Worlds strongest man

[RodgerThat]

Brian Shaw received the award of being the worlds strongest man for the 3rd year in a row and his first comment to his fans on this is that 2016 is the year he will denie any man from taking his title. The amount of drive that he has is incredible he's one of the only strongmen I follow as its not my choice of sport (because I'm 5'8 and it requires a bit more height for the atlas). I follow a lot of powerlifters but none of them seem to train like this man it's incredible, I don't quite understand how these guys train for as long as they do every day (5+hrs some days).

Any strongmen out there or strongmen fans? Nothing's more satisfying then lifting heavy ass weight so I could only imagine how satisfying it is to be the strongest man on the planet.

 

[Whoremoans]

Big fan of Brian shaw.

 

[Skull]

Brian Shaw is deff the man of the moment lol. But my all time favorite to watch back when I was watching it more often an actually keeping up to date with it was Mariusz Pudzianowski.

 

[gr8whitetrukker]

Brian Shaw is american. It's nice to see us back on top.

 

[Eman]

Brian Shaw and Mariusz Pudzianowski are the two I've always enjoyed following. Mariusz is also one of the reasons I first got into strength sports. I would love to know exactly what his gear use is like.

From my avi you might recognize another strongman though, Louis Cyr. I read his biography years ago. Some of the stories about him may be legend more than fact but I think there is no denying he was a genetic freak. The science and knowledge about training was just not understood at this time in history. What kind of cycle do you think he ran

I would like to transition to more powerlifting training in the future as well as strongman events. They do have meets around locally like powerlifting meets but they are just less common which is a shame, a lot of history with strongman sport.

Mariusz Pudzianowski's Diet and Workout Schedule - THE IRON SAMURAI

 

[Eman]

PS: awesome thread @RodgerThat . I almost started a thread like this last night but thought I'd throw the idea into caswole thread instead with that Brian Shaw vid.

 

[RodgerThat]

From the little research I've done, I hear they cruise on like 1g of test and there cycles are incredible huge in total grams per week but who knows exactly what they do unless brain shaw if your reading this please let us know . There is a strongman event near my home and I went to watch it, wasn't exactly all strongman things as they had crossed it with a lumberjack competition but there was the atlas stone and log lift so incredible to watch them do those things, then watching the same guy free climb a tree and top it was kinda cool cause they were massive and you'd assume there feet never left the ground ever

 

[insaiyan93]

Hes one cool dude, and insanely strong, obviously. Mark bell just had him on one of his recent powercasts, good stuff there.

 

[RodgerThat]

Hes one cool dude, and insanely strong, obviously. Mark bell just had him on one of his recent powercasts, good stuff there.

That's something I haven't listen to in a while! Smellybellys podcasts! Thank you man you just filled up my day lol

 

[insaiyan93]

That's something I haven't listen to in a while! Smellybellys podcasts! Thank you man you just filled up my day lol

Glad to of service haha. His podcasts and training videos are always entertaining, and some good info in there. I have lost hours lol

 

[Eman]

I watch his videos during cardio to make time pass. I saw Brian on there as well. I've heard they cycle various stacks always with a gram to many grams of test peaking when the competition happens. I'm sure this is generally correct but I'm just wondering what kind of protocol someone from worlds strongest man competition ACTUALLY runs. But they can't be up front about it and I get it.

 

[Skull]

 

[turcao]

Love watching Strongman. If you get a chance, check out the early 80's when Kaz would just dominate the games. Not to take anything away from Shaw or Pudz, but I think Kaz was the only person they wouldn't let compete after he won 3 times in a row. And yes, trukker, he is American which is a bonus.

 

[christophr bray]

Eddie Hall deadlift world record lifting over an incredible 72 stone. 462kg

 

[Eman]

Derek Poundstone - check out his YouTube videos. I read about him before and something that stuck with me was his views on the strength of the mind - for instance, I believe the article said he would go to the gym about once a week for a "mind strength day" and he would pick a generic exercise - say tricep extensions - then go pretty light weight. But he then lifts the light weight for upwards of 100 reps. Then adds weight and squeezes out maybe 80 reps this time. Continuing to heavier weight he would keep going until he reached a set that would be around 20 reps to finish. He admitted there was some muscle conditioning benefits to this but overall, it was to strengthen the mind. His muscles would be begging him to stop halfway through a set but he was trying to condition his mind to persevere and overcome.

Everyone here can take something away from this ideology. Everyone of us are guilty of letting our mind tell us "I cant get another rep or I can't run another minute or I can't add another ten pounds etc" at one time or another. I truly believe the mind always fails before the body does. With that being said, my new years resolution this year will be to focus on strength of mind as well as body.

 

[jc1991]

Big fan of mike Burke tho I heard he isnt coming back to strong man and Eddie hall

 

[MindlessWork]

I once got to meet Derek Poundstone in person as he trained at a gym I used to go to back in 2004. He is one awesome lifter.

 

[TANGO.ECHO.KILO]

What is the piece of equipment called at 1:45?

 

[Eman]

What is the piece of equipment called at 1:45?

Seated Single Arm Isolation Pulldown Machine - OK I made that up... Some sort of variation of a pull down machine though it looks like.

 

[RandallNowan]

Eddie Hall 500kg deadlift. Boom.