For those of you unfamiliar with the Inman Mile, it’s a 1-mile walk with 150% bodyweight on your back. The person who created the event, Jerry Inman, thought he could do it but he could not and, in fact, no one has ever completed the event. It is, however, an official Allround Weightlifting Association event.
Current records show a variety of combinations of bodyweight, weight on the bar, and distance covered because that’s all there is to record in the books to date.
Consensus seems to be that less-big guys like me have the best chance of being the first to do it. My plan is to keep shifting the variables in training – first goal will be to walk 1-mile in a single training session with 135 lbs, then to shorten the number of times I put the bar down while covering the distance, then up the weight as the last thing. I am using the Steinborn lift technique to shoulder the bar each time – the Steinborn Squat is another AWA sanctioned lift.
This video was shot after I’d already walked a half-mile with the bar in several segments, putting it down and resting for a few minutes between, and including up and down a small hill. More details in the description of the video but briefly: 6/10 mile over 7 segments w/ 6/10 bodyweight, Steinborn to start each segment.
Whee!
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