Andy Deck

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Andy Deck got his start in strength sports in 2005 and today is a pro strongman and veteran of 44 strongman competitions from the local level all the way up to the international level with 33 podium finishes. He has also competed in highland games, highlander, and powerlifting competitions and is the Maryland state rep for the US Strongman federation. Andy has a Doctorate in Physical Therapy and a Master's degree in Applied Physiology with a focus on strength and conditioning.

 
Wave 1 - DL
Wave 1 - DL
Now that I'm training under better conditions, I'm more attuned to areas of potential weakness that may need more work
Wave 1 - Snatch/Assistance
Wave 1 - Snatch/Assistance
Sometimes when friends stop by, playing the best 3 out of 5 sets of grab ass and fat fanny can cut into my training
Strongman Saturday in All the Salisbury Hot Spots
Strongman Saturday in All the Salisbury Hot Spots
Great day with great friends, but Murphy had his way with us whilst we were at the Puzzle Box
Wave 1 - Overhead
Wave 1 - Overhead
I started with my head up my butt, got on the right track, then was beset by bilateral elbow idiocy
Wave 1 - Squat
Wave 1 - Squat
Lower body training around the immobility of my neck, but at least I didn't have to ditch today
Wave 1 - Cleans/Assistance
Wave 1 - Cleans/Assistance
Starting back onto programmed training again is a beautiful thing
Strongman Saturday @ Loyola University
Strongman Saturday @ Loyola University
Hit the car squat trainer for the first time this weekend and got video to go with it
Bench and the First Training Day on My New Elitefts Equipment!
Bench and the First Training Day on My New Elitefts Equipment!
Warning: pictures of my new elitefts rack and bench may cause sexual arousal
A Quick and Modified Deadlift Day
A Quick and Modified Deadlift Day
If traps are the new abs then I'm a 98 lb weakling, but a new power rack will cure my giraffe neck blues
Snatch/Upper Assistance
Snatch/Upper Assistance
Silky smooth snatching. Thanks, Zohan!
Solo Strongman Saturday
Solo Strongman Saturday
Sat, 25 July 15 Everyone was out of town this weekend so I was left to train by myself at the Unit.  I tried to adjust my plan accordingly so that I would have minimal setup and cleanup, and while I think I did a pretty good job of that, today was still a crap […]
Upper Work with Frands
Upper Work with Frands
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Squat
Squat
I'm at the point where I really want to start back up with my next phase of programming, but while I'm waiting to do that I might as well work on sucking less
Strongman Saturday with Video
Strongman Saturday with Video
No one does farmer's walk with turns anymore because people complain that it's too hard, so of course that's what I did today
Supine Horizontal Pressing Sans Bench
Supine Horizontal Pressing Sans Bench
Counting down the days until my elitefts rack and bench arrive and further testing of the Spud Inc. tricep and lat pulley
Deadlift
Deadlift
How you can tell when you're doing too much and using the scientific method to assess and correct issues in the garage
Speed & Assistance Work - First Day in My Garage!
Speed & Assistance Work - First Day in My Garage!
Training in my own garage is everything I knew it would be and is only going to get better once my new equipment gets here
Strongman Friday!
Strongman Friday!
Great training day with a strong group, even though it was a day earli(er) than usual
Overhead and a Meathead's Dream Come True
Overhead and a Meathead's Dream Come True
It's hard for one log post to contain so much awesomeness
Squat
Squat
I have fallen into a bad habit of not doing enough volume work and for this I must be punished
Speed & Assistance Work
Speed & Assistance Work
Starting out a 3-4 week prep block of just generally higher volume since I've been low for a while now
Strongman Saturday with a Powerlifting Twist
Strongman Saturday with a Powerlifting Twist
Anyone who says that using powerlifting gear makes the lifts easier is full of sh!t
Upper Body Focused Recovery
