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According to Carrasquillo’s caption, the lift was “300X1 on the worst log ever.” And, apparently, this has been something the strongwoman has been in pursuit of for a little while: “Been chasing a 300lb press off the ground and I needed this win,” she added.

Carrasquillo’s 300-pound press shatters the previous world record by two and a half pounds, set by Andrea Thompson during the World Ultimate Strongman’s “Feats of Strength Series” in July 2020. However, because Carrasquillo did not complete the press in a formal competitive setting, the record is not yet hers. The last time Carrasquillo did officially compete was when she finished fourth during late last year’s World’s Strongest Woman, according to BarBend.

It’s important to distinguish between the log Carrasquillo lifted, how she managed the press, and the one Thompson lifted. Carrasquillo had a more compressed log with bumper plates attached farther out, whereas Thompson used a wider, more extended log. To wit, Carrasquillo began her press from the floor, while log presses usually start from elevated pads.

Carrasquillo, a third-place finisher in the 2021 Official Strongman Games, showed off her immense pressing potential by winning the famed Log Press for Reps segment. There, she pressed a 106.5-kilogram (235-pound) log 12 times. And in a another training session, Carrasquillo hoisted an axle bar loaded with 300 pounds overhead three times. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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But it’s her recent log press feat that drew the attention of the strength world. The “Texas Titan,” Gabriel Pena, had nothing but praise for the bright up and comer.

“Absolutely incredible [Inez]! I very much look forward to watching you write new pages in the books of history over the coming years.”

Elsewhere in the community, Thompson herself had yet to comment about Carrasquillo’s feat publicly. But her trainer, Laurence Shahlaei—an accomplished strongman himself—noted that he thought Carrasquillo’s lift was “Awesome.”

Finally, Canadian World’s Strongest Man lifter and the owner of the Hummer Tire Deadlift World Record, JF Caron, interjected simply by maintaining, “That’s very impressive.”

With an eye-popping moment like this behind her, massive strides are undoubtedly on the horizon for Carrasquillo. For someone who has claimed to want to be the world’s strongest woman in the past, how could they not be?

According to her trainer Alec Pagan, Carrasquillo is competing in the 2022 Arnold Amateur Strongman Championships from Mar. 3-5. If this titanic of a log press foreshadows what the near future holds, we can only expect more fireworks from Carrasquillo in front of the greater strength world at large.

Featured Image: @ines_strongwoman on Instagram

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I recently decided to take a break from my competitive strongwoman career. After close to three years, I’ve competed in more than ten competitions. Included in this have been two national events, each followed by the Arnold World Championships. The only real break I had was when I broke my ankle.

After this last Arnold World Championship, I came home and immediately got bombarded with the question, “When’s your next competition?” “What are you training for now?” I found myself looking for the answer. I absolutely hated answering the question with, “I don’t know.” It took a few weeks of being sad, upset, and torn to finally decide that not knowing was perfectly okay. I was searching for an answer for other people, not for myself.

So to answer that question: I’m next. The answer is me. Not the next competition or PR, but me.

Take Time to Reflect

I’ve taken the past three months to work on me. I was able to focus on recovering from a past injury, spending more time with my daughter, getting home earlier in the evenings, and focusing on a few other goals, like passing my final term of chemistry. These things had nothing to do with training.

Having this time of reflection made me want to share a few tips for those of you who are struggling with taking a break:

1. Find your why. Determine the reason behind your why and always pursue that.
2. Make sure that what you’re chasing isn’t for anyone else but yourself. Is someone else pushing you towards your goals? Are your goals yours and yours alone? It’s easy to fall into the pattern of wanting to please your fans, friends, family, and especially your coach. Don’t mix their excitement for your success with the need to be always competing. If they’re in your corner they will understand shifts in goals and support you 100 percent.
3. Ask yourself how long has it been since your last break. Our bodies need time to reset and recoup. That means lightening the load and frequency. The best athletes in the world take rest periods. Be nice to your body and learn to listen to it. Don’t wait until it’s screaming at you and you end up injured.
4. Be selfish. Take time for yourself and don’t feel bad about it!
5. Set new goals. Do you want to start doing more activities outside the gym? Lose weight? Commit thirty minutes a day to mobility? Read a book? Get that landscaping finished at home? Just because you’re not training towards a competition doesn’t mean you can’t be focused.

