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- 1:36Speaker 2: terribly sorry. All right. Yeah, do to walking extensively during
- 1:45Speaker 2: a hiking trip, I experienced pain in my calf muscle.
- 1:48Speaker 2: After We're gonna see me a massage and the pain,
- 1:51Speaker 2: unpunction became worse. That can happen. Yeah, it has now
- 1:55Speaker 2: been about a month, Holy cow, and I would like
- 1:58Speaker 2: to ask if there's any method, dietaria recommendations, or any
- 2:02Speaker 2: exercises that should help promote quicker recovery, thank you so much.
- 2:08Speaker 2: With a calf. Those things are Calves are problematic because
- 2:13Speaker 2: they're designed. They're built to handle extreme amounts of weight
- 2:17Speaker 2: and to be used all of the time. So if
- 2:20Speaker 2: you like really managed to do a lot of hiking
- 2:23Speaker 2: and manage to get them pretty sore and straining them,
- 2:25Speaker 2: and then somebody goes in and works that out. It
- 2:28Speaker 2: depends on how hard the massage was and stuff like that,
- 2:31Speaker 2: because those are things I don't know, but I would
- 2:35Speaker 2: definitely say if if it was still sore after the
- 2:39Speaker 2: massage for like a month, either the massage was way
- 2:42Speaker 2: too deep or you just did way too much and
- 2:46Speaker 2: actually might have even torn some fibers in that calf,
- 2:48Speaker 2: which is very possible. The best, really, the best thing
- 2:53Speaker 2: you can do is, instead of getting the massage right away,
- 2:57Speaker 2: get the massage on like day or three or day four,
- 3:00Speaker 2: and mainly just like lightly stretch it as much to
- 3:04Speaker 2: where you're comfortable with it, and then also you know,
- 3:09Speaker 2: stand up to your knees and ice, ice, water and
- 3:13Speaker 2: ice to get some of the inflammation out of the muscle.
- 3:17Speaker 2: That will help an awful lot as far as relief
- 3:20Speaker 2: and is taking away the pain. And then really you
- 3:23Speaker 2: want to work. The first thing you want to work
- 3:25Speaker 2: back to is just getting your full range of motion back,
- 3:28Speaker 2: which is light stretching. I mean just to where you
- 3:31Speaker 2: can feel it. It's not super painful, but it's there.
- 3:34Speaker 2: Just get some light stretching in, you know, and then
- 3:36Speaker 2: just every day try to get just a little bit
- 3:39Speaker 2: back to you get back to your full mobility. Once
- 3:41Speaker 2: you get back to your full mobility, you'll probably more
- 3:44Speaker 2: than likely start being able to use the muscle again
- 3:46Speaker 2: without really having a whole lot of a whole lot
- 3:50Speaker 2: of pain. To be honest with you, I just did
- 3:52Speaker 2: this a couple of days ago. I was pulling a
- 3:56Speaker 2: two thousand and f three fifty for a video and
- 4:00Speaker 2: I hadn't done it a long time, and I accelerated
- 4:02Speaker 2: really hard, and I strained mine a little bit as well.
- 4:05Speaker 2: And that's basically what I did. I went in and
- 4:07Speaker 2: got ice on it the first couple of days, and
- 4:09Speaker 2: then actually late this evening, I'll be getting massage on
- 4:12Speaker 2: it and then we're looking at like day five since
- 4:15Speaker 2: I did that, So I don't want to get the
- 4:17Speaker 2: massage on it right away. I want things to heal
- 4:19Speaker 2: up and then this to cut the massage to lightly
- 4:22Speaker 2: come in and break up you know, the scars issue.
- 4:25Speaker 2: But even then it shouldn't be super aggressive on the massage.
- 4:27Speaker 2: It should just be you know, digging in a little bit,
- 4:30Speaker 2: getting blood flowing in there, loosening things up a little bit,
- 4:32Speaker 2: but not like anything like stripping or raufing that that's
- 4:36Speaker 2: real extreme yet. Yeah, that would be like week three,
- 4:39Speaker 2: week four, when the thing's healed you know, a whole lot.
- 4:43Speaker 2: So basically, like I said, get some ice on it,
- 4:47Speaker 2: you know, at least twelve minutes, three times a day.
- 4:50Speaker 2: If you can do that and then work on just
- 4:53Speaker 2: getting it to where you can start to stretch on it,
- 4:57Speaker 2: it's really going to help a lot. Get your full
- 4:59Speaker 2: range motion back before you really worry about strengthening. Then
- 5:02Speaker 2: once you get back to that, just start strengthening it
- 5:05Speaker 2: doing things like standing calf phraises, seated caphraises, stuff like that,
- 5:10Speaker 2: with lightweights for a lot of reps at first, before
- 5:13Speaker 2: you start going heavy on the weights, you know, give
- 5:15Speaker 2: it at least a good probably sixty eight weeks before
- 5:18Speaker 2: you really start dumping a lot of weight on it
- 5:20Speaker 2: to train them to make them harder. You know, my
- 5:23Speaker 2: whole idea dumping weight it's like five six hundred pounds
- 5:25Speaker 2: for you guys, maybe forty five or whatever. You know,
- 5:30Speaker 2: you know, one hundred pounds on the is on the
- 5:33Speaker 2: heavier side than start at like twenty pounds. Doesn't have
- 5:37Speaker 2: to be heavy, it just has to be more than
- 5:38Speaker 2: what your body is. So yeah, okay, I hope that
- 5:42Speaker 2: helps go.
- 5:42Speaker 3: And even with that nutrition too. A lot of times
- 5:44Speaker 3: people are dehydrated and you know, no sodium. I'm gonna
- 5:52Speaker 3: go on a hike underprepared. These are things that can
- 5:55Speaker 3: help prevent muscle framps. Tasers, you know what I'm saying.
- 5:59Speaker 3: It's so so important, especially when you're doing physical activity
- 6:03Speaker 3: like that.
- 6:04Speaker 4: If you've got the sun sweating.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Yep, if you got any bruising with that, you tore
- 6:09Speaker 2: some fibers. If you didn't get any bruising, which is
- 6:11Speaker 2: that's gonna take a little while. If you didn't get
- 6:13Speaker 2: any bruising with it and it's just swollen, then it's
- 6:15Speaker 2: more like you just strained it pretty good. So, and
- 6:18Speaker 2: then what do you to Ben's points? You know, make
- 6:24Speaker 2: sure you have plenty of water and make sure you're
- 6:26Speaker 2: getting sodium in there with it as well. You know,
- 6:28Speaker 2: it doesn't hurt to have some potassium either. This is
- 6:32Speaker 2: gonna sound really bad, but like in and out French
- 6:36Speaker 2: fries before you go on like a hike or something
- 6:38Speaker 2: like that. Well, actually help. There's a lot of potassium
- 6:41Speaker 2: and there's a lot of sodium in it too, so,
- 6:44Speaker 2: and then the carbohydrates and then as you drink fluids
- 6:47Speaker 2: after that, the carbohydrates and the sodium will help you
- 6:50Speaker 2: retain the water. It's not something you should be eating
- 6:53Speaker 2: every day. It's eating for a purpose. So something it's quick,
- 6:58Speaker 2: it's easy and can be easily done. Two going to
- 7:02Speaker 2: World's Strongest Man, what's something fans completely underestimate about what
- 7:08Speaker 2: it takes to perform at your best across multiple days
- 7:12Speaker 2: and how should athletes be managing their energy and recovery
- 7:17Speaker 2: and mindset between events. Wow, Yeah, it's good question, and
- 7:23Speaker 2: that's that right there is probably a very good answer
- 7:28Speaker 2: because that's probably one of the biggest things that affect
- 7:31Speaker 2: athletes when they're there. You're all excited, it's your first time,
- 7:36Speaker 2: or your second time, or even your third time, you're
- 7:38Speaker 2: still like got the jitters. You're still all like wound up.
- 7:42Speaker 2: You have a hard time sleep at night. So the
- 7:44Speaker 2: main thing is is find ways to mentally be able
- 7:47Speaker 2: to shut your brain off even in that circumstance when
- 7:52Speaker 2: you're about to compete and you're getting ready to compete,
- 7:54Speaker 2: and when you get done. That's gonna help a lot
- 7:57Speaker 2: because your sleep's gonna make a big difference. As far
- 8:01Speaker 2: as things the fans completely underestimate. It's they do these
- 8:06Speaker 2: things at like ten, one and three o'clock. So it's
- 8:11Speaker 2: not like you would do one event, you got a
- 8:13Speaker 2: half hour break, and then you do the next event.