Upper Body Focused Recovery
By the end of today I had finally reached terminal training boredom and the limit of my self-imposed recovery
Lower Recovery Work
Lower Recovery Work
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be strongmen
Messin' with Sasquatch and Recovering from Nats
Messin' with Sasquatch and Recovering from Nats
Trying out some different exercises I haven't hit in a while and making good juju to the recovery gods
US Strongman Nationals Writeup and Video
US Strongman Nationals Writeup and Video
You'll laugh; you'll cry; you'll poop your pants
First United States Strongman National Championship
First United States Strongman National Championship
Competition day dawned and as usual, I felt like total garbage and didn’t want to lift anything.
Snatch and Clean
Snatch and Clean
And now for something completely different
Strongman Friday?
Strongman Friday?
Last non-deload training day in the books for my competition next weekend
DL/Squat
DL/Squat
Last lower body training day before nats
Log/Bench
Log/Bench
Adapt and overcome
Events @ Colosseum Gym
Events @ Colosseum Gym
How to have a grundle of a time at Colosseum
Log/Bench
Log/Bench
Milk was a bad choice
DL/Squat
DL/Squat
Sometimes less is more, but sometimes more is also more
Snatch/Speed Work
Snatch/Speed Work
Sometimes stupid stuff is gonna come up in training, but that doesn't mean you have to bag the whole session
Strongman Saturday with Video
Strongman Saturday with Video
Three weeks out from nats and had a solid training day with awesome people at a gnarly gym
Log/Bench
Log/Bench
Can't let a little thing like starting PT school mess with my training too much
DL/Squat
DL/Squat
All orange man suit, all the time as I move on up to the east side of town
Cleans/Working on Moving Fast(er)
Cleans/Working on Moving Fast(er)
To quote internet fitness sensation Zuzana, "I vas drrripping sveat."
Strongman Saturday with Video
Strongman Saturday with Video
Prevailed against the iron and concrete despite sub-par training conditions today
Log/Bench
Log/Bench
Solid training day for my pressing, even though I submitted myself to the stupidity of a commercial gym for part of it
DL/Squat
DL/Squat
It was an orange-tinged squat and deadlift fiesta today in my METAL Jack gear
Snatch/Speed Work
Snatch/Speed Work
Starting up my short contest prep block with working on moving faster
Picking Things Up and Putting Them Down
Picking Things Up and Putting Them Down
Sometimes my activities of daily living are more than sufficient to give me a training effect for strongman
Spoiler Alert - Lifetime Log Clean & Jerk PR!
Spoiler Alert - Lifetime Log Clean & Jerk PR!
Best. Day. Ever. And under fairly horrible training conditions.
Squat
Squat
Last squat day of the training block went well, as expected
Strongman Saturday
Strongman Saturday
Short(er) event training today since I'm finishing up my current training block next week, but happy with where I am right now
Bench Press
Bench Press
A bench PR isn't as sweet as a deadlift PR, but any PR is a good PR
Deadlift
Deadlift
Can't decide if my training today was a crapvalanche or a sucknado
Strongman Saturday
Strongman Saturday
Training was nice and easy today until the end when my quads exploded
Bench/Log Deload
Bench/Log Deload
Much like the dishes, deload is done, man
Deadlift/Squat Deload
Deadlift/Squat Deload
Deload, from the French for 'to lift like one has sand in one's lady parts'
Snatch/Clean & Assistance Deload
Snatch/Clean & Assistance Deload
Feeling strong, but tired
Strongman Saturday
Strongman Saturday
I sucked, but at least my training partners did pretty not bad
Log
Log
Solid work on overhead today with the log
Squat
Squat
Conclusion of training while on vacation with some good (for me) squatting
Cleans/Assisance
Cleans/Assisance
Taking a vacation must be good for my training
Strongman Saturday @ Low Country Strength with Video
Strongman Saturday @ Low Country Strength with Video
Low Country Strength has all the things that are good in life
Bench
Bench
Vacation benching in ye olde southern crap hole

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