No Rules, No Restrictions, No Limits.

By request (and also a preview of this weeks Q with Q), I am posting answers to actual questions I have gotten from you all over the past couple weeks:

How do I lose weight in my stomach?

You can’t spot reduce body bat. However if you cut body fat in general it will magically start to vanish off your mid section as well.

What supplements should I be taking?

Short answer: none, they are worthless and you are wasting your money.  Now that is not completely true but don’t get sold by magic ads that claim drastic changes in fat loss and muscle gain.  If these supplements do everything they say they did we wouldn’t need to train at all and we all have 6 pack abs. The reality is, supplements should be a last resort.  If you feel you are in need of a supplement take a look at your diet, you can probably fix it there.  If you can’t then look at your diet again and try to see what can be changed. Supplements should be used only if you have no other options, or advised from a doctor.

When I am done working out I need at least 15 minutes before I feel ok to drive and make sure I don’t get sick.  How can I improve my endurance to stop this?

I am going to operate under an assumption that it is not your endurance that needs to change but rather your workout.  If you are a beginner and new to working out intensely then you may need some time after your workout to get back to normal.  If this is something that has been going on for a while, then your workout needs to be addressed.  If this is your own program then you are over training and over working.  If you are seeing personal trainer, then it’s probably time to find a new one.

The way I judge a good work is this:  If I walk out of the gym feeling better than I did when I walked in. You shouldn’t be throwing up, or bleeding, or about to pass out.  Too many people think their workouts need to be non-stop, all out action.  This is just wrong and ineffective.  While a certain about of conditioning is important and should be a part of your strength training but it should be used to enhance your training not be the focus of which everything is based. Jason Ferruggia is really high on this and his quote is one of my favorites, “Always end the workout on a high note and leave the gym feeling great”.

Why are hang cleans and snatches bad at high repetition?

These are complex movements that not many people know how to do correctly.  Doing them at high rep puts you at great risk for injury.  Even when doing them right doing when you are asked to do 25+ reps you will get fatigued and your form will start to fail, and bad things happen when you combined complex movements and bad form.  What irks me even more is these are explosive exercises designed to train power development. Doing 30 reps or 50 reps or even 20 reps is endurance. You don’t use an explosive exercise to train endurance; it is not effective and it is not safe.

Does it really matter if you train at a commercial gym vs. a more specific gym like yours?

As long as you are training and working hard you can get results anywhere.  You don’t even need a gym; you can just find odd heavy objects to play with.  The main problem with training at a commercial gym is they hinder a lot of the people out there.  You are going to see bad form at commercial gyms, you are going to see bad trainers, and you are going to get bad advice.  If we ignore all of that, the big problem is many people get fooled as to what is strong.  If you see and train around people who think a 450 lb deadlift or a 300 lb bench is a big lift then you are going to start believing that too.  Those lifts wouldn’t even get on our record board for high school kids.  So if you are training at a facility like Davis Speed Center then you are going to think differently and in turn will train smarter and better and get far better results.  Like I have said many times, if I am the best it is only because I work with the best.

Why don’t you have a treadmill at Davis Speed Center?

Well because I didn’t want one.  On the speed side of things I would say I can’t answer on Dave’s behalf but just know Dave is going to do what is best for you and there are more effective things to train with.  From my point of view, well, I will never understand why someone would go to the gym to walk or run on a treadmill.  It is a waste of money on an activity that can be done outside for free and yield better results that way.

I saved my two favorite questions for last. These were fun and challenging to answer in just a couple paragraphs:

I am really thinking of getting into competitive powerlifting.  I have been lifting for 5 years and I have a good strength base but I have looked online and my totals are not even close to the elite totals.   How do I go to the next level?

Excellent question:  For starters you say you are thinking of getting into powerlifting.  I would go ahead and get started before you start comparing yourself to lifters with elite totals.  Odds are they have been doing that type of training for a long time.  Getting strong is neither easy nor hard. There is no magic formula of exercises that will make you superhuman. But the basics are pretty simple. Use complex movements, work on your feet, lift heavy weight, carry heavy weight, throw conditioning in, and train both at maximum effort as well as dynamically.

If you have a program that has anything like this:

Leg extensions 4 x12, leg curls 4×12, seated calf raise 3 x 20

That’s not strength training. Those are exercises body builders occasionally use to target muscle groups.  They have no place in competitive strength training and will not get you strong.

