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Postby Melas Zomos » Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:02 am

Scored a bunch of stones. Picked out a few for lifting. Is there any specific criteria I should be looking for as far as size or specific stone variety or shape?
The first 3 are fairly light, I would put them at 60- maybe a 100lbs ??, the last one closest to the bale of straw I would put at about 150 although it feels like 300lbs when trying to lift it. For some reason it is alot denser than the others. I have a bunch more, all different shapes and such.

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Re: Stones of Zomos

Postby samurai69 » Sat Jul 02, 2011 7:05 am

the more awkward the better

the lighter can be used for throwing and the middle ones for over head work and the larger for loading and carrying


good to have stones in training


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Re: Stones of Zomos

Postby Cookie » Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:17 pm

As he said.

And light to warm up, then middle with heavy for core of workout with middle to light for some back off sets.
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Re: Stones of Zomos

Postby Cookie » Sun Jul 03, 2011 6:48 am

And a video of the hard training sessions :mrgreen:
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Re: Stones of Zomos

Postby Melas Zomos » Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:38 pm

Cookie wrote:And a video of the hard training sessions :mrgreen:


cool, an excuse to buy a video camera :supz: Just have to figure out which one to get.
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Re: Stones of Zomos

Postby Melas Zomos » Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:39 pm

btw, those stones do not go very far when thrown, at least by me.
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Re: Stones of Zomos

Postby Cookie » Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:50 pm

Melas Zomos wrote:cool, an excuse to buy a video camera :supz: Just have to figure out which one to get.


Mines a Sony but a few years old.

Melas Zomos wrote:btw, those stones do not go very far when thrown, at least by me.


Not tried throwing any of my stones, too heavy, so your one up on me there :grin:
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Re: Stones of Zomos

Postby Melas Zomos » Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:18 pm

Cookie wrote:Not tried throwing any of my stones, too heavy, so your one up on me there :grin:


So 4 inches counts as a throw :shock:
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Re: Stones of Zomos

Postby Cookie » Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:29 pm

Melas Zomos wrote:So 4 inches counts as a throw :shock:


4mm`s could be the difference between an Olympic bronze or Gold & world record so yeah its a throw :supz:

Have you weighed the stones?
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Re: Stones of Zomos

Postby Melas Zomos » Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:52 pm

Cookie wrote:
Melas Zomos wrote:So 4 inches counts as a throw :shock:


4mm`s could be the difference between an Olympic bronze or Gold & world record so yeah its a throw :supz:

Have you weighed the stones?


It broke my $9.99 ten year old "professional" scale :mrgreen:
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