I know making the decision to take a break is scary. It’s change. It’s a new routine. It feels like we’re giving up something that is like oxygen. I put almost three years of blood, sweat, and tears into strongman. I felt like I was breaking up with the love of my life. Dramatic I know, but you get the picture.

Focus on what this break can do for you. Use it to discover yourself and unleash more potential. The competitions will still be there after your break, and you’re still going to be the great athlete you were before. Maybe you’ll be even better.

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This time last year, I published my 5 Athletes to Watch in CrossFit and the NPGL list. All five were subsequently drafted by GRID teams, and each went on to play key roles for their respective squads.

• Emily Pale was a starter and dominant player for the Phoenix Rise.
• Nick DelGrande was the first athlete drafted in the 2014 NPGL draft and went on to play for the Philly Founders.
• Andrew Rape and Tina Angelotti were both drafted by the New York Rhinos.
• Abby Graham was drafted by the champion DC Brawlers and became part of the Taylar Stallings-Abby Graham dynamic duo that dominated the female side of the GRID last season.

So who will emerge in GRID’s second season as major new talent and prolific contributors to their teams? Here is my prediction for five of the future stars of GRID:

Christen Wagner

• Snatch: 165lbs
• Clean: 225lb
• Consecutive Muscle Ups: 13

Wagner was the first athlete drafted in the first round. Picked up by the expansion team the Baltimore Anthem, Wagner is a highly seasoned CrossFit competitor, having been to the CrossFit Games both as an individual out of the Asia Region and then twice as a member of a team.

Wagner will lead the Anthem as a generalist – an athlete who has the ability to move heavy weight, excel at bodyweight movements, and do pretty much everything in between.

She blew everyone away with her speed, strength, and skill at both the Baltimore Pro Day and the combine, making her the most sought-after athlete in the draft pool. I predict she will be one of the cornerstones of the Baltimore team in its first year on the GRID.

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Becca Day

• Clean: 315lbs
• Snatch: 225lb

Day blew up in late 2014 after this video of her cleaning 305-lbs went viral:

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The video immediately caught the attention of a number of GRID teams, and it wasn’t long before Day signed with the champion DC Brawlers.

Extremely strong, yet highly versatile, Day is poised to take GRID by storm, as she enters the league as probably the strongest female. (Although Baltimore’s Hannah Caldas is hot on her heels.) Day cycles the bar extremely quickly and has been working on gymnastics and other bodyweight movements to make sure she is valuable in all quadrants, not just the fourth.

One additional point of interest: the Brawlers’ Abby Graham will be sidelined this year due to shoulder surgery, so DC’s dynamic duo has now become Day and Stallings.

Imagine for a moment, a team where Taylar Stallings is the second strongest female on the team?

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Wes Kitts

• Clean and Jerk: 440lbs
• Snatch: 363lbs
• Back Squat: 604lbs

Kitts was also a first-round draft pick, picked up by the New York Rhinos in a bid to strengthen the bottom. With a 440lb clean and jerk, he is undeniably strong and will rival many of the current strongest stars of GRID, namely Danny Nichols and Ken Battiston.

The Rhinos needed a strong man, and Kitts is just the man, as his stats indicate.

Without a doubt, he will be a starter for New York this year and will likely be seen in every race that includes a barbell. Wes has had a successful weightlifting career, having qualified for 2014 American Open weightlifting competition. While he can and will add a few reps here and there on bodyweight movements, for the most part Kitts will be the strong anchor.

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Jessica Malone

• Consecutive Muscle Ups: 14

Jessica, age 32, will surprise a lot of people in 2015. At her Pro Day in Columbia, South Carolina, she flew just under the radar – clearly talented with polished bodyweight prowess, but also unassuming and humble. She earned a spot at the combine and was then drafted in the second round by the DC Brawlers.