If it looks something like this:

15 box jumps, 20 push presses, and 30 hang cleans followed by 15 kettlebell swings and some “double unders” on a jump rope.

That is also not strength training.  I don’t know what it is.  Idiotic?

What is the most important thing to strength training, in your opinion?

Great question and I feel I could answer this many ways.  I would say it is two things. First, injury prevention has got to top the list.  If you are injured you can’t train, making it impossible to get strong.  Furthermore, you want your strength training to be safe and prevent injuries to other activities you do outside the gym.  Second is to be patient, huge results don’t’ happen overnight.  Don’t compromise anything to try and get that extra weight.  Take your time and the results will come. Move to fast and you will find yourself on a chair struggling to lift the remote to your television.

By Popular Demand the high schools have asked to battle out it out again.  Below is the registration for the Contest we will be hosting on June 15th.  We may be hosting this at a different location, with a new sponsor and details will be posted as they come.   Also we have got an event page on facebook if you have any questions.

Team Strongman Encore 2013 Registration

Summer Specials Starting immediately for all your college kids coming back from school in the next few weeks.  The Full Flier is below:

3 Month unlimited Strength $400

3 Month unlimited Strength and Speed Combo $600

Summer Specials Flier

I am sure I am missing a few here but we have had several athletes making headlines these past couple weeks.  I am posting links to a few below:

Erin Ginsberg Scores 2 goals in rain-soaked match:

http://www.mchenrycountysports.com/articles/2013/04/24/88ee96ba3dac4ac897b2f37aebb8e5bd/index.xml

Sami Staples takes Second in 1600 but PRed, She is peaking at right time, Also DSC Alumni and current college Athletes Sarah Ryan and Kathy Wollney also mentioned.

http://www.mchenrycountysports.com/articles/2013/04/21/2f74a3b8af284f208e6c60eb610de645/index.xml

Sure we Train Prairie Ridges baseball team but I more wanted to post this to give a congratulations on one of my former baseball coaches reaching his 300 th win.  Congratulations Coach Pec

http://www.mchenrycountysports.com/articles/2013/04/21/1de4d05faab14a5285601dc9bd22b19c/index.xml

Lauren Leverence will be playing Division I Volleyball at St. Louis University

http://www.mchenrycountysports.com/articles/2013/04/16/714892b86ed04c51bb4c1af1673f8b6b/index.xml

As always please don’t be shy to give me a heads up if you or your children have made local or any headlines and I will be sure to post them up.

“Is sitting worse on your back than standing”?

I got that exact question the other day and I will pretty much write this post exactly how I answered the question:

Yes.  At least it certainly is in my eyes.  When I decided to become a strength coach, I distinctly remember studying basically this exact issue.  I was taught that sitting is worse on your back then standing.  Sitting puts more pressure on your spine then standing, it also shortens movements of muscles and negatively affects the hip flexor.  While people tend to think that sitting will take pressure off their lower back, the opposite is actually true.

Now I am not a Doctor or a scientist (unless you count my honorary degree in biological damage from IU), and if you asked me to explain why the above was true, I would not be able to do it unless I dusted off the old text books, which I have not done and don’t plan on doing for this blog post.  There are also issues with posture that can cause back pain whether you are sitting or standing (but that is a topic for another post). But no one is interested in what people don’t know we are interested in what we do know.

So here is what I know:

Sitting is bad for you, but we will get to that a little later in the post.

From personal experience I also know that when I am sitting for long periods of time (long car rides, writing blog posts, etc.) my lower back will begin to feel discomfort, sometimes even ache a little bit, and tighten up.  When I stand for long periods of time or if I am on my feet for long periods without break it is usually only my feet that start to feel discomfort.  So to me that means standing has a big vote for being easier on the back.  But let’s go back to why sitting is bad for you for reasons that have nothing to do with your back.

This isn’t rocket surgery.  Studies show that the more time we spend on our rear ends, the earlier we die.  Sitting means inactivity and inactivity is one of the fastest ways to poor health there is. Pretty much common sense here.  Studies also show that people who sit for 6 hours a day are likely to lose 5 years off their life span.   That being said, I am not much to rely on studies nor do you ever know if their numbers are accurate, so lets just look at what we do know and can prove to be true.

