Last year’s SoCal Strongest Man Competition was a smashing success and will even be better this year. The fans and the athletes both enjoyed the up-close format and the energy was contagious!
Scott Brengel of EastWestStrength.com hosts this highly competitive even on the beach in Huntington Beach, California…Surf City USA!
I could only dream of doing a 300 lb clean on a standard Olympic bar, let alone a 2″ axle. Here Sean Demarinis makes look almost within the realm of possibility.
Famous Coney Island strongman, Joe Rollino died unexpectedly at 104, At that age, not too many people die unexpectedly but Joe was hit by a minivan in Brooklyn and died from his injuries. This confirms what I have already suspected; that minivans are detrimental to your health. To get to 104, Mighty Joe eschewed meat, cigarettes and booze, illustrating that life is full of trade-offs.
At 5′5″ and between 125 and 150 lbs at the height of his career he wasn’t the strongest guy around, but he sure might have been the strongest pound for pound.
Olympic lifting has a long tradition in sports other than Olympic weightlifting for strength, power and conditioning but it is not without it’s detractors by strength coaches mostly, I suppose, because of the steep learning curve it takes to master the lifts. Many coaches are of the opinion the time could be more effectively used for other movements that provide similar benefits.
I have been lamenting my weak unilateral strength which has been exposed with my recent work with dumbbells and then I come across this video of then 65 year old Thomas Inch lifting his famous Inch Dumbbell. Amazing!
There is something about dramatic effect; the right music and slo-mo that really adds to the speed, strength and power exhibited by the athletes and measured by sport scientists and engineers in this video, Super Strength.
Your training is going well. You are making gains. Lifts are going up and times are coming down. And you’re injury-free. Can it get any better? Of course it can. Here are some ideas.
With it’s infomercial-sounding name, the Hungarian Core Blaster is nothing more than a loadable pin. One of it’s uses is in a strongman event called Power Stairs.
The best way I know to describe power stairs is deadlifting up stairs for weight and time.
Pull it, carry it or put it over your head. Those are the basic lifting movements. Deadlifting, one of the most, if not the most useful overall exercise is a pulling movement and there are many other variations and exercises that pull, like rows.
The flip side to that coin are pushing exercises, like military presses, push presses and jerks.