What made her so attractive to the coaches and scouts was her ferocity.

Yes, she could do the bodyweight movements, but when it came time to work a barbell, she attacked it. Her barbell cycle time and speed on and off the GRID is a fairly instinctual phenomenon that coaches can’t really teach. So, when they see it occurring in the wild, they draft.

Malone comes into the Brawler organization at an opportune time, as bodyweight MVP Lindsey Menery is out with a back injury.

I believe you will see Malone step up to the plate and excel in the 2015 season. As a CrossFit athlete, she competed in the South Central Regionals, finishing nineteenth in 2012, seventh in 2013, and fifth in 2014.

Ryan Elrod

• Consecutive Muscle Ups: 23
• 4 Rope Climbs: 15.3 seconds

Elrod is more proof that GRID is attracting athletes from outside the world of CrossFit in its second season.

NFL Players, Olympians, and gymnasts have all flocked to GRID, and Elrod is no exception. He is literally a circus performer, under contract with the Cirque du Soleil in Miamim where he has worked for the last six years.

Ryan’s bodyweight talent will amaze fans in 2015 as GRID elements become more involved (for example: muscle up to back uprise, toes-to-bar/chest-to-bar/bar-muscle up combinations) His 23 muscle ups in 80 seconds and his 15.3-second four-rope-ascent score eclipsed everyone in every single Pro Day leading up to the combine.

Elrod was grabbed by the DC Brawlers early in the draft.

His acquisition allows teammate Marcus Hendren to focus more on barbell movements rather than complex bodyweight elements. This will position Elrod to be a new star on the Brawlers’ squad.

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Check out these related articles:

• 2015 Grid League Prospectus – Are You In?
• How Did the DC Brawlers Dominate Grid?
• 5 Athletes to Watch in CrossFit and the NPFL
• What’s New On Breaking Muscle Today

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Sponsorship isn’t a donation, it’s not just for elite athletes, and contrary to what you may have heard, it’s not that hard to get.

My Story

When people ask me how I came to be doing what I do, I start with the story of how my partner Rich Bowles decided he wanted to run the length of Australia on the 5,330km rugged and remote Bicentennial National Trail and how we realized he would need sponsorship to foot the $95,000 bill.

I cite my ten years in marketing as the foundation for my knowledge of sponsorship, having experienced it from that side of the table before starting to work with Rich and the companies we engaged as his first sponsors back in 2011. But what I realize now is that my journey into becoming a sponsorship expert started way before all that.

About twelve years ago, I was the lead singer in a punk band (yes, look at my picture and you may find it hard to believe I had a two-foot high green-and-pink mohawk). It was during those years that I got a taste for what it meant to create a network and the power that had in terms of shared skillsets and opportunities (we got all our t-shirt designs, recording, and event management done for free). The more people we knew, and who knew us, the more opportunities came our way.

“Sponsorship isn’t a donation, it’s not just for elite athletes, and contrary to what you may have heard, it’s not that hard to get.”

Back then, plastering posters on telephone poles was being replaced with posts on online forums and through email. I got us gigs with some of the biggest bands on tour initially through persistence and then through developing an understanding of what they wanted out of their support acts. Yes, playing with them benefitted my band, but my focus was on how we could be of value to the headline acts. Sometimes it was purely a money thing, but playing a gig with a massive band could have payoffs further down the track for us, so it was sometimes worth playing for free. Other times, those bands wanted our crowd and our networks, so it was important to ask and not assume we knew what they wanted.

I was a marketer back then, I just didn’t realize it. And after the band broke up – as punk bands tend to do in a chaotic frenzy of alcohol, loud guitars, and broken beer bottles – I made a decision to move toward a career in marketing. One where I’d get to combine my love for creative thinking with practical and strategic applications.

Sponsorship Success

So, on Christmas day back in 2011, after Rich announced to my family that he wanted to be the first person to run the world’s longest marked trail, he turned his head toward me with a slightly raised eyebrow and asked ”What do you reckon?” Me being me, I said, “Let’s do it!” The idea that my boyfriend was brave (or insane) enough to take on such a huge and never-before-achieved challenge blew my mind. There was no way I was missing out.

