We all want to be stronger in the gym.
But how about being World’s Strongest Man strong?
Three-time WSM champion Brian Shaw has given us an insight into how he conquered the strength world.
The American behemoth is reigning champion after obliterating the competition in the 2015 WSM final, which included the likes of Eddie Hall, Zydrunas Savickas and Game of Thrones star Hafthor Bjornsson.
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It helps that the 6ft 8in powerhouse weighs in at a hulking 180kg… but his training regime is more hardcore than you could even imagine.
Vice Sports filmed the giant man in training which included throwing heavy kegs over a high bar in his back yard, deadlifting a car and casually pulling a fire engine.
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Shaw is filmed also doing some old-school powerlifting. His leg day includes reverse hack squats, heavy banded back squats and a leg press on which we counted 11 20kg plates per side. Wow.
But it’s not just lifting heavy weights that makes him a world champion.
The video shows his never-day-die attitude. He tore his bicep right off his arm in the final of the 2013 Arnold Classic in the first event.
We don’t know how, or why, but Shaw battled on with his bicep missing through the final four events, including the giant dumbbell press, to finish a respectable fourth place. With one arm.
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They say you should eat big to train big.
Well, the 33-year-old eats BIG. He devours nearly 2kg of meat and 10 eggs every single day to, you know, keep his strength up.
As a kid he was just 100kg – but he says he ate until he was sick and put on 20lbs (9kg) a year to get to the size he is now.
So, strongman training anyone?
JOE can’t wait to see if he can beat the fabled 500kg mark in the World Deadlift Championships this summer.
(H/T Vice Sports)
