How heavy are you? Like how tall are you?
First that. 6 foot 6, 170 kilos at the moment.
Jesus Christ. As I've had a new weight
recently, I used to be like normally sitting around about
160 kilos. But the last couple of months of
protecting healers offers a reason.
Not actually trying to put on weight, but is that muscle?
I don't know. I'd say I'd say it's more fat.
But you know, they say mass moves mass.
So you'll see how we go. Yeah, I'll take it.
Well, there, I've got you down here because you're the you're
the perfect person now to talk about how we can get stronger.
So if what if someone wants to achieve absolute like silverback
gorilla strength? How do they do it?
How are they changing? How are they training?
How is it different to just regular?
You know bro, split three, three sets of 10 up the gym.
Obviously, obviously, first of all, get a strongman coach.
Obviously they'll dile you a plan in then obviously you stick
to our plan. If you're consistent and you
fall all the way through, then at the end you will get
stronger. It's it's less reps So saves
about half an hour of a bodybuilder and said about 3-3,
say three sets of five. Well, that'll be about it then.
Really, is it? What movements are you doing?
Like how are they different? Because you're not looking to.
It's not, it's not bodybuilding, is it?
No, you're not. You're not trying to get the
pump. We, well, my course is obviously
so sad to me as you stick to your squats and your dead lifts
in the week, you work on then overhead and events then
obviously over the weekend and things like that.
Yeah. And.
What What's like the most important movements you need to
be doing? If it's for strongman now or for
getting strength? What are the most important
movements? Squats and dead lifts definitely
because it's sort of all round. You know, if you're doing dead
lifts, you work in your, your hamstrings, glutes, your back.
And squats, same thing you know, with the quads and legs log then
mainly fall overhead. What's a log?
Like big metal log, not sometimes use the old wooden
ones. Metal we sort of use nowadays,
but. What like a proper tree?
No, it's like a big, big metal sort of drum type thing, handles
in the middle, sort of flip it to your chest and then press
overhead then. So yeah, they range it obviously
vary in weight. You know, the one we normally
sort of warm up on is 56 kilos empty.
We woke up to something like 150 and.
That's warm up. Yeah.
And there's me in my little gym doing like 30 kilograms thinking
I'm getting stronger, like, and you're going up to what, 150?
Obviously when I had the Welsh just gone, it was sort of more
of like a jerk block log press wasn't like sort of clean and
press and I hit 160 on that in the Welsh.
Jesus Christ, that's that's like 2 of me.
Yeah, was my old body weight. What?
Yeah, it's Jesus Christ. Like, that's nuts.
So like how are you breaking down your training then?
What does your training look like?
Are you going in doing the heavy sets?
And then are you mixing up a bit of sort of hypertrophy?
Does that play a part at all or is it just heavy heavy heavy?
No. So obviously the beginning of
say either had nine week plans or 12 week plans.
Obviously at the beginning and it's sort of the lighter stuff
and you sort of mix up in between and then drop back down.
And then at the end then you got like ADD load week was what my
sort of my coach gives me. And then at the end then we go
for a like, say do a personal best then.
Is it? Yeah.
Hopefully. What?
What sort of volume are you lifting in in a session?
Do you know you have you had it up?
My last deadlift session was which was Tuesday.
Did three sets of five of 220 and then it dropped back down
there. Did 170, but it was like half
reps into then full same, same sets working weights, three sets
of five and then you got the accessory work.
Then afterwards that which would be like Bulgarian split squats,
leg press, things like that, like you know.
Yeah, so it's like the, the core of the workout is probably like
this, this your main focus, the the, you know, the deadlifts and
then you'll gain do do you ever train to failure or is it, do
you leave something in the tank? Is it like you leave a Rep or
two? I think the only time I've ever
sort of gone to failure is on PBD because you sort of push in
that boundary then to see a fire, you can go, you know?
Is that an injury thing? Like you don't want to be
because you're dealing with such massive weights.
You don't want to push yourself to failure every time.
I say for myself obviously because I get a plan sent to me,
obviously from my court. I just listen to what my court
says and obviously sort of progressed that way then, but
it's never sort of been training to failure.
The only sort of time it has been is if we're going for like,
say Max reps. So if you set something for me,
like I know some not so long ago, I had 320 on the deadlift
for Max reps I managed three. I was aiming some sort of five.
But when you're on that sort of third Rep, you feel like you're
going to shit yourself. And have you?
No, not, not yet. I thought I did, but not yet.
But that's sort of the only time we will train the failure
really. And what's your week look like?
So are you training 5-6 times a week?
Three times a week? Off say offseason.
So in offseason is about 3 * a week and then when it comes into
comp prep, you're sort of looking about 4-5.