- 8:15Speaker 2: You got to have our break, and you do the
- 8:16Speaker 2: next event. You're done for that day. Now you got
- 8:18Speaker 2: to get fired up, go do that event, Calm down,
- 8:23Speaker 2: get your wits back about you, go eat, go get
- 8:26Speaker 2: fluids in you, and then sit down and then figure
- 8:29Speaker 2: out a way to hang out for like the next
- 8:31Speaker 2: hour to two hours without doing a bunch of stuff
- 8:35Speaker 2: that's strenuous without you know, you know, you're just letting
- 8:40Speaker 2: your head go off into the middle of nowhere. So
- 8:43Speaker 2: that that's like one of the biggest tricks is being
- 8:45Speaker 2: able to stay kind of like in a state of
- 8:49Speaker 2: first thing you do when you get done is catch
- 8:51Speaker 2: your breath. Then you get your necessary food and everything
- 8:54Speaker 2: in so it's digested before you get to the next event,
- 8:58Speaker 2: and your fluids and everything else, and you sit and
- 9:00Speaker 2: rest and you know, maybe a half hour before you
- 9:05Speaker 2: start warming up for the next event, you know, get
- 9:08Speaker 2: some uh dextros and some carbohydrates in, like a rice
- 9:14Speaker 2: couple rice crispy treats and you know, the little actual
- 9:19Speaker 2: dextos sprinkled on top of them, stuff like that to
- 9:23Speaker 2: get the glue, get get the carbohydrates in you that
- 9:27Speaker 2: you're gonna need for the next event. Then do the
- 9:30Speaker 2: next event, and then it's the same thing. You gotta
- 9:32Speaker 2: do it all over again. Go get your fluids, go
- 9:34Speaker 2: get your food the things you need to eat so
- 9:36Speaker 2: you're not hungry later, and then sit around for an
- 9:40Speaker 2: hour to two hours trying not to be on your feet,
- 9:43Speaker 2: trying to not to because you want to go watch
- 9:45Speaker 2: everybody else. But you got to understand if hopefully they
- 9:49Speaker 2: got a TV back there, which I think they do
- 9:51Speaker 2: in these like recent in recent times, you can just
- 9:54Speaker 2: go back and just sit and watch the TV and
- 9:56Speaker 2: kick back, which is that's way better instead of standing
- 10:00Speaker 2: out there watching. But the thing is, watch some watch
- 10:03Speaker 2: how the judges are doing things and stuff like that,
- 10:06Speaker 2: and then just wait your turn and try to relax,
- 10:09Speaker 2: keep get off your feet, do the same thing. And
- 10:12Speaker 2: then you got your last event. And then after your
- 10:14Speaker 2: last event, it's go back again. Eat, get everything ready.
- 10:18Speaker 2: You want to get your food in all this other stuff,
- 10:20Speaker 2: but your recovery stuff. You want to make sure you
- 10:23Speaker 2: get dinner scheduled at a decent time, and then even
- 10:26Speaker 2: have a later snack in your room before you go
- 10:28Speaker 2: to bed. That way, if you're hungry, you have something
- 10:31Speaker 2: to eat. If not, you're good. Make sure you getting
- 10:33Speaker 2: a lot of fluids in. If you need to get
- 10:35Speaker 2: an ice back to reduce inflammation, stuff like that. Make
- 10:38Speaker 2: sure you get bad in. And then some of the
- 10:42Speaker 2: guys will just want to sit around and talk with
- 10:44Speaker 2: each other. And then also other ones will like do
- 10:47Speaker 2: podcasts and just stuff like that and then have to
- 10:50Speaker 2: go get their head right and get off their feet
- 10:52Speaker 2: and relax, especially the guys that are going to be
- 10:55Speaker 2: in the top ten. You know, it's one thing. You
- 10:59Speaker 2: know a lot of guys that were, you know, in
- 11:02Speaker 2: the in the bottom twenty, would like do a lot
- 11:07Speaker 2: of do a lot more of the media work and
- 11:10Speaker 2: stuff like that, because you know, if you were in
- 11:12Speaker 2: third place out of out of a six man heat,
- 11:15Speaker 2: yeah you didn't do much. If you were in fourth
- 11:17Speaker 2: or fifth, you know, you do something. You do some
- 11:20Speaker 2: more of the media stuff. Because they were, they would
- 11:21Speaker 2: try to get like Sojournals and Brian and a lot
- 11:24Speaker 2: of the guys that are vying for the top to
- 11:26Speaker 2: come out and do things or.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Thour they're in the zone.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Nope, sorry that my focus is this, and you know
- 11:35Speaker 2: they do very little of that. So it's kind of
- 11:38Speaker 2: a kind of something to think about there. But uh yeah,
- 11:43Speaker 2: those are probably the biggest things managing their energy. And
- 11:46Speaker 2: it's different now because it's a two day contest and
- 11:50Speaker 2: they cut it. Their idea was to because it was
- 11:53Speaker 2: pretty hard on the guys. Their idea was to cut
- 11:56Speaker 2: to five events to take these are on the athletes,
- 12:01Speaker 2: and then they do the five events in two days
- 12:04Speaker 2: and then whoever makes the finals the top ten, well
- 12:07Speaker 2: they're going two more events or five more events and
- 12:12Speaker 2: two more days. Yep, pretty much the same thing. So
- 12:17Speaker 2: it's going to be you know, strong man survivor for
- 12:19Speaker 2: the most part. I mean, I was watching Martinez do
- 12:24Speaker 2: an interview on YouTube the other day for what he
- 12:27Speaker 2: was thought about, you know, coming in and stuff like that,
- 12:29Speaker 2: and he was talking about the the fact that there's
- 12:31Speaker 2: no rest period and it shouldn't just be one day,
- 12:34Speaker 2: you know, it should be at least three days. Yeah,
- 12:37Speaker 2: towing the qualifying heats in the finals, but that's the production,
- 12:40Speaker 2: that's the staff, that's the money to sit in hotels
- 12:43Speaker 2: and do all the other stuff, and the long distance
- 12:46Speaker 2: of having the crew there and everything else for so
- 12:48Speaker 2: long that you know, they're they're pinching money from wherever
- 12:55Speaker 2: they can, and the athletes, the people that they're trying
- 12:58Speaker 2: to get the best out of.
- 13:01Speaker 1: It.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Would it's just gonna have to be you know, survive
- 13:06Speaker 2: as best they can. And that's that's how it is.
- 13:08Speaker 2: So you might the best guy could come in and
- 13:11Speaker 2: be doing great, make it to the finals, and just
- 13:15Speaker 2: be so beat up when he gets to the finals,
- 13:16Speaker 2: it's not going to be there, so it kind of changes.
- 13:20Speaker 2: It's the person who can uh do the best while
- 13:24Speaker 2: saving the most and the qualifying heats and it's the
- 13:27Speaker 2: guy who can just let it fly after two days
- 13:30Speaker 2: of beating yourself up. So it's it's gonna be pretty
- 13:33Speaker 2: it's gonna be pretty spicy. So so since we're talking
- 13:38Speaker 2: about world Strongest Man, let's get into some some predictions
- 13:43Speaker 2: on it. The heats.
- 13:45Speaker 4: Okay, exactly so, because it's looking.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Yeah, so in group one we got rid and off.
- 13:53Speaker 2: Luke's Luke Richardson, Ben glass Cock, he's pretty good. Yeah,
- 13:59Speaker 2: Nick Gordeon and Tristan Oath host Yes, excuse me, Tristan
- 14:03Speaker 2: oth Tristan Oath, he's Canadian, he's This is gonna be
- 14:08Speaker 2: an interesting heat because Reno is the reigning World Strongest Man.
- 14:12Speaker 2: But yep, and he's good. But yes, he had he
- 14:17Speaker 2: had it lined the stars, stars in the planets lined
- 14:22Speaker 2: up last year and he stepped in while the top
- 14:25Speaker 2: two guys were just off a little bit and he
- 14:28Speaker 2: got he got the job done. Now the carry and climb,
- 14:34Speaker 2: Reno should do pretty good in that he's a he's
- 14:36Speaker 2: a pretty athletic guy. He should do pretty good. That
- 14:38Speaker 2: Luke's gonna do really good at that. Ben should do well.
- 14:43Speaker 2: But Nick Gordion and Tristan I think those two can
- 14:47Speaker 2: go actually go one and two in this event. Nick's
- 14:49Speaker 2: super athletic and he's tall, so but my understanding is
- 14:54Speaker 2: the star stairs aren't real high, so you know that
- 14:58Speaker 2: that could be that could be an event win for Nick. Yeah,
- 15:04Speaker 2: I would love to see that. But Luke Luke. Luke's
- 15:08Speaker 2: a good athlete, and Luke's Luke. Luke's been through enough
- 15:12Speaker 2: injuries to know, you know what to risk and what
- 15:16Speaker 2: not to risk anymore, so that should be pretty interesting.