My role in the adventure (apart from being support crew) was to raise sponsorship while Richard concentrated on training. In my day job, I was used to receiving, reviewing, and approving dozens of sponsorship requests, as well as putting together large volumes of proposal documents for pipeline construction projects. But I had never before put together a sponsorship proposal of my own.

For over twelve months, I searched on the Internet for templates, samples, instructions, videos, and anything that helped get my head around how to approach and engage sponsors, what to offer them in return, how to manage the process, and how to make sure the relationships were mutually beneficial. What I found was there was no one-stop shop for this information, so I began creating my own documents and learned as I went along about what did and didn’t work.

“What I realized during those fifteen months of planning for the Bicentennial National Trail, and then for the subsequent four projects, was that there are few resources available for athletes seeking sponsorship.”

We engaged about 50% of our sponsorship requirements through already existing contacts, while the others were engaged through a combination of creating new relationships and being in the right place at the right time (a company actually asked Rich if he knew any trail runners looking for sponsorship!).

Rich became the first person to run the world’s longest trail and went on to be the first person to run New Zealand’s 3,054km Te Araroa trail, just three weeks after finishing the Bicentennial National Trail. Four months after that, he ran the length of Israel’s 1,009km trail, and last year smashed a record on the 1,200km Heysen Trail of South Australia – the sponsorship for which was engaged by Rich in a two-week period just before Christmas.

Yep. During the time of year where everyone either cries poor or is already switching off for the holidays, Rich garnered $25,000 of sponsorship by engaging two companies in the mining industry and offering them great media and content for their internal communications and social media (three mini-documentaries branded with their logos and featuring the products), as well as an in-house keynote speech after the run.

A view of the Fleurieu Peninsula along the Heysen Trail in South Australia.

What I Learned

What I realized during those fifteen months of planning for the Bicentennial National Trail, and then for the subsequent four projects, was that there are few resources available for athletes seeking sponsorship. I had spent so many hours developing a whole library of documents and a winning strategy to engage and retain valuable sponsorships – valuable in a financial sense and in the true sense of a relationship in that both parties were happy with the outcomes. The key was that it was the athlete who needed to forge the relationship with the sponsor, not a manager or a broker.

Since 2011, Rich has raised over $200,000 in sponsorship. I was amazed to discover this is a lot more than many elite athletes in Australia can ever dream to raise. So, it’s not just about being well known or the best at your chosen pursuit, sponsors don’t really care about that. What they care about is how they can get publicity and more revenue. They want to know you’re going to be good for their business and that their investment is going to give them a good return.

Sponsorship Consultants

I know there are people who see Rich and I traveling the world, plastering photos and videos of harsh deserts, exploding volcanoes, bleeding limbs, and strangely enough very happy faces, and these people make assumptions about us and our finances. We have had people say things like, “Well it’s easy for you guys,” or, “You must have a big credit card bill,” while others just think we’re “lucky.” None of those statements are even close to the truth. We’ve never had a credit card, we haven’t borrowed a cent, we didn’t take any donations, and we don’t believe in luck.

I’m a big believer in positive thinking and following your intuition, and when I had the thought that maybe other people needed help getting sponsorship, I came up with the idea of creating The Sponsorship Consultants to provide resources and consultancy for athletes. I have experienced both sides of the sponsorship coin. I know my experience can benefit others, and I’m excited about working with athletes and helping them connect with opportunities.

You Can Get Sponsorship

I promise you, the money, products, and services are all out there for all of us, we just need to know how to connect with them the right way. In the upcoming articles I’ll be writing for Breaking Muscle, I’ll be sharing my proven approach of obtaining, maintaining, and retaining valuable sponsorship agreements from companies. I’ll empower you with the skills, knowledge, and resources to engage valuable and long-lasting relationships.

“My articles will keep it simple, factual, and informative and help you to understand how using a simple approach can result in you achieving your sponsorship goals.”