That's. That's less than I thought it'd
be. I I thought it'd be like
everyday smashing it and something like that.
No, you've got to obviously get your recovery and things like
that, you know, like ice baths, you, you know, food, sleep
things are rest days, but like sort of active recovery, if that
makes sense. I go for a walk or something
like that. Just still keep moving.
Obviously just keeps the gears greased like yeah, and I'm
training every day. I can get behind a walk.
I can definitely do that. Yeah, I'm, I'm all, I'm all over
a walk. Stick some headphones then go
for a walk. Or the Rockman podcast,
obviously. That's it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so do you focus on certain
body parts in those? See those 3-4 sessions you're
doing? Is it sort of like right, this
is a legs day, this is an upper body day, or is it push press
legs or is it total body three times a week?
I would say out of comp prep it'll be dead lifts so back then
squats, then shoulders or pressing then in the end of the
week or legs on a Sunday so. What was that?
That was was it legs? Dead lifts.
Squats and then shoulders or pressing then on the weekend
then if it's if it's offseason and then depending what sort of
events we've got in comps that that can change things up then.
Which one's your favorite? Which one's your favorite day?
I'd say over squats of deadlift, you'd have to be deadlift.
Really. Yeah, I like, I like
deadlifting. There's something about lifting
a huge amount of weight off the floor.
It is a huge amount of weight, yeah.
And I mean, especially, you know, when you're hitting, say
new PBS, like I hit the new one not so long ago, like 3:30.
So I'm trying, I'm trying to push it to say 350 without dead
of suit. So if I can hit the raw, I'll be
over the moment that's. Insane.
Would you ever get up to something like what like Thor
and Eddie Hall are doing? Be happy, happy, something I
don't know. I just, you know, as I say, as
long as you stay consistent and you keep pushing, who knows?
You know, you'll end up like, I never know, I'll get to 330.
But over the last I've been training now five years
competing for, well, this is my fourth year competing.
I never know how to get to 330, but listening to the court, you
know, following a weekend, week out and we've got there.
Yeah, you'll be happy to hear that you're following it like.
Yeah, you do get some bad days, like we tend to sort of push
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episode. What sort of rest you doing in
between your sets is it? It depends on how you're feeling
on the day. I mean, I mean, sometimes you
could be there, rest there, maybe 3 to 5 minutes, yeah, say
3 minutes maximum if you can. But some days, I mean, depend
how you're feeling, you could take up to maybe 10.
Yeah, if you're having a bad day, you you're struggling as
long as but how I see if you are struggling as long as you keep
pushing through then you you'll be fine.
So you do go and feel then It's not like someone's got to watch
you're feeling. Yeah, I go and feel like, yeah,
say if I do like one set, like I'll call wrestling, I got a
drink, you know, either whether it's a monster or some water,
like, you know, and then go for the second because obviously you
sort of tie it down for towards the end.
So when you come and say like your last set, you're like,
right, one more. And then once you've finished,
then it's like, I go for that. If it's on a bad day, if it's on
a good day and you're smashing it, then you're fine.
And how, how does it differ? It's sort of like in your speed
of your movements. Is it just get it up as quick as
you can or or do you, do you have some sort of tempo like
where it's like right, take 3 seconds up, two seconds down or
something? I would say like obviously for
myself, especially with deadlift and I'm sort of more of a slow
puller. So like I'd sort of get the bar,
he's slow pulling it up. Whereas one of the boys that
trains with me, he sort of like fast twitch fibres.
He's like buff explosive, you know.
So it varies really with the person.
What would you say is best? I would say the the fast twitch
really, because if you're, if you're slow moving with every
week there's a bigger chanting in it back down to the floor.
I suppose you're holding it for longer as.
Well, yeah, so that's it. What's the most important
exercise you think that people should be doing then if they if
they want to get stronger? I would say deadlifts mainly
because it sort of attacks most of the muscle parts, but it is
all important like, you know, to get stronger.
It is all important to train every single one that we can't
just deadlift on his own and think you can press A160 log.
You know, you've got, you've got to train it all to sort of get
stronger. Is it about sort of
concentrating on different body parts then?
So it's like you train legs, make sure you get legs.
Would that be the most important part?
Get your legs in first. Yes, yeah, say so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you had to do only one
session for the rest of your life, like you could only do 5
moves for the rest of your life, what 5 moves would you want to
be doing? Well, squats, dead lifts, log
stones, the Atlas stones and yoke.
What's a yoke? Just like like the frames, that
thing goes over your shoulders, new, old, onto the sides and you
sort of walked on the track with it like.