- 15:19Speaker 2: I think Nick and Tristan got a good shot if
- 15:22Speaker 2: they're in shape, which I think Nick's a pretty good
- 15:24Speaker 2: shape to win in that first event. But then Reno
- 15:31Speaker 2: and Luke and Ben where they got to place, you know,
- 15:34Speaker 2: so it's gonna be pretty tight. But I think I
- 15:36Speaker 2: think Nick can do pretty well in that medley, the
- 15:39Speaker 2: circus press medley. That's gonna be kind of interesting because
- 15:43Speaker 2: it's not really gonna be hard until you get to
- 15:46Speaker 2: the barbell, and that barbell you might as well you
- 15:50Speaker 2: might as well be doing it with a if it's
- 15:52Speaker 2: the one I've seen in the past. That barbell whips
- 15:57Speaker 2: all over the place. So that's gonna to who picked
- 16:00Speaker 2: up their dead left bar and decided to do overhead
- 16:03Speaker 2: presses with their dead left bar, but on something that
- 16:06Speaker 2: doesn't move, so you're gonna have to lock that thing down,
- 16:09Speaker 2: So that'll be that'll be pretty interesting. Luke's a good presser,
- 16:15Speaker 2: you know. Tristan's not bad, Ben's Ben's a good presser.
- 16:21Speaker 2: It's it's it's gonna be like flipping a coin. But
- 16:25Speaker 2: at the end of the day, I I think Tristan
- 16:28Speaker 2: or Ben might come out with that, but Reino is
- 16:32Speaker 2: pretty good at it too. I'm I'm gonna probably say Tristan,
- 16:37Speaker 2: but the thing is, the weight's not overly heavy, so
- 16:41Speaker 2: it's gonna be a rep fest when you get to
- 16:42Speaker 2: that thing. Nix a decent overhead presser too, so he
- 16:47Speaker 2: might he might, he might do really well there. And then
- 16:51Speaker 2: of course Reino's are a pretty good overhead presser too,
- 16:54Speaker 2: So I mean, I'm gonna say probably Reino and Raino
- 17:04Speaker 2: and Ben in that one. There you go. Uh And
- 17:08Speaker 2: then the squat. Now we're going to separate some men
- 17:11Speaker 2: from the boys in this one.
- 17:13Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
- 17:14Speaker 2: And Luke Richardson has done some powerlifting, yeah, and I'm
- 17:22Speaker 2: gonna have to say Glascock can probably squat to pretty
- 17:26Speaker 2: pretty good, and so Contristan so I said, I'm gonna
- 17:29Speaker 2: say that's gonna be between those three guys. But I
- 17:31Speaker 2: think if Luke can figure out how to low bar
- 17:35Speaker 2: that thing, yeah, which there's a technique to it, and
- 17:40Speaker 2: you know, if he figures it out, he could he
- 17:44Speaker 2: could win that one. There you go. He's he's a
- 17:47Speaker 2: good squatter, he's done some powerlifting, so I mean, I
- 17:53Speaker 2: think Luke can do that one. So I mean you're
- 17:54Speaker 2: looking at a pretty pretty yeah heat going like this
- 17:59Speaker 2: and a bunch of different directions, and he got the
- 18:01Speaker 2: truck pull yep. Again, that's gonna be pretty interesting. I
- 18:10Speaker 2: I think Reino is probably gonna do pretty good that
- 18:13Speaker 2: because he's super athletic and he's he's not a small kid.
- 18:16Speaker 2: I think Tristan will do pretty good with that as well.
- 18:20Speaker 2: But I think Nick's Nick and Benn are probably the
- 18:23Speaker 2: heaviest two in the heat. So yeah, i'd like I
- 18:27Speaker 2: think Nick might do pretty good in that. There you go.
- 18:30Speaker 2: And then the Natural Stone Medley, the Natural Stone Medley.
- 18:34Speaker 2: I that's gonna be kind of interesting because the way
- 18:43Speaker 2: that went last year, they took the one that they took,
- 18:46Speaker 2: the one that caused caused some of the bigger names
- 18:51Speaker 2: problems out one where the guy went down on his
- 18:55Speaker 2: one knee and almost probably took himself out of the
- 18:57Speaker 2: whole show. They took that one and then they had
- 19:00Speaker 2: the rest of it, and the rest of that medley
- 19:02Speaker 2: is pretty cool. So I think that's going to come
- 19:06Speaker 2: down to athleticism. I think Reno did really good at
- 19:10Speaker 2: it last year, so you know, he's got a pretty
- 19:13Speaker 2: good shot at that. That one's going to be really
- 19:15Speaker 2: hard on the biceps, so that'll probably mess with Luke
- 19:18Speaker 2: a little bit. Nick's highly athletic. Nick Nichols stand a
- 19:23Speaker 2: good chance at that, and so are Tristan. I mean,
- 19:25Speaker 2: both of these guys are great. All these guys are
- 19:27Speaker 2: great competitors, they really are. Yeah, so it's going to
- 19:31Speaker 2: kind of be who's going to hit what I think
- 19:36Speaker 2: my personally, I think it's a toss up between Reno,
- 19:42Speaker 2: Luke and Nick getting through into the finals. But I
- 19:46Speaker 2: mean there's a reason why we do it, because I
- 19:48Speaker 2: mean Tristan could come in and just have a day
- 19:53Speaker 2: kind of like Reino did last year. So but I
- 19:56Speaker 2: think I think Nick Gordion's got a pretty good shot.
- 20:00Speaker 2: He's got a good shot at getting through this. So
- 20:02Speaker 2: it'd be fun and Reno and Reno and Luke. I
- 20:05Speaker 2: think those three will be real close at the top. Yeah.
- 20:09Speaker 2: So group two Tom Stultman, Jacko's schoon Winkle, Austin Andrade,
- 20:16Speaker 2: Matt Matthew, Matthew Ragg and Levi Strong. Hmm. Interesting you
- 20:25Speaker 2: have a guy that's six foot nine and with guys
- 20:28Speaker 2: that are all six foot three. Yeah, okay, well that'll
- 20:33Speaker 2: be interesting carry and climb. I mean, they're all really
- 20:40Speaker 2: big guys, but that's a that's a pretty big advantage
- 20:43Speaker 2: for Tom. Yeah, big big going through that because the
- 20:48Speaker 2: the Farmers Walk shouldn't be much of anything for Tom.
- 20:51Speaker 2: I think Jacko, Austin, Matthew, and Levi will actually will
- 20:56Speaker 2: probably run through the Farmers Walk part of it. I think, yeah,
- 20:59Speaker 2: almost all all of them will also go through the
- 21:04Speaker 2: go through the power stairs on it pretty well. But
- 21:08Speaker 2: I think as long as there's not an issue with Tom,
- 21:11Speaker 2: Tom should win that event. Yeah, just based on what
- 21:15Speaker 2: we know, it is the Circus Press medley. This is
- 21:19Speaker 2: where it's going to get really interesting because the dumbbells
- 21:23Speaker 2: are light, so I think everybody in this heat is
- 21:25Speaker 2: going to smoke the dumbells and then Austin and Rag
- 21:29Speaker 2: and Jocko and Tom, the whole heat is great at
- 21:34Speaker 2: overhead pressing.
- 21:35Speaker 4: Yes, they're all strong.
- 21:37Speaker 2: They're all strong, So it's going to come down to
- 21:40Speaker 2: who can get the clean down the best ye and
- 21:44Speaker 2: who can steady the weight the top of the fastest,
- 21:47Speaker 2: or has learned how to use a whippy bar at
- 21:50Speaker 2: the shoulders to drive it up overhead. Yeah. I think
- 21:54Speaker 2: whoever figures that out is probably gonna probably do pretty
- 21:59Speaker 2: well at it. And I'll say this now, I think
- 22:02Speaker 2: Austin's got a good shot at winter the event. Yeah,
- 22:06Speaker 2: I really do. I really do. Yako is really strong
- 22:10Speaker 2: and Tom Tom's Tom's three times world strongest man, so
- 22:15Speaker 2: Tom's really strong too.