If you work with me or are one of my athletes then you have heard me say that social media, cell phones, and iPod variations are the main reason for child obesity, laziness, and my anger in the gym.  I have no studies to back those claims but I really do believe it.  I remember reading a blog by Chris Roth (he is a fellow Illinoian, strongman, and is a strength and conditioning coach for SIU he is also one of the strongest people in the country and writes good stuff, you should check him out) where Chris said “The invention of the chair was the downfall of mankind”.  I know and understand exactly where he is coming from.

Get off your A**.  You would be hard pressed to think of an industry out there that has not eliminated hard (or even not so hard) physical work by replacing it with advanced technology.  Basically whatever you do now is easier than it was 25 years ago.  This leads us to more inactivity on the job.  So really it is not so much the sitting that will kill you, it is the inactivity.

When we are inactive we get better at conserving our energy.  We lose our resistance to insulin and allow glucose to run wild.  These are only a few things that it causes and I won’t bore you with the rest.  Keep it simple:  if you are lazy you are more likely to get fat, diabetes and heart disease.

Now I think it is important that I note the following:

If you read this and say to yourself, “I may sit all day long but I workout for an hour 5x per week, so I am ok.” Then I am saying to you, “You are probably not.”  Remember wellness is a 24 hour a day job and that goes for physical as well as mental wellness.  If you workout for an hour a day then that leaves you 23 hours to either make yourself better or make yourself worse.

If you are stuck on the job where you have to sitdown at a desk, there are actually standing desks out there now.  Not a possibility for many, so the easiest thing to do is stand a take a break from sitting every 30-45 minutes and give your back a break.

If you had a hard day and you need to relax don’t just plop yourself in front of the TV or Facebook.  Go for a walk, or a bike ride with a friend, or just go shoot some baskets.  You don’t have to be immobile to relax.

I hope that helps.

So last month I made an Error and sent out February’s newletter out again.  March’s newsletter on building the ultimate basketball player is attached below.  Sorry about the mistake:

Basketball strength training and building the ultimate basketball player

I hear it all too often.  Someone comes into the gym and says something like “My legs are so sore from Power Training yesterday I could barely get out of bed”.  Then they want to proceed with their normal squat day.

I respect the drive and not wanting to miss a training session but there are better and more productive things you can do.  If you can barely move your legs without pain your body is telling you something.   It is saying: Hey my legs here got abused yesterday give us some more time to rest up.

Don’t know how many times I can say this, but muscle growth takes place in the recovery time, not at the gym.  You are sore because of the breakdown of the muscle so give it more time to heal and grow.  Taking an extra day off is not bad, if your body is telling you to do so.  In fact I had a conversation the other day with Dave Davis (Top Athlete Trainer in the Midwest, maybe even the galaxy and the best and best looking strength coach I know) about how in 4 months between Nationals and Worlds I got stronger in almost everything, and the only thing I changed was more off days.

Before I go on please note than you don’t have to be sore to know you had a good workout.   Furthermore just because you are sore is no indication that your workout the previous day or day was effective at all.  More on what your soreness actually means shortly.

How do you know if you are so sore that you should skip a day?

The way I look at it is simple.  If you are sore to the touch and it inhibits your range of motion then take the day off.  If you are just a little to somewhat sore and go through the full range of motion with little or no discomfort then go ahead and train but take it easy.  By lifting lighter weights or doing some light conditioning or cardio, soft tissue work, hip and/or shoulder mobility, etc.  You can actually help alleviate the soreness by increasing the blood flow to that area of your body.

So some quick notes on why training when your body is not ready is not smart:

Now there is some debate on what exactly causes muscle soreness.  Though without ruffling anyone feathers I am confident I can at least say this:   All soreness means is that your muscle tissue is still inflamed and has not fully recovered. When you train, your muscles are literally tearing themselves apart, causing small amount of damage. This is actually a good thing and how your muscles grow as they repair themselves.

In order to repair they need to rest.  If you are constantly training them and breaking down then there is no repair and there is no growth.

