Thanks Michael. All the best in your training.

Bumper plates are awesome, both for overhead work and for stone training.

Dude this movement has helped me so much because the only stone I have is 330lbs and it's a lap stone on a good day training stones with out stones helps thanks diesel crew

Thanks for the clarification Jedd and keep up the great work! Excellent video btw.

thank you for the idea

Keep doing it. You will love it.

waw, tremendous idea... never thought about it. Thx

Thank you so much for the incredible idea

Thank you for this idea! I know what I'll be doing on Monday

perfect! we have those kinds of bars in the commercial gym nearby...'problem is if the people in charge would agree to the dismantling stuff...

genius, i'm going to have to try this, thank you! :)

No doubt about it, you'll have a better time if you blow through the lapping phase and on to the loading phase. That is why we included both techniques.

i Managed to do this exercise today, legs and abs workout and it was brutal its awesome didn't manage to do much as its quite awkward different to stones but it does mimic it very well, the oly bar was sticking out a little so i couldn't lift all way up but im sure my ROM was good, picked it up like a stone, lapped it , and lifted. People at gym where looking at me wired but i don't give a crap i train brutal and hard.

my gym would never let me unscrew the bar they probably think im nicking it

Thanks.

@Vdjperks - Way to give it a try brother. Did you see my other video I put up recently called the gut wrench? It is mostly for training the lapping portion of the stone lift.

@iponuall - I am sure it is possible, but that is why you have to train that position and get conditioned with lighter weights and gradually work up, as opposed to trying to move up too quickly. I don't think I ever hurt my back on stones, that I can remember. Deadlifts have always been more of an issue for me.

Mainly just to replicate the actual atlas stone movement. By all means, if the weight is light enough to sweep it up in one motion, then go for it. When it gets heavier, feel free to lap it.

@dlemanczyk Very possible. Clint is a very talented strongman. I have never seen that article though. Sounds like a pretty good resource. Also as Bob points out, David Horne put out some info years ago on a bear hug lift using plates. I don't think those were done in a full "stone-lift" style. Only brought clear of the ground.

Those are bumper plates in the middle I suppose..that would help with grip...I tried it without, cause I don't have them and it was tough ot lift..and plates started separating

I think he did them from the smooth sides though. I think david sells an implement to do this. It's come up before, but I am not sure I have a link to show you. Elitefts also sells them.

Elite sells a piece made specifically for this movements. You could also just use a pipe.

had trouble screwing the oly back on but im sure staff didnt notice lol

Wow this seems to be a very good compound exercise. How does this fare in comparison to regular deadlift in terms of muscles trained. Also, this seems to be very dangerous unless you have proper form.

That's a great method but my gym would kick me out if I started taking apart bars:(

@JeddJohnson yes i did but, i think im happy with this exercise it was very good, so i will keep it up, in time lets hope weight gets higher but it went well, I have done stones in the past so it hit the muscles which i expected. got the ROM spot on, I was shocked to see how difficult this exercise was but i reduced weight to an appropriate level and did pyramid sets of 10 8 6 4.

@iponuall - Not a problem.

Thanks. I think the bear hug lift would be even harder than this, by the way. Much harder to grab it by the flat side that the round, it would seem.

We get along with the owner pretty well. He has never said anything.

Try it out and shoot us a clip!

Looks like the Bear Hug Deadlift: David Horne 1997

@Vdjperks this is the video I am talking about: ID = bsLiH4r3SfQ

Anyone have any experience doing this with smooth non-bumper plates? Would the resulting 'stone' be too thin and/or slippery?

@Vdjperks - In that case, you should try the gut wrench lift - put this after youtube dot com /watch?v=bsLiH4r3SfQ

@iponuall - I just answered this....

The point of lapping is to practice the technique yes it's light weight but let's be honest your not gonna just pick up a 300+stone and hyper extend

cooooooooooooool

@Vdjperks - GREAT. Great work bro. Keep up the awesome work. Have you signed up for my Strongman Training Tips newsletter? I just put a form up on my website diesel crew dot com. Check it out!