- 22:16Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
- 22:19Speaker 2: He's also probably fairly familiar with that equipment, so he
- 22:23Speaker 2: also probably trained right with it. But I think Austin
- 22:27Speaker 2: if he gets it right on the because he could
- 22:32Speaker 2: probably clean. I don't know. I haven't seen how the
- 22:35Speaker 2: rules are written, because until you see how the rules
- 22:38Speaker 2: are written, actually the rules for the for the for
- 22:42Speaker 2: the competitors and the But if I was going into
- 22:47Speaker 2: it the first two I would try to basically almost
- 22:52Speaker 2: snatch the first thing, so as I get the dumb
- 22:55Speaker 2: belt up here, take this hand off of it and
- 22:58Speaker 2: throw it up overhead and snatch it. I'd actually done
- 23:00Speaker 2: that in the contest before with the Thomas Inch and
- 23:03Speaker 2: these aren't not much otter than Thomas Inch, and these
- 23:07Speaker 2: guys are a lot better overhead. But to do that
- 23:09Speaker 2: with the first two and the third one, just get
- 23:10Speaker 2: set press and then you're off to the bar, you know,
- 23:14Speaker 2: and then it's just gonna be who can have the
- 23:18Speaker 2: best technique for that and who can work with the
- 23:20Speaker 2: bounce in the bar. So that should be pretty interesting.
- 23:23Speaker 2: But I think Austin's got a pretty good shot at
- 23:26Speaker 2: like winning that overhead medley. But there's also a reason
- 23:30Speaker 2: why we do these things because what you think and
- 23:32Speaker 2: what happens it could be two different things, two.
- 23:35Speaker 4: Different things, all right.
- 23:37Speaker 2: Truck pull Tom, Yeah, Tom, for sure, I'll have to.
- 23:46Speaker 2: He's the tallest and the heaviest, yeah, which the truck
- 23:50Speaker 2: pull absolutely favors height, I mean it really does. It's
- 23:55Speaker 2: a massive advantage in that and body weight. So if
- 23:58Speaker 2: you have those two things, I would love to see
- 24:02Speaker 2: a rule instrum Man where the heaviest competitor gets on
- 24:05Speaker 2: the scale and everybody's allowed to wear almost like a
- 24:11Speaker 2: weighted vest to equal that body weight. So everybody just
- 24:15Speaker 2: go yeah, so everybody gets to pull the truck weighing
- 24:21Speaker 2: the same amounts. So when you lead into the harness,
- 24:24Speaker 2: the guy that's four hundred and twenty four hundred and
- 24:25Speaker 2: thirty pounds can just lean forwards and get it rolling.
- 24:29Speaker 2: With the guy that's like three ten three twenty, he's
- 24:33Speaker 2: really got to work to get a month. So I
- 24:36Speaker 2: would love to see that one day, just as an experiment. So,
- 24:40Speaker 2: but I do have to lean that one towards Tom.
- 24:44Speaker 2: I would think, you know, all these guys are going
- 24:48Speaker 2: to be practicing it. I think Austin can show up
- 24:52Speaker 2: and do some damage with that though too as well.
- 24:55Speaker 2: He's got very strong legs. Oh we missed the squat.
- 24:58Speaker 2: I didn't even cover the squat all right, So the squad, Yeah,
- 25:04Speaker 2: this is gonna come down to basically who's in like
- 25:09Speaker 2: the best physical condition and can hold on to that
- 25:14Speaker 2: bar the longest. Yeah, you know, that's what it's gonna
- 25:17Speaker 2: come down to and can stay as smooth as possible.
- 25:22Speaker 2: I don't think Tom will do bad at it. I
- 25:24Speaker 2: just don't think he'll be great at it, but I
- 25:27Speaker 2: could be wrong. I think Jocko's really strong, but he
- 25:31Speaker 2: had he's had a knee problem. I think Rag Rags
- 25:35Speaker 2: ungodly strong. Rag could actually probably win that event, but Austin,
- 25:41Speaker 2: Austin and Levi could do very well. But I think
- 25:46Speaker 2: I think Austin and probably Rag, you know, we'll probably
- 25:51Speaker 2: like do really really well in that event, especially if
- 25:54Speaker 2: they figure out how to hold on to that axle. Yeah,
- 25:58Speaker 2: it could be could be pretty good already called the
- 26:02Speaker 2: truck pull and the natural stone Medley. Tom had a
- 26:05Speaker 2: problem with the first one last year, but he made
- 26:08Speaker 2: it through the rest of them, or he didn't even
- 26:10Speaker 2: get to go to the rest of them. I think
- 26:14Speaker 2: Tom will probably he's good with all the rest of
- 26:16Speaker 2: the stones. He's great at front carrying and everything else.
- 26:19Speaker 2: I see Tom winning that event, and there's Medley.
- 26:24Speaker 4: Especially be able to place the stones, and.
- 26:27Speaker 2: Then it's going to be come between Jacko, Austin the
- 26:29Speaker 2: other four guys. I just think it's Austin's day, I
- 26:36Speaker 2: really do. Look yep, and he's training with Nick. He's
- 26:43Speaker 2: in shape, so it's gonna be fun to watch and
- 26:46Speaker 2: Trey all all three of them have been training together
- 26:50Speaker 2: and pushing each other along, all right, Group three. Interesting three.
- 26:58Speaker 2: Group three, we got Mitchell Hooper, who's the former World
- 27:02Speaker 2: Strongest Man. He won the Arnold, he won the Strongest
- 27:04Speaker 2: Man on Earth, he won the Rogue, the absolute probably
- 27:11Speaker 2: freakiest of all competitors, who now has his head screwed
- 27:15Speaker 2: on straight, got his life together, got everything together. So
- 27:21Speaker 2: I mean things have to get things have He's got
- 27:25Speaker 2: probably the most talent to get after this. So the
- 27:32Speaker 2: question will be the carry and climb. I think I
- 27:37Speaker 2: think he's gonna just destroy this. So Patty Hayes, you know,
- 27:44Speaker 2: so I can see them going one and two in
- 27:46Speaker 2: this event. Are Eddie Williams faster? Yeah, Eddie's faster than
- 27:51Speaker 2: you think, and so is so is Lucas. I don't
- 27:57Speaker 2: know how much that much about Oh my gosh, I'm
- 28:03Speaker 2: gonna butcher his name, Madias. I don't know a whole
- 28:07Speaker 2: lot much about Mattias, so I won't say a whole
- 28:09Speaker 2: lot about him. O. Good luck, buddy. I hope you
- 28:12Speaker 2: killed it getting there. It's been done.
- 28:16Speaker 3: Before, yes, it has, it could be done again, yes, right,
- 28:21Speaker 3: all proved it?
- 28:23Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah. Nobody knew who I was at
- 28:28Speaker 2: the first one. I made the finals. The first year
- 28:30Speaker 2: zero wing an event. I got to zero in the
- 28:32Speaker 2: overhead press, but it won three events, so exactly. That helps. Uh,
- 28:41Speaker 2: let's see here. I think the circus medley, that that's
- 28:47Speaker 2: I don't think anybody this heat is gonna have a
- 28:50Speaker 2: problem with the overhead press. Yeah, I don't think they're
- 28:53Speaker 2: gonna They're all three of them are going to motor
- 28:55Speaker 2: through the dumbells. Whoever makes the least mistakes doing that
- 28:58Speaker 2: and gets to the dumb or gets to the circus
- 29:04Speaker 2: dumbbell should probably have an advantage. And then it's I
- 29:13Speaker 2: just don't see anybody beating Hooper in this.
- 29:16Speaker 4: Yeah, Lucas, you can't. You can't disagree with that. I'm sorry.
- 29:21Speaker 2: It's it's in the in the finals. If they get
- 29:24Speaker 2: to the log and Lucas makes it through and Lucas
- 29:28Speaker 2: lukes Mitchell on the log, I think Lucas is gonna
- 29:30Speaker 2: beat Mitchell on the log. But on this thing where
- 29:32Speaker 2: you're cleaning it and the coordination and everything else, everything
- 29:38Speaker 2: the medley part of it, I think Hooper's just a
- 29:42Speaker 2: little quicker and a little faster, and I think it's
- 29:44Speaker 2: endurance is better, and that that one's good. That's gonna
- 29:47Speaker 2: be an endurance and event. That heat that really is
- 29:49Speaker 2: that's going to be an endurance event. And then looking
- 29:52Speaker 2: at the weather going into this for all the athletes,
- 29:54Speaker 2: it's gonna be high seventies at the at the highest.
- 29:58Speaker 2: I don't even think it's supposed to be over eighty
- 29:59Speaker 2: any the days. And I think Sunday is supposed to
- 30:01Speaker 2: be cool in rain, which is pretty kind of interesting.
- 30:05Speaker 2: So yeah, uh, Eddie Williams, Eddie's good. Eddie's good at everything.