Before I get a question on this I will address it.  Just because you are not sore doesn’t mean that your muscle or muscles are fully recovered and it is ok to train them again.  For example, if you do an upper body day Monday and you go into the gym Tuesday with no soreness that does not mean it is ok or beneficial to train upper body again.  Soreness depends on the individual and whether you are sore or not, your muscles were broken down and need to recover.  Beginners will likely have more soreness and discomfort as their body gets used to the added stress.  More Advanced lifters will often find soreness after they change-up their routine or after a day that is more intense than usual.  It is pretty odd if I am sore from a workout, though I can definitely tell when my muscles are still fatigued and not ready to train yet.

So please put this “No Pain, No Gain” attitude into your BS index and train smarter.  Listen to your body, it is telling you to take care of it. Taking care of your body is a good thing, because it is the only one you have to live with.

Do this

You have heard this, in one way of another, out of me in many posts covering many topics.  So I am not going to rant about this today but simply make this an informative piece of why “training movements” is far and away better than “training muscles.”

I don’t exactly like using that phrase because no matter how you slice it, it is the muscles that are going to get the weight through the movement, but that is not the point I am trying to make here.  Whether you are an athlete, a mom, an accountant, you are confined to a wheel chair, or a mathlete your focus while training should be to improve performance.  Performance on the field, mental performance, performance when grocery shopping, or playing with your kids.  It doesn’t matter what you do during the day, making the days activities easier and pain-free should be your main focus.  The one exception to this rule are Body Builders and yes they too are athletes, but their sport is visually not performance based ( not sure if that is the right phrase to use sorry ,Scotty Mueller, you know I respect your sport and what all of you do, just not sure what the bodybuilding PC way to put things are).  Trying to isolate muscles (working one muscle group while letting all or most others remain relaxed), splitting up workouts (for example a week that looks like:  chest one day. then back and bi’s another, then hamstrings and calves, then inner knee and upper outer glute area) are not things you want to be doing.  What you want to be doing is lifting heavy things, carrying heavy things, and pushing and dragging things. 

Now I should note that I am not saying your workouts should all be total body, all complex movements, every day.  By training movements I mean working on your feet, using multiple muscle groups, letting your body getting used to extra weight on your feet.  I also mean single sided exercises doing the same things, as we all know in most sports during competition only one foot is in contact with the ground at a time.

I specialize in training Athletes.  Anyone who has been to my gym no doubt knows my stance on all of this.  So it should be of no surprise that when I recently trained with an aspiring strength coach and asked him what he was planning on doing that day and he responded, “Shoulder’s” that I literally slapped him in the face and made him push a prowler all weekend (he may still be out there). I’ll give you a better example.  Just this morning I text my training partner (we are on different schedules now) what he was hitting today and he responded “Overhead Day”.  Perfect answer he would be doing overhead movements today, it was even more perfect because no one can beat me in overhead stuff.

So not going to get into all the science behind it I am simply going to list the benefits of training movements vs. training muscles.

Why focus on your movements:

• Increase Athletic Performance
• Increase Strength
• Increase overall fitness
• Increase Neural Component (Brain activity)
• Prevents Injury
• More Challenging
• Improves motor Intelligence
• Much more efficient way to train
•  Promotes overall muscle balance

Think of each muscle as a member of a team.  All athletes know that the most successful teams are the ones who work together.  So each muscle group is a part of a functional plan.  Big movements that are multi-jointed and multi-planar will improve your performance.

DO NOT DO THIS

Advantages of splitting your workouts into individual muscle groups:

• Increased ability on calf raise machines
• Learn how to use machines rather than real training
• More options of magazines to subscribe to

Fair is fair so lets look at disadvantages:

Disadvantages of focusing on movements:

• Some friends might stop working out with you because you will become much stronger than them
• You may have to buy new clothing because of how much muscle you will gain

Disadvantages of individual muscle group training:

• Leads to muscle imbalance
• Leads to injury in athletes
• Does not improve athletic performance
• Does not improve general physical performance

Well I hope this helps and clears things up for you all.  If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me and reach that next level.

Well the 4th Annual (well 4th since I have been here) DSC Team Strongman Contest was an awesome time and I have to say had the best competitors we have seen to date.  Crystal Lake Central re-peated as champions and became the 1st multi school winner.  As usual my team of misfits won its third straight team contest, I am thinking I may have to start competing with a 3 man team.  Below are the results and a video of highlights from the show.  Keep your ears open for another contest coming in June and we are already getting a lot of requests for another team contest.

