout yesterday.

You'll see three main types of efforts:

A: Fatman Blob (53#) lifted for max reps in 60 seconds without purposely tilting the Blob for an advantage

B: A run or two with the Fatman with tilt for an advantage

C: Next Gen, aiming for 20 reps in 60 seconds, which I finally got

This is an awesome training method. You don't need to use the 50-lb Blob to make it beneficial either. Any Block Weight will work. My hands feel AWESOME lately because of working this in. Tremendous volume, tremendous effort, and with the speed/density training, it is totally different from most of the stuff I have been doing.

Thanks again to Juha for putting these challenges together. I hope more people continue to put up videos for the many other challenge species as well.

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