- 30:11Speaker 2: He could be the sleeper out of the whole thing
- 30:14Speaker 2: because I expect I expect Lucas and Patty to battle
- 30:19Speaker 2: for that second spot over Mitchell and then but Eddie
- 30:22Speaker 2: could come in and be second in the heat. He
- 30:24Speaker 2: really could. I mean, so it's gonna be kind of
- 30:27Speaker 2: how is off that circle that the circus press Medley.
- 30:30Speaker 2: I I really think it's gonna come down to speed. Yeah,
- 30:36Speaker 2: minimum mistakes. I see probably Lucas getting second in that one. Yeah,
- 30:41Speaker 2: so the squat I see Hatton winning that one.
- 30:46Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with that statement. His squad's been looking amazing.
- 30:51Speaker 2: Yeah, they're they're pretty good. But Hooper's Hooper's good man.
- 30:56Speaker 2: He's look what he did at the Shaw He figured
- 30:59Speaker 2: it out and he killed it. So Hooper's real strong,
- 31:02Speaker 2: he's real good. I see them going one and two
- 31:04Speaker 2: in that event, and again I see him being in
- 31:08Speaker 2: the top two on every one of these events so far.
- 31:12Speaker 2: For Hooper probably if he's not three and oh, he'll
- 31:16Speaker 2: be two and one going into the truck pole. This
- 31:20Speaker 2: is where Mitchell have the least advantage now, depending on
- 31:25Speaker 2: how they excuse me, how they do the truck. If
- 31:28Speaker 2: they do the truck and it's light and you see
- 31:31Speaker 2: guys finishing in like low thirties, I think Hooper will
- 31:35Speaker 2: be finding that heat. I think if it's super super heavy,
- 31:39Speaker 2: I think Eddie's gonna win. I think Lucas will be second,
- 31:43Speaker 2: and then I think Mitchell will probably be third in
- 31:46Speaker 2: that event. Patty is really strong, he's really athletic and
- 31:50Speaker 2: everything else, but his body weights it's going to hurt
- 31:54Speaker 2: him in the truck pole. So but what do I know.
- 31:59Speaker 2: I've seen some of the lighter guys coming and just
- 32:02Speaker 2: destroy that thing. So that's just kind of what I
- 32:04Speaker 2: see happening. And then the natural stone medley, Uh, Hooper
- 32:10Speaker 2: killed that last.
- 32:10Speaker 4: Year, Yeah he did.
- 32:14Speaker 2: Yeah, I see him doing that again. And then so
- 32:16Speaker 2: it's gonna be I also see Patty doing very very
- 32:20Speaker 2: well with that as well. That that that could be
- 32:22Speaker 2: his good second event. And then it's gonna be between
- 32:25Speaker 2: Lucas and Eddie and Mattaya Matteyas. I'm just gonna mess
- 32:33Speaker 2: that up all day, dude. I apologize when I see
- 32:35Speaker 2: I'll meet you there. I'll get there figure correct pronunciation
- 32:40Speaker 2: of your name. But I I see that going one
- 32:45Speaker 2: and two for for Patty and Hooper because they're both
- 32:49Speaker 2: they both got to do it last year. Okay, so
- 32:54Speaker 2: I that he I see Mitchell getting through, and then
- 32:58Speaker 2: I see the between Patty and Lucas. But the dark
- 33:03Speaker 2: horse is gonna be Eddie. If Eddie comes in and
- 33:05Speaker 2: lights it on fire, Eddie can do the same thing
- 33:07Speaker 2: as well, exactly. I just haven't really seen Eddie squat
- 33:11Speaker 2: that much, so he might be a freaking crazy squatter,
- 33:15Speaker 2: is that which I love me some. Eddie Williams. He's
- 33:20Speaker 2: a good dude, and he's gigantic. If you ever get
- 33:23Speaker 2: up on he's he's just like massive and probably the
- 33:27Speaker 2: greatest guy you could want to hang out and talk to.
- 33:31Speaker 2: All Right, group four.
- 33:33Speaker 3: And this is the part I'm looking to watch him
- 33:35Speaker 3: because I think it's a real good blend of strength,
- 33:40Speaker 3: size and athleticism.
- 33:43Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
- 33:44Speaker 2: Yeah, oh it's it's gonna be yeah wow.
- 33:49Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a stacked card in this heat.
- 33:54Speaker 2: Yeah, boy, each one of these guys is strong. This
- 33:59Speaker 2: will be either death.
- 34:01Speaker 4: Yes, this is exactly what it is to me.
- 34:04Speaker 3: That's what I when I've seen this heat, I was like, okay,
- 34:07Speaker 3: talk about putting every all the pressure on Martin's.
- 34:11Speaker 2: Well yeah, but I mean this is his first one
- 34:16Speaker 2: back in a bit y. Yeah, you know, Andre is strong,
- 34:24Speaker 2: martinz is strong, and he's fast. I yes, Bryce is
- 34:30Speaker 2: strong and pretty quick. Adam's pretty quick, Adam Adam does
- 34:36Speaker 2: really really well. Yeah you know. And he's been bitten
- 34:41Speaker 2: by the dog a few times though too, so hopefully
- 34:46Speaker 2: he came in a little bit more arrested this time.
- 34:48Speaker 2: Martinez has when the haullballeracts before, he can absolutely win
- 34:52Speaker 2: it again. His training has been looking great. He's like
- 34:55Speaker 2: three hundred and forty three pounds is just bigger than
- 34:57Speaker 2: I think he's ever been. Yeah, he's that first event,
- 35:03Speaker 2: the carry and climb, those are all events that he
- 35:07Speaker 2: kind of grew up with. I can't see him not
- 35:10Speaker 2: doing well. In it. Andre will do very well. James
- 35:17Speaker 2: Jeffers is a heck of an athlete. I remember watching
- 35:20Speaker 2: him compete at a few different contests. Yeah, he's a
- 35:27Speaker 2: good athlete all the way around, and he's pretty strong.
- 35:29Speaker 2: He should actually do really well in the first event,
- 35:31Speaker 2: and then Bryce Johnson should actualely murder the first event. Yes,
- 35:35Speaker 2: and then Adam. All these guys, all these guys in
- 35:39Speaker 2: that first event are just going to do well in it.
- 35:44Speaker 2: I can't see anyone in there doing bad at it
- 35:47Speaker 2: unless they're hurt. I really can't. It's I could see
- 35:50Speaker 2: this whole event being done, everybody having a time within
- 35:54Speaker 2: two seconds of each other, if nobody makes any mistakes,
- 35:57Speaker 2: Like if they all hit it off, that's how close
- 35:58Speaker 2: it'll be. Martin's, Martin's and Bryce though, I think they'll
- 36:06Speaker 2: probably go one and two in this event. It should
- 36:10Speaker 2: be pretty interesting. The circus press medley, Martin has been
- 36:16Speaker 2: looking very good in his training. He knows how to
- 36:19Speaker 2: do the dumb bells, he knows how to do all that.
- 36:21Speaker 2: I think this is old hat for him. He knows
- 36:26Speaker 2: what to do with the with the bar bell that
- 36:30Speaker 2: they're going to have. I think this that'll be a
- 36:35Speaker 2: really really solid good event for him. He knows how
- 36:38Speaker 2: to use his legs, he knows how to use the
- 36:40Speaker 2: bounce and the whip of the bar. That should be
- 36:43Speaker 2: a pretty darn good event for him. Andre is just
- 36:47Speaker 2: ungodly strong. So that's gonna come down to conditioning, I
- 36:51Speaker 2: think for this for this event, James Jeffers very athletic,
- 36:55Speaker 2: very strong. And then Bryce Bryce also, Bryce has got
- 36:59Speaker 2: a long long way to go. You know, the guy's
- 37:02Speaker 2: what six foot ten, Yeah, so getting the bar up,
- 37:06Speaker 2: getting the bar up overhead, I think, you know, the
- 37:09Speaker 2: third and fourth rep. It's it's gonna take a little while.
- 37:14Speaker 2: But I see Bryce doing pretty good at it too.
- 37:16Speaker 2: And then Adam, Adam will do I don't do well.
- 37:19Speaker 2: Adam's very calculated. So yeah, I see Martins doing really
- 37:24Speaker 2: well at this event, and I see Bryce, you know,
- 37:27Speaker 2: Bryce doing pretty pretty darn good at it too. Adam
- 37:30Speaker 2: can get up in there as well, but it should
- 37:34Speaker 2: be it's going to come down to conditioning. I think
- 37:36Speaker 2: Martins will actually if they get to where it comes,
- 37:42Speaker 2: where they're doing reps with that bar. I think Martin's
- 37:45Speaker 2: in the end, his conditions will carry him through that one.