Crystal Lake Central:  35-Winners 20 ton bench, Loading

Montini 1: 33-Winners Loading, Farmers Walk, Sandbag Carry

Prairie Ridge Juniors: 28-Winners Tire Flip Sled Medley

Montini 2: 18

DSC Goon Squad: 16

PR Seniors: 15

FAST: 14-Winners Loading

2013 DSC Team Strongman Highlights

Friday will be one week since the first time ever the smaller men (under 175 lbs) and women (under 150 lbs) of strongman have been given their day to prove who is the best in the world.  While I am enjoying my down time off too much pizza, no working out, and letting my body heal; I am still not over all the highs from this past weekend.  As I think about it and write this now I take great pride that I was one of the exclusive competitors who were qualified and asked to compete.  It is with even greater pride that one of my students was also given the same invitation.  She was the youngest and the smallest competitor there, but she proved that she belonged.

The experience was something I will never forget.  Going up against familiar top faces from across the U.S. and combined with people from across the globe that I knew nothing about.

The rules were simple.  Compete in 4 events day 1 and accumulate as many points as possible.  The top 4 competitors from Day 1 advance to the second day and compete for the title of World Champion.

Lets skip the boring stuff and get right into the competition:

Event 1:  Axle Clean and Press.  Each Rep must be cleaned from the ground.  225 lbs.

This is one of my strongest events and overall it went smoothly.  The presses were going up easy and I feel like I could have pressed it all day.  My cleans were a little slow and a little sloppy and they cost me some time.  I finished with 6 Reps and a tie for 3rd in the event.  Not a personal record but a good start none the less.

Event 2:  630 Lb Yoke for 50 feet and a 600 lb prowler push for 50 feet.  Sprint in-between.

This event was going to be interesting, as the floor we were competing on was very slick.  This was the event I was most comfortable with of the three remaining events.  Things did not go well on this event, and I am not sure why.  Nationally I have been one of the fastest under the yoke so I was pretty confident going in.  Something went wrong from the get go and I had a sluggish pick coupled with a poor job keeping it stable.  By the time I got things righted I was in third place in my heat and didn’t have enough time to catch up on the yoke.  After the drop and sprint I attacked the prowler on a mission.  The Sled Push went about as good as it could have.  Yes my feet slipped a couple of times but so did everyone elses.  I was able to make up serious ground and pass one competitor in my heat (finished 2nd in the heat) and cut the distance between the leader.  I finished the event somewhere around 10th and that could have been much worse.

Event Three, The Deadlift Medley:  435 lb Axle Deadlift, 585 lb Standard Deadlift, 730 lb frame pick, Car Deadlift for Reps.  75 second time limit.

This was the event I was most worried about.  A 585 lb standard deadlift is the most I have ever picked up.  Although Deadlift Suits are allowed (which can add up to 100 lbs on a deadlift) I did not and refuse to wear one anyway.  If weight is getting picked up, I will be the one doing it and I don’t need the aid of a suit to help me.  This event went pretty well.  The Axle felt like I was lifting a pillow, The 585 moved faster than it ever has before, the frame was not a problem, and the car didn’t feel to heavy.  I took my time wrapping the bars to ensure the lifts were made, this did cost me time and in hindsight was probably not necessary but I wanted to be sure, so no regrets on that decision.  I ended up finishing this event in top 10 as well (not sure where).  That was last for everyone who got to the car so as you see not many people even made it to the car.  However, this should not have been the case.

This is the event that ended up having an unfortunate effect on my results. I don’t want to get into this too much as I have been discussing it since this event finished.  As soon as I finished the event I was told that my heat was given the correct amount of time at 75 seconds, but that all other heats were given 90 seconds.  The judges were approached on several occasions and I even sent messages.  I reviewed the tapes of myself and my competitors and saw that I was indeed given 15 less seconds than everyone else.  Even with the video evidence, by the time everything got back to the master officials the day was completed and the top 4 announced.  I was told there would still be a review, but I guess they just ran out of time to review or by the time they did there was not enough time to rectify the situation.  This mistake cost me anywhere from 5-7 pts.  I do not know if this would have been enough to improve my placing to the top 4 but it would have certainly made it close.

