Dinnie Stones

[alan]

A question aimed at David, but I'll welcome input from anyone

I've been training to lift the Dinnie Stones using Davids' Dinnie Ring Replicas. It's hard work but I'm getting there. If and when I'm strong enough to tackle the stones themselves I'm wondering what kind of warmup I can do on the day, short of using the replica rings and weights. Thanks.

[Steve Gardener]

Good question. Nick was dicussing this with me as a challenge for me. There is nowt there to have a go on. But you could use one to warm up on before using both. Maybe stick a dumbbell in your car.

[davidhorne]

Alan,
There is nothing to warm up with there and it's usually raining or snowing (both times I have been there).

You can warm up by lifting the individual stones before both of them together.

My advice to you is to try and get to a point where you are lifting more than the stones weight on your apparatus, and then you will be ready come snow, hail or rain!

Good luck!

David

[alan]

Thanks guys, I'll train to the point where I can lift the rings with a minimum warmup.

[jamesgrahame]

I am a little short of my target weight with the large dinnie ring and have run out of linear progress.

I am considering changing the frequency of the lift and/or do a slightly lesser weight for several short timed holds with just the large ring.

I wondered what other people have found useful when stalling at a particular weight with
ring lifting?