Some writing on sponsorship takes you into complex, analytical, and, to be honest, quite confusing levels of detail that for individual athletes are simply irrelevant. They provide the kind of detail that large organisations may use during their negotiations with a national sports league where sponsorships are multi-million dollar contracts. My articles will keep it simple, factual, and informative and help you to understand how using a simple approach can result in you achieving your sponsorship goals.

The most exciting thing I want to share with you is that almost any athlete can get sponsored, and I definitely do not just mean I can help you get a free t-shirt. There is much more on offer.

There are opportunities for you to engage in valuable and ongoing sponsorships that will not only change your life in sport, but also have the capacity to change your life for the better in so many ways.

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I don’t know if our industry reminds us what it means to be an athlete or elite athlete, or whether it matters. If we look to the Greek and Latin languages, we learn you may fit into this definition if you are proficient in sports and/or other forms of physical exercise and/or you compete for a prize.

So, do you deserve the title “athlete”?

Athletes Have Rules

Over at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning they have a bunch of rules in their gym about guys not wearing tank tops, girls being allowed to wear tank tops, and nobody being allowed to use lifting gloves and iPods, among others. Over at Read Performance Training there are rules about no shoes, turning up, not complaining, and not quitting.

At most football clubs I’ve worked at, there are team rules plastered on the walls in the locker rooms. The AFL even publishes team rules – not defining what it means to be an AFL player, but what an athlete playing Australian football does in different circumstances to honor the team’s objectives.

“These standards aren’t necessarily based on the number of hours trained or competed, level trained or competed, or goal type. It’s knowing the rules exist, learning them, and then sticking to them.”

At clubs I’ve been involved in, following the team rules made you trustworthy – it was noticed. Some rules drive the athlete to a particular level, like “Be stronger than your excuses.” While others tell the athletes why they train the way they do. Auburn University’s football program has a notice on the exit door of their gym that reminds them “We Just Got Better.”

In commercial gyms, the rules are mostly there for occupational health and safety reasons or for the convenience of others. In private gyms, the rules are there to elevate standards of work, preferably to enhance a culture towards better results.

Athletes Are Prepared

A national-level cycling coach I work with is a great developer of junior athletes on long-term athletic pathways. He runs a session for juniors three mornings per week at 6:00am. His rules for being allowed to attend are that the junior athlete:

1. Has had nine hours sleep.
2. Has his or her gear ready the night before, which displays the introductory skills of preparedness displaying a mindset that is on-the-job.
3. Has no outstanding educational requirements. The percentage of individuals in sport who make it to the podium at national or international level is less than 1%, so the 99% need something to fall back on. That means neglecting educational requirements is a no-no.
4. Has the appropriate level of nutrition knowledge. At the level of early teens, just knowing that food labels exist is a great starting point, followed later on by an understanding of food types, and finally by a move toward individually targeting personal nutritional needs.

Athletes Have a Plan

In the German National Football Team, an athlete is given benchmarks that relate to four pillars of performance that EXOS feel are vital to performance. This involves analyzing screens, assessments and test of movements, mindset, and recovery.

“Deficiencies are identified, strategies for correction are devised, procedures are followed, and outputs monitored. Wash, rinse, repeat.”

These concepts are applied in pockets of three. For the upcoming three waking hours the athletes know what the plan is regarding those four pillars. They also know their plan for three hours after that, and so on.

The athletes would also know their three-day plan and their three-month plan. Each plan having the objective to broaden their function in competency, capacity, and skills within the four pillars. Deficiencies are identified, strategies for correction are devised, procedures are followed, and outputs monitored. Wash, rinse, repeat. Rules in action producing outcomes of excellence.

Athletes Have Standards

Having a coach who sets minimums for participants to adhere to appears to be a common thread with great coaches. They are criteria for issuing a license to participate. If not practically, at least culturally.

Common to all these different organisations is that there exists a set of standards based on getting results that serve the individual and the community. Not sticking to them means you’re a trainee – you don’t get to say you’re an athlete in that community. These standards aren’t necessarily based on the number of hours trained or competed, level trained or competed, or goal type. It’s knowing the rules exist, learning them, and then sticking to them.