Event 4 Wheel Barrow Load and Carry

This was a brutal event that only saw 8 people finish.  You needed to carry a 175 lb sandbag 75 feet and load it into a wheelbarrow.  sprint back 50 feet and carry a 230 lb keg 50 feet and load it, then sprint back 25 feet and carry a 250 lb keg to the wheelbarrow and load it.  At this time you pick up the wheel barrow and carry it back the full 75 feet.  Sounds fun I know.  I was one of the fortunate ones that had enough in me to complete it.  NOTE:  For anyone who saw the score sheet that said I did not, that was just a simple mistake and they did rectify that pretty quickly (the score sheet shows me only getting 1 pt and in reality it was more like 15.  Again this was corrected so has nothing to do with my final results). I don’t know if they updated.  The guy in my heat and in the video who won my heat is also the one who won the entire event.  I believe I finished in 5th place in this event.

In the end with the corrected total I ended up with a 6th place finish.  If a mistake was not made in the third event would I have had enough points to advance to day 2?  I don’t know and it may be impossible to tell with certainty. But this kind of stuff happens and there is no reason to dwell on it.

More on all of this later but I need to address the other Davis Speed Center Athlete who competed in the Arnold this weekend.

I am not a good enough writer to be able to make you all realize what an amazing feat this young lady was able to accomplish.  Getting the invite at 17 years old is special enough.  Much more on short notice and only given 4 weeks to get ready for a contest where you would be going against only the top athletes in the world would scare approximately 95.84% of competitors away.  Most would think it was a no win situation, as 4 weeks is not nearly enough time to prepare for what these other competitors had 4 months to get ready for.  The amount of heart and courage that took is just awesome to think about.

She showed a love and commitment to training that even resurrected my own.  I may have gotten her as ready as possible, and stronger than she has ever been, but feeding off her energy and downright will power, she actually did the same for me.  By the time the contest arrived she was moving weight she never has.  She was ready to go against the best in the world all of whom had about 10 years “under the bar” experience on her.

The event didn’t start as well as we had hoped for Paige.  The Axle has never been her best event and while she wasn’t able to press the weight she got closer than she ever has before and fortunately this event saw many of the females fail to even press one.  In the Yoke event, like her trainer, she had a poor showing and after 2 events she found herself at the bottom of the pack looking up.

Being just a high school junior, I worried this would break her, I wondered if I could even bring her back.  She must not have shared my worry.  Paige had her best 2 events coming up and she was ready to go.  In these final two events Paige won both of her heats, and in the deadlift medley was the only one in her heat able to move the 550 lb frame.  The smile returned and the edge was back.  In the medley she was able to beat many top-level competitors including the women who finished 5th place in the world.  He strong finish was enough for her to start passing people on the charts and at the end of the day the title of 12th strongest woman in the world would belong to teenager.  At 17 this is probably a more impressive feat than anything I have ever accomplished in this sport.  There is no telling how great she is going to be, but it sure will be fun going back next year and really showing the world what we are capable of.

OK so the aftermath of the “incident”:

At the end of this experience I could have been salty, I could have been angry and for a while I was.  Untill I thought about the following:

Through the excitement I didn’t even notice untill after I had finished my final event that the stands at the show were completely filled.  The standing room crowd was backed up almost all the way to the entrance.  I had a great team down there of my sister Shawn, John Tammi, Trevor Rutkowski, Regina Gato and Paige’s parents, Rich and Mary Roeser and even my old man who let the judges know the mistake that was made.  They did that so I wouldn’t have to and I could keep my head on right.  I got to Watch my student of less than 2 years go against the best in the world and earn the respect of them all and grow even more in this sport.  Dave Davis got to see all his work with me pay off in the deadlift medley and I am glad he did because without him it would have never happened.  I had so many text messages, phone calls, tweets, facebook messages of support that I couldn’t even keep up with them (I had an equal number from my Mom alone).  I went against the best in the world in a contest that had my best events on Day 2 and I hung with them all day. I had the boys at Refuge Barbell cheering for me the whole way as well as earning fans that have never even met me before.  I got to hear the crowd go crazy as Paige scrambled to complete her final event.  I had a great time, met new people, and got to see the United States little guys dominate the rest of the world.  Mike Jenkins and Mark Felix, guys I have watched on TV for years, sat in general seating to watch me and the rest of the stronglittlemen compete.  Magnus Ver Magnusson, 2x world strongest man, was a guest judge.

So I guess you could say I won this past weekend.

Event Video:

2013 Arnold Strongman Fitness World Championships