- 37:49Speaker 2: The squad I give it to Martinez all day. That
- 37:53Speaker 2: was pretty much just yeah, like a great event for
- 37:58Speaker 2: him at Worlds. Yeah, it's always been a great event
- 38:00Speaker 2: for him. He's very technical, he's very tacticianal I, and
- 38:06Speaker 2: he's got experience with it. He knows what to do
- 38:08Speaker 2: with it. He's he's easily done nine, So that's a
- 38:17Speaker 2: I gotta give the nod to him, and then probably Andre,
- 38:22Speaker 2: and then behind that maybe Adam. Yeah, you know, the
- 38:26Speaker 2: top three in that event, I agree. Yeah. Uh the
- 38:32Speaker 2: truck pull, well, I'm gonna have to go with Bryce.
- 38:38Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. He's got the size and he's
- 38:41Speaker 4: got the weight.
- 38:43Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think Martins will be either second or
- 38:46Speaker 2: third in this. Adam will do pretty solid at it.
- 38:50Speaker 2: James Jeffers is a big dude, and so is Andre,
- 38:53Speaker 2: so it'll come down to those those guys. But I
- 38:57Speaker 2: think Bryce will have the clear advantage in that one.
- 38:59Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 39:01Speaker 2: I think if Martins can be third or better than that,
- 39:03Speaker 2: he'll be doing okay on that one. Yeah. And then
- 39:06Speaker 2: you get to the natural stone med lee and I'll
- 39:09Speaker 2: say that's Martin's all day. Yeah. That guy's so good
- 39:14Speaker 2: at stones and so good at lifting, you know, like
- 39:19Speaker 2: the stone for the shield carriers and stuff like that.
- 39:23Speaker 2: I think he'll literally light up that last one with
- 39:27Speaker 2: not much of a problem. Andre is going to do
- 39:30Speaker 2: well at it. James will do pretty good at it.
- 39:32Speaker 2: Bryce will do great at it. I think we're gonna
- 39:35Speaker 2: see probably Martins win the heat and then a battle
- 39:41Speaker 2: probably between Bryce and either Andre or Adam.
- 39:45Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, now I could definitely see that. I could
- 39:48Speaker 4: definitely see that.
- 39:51Speaker 2: So okay, onto group.
- 39:53Speaker 4: Five and.
- 39:57Speaker 3: I know the TU ranks and the the big Thicket himself.
- 40:02Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, going head to head. The amount of talking
- 40:10Speaker 2: talking go on between those two guys during that.
- 40:13Speaker 4: We're talking about best friends who don't hold back.
- 40:18Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't hold back and the tendency to throw
- 40:22Speaker 2: things at each other occasionally. So that'll be fun to watch. Ye,
- 40:27Speaker 2: the carry and climb, I you don't. Well, here's the thing,
- 40:35Speaker 2: Pavlo Cordiaca is super athletics.
- 40:38Speaker 4: And he's got a grip on him.
- 40:41Speaker 2: You know. It's like I see Cordiaca winning the first events.
- 40:45Speaker 1: Uh.
- 40:47Speaker 2: And Andrew Flynn probably will be pretty solid at it.
- 40:50Speaker 2: Evans Nana, he'll do very solid at it. Evans Evan
- 40:57Speaker 2: should if he doesn't win that event'll be second. I
- 41:01Speaker 2: mean he's got the ability to beat Pablo. Yeah, so
- 41:05Speaker 2: he just has to go fast but not over rush.
- 41:08Speaker 2: If he just goes fast and smooth, he'll win that thing.
- 41:11Speaker 2: If he's focused, Trey, this will probably be his worst event, yeah,
- 41:16Speaker 2: I mean he's always struggled with his grip a little bit.
- 41:19Speaker 2: If they use the traditional woodlogs that they use, those
- 41:23Speaker 2: are a little difficult. They're really long, they rub on
- 41:27Speaker 2: your legs, and Evan's got a pretty good run with
- 41:31Speaker 2: those before. He's got a lot of experience with those.
- 41:35Speaker 2: So I can see Pablo Evan, Evan Pablo interchangeable up there,
- 41:40Speaker 2: and then you know Trey's I see Trey getting a
- 41:45Speaker 2: lot stronger, and I see Trey being faster and everything else.
- 41:50Speaker 2: If his grip holds, he can be in the top
- 41:52Speaker 2: three in this event, probably top two. If his grip
- 41:55Speaker 2: doesn't hold, this will be his This will be his
- 41:58Speaker 2: one bad event.
- 42:00Speaker 4: Yeah, and at least it's the first one.
- 42:02Speaker 2: Yeah. And Evans Evans not as a kid that just
- 42:06Speaker 2: the happiest kids you'll ever run into, got a great attitude.
- 42:09Speaker 2: All he does is come in and give it everything
- 42:11Speaker 2: he's got. So he's constantly getting better. He'll get over
- 42:16Speaker 2: the next three to five years, so just keep getting
- 42:19Speaker 2: heart stronger and stronger and stronger.
- 42:22Speaker 3: The first time we met him down at OSG, you
- 42:25Speaker 3: actually helped him train a little bit with UH because
- 42:28Speaker 3: he had questions about doing a farmer's carry but with.
- 42:31Speaker 2: A turn right right, so we worked on that. Yeah,
- 42:36Speaker 2: that was a lot of fun. But like I said,
- 42:39Speaker 2: if it's the same handles that I'm aware of, like
- 42:42Speaker 2: they didn't switch implements and they use those logs, I
- 42:44Speaker 2: see Evan killing this one and Pablo will be good
- 42:48Speaker 2: at him too. Yeah. Absolutely, on that event the circus
- 42:52Speaker 2: press medley, Pablo Cordioca is going to be rough to
- 43:00Speaker 2: be with that. And then you got Trey who's a
- 43:03Speaker 2: great overhead presser. Evan that's a great overhead presser. They're
- 43:07Speaker 2: all pretty solid overhead pressers. So yeah, I mean, if
- 43:10Speaker 2: it comes to like conditioning and in shape, I see
- 43:15Speaker 2: Pablo actually winning that event. I can see Trey and
- 43:22Speaker 2: Evan going second and third and that or third and second,
- 43:26Speaker 2: depending on how you want to look at it. Interchangeable.
- 43:30Speaker 2: No offense to Andrew Evans, but both those guys on
- 43:35Speaker 2: good days will pressed near five hundred pounds logs, you know,
- 43:38Speaker 2: four a dish. So you know, it's just gonna come
- 43:43Speaker 2: down to who can handle the whip on the bar
- 43:45Speaker 2: the best as they're going, and they're both super determined
- 43:50Speaker 2: where it's funny. You got one that is a that
- 43:56Speaker 2: will release energy like a nuclear bomb, the other one
- 43:59Speaker 2: that just really pass all this energy into the implement
- 44:03Speaker 2: itself and then just is done and moves on to
- 44:06Speaker 2: the next thing. So that one's gonna be fun to watch.
- 44:10Speaker 4: Absolutely.
- 44:11Speaker 2: Yeah, So as far as the quickness goes, the speed
- 44:15Speaker 2: goes like that, if Kordiaka doesn't make any mistakes, he's
- 44:18Speaker 2: gonna be in the type of shape where he can
- 44:20Speaker 2: just keep jerking that thing up overhead till the cleaning
- 44:24Speaker 2: it till the cows come home. But Trey and Evan
- 44:28Speaker 2: will be able to press that thing overhead till the
- 44:30Speaker 2: cows come home too, So it's just gonna come down
- 44:32Speaker 2: to who's quicker with the implement. That's it. Uh, let's
- 44:38Speaker 2: see here, squat. Now here's where things start getting really interesting.
- 44:45Speaker 2: Trail will be a good squatter, Yep, Trail will be
- 44:48Speaker 2: a really good squatter. Evan should be a pretty solid squatter. Yes,
- 44:54Speaker 2: Kodiaka not so much. This is gonna be his bad event. Yeah,
- 44:58Speaker 2: and then Flynn will probably squat pretty well, and Eva's
- 45:02Speaker 2: not as well also squat pretty darn well. I think
- 45:06Speaker 2: this is one for Trade to pick up a whole
- 45:08Speaker 2: lot of points in. Yeah, I think he'll be able
- 45:11Speaker 2: to do that. I know Chad's probably got him coached
- 45:15Speaker 2: pretty well to to do that, so I think if
- 45:22Speaker 2: he's probably, if he's prepared the way I think he's prepared,
- 45:26Speaker 2: this should be good points for him. I think Evan,
- 45:30Speaker 2: I think Nico's a really good coach for him. I
- 45:34Speaker 2: think Evan will probably come in and squat better because
- 45:38Speaker 2: I haven't seen a whole lot of videos of him squatting,
- 45:39Speaker 2: so this might want to be one of those where
- 45:41Speaker 2: he kept quiet and comes out and like surprises a
- 45:45Speaker 2: whole bunch of people at So this should be pretty good.