“Having a coach who sets minimums for participants to adhere to appears to be a common thread with great coaches. They are criteria for issuing a license to participate.”

Breaking the rules is a default – you lose your privileges to be an athlete. Demerit points apply for drunk driving, and they apply for dangerous, careless, and haphazard athletic preparation, too. Whether it’s stated or not, don’t underestimate the judgement that comes by bending and breaking the rules.

My Licensing Criteria for Being an Athlete

1. You seek to move well before you move often. You train for quality before quantity, which is reserved for survival and competition. This honors you staying an athlete for a long time. Honoring durability is a characteristic of great athletes. This often has you swim against the stream of those around you going gangbusters despite their quality. On the road from being one of the mob to being a master, this is the first step.
2. You have an aspiration to attain qualities you don’t already have, to deliver outputs you’ve not yet displayed. This is because you understand that the goals you aspire to will make of you something greater in value than the goal you get. This aspiration brings emotion to your actions, the necessary ingredient for moving toward your accomplishments. This is the second step in moving away from the masses and towards mastery of your athletic pursuits – aspiring to be better, to be different.
3. You recognize you are different from every other athlete. As a result, you work your plan based on individual weak links and strengths. You develop your individual program, not someone else’s.
4. You do what you say, when you say will do it. This is a display of discipline to your individual direction. Trustworthiness could be the greatest characteristic you can bring to your coach.
5. You reflect on your results to refine your plan. This means having a monitoring process in place. It develops experience more quickly than just being another trainee who turns up, sweats, and goes home. You note whether you slept well and are rested so you can adjust your recovery and nutrition program. You monitor whether you are truly willing to train or whether you need some mindset assistance. You monitor your soreness so you can see whether your training is creating weak links that you need to pay attention to.

Repeating the above process will earn you your license to be called an athlete. Masters of training and sport all follow these steps.

What rules do you have as a coach or an athlete that you think pave the way to success? Post your comments below.

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Training for dance consists of bursts of varying intensity exercise followed by periods of lower intensity or rest. Professional dancers typically train for multiple hours every day.

Dancing is clearly an artistic endeavor, but it also requires great physical skill and puts great physical demands on the body. With the amount of training involved in preparing for a performance, and the stress and intensity of that performance, one could argue dance has similar qualities, intensities, and time intervals as a sport.

Training for dance consists of bursts of varying intensity exercise followed by periods of lower intensity or rest. Professional dancers typically train for multiple hours every day.

Performance consists of longer periods of demand on the body than training and dancers generally experience higher heart rates, but still in shorter intervals than one would think of an endurance sport.

A recent study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research took a look at classical ballet from the perspective of it being a sport. They selected previously published research and examined professional ballet dancers along a series of fitness parameters:

• Aerobic capacity – Professional dancers were found to have lower demands on the heart than non-professional level dancers, perhaps due to physical adaptation from the volume and years of training.
• Muscular power and endurance – Ballet dancers demonstrate higher vertical jumps than the average population and also a greater adaptation to long periods of demand on their muscles.
• Muscular strength – While dancers demonstrate greater strength in their hips than other populations, they are generally wary of strength training due to the aesthetic demands of ballet.
• Anthropometry – To meet the aesthetic requirements of ballet, dancers frequently keep their caloric intake very low possibly predisposing them to bone density problems and injuries.
• Flexibility – Dancers, on average, display a much higher capability than average.
• Agility – Not much information on dancers and agility could be found by the study, but dance training was found to increase agility in athletes in other sports.

In conclusion, the study found classical ballet could be compared with other high-intensity interval training, but unlike athletes in sports, ballet dancers are not always physically prepared for the demands put on their bodies.

This lack of conditioning leads to injuries and limits the potential of a dancer. The dilemma becomes trying to add strength and conditioning training to their already busy training schedules and also limiting the potential aesthetic of strength training effects on the body.

The study recommended a solution would be to trade two to three dance classes per week in a dancer’s schedule for physical conditioning classes emphasizing fitness rather than technique.

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