Like because I think the yoke and maybe the outlet stones are
the famous ones that you see all the time every Christmas on
World's Strongest Man and stuff. Where'd you buy an Atlas stone?
I know Atlas Endurance, they've got sort of the best stones on
the market at the moment. So if you give him a message,
they it's awesome that on for you.
But yeah, some places like that, really.
And how heavy do they go up to? Varies sort of.
Not in like, say competition, it'll go up to about 200 in a
run, but I know they go way higher than I like 222-3250, you
know, past, I think Tom Stoltman's done 2270, something
like that. What sort of height do they
have? What's the height of the
platforms? Do they have to get them on?
On our feet, I think is the lowest.
Because I watched, I saw a video of the other day of you lifting,
was it 150 kilogram sandbag? Or the 1160?
Or the 160K sandbag. Six, I'm selling it short.
Like, yeah, it's 160. Yeah, new PB, that was for me.
So yeah, I was surprised. I've done it took it took all
out me like, but because it's like you get to your chest just
pushing down on your chest and you'd like feel like you're
going to pass out, but you just got to keep going till it gets
there and then put it down. That's fucking awkward.
That's the thing. Like it's an awkward thing.
As I say, different ways of picking up.
I think because of my long levers, I picked up.
So maybe the wrong position, but he went white with three.
So picked up once it's on the lap and it's like, right, which
way am I going to go over this, scoop it up up that way.
But I should have picked up sort of maybe central and then flip
it that way. What I would have thought would
have been easier, but I think when I go for the heavier weight
now because I'm looking at sort of maybe trying to push that to
185 because my coach has done 183.
So you just want to beat him? So, well, I just want to sort of
just get past that. I know if I can get up to his
level, I know I'm all right. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Who is your coach? Mark Jeans.
Mark Jeans, Is he a former strongman?
Yeah, he's won the Welsh five times.
Is he? Yeah, he's a bit of a veteran in
the in the sport, like, you know, so.
You couldn't have a better coach then.
No, no, he is fair play to him. You know, I've been with him now
five years and you know, he's, he's always looked after me.
So I mean, you know, he's got me to win the Welsh.
So can't, can't complain too much.
Oh. No, you can't complain at all.
So for people that don't know, you've just been crowned Wales
Strongest Man? Yeah, yeah.
How did you end up becoming Wales Strongest Man?
Consistency. Is that it?
Yeah, Consistency, discipline, obviously making sure
everything's on point and obviously the team as well that
I've got behind me, you know, like I got sports massage,
chiropractor, supplements as well, obviously my partner as
well. Making sure that you know,
you're not missing training, you're not missing the day, and
making sure that you stick inconsistent and yeah, paid off.
How consistent have you been then?
If you if you stuck, you haven't missed a session.
For five years or didn't obviously leading up to that
Welsh, I was very consistent. Unless you've got injuries that
are sort of maybe putting you out a little bit, then there's
no reason for why you cannot be consistent.
Even if you are feeling bad, you've still got to keep pushing
forward like you know, because depends how much it means to you
as well. Like you know, I'm obviously
winning. I'm men a lot, so you got to
keep going like. Where'd you put the trophy?
In my living room, in my living room, under the table, not
table, sorry under the TV on the mantelpiece where it's actually
obviously got a thought of me and my daughter on it as well,
because obviously what I'm doing is all for her as well.
So, you know, since like she was born, obviously sort of give me
that fire and to sort of, you know, I want to I got to do
something new to obviously the when she's older, she gets like,
if I do make it a world and say A1 world strongest man, you
know, she can be like, well, my dad was the world's strongest
man. And when she's in school and
telling that story, like, you know.
Yeah, how old is she? She's 7 at the moment.
My daughter's about to turn 7 as well.
I've got, I've got. Yeah, I know, I've got.
So I know exactly what I mean. It's a powerful motivate, a
light just. Yeah, yeah.
You know, as I said, it gives you that fire and to know that
if you get there one day to make that story come true, then, you
know, it sort of fills your heart with love and then you
know what I mean? Same sort of aspirations as
Eddie all out see because he said the same sort of thing so.
He said. I remember him saying you've,
you've probably, you've almost definitely seen the clip when
he, he was thinking how, how do these, how can I get the extra
edge when I'm lifting? And he, he, he heard stories
about how like women can lift cars off their kids and stuff
like that. They just get this surge of
energy and power. The fight or flight scenario and
he's, yeah, I remember him saying he, I think when they see
like a lot of psychologists or something to sort of, I think
what he'd done. Then in the end, he sort of
painted up an image so much in his head that his kids were
stuck under a car and without, you know, he's going to lift
this weight in order to free his kids.