- 45:49Speaker 2: And like I said, I see this, I see Trey
- 45:52Speaker 2: wooding this one. I see second and third possibly Evan
- 45:56Speaker 2: and Evan, Nana, Evan Nana, you know between Singleton and
- 46:02Speaker 2: Nana going second or third in that one. But I
- 46:05Speaker 2: could be wrong. Flynn's a pretty strong kid too, so
- 46:08Speaker 2: we'll see, all right, and then the natural stones, who
- 46:16Speaker 2: I know, Uh, that's gonna exactly. It's gonna be weird
- 46:20Speaker 2: because this is gonna come down to speed because I
- 46:24Speaker 2: don't see Trey having a problem with any of those stones.
- 46:27Speaker 2: I don't see Evan having a problem with any of
- 46:29Speaker 2: those stones at all. And then KRDIAKA is just same
- 46:34Speaker 2: bit fast. Yeah, so I see. I see this one
- 46:40Speaker 2: really being dramatic for TV. Yeah, if it works out
- 46:45Speaker 2: the way I think it's gonna work out, you're gonna
- 46:46Speaker 2: have three guys all within a point or two of
- 46:49Speaker 2: each other. Yeah, Which, that one's gonna be really spicy.
- 46:53Speaker 2: I I don't see Trey messing it up, and I
- 46:56Speaker 2: don't see Evan messing it up either this time, either
- 47:00Speaker 2: one of them exactly. So I think Trey learned a
- 47:03Speaker 2: lot at the at the Strongest Man on Earth last year.
- 47:08Speaker 2: And then it's not gonna be real hot, so the
- 47:10Speaker 2: guys will be sweating, but they won't be like they're
- 47:12Speaker 2: sweating when they're in Sacramento and it's like ninety five
- 47:14Speaker 2: one hundred degrees exactly, So I think all the heat.
- 47:21Speaker 2: So I think it's gonna be pretty interesting that one.
- 47:27Speaker 2: I see Trey killing it unless he's hurt. I see
- 47:30Speaker 2: I've been killing it. Yeah, unless his pecks off, which
- 47:33Speaker 2: I highly doubt. I I can see. I can see
- 47:40Speaker 2: Pablo winning it, Trey getting second and having getting third,
- 47:43Speaker 2: or having get the second and Trey getting third. Yeah.
- 47:46Speaker 2: I mean, it's just whoever doesn't make a mistake and
- 47:49Speaker 2: they're going to be rushed. You're really going to be
- 47:52Speaker 2: rushed in this, and it's gonna come down to three
- 47:56Speaker 2: guys gonna be able to get to the final, and
- 47:57Speaker 2: only two are going, so you gonna have to They're
- 48:00Speaker 2: gonna have to fight like the third monkey getting on
- 48:02Speaker 2: Noah's ark and then he's only taking too. They're they're
- 48:06Speaker 2: gonna have to fight like that. So it should be
- 48:08Speaker 2: pretty interesting. So I mean, I see Trey, uh, Trey
- 48:17Speaker 2: and Evan getting through.
- 48:20Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely see that, all right.
- 48:23Speaker 2: I see Martinez and Bryce getting through.
- 48:31Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with that.
- 48:35Speaker 2: I see Mitchell, I see Hooper. Why don't we always
- 48:40Speaker 2: use his last name instead of his first name? I
- 48:41Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know, and that one's gonna be rough,
- 48:45Speaker 2: But I'd love to see Lucas get through because I've
- 48:48Speaker 2: seen some of the other guys get through. Yeah, so
- 48:52Speaker 2: just because I want to see it, I'll say Lucas,
- 48:54Speaker 2: but I think Patty. I think Patty's got a pretty
- 48:57Speaker 2: good shot. And like I said earlier, I think Eddie.
- 49:01Speaker 2: Eddie could be the dark horse that just drops the
- 49:03Speaker 2: whole heat on his head because he's freaking strong. Yeah.
- 49:10Speaker 2: And then I see Tom and Austin getting in.
- 49:14Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
- 49:21Speaker 2: And m hmm. This is gonna be really controversial thing.
- 49:30Speaker 2: But I'm gonna say, Luke.
- 49:33Speaker 4: And Nick, there you go, I can agree with that.
- 49:36Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
- 49:36Speaker 2: I could definitely and I like, right now, I love
- 49:39Speaker 2: the kid, He's awesome. Yeah, yeah, but it should be interesting.
- 49:45Speaker 2: So that's who I see getting in. And then for
- 49:48Speaker 2: the finals, now that we'll go to the finals. The finals,
- 49:53Speaker 2: we got the NAC Monster box flip. Yeah, and Carrie,
- 49:59Speaker 2: now if from the thing I saw on this thing,
- 50:04Speaker 2: if everybody, if all the guys survived the flip and
- 50:07Speaker 2: we don't lose any anybody's nugget from the hip, if
- 50:10Speaker 2: they dropped the box, Yeah, no, that's gonna be that's
- 50:19Speaker 2: gonna be pretty interesting because you could get to that yoke.
- 50:22Speaker 2: And for the yoke, you know, Hooper is gonna kill
- 50:25Speaker 2: the yoke, Martins will do pretty darn good at it, yeah,
- 50:33Speaker 2: and then uh, Evan Singleton will also destroy the yoke,
- 50:40Speaker 2: and then Austin's pretty solid with it. Yeah. I kinda
- 50:49Speaker 2: like for that one. I kind of see, barring no mistakes, Hooper,
- 50:58Speaker 2: probably Evan, and then a toss up between Austin and
- 51:02Speaker 2: Martinez with the yoke depending. It's because it should be
- 51:05Speaker 2: pretty heavy. It should be pretty heavy. That's kind of
- 51:11Speaker 2: what I see with that. The deadlift, it's gonna be
- 51:15Speaker 2: a Trump deadlift, so it's gonna be either eight hundred
- 51:17Speaker 2: pounds for reps or eight eighty for reps. Yeah, and
- 51:21Speaker 2: it's the second event, which is awesome because that means
- 51:27Speaker 2: you're not really going to hold back on that too
- 51:29Speaker 2: much because you still got three other events to go,
- 51:32Speaker 2: so you need all the points you can get, so
- 51:34Speaker 2: that makes it important. That's gonna be pretty crazy. Hooper's
- 51:43Speaker 2: getting ready to try to pull eleven hundred pounds yep,
- 51:48Speaker 2: right out of the gate. I see Hooper doing that.
- 51:52Speaker 2: Hooper getting in there, yeah, I can see Lucas getting
- 52:01Speaker 2: in there, Martinez getting in there, Singleton getting in there
- 52:07Speaker 2: for some reps. Trey doing really well with this event. Yes,
- 52:12Speaker 2: that'll be really good points for Trey, really should be
- 52:16Speaker 2: good points for Austin, Tom, I think, Lucill Luke, it'll
- 52:21Speaker 2: be kind of fifty to fifty. So I mean, really,
- 52:29Speaker 2: I see Hooper and Trey. If there's nothing wrong with
- 52:33Speaker 2: Trey and Trey polls like Trey can poll. I see
- 52:36Speaker 2: it being Hooper and Trey because Trey will be out
- 52:41Speaker 2: there with yeah, so he won't have any problem breathing.
- 52:45Speaker 2: And that's the thing these guys got to understand about this.
- 52:48Speaker 2: And I'm probably I probably since I'm not coaching anybody,
- 52:55Speaker 2: probably shouldn't be talking about this. But when you get
- 52:58Speaker 2: into an event like that, either cut the top of
- 53:00Speaker 2: your suit off or have some power briefs made, because
- 53:07Speaker 2: if they're gonna allow you to use them, don't put
- 53:08Speaker 2: the straps on. You can't breathe. It messes everything up.
- 53:11Speaker 2: You get in a better position with the brief song.
- 53:14Speaker 2: You can use the bottoms. It'll help you enough, and
- 53:18Speaker 2: you can just go all day that way. You really can.
- 53:23Speaker 2: But I see Hooper, Trey and Austin, and I can
- 53:28Speaker 2: see Tom doing pretty good at it too. Yeah, and
- 53:32Speaker 2: Martin's doing pretty good at this. One's gonna be a
- 53:34Speaker 2: pre etty. You're gonna get a lot of ties on
- 53:37Speaker 2: reps on this one. Yeah, So this is gonna that
- 53:41Speaker 2: one extra rep is going to really make a difference
- 53:45Speaker 2: and how you did in that first event and where
- 53:48Speaker 2: you're pulling at on this is also going to make
- 53:51Speaker 2: up a massive difference because if you get Hooper and
- 53:55Speaker 2: Martin's and a couple of these other guys towards the back,
- 54:00Speaker 2: Austin or even Evan Singleton, because Evan's gonna kill that
- 54:03Speaker 2: one too. Yeah, Evan's just got to stay tight when
- 54:07Speaker 2: he puts it down and not just drop it to
- 54:08Speaker 2: the floor. Yeah, if he goes down with it under
- 54:12Speaker 2: control and just touches the floor and wait till he
- 54:15Speaker 2: gets the up signal, he I would say, he'll even
- 54:18Speaker 2: be Hooper if he does that. But he doesn't deadlift
- 54:21Speaker 2: that way, and I have no idea why. Yeah, but
- 54:25Speaker 2: just put on the bottoms so you don't have anything
- 54:28Speaker 2: on the on the top and you can still breathe
- 54:30Speaker 2: and stuff. So when you get to rep five, six seven,
- 54:35Speaker 2: they're gonna be able to breathe. And I predict now
- 54:38Speaker 2: unless a bunch of guys don't do very well because
- 54:41Speaker 2: they're beat up from day one and day two. Yeah,
- 54:47Speaker 2: I think you'll see seven, maybe even eight this year
- 54:50Speaker 2: because that's that's there's guys capable of that that will
- 54:54Speaker 2: make the final, that'll that'll push it out there like that. Yeah,
- 54:59Speaker 2: because is that wouldn't that that event will be one
- 55:02Speaker 2: of those to where if you go in, you're not
- 55:05Speaker 2: pulling to tie the guy because there's gonna be people
- 55:09Speaker 2: tied at the top. You're pulling to do that one
- 55:12Speaker 2: more rep that will delineate you an extra two to
- 55:16Speaker 2: three points by doing so, so exactly. All right, So
- 55:19Speaker 2: there's that one. Okay, So then we got the Titans Toss.
- 55:24Speaker 2: Tom Staltman hands down, no questions, yes, no answers. That's
- 55:28Speaker 2: he's gonna win this one. Yeah. Yeah, he has to
- 55:33Speaker 2: be hurt. He had to hurt his back on the
- 55:36Speaker 2: deadlift and can't throw him for him not to win
- 55:39Speaker 2: this event. This is like an automatic as automatic gets.
- 55:45Speaker 2: And then Hooper's been doing really good at Martinez has
- 55:48Speaker 2: been doing really good at it. Evan's good at the toss.
- 55:54Speaker 2: So it's gonna be pretty interesting, you know, watching those
- 55:57Speaker 2: guys go through it and do it. But I think
- 56:00Speaker 2: that's really gonna come down to Bryce should surprise people.
- 56:04Speaker 2: He's six', ten he's even he's a little a little
- 56:07Speaker 2: taller Than, tom SO i think he might surprise a
- 56:11Speaker 2: lot of people as far as that. Goes But evan's a,
- 56:15Speaker 2: great great at. Toss tom will be good at, toss
- 56:19Speaker 2: and So. Hooper SO i see it kind of going that.
- 56:22Speaker 2: Way martin's will be in the mix as. WELL i
- 56:24Speaker 2: Think martins will probably be like fourth of that, event
- 56:27Speaker 2: so it should be pretty. Good trey' is also good
- 56:29Speaker 2: at the, toss so that one's gonna be pretty. Good
- 56:33Speaker 2: BUT i See luke And, hooper you, know being up
- 56:36Speaker 2: at the top on that. One, YEAH i really on those,
- 56:39Speaker 2: TWO i really.
- 56:40Speaker 1: Do.
- 56:41Speaker 2: Yeah all, right so we're gonna come to the finals
- 56:44Speaker 2: and you know we've gotta Got max Lock. Yep here's
- 56:47Speaker 2: what's gonna get really. INTERESTING i think If lucas makes
- 56:52Speaker 2: it in he's going to win this. EVENT i Think
- 56:56Speaker 2: austin And austin And TREY i gotta be right there with.
- 57:01Speaker 2: Him trey might actually win it. TOO i think had
- 57:04Speaker 2: A lucas And, TREY i think it's a coin. Toss.
- 57:08Speaker 2: YEAH i Think trey's biggest mistake at the strongest man On,
- 57:15Speaker 2: earth and his attempts was he wasn't ready for the
- 57:18Speaker 2: second one and the log. Slipped he went on the third,
- 57:21Speaker 2: one did the log and Then pink popped it right
- 57:23Speaker 2: up overhead like it was nothing left left some left
- 57:27Speaker 2: left weight on the. Floor, yeah SO i don't think
- 57:30Speaker 2: he'll make that mistake. AGAIN i can honestly, SAY i
- 57:33Speaker 2: don't think that that will happen. Again SO i can
- 57:36Speaker 2: easily see you, know that being you, Know lucas And
- 57:42Speaker 2: trey and then a fight between, Uh Evan singleton And,
- 57:47Speaker 2: Hooper Evan hooper and maybe Even tom for, third, fourth
- 57:53Speaker 2: and fifth in that. Event so that's that's gonna be
- 57:57Speaker 2: pretty spicy right. There and then, if of course we
- 58:01Speaker 2: get down to the last event at The, stones Yeah,
- 58:07Speaker 2: Tom tom's got that one hands. Down, Yeah trey can
- 58:14Speaker 2: kill The. Stones Evan. Evan there's been times where he's
- 58:20Speaker 2: been brilliant with him and other times where he's you,
- 58:22Speaker 2: know gone to the bathroom in the. Bed so BUT
- 58:26Speaker 2: i Think evan has the capability of doing real. Well
- 58:29Speaker 2: martin's will be brilliant with The. Stones so just understand
- 58:35Speaker 2: THAT i Think Mark martin's might be the guy Mar
- 58:40Speaker 2: teen's And trey could be the two. Guys if they
- 58:44Speaker 2: really like drop the hammer down and just throw everything
- 58:49Speaker 2: to the wind and just go after it might actually
- 58:52Speaker 2: be able to Catch. Tom. Yeah if if they're all
- 58:57Speaker 2: in the same type of condition where they're all kind
- 58:59Speaker 2: of beat up the SAME i think they can put
- 59:01Speaker 2: a heat on, him you. Know it's it's gonna be
- 59:06Speaker 2: fun to. Watch but until somebody can Unseat tom on that,
- 59:12Speaker 2: event it's gonna Be, tom and THEN i Think hooper
- 59:15Speaker 2: will be in the top three in. It and then
- 59:18Speaker 2: BECAUSE i think a couple of the guys will race
- 59:20Speaker 2: and make. Mistakes NOW i don't really See tray making
- 59:23Speaker 2: mistakes on the. Stones austin will be good at the,
- 59:27Speaker 2: stones And martins will be really good at the. Stones
- 59:31Speaker 2: martins won't make mistakes, either so that it's gonna be pretty.
- 59:34Speaker 2: Spicy but LIKE i, SAID i think somebody will get
- 59:38Speaker 2: in there and then uh they'll they'll H i think it's.
- 59:45Speaker 2: GOOD i think it's gonna Be, tom and then somebody
- 59:48Speaker 2: will get in between him and Then. Hooper, yeah, YEAH i,
- 59:52Speaker 2: Agree but all, right well that's. It that's my predictions
- 59:56Speaker 2: for the. THING i do. SEE i do See hooper
- 59:59Speaker 2: winning this unless something really goes. Wrong BUT i also
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: SEE I i feel that you, Know Tom, Tom Trey,
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: singleton this could Be singleton's, year AND i pretty god
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: that it. IS i hope it is for, Him, YES
- 1:00:17Speaker 2: i really. Do but my heart tells me it's going
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: to Be. Hooper.
- 1:00:23Speaker 3: Yeah and you know the way he's, looking the way
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: he's been, performing you know he's got he had another ramp,
- 1:00:29Speaker 3: up so it's like, this this is the this is
- 1:00:31Speaker 3: to finish it, off.
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: Right but just remember there's a reason why they do
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: the contest because talking about it on paper and giving
- 1:00:39Speaker 2: your predictions and who's right and who's, wrong that's. It
- 1:00:42Speaker 2: that can all be thrown out on game. Day it's.
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: WHOEVER i wish nothing but the best of luck to
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: all of the. GUYS i hope there's no. INJURIES i
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