And that's sort of always playing through his head and to
sort of get that half a ton off the floor.
It was, it was that world record, wasn't it for the half
the time like yeah, do you, do you, Do you utilize any sort of
visualization like that yourself or?
I saw them got to that weight around near that weight yet.
But yeah, like they say, we're like anger and things like that.
They're like tremendous motivators as sort of make sure
you get our weight above the floor.
So I mean, I haven't sort of hit that barrier yet, but probably
when I get to maybe like around maybe 350 now, 380 around that
mark, I'll need it I think. So you said, you said anger
there like you, you do you think about stuff like that, then it's
like you have to get angry with the weight.
Yeah. I mean, sort of if you think
about, you know, everything that goes on in your life and sort of
like some adversity or whatever, say, you know, no, I'll show you
and you sort of targeted into that session and both weights
are flying. Did you ever did you ever find
like you had like maybe naysayers or people like the
sort of didn't believe that you'd ever become?
Yeah, obviously when I was in school, I didn't do well in
school. I hardly, I was there, I didn't
like school very much all the time.
When I, you know, the kids, I was in school, they're like, oh,
you're not going to do anything with your life and you're not
going to do this, You're not going to do that.
Well, I just ignored all. I'm just, I knew what I was
going to do. So you know, just cracked on.
You must have been so much bigger than them though.
Yeah, yeah. It was the the biggest in my
school at at that time, Yeah. How did you did?
How did you used to train? Because you said you've been
into strongman for five years or you've only had a coach for five
years. Have you?
Have you always done strongman or you?
No, I, I just sort of done like sort of normal gym stuff, like,
you know, bodybuilding type work or whatever.
And like I had loads of people around me like, oh, you should
get in the strongman and do this and do that.
I was like, yeah, OK, so I sort of, you know, took that advice
on board and I messaged one of the boys I knew who was in the
strongman. So I messaged him.
I said, oh, you don't got, you don't have any equipment for
sale. And he said no, but I know a guy
that has, and he also does coaching.
And I was like, all right, OK, so you give me his number.
And I messaged him asking him, you know, have you got any
equipment for sale or whatever? He didn't have the time.
And then he actually offered me coaching as well, which was
Mark. And I was like, yeah, OK, so.
And I've been with him ever since.
So have you only been in it for five years?
Yeah, training strongman, five years.
And you're always already Welsh, tramp.
Yeah, my third time. Third time lucky as well, funny
enough. Are you always a strong guy?
Yeah, pretty much. I'd say so, yeah.
Like obviously when I was younger, I was here, my father,
he's a builder, so obviously it was a go to work with him a
couple of times. They're carrying the breeze
blocks and things. They asked bags of cement,
whatever, you know. So yeah, I've always been
strong, but not as strong as I am now.
And it's great to see as well that you can, you know, if you
put your mind to something and you.
Stay consistent. You can actually get something
out of it as well. Absolutely.
Did your dad pay you for the work?
Because I used to do. I used to do.
I used to help my dad because he was a landscape gardener at one
point and he gave me missing moving these massive slabs,
paving slabs. And he said I'll pay you 20P per
slab and I couldn't even lift 1. So he's like there we had no
money for your life, your dad pay.
You. No.
Well, funny enough, because I didn't go to school.
If I didn't go to school, you'd take me to work with him.
So sort of, I wasn't sort of missing out and I sort of rather
work with him then go to school. And obviously I find that with
that sort of situation, you sort of learn more, I find then when
you would be in school, you know, when I found anyway.
Yeah, but you're learning in situation, aren't you?
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, like that.
Yeah. Life experiencing.
Yeah. So and that's that's what I did.
But funny enough, I never become a builder.
Now I'm a security guard. Yeah, I can see why you ain't
got a mess like a. Bit of security guard now in the
last nine years, yeah, in a shopper centre and flashy.
So yeah, still there. Yeah, still doing it.
Chasing the cheeky little nipples.
That's it, yeah, cheeky little shoplifters like.
As as winner of Wales is Strongman now what?
What do you see is the difference between people like
you who are lifting the trophies and and the people who come in
2nd and 3rd and 4th? What?
What is there a difference that you can see?
I would say they haven't worked hard enough.
Shots fired there then. They need to work harder.
Same for myself. Obviously.
You know, I do get it. Obviously everyone, we get them
bad days. But if you've got that mentality
where you just keep pushing through but then it'll pay off.
And that's it. That's sort of being the message
that you're pushing is, is this consistency stick at it, trust
the process and it and it will come.
No shortcuts, right? That's it.
What about nutrition? Well, funny, I thought you
mentioned that. I did have a nutritionist a
couple of months ago. I was, I was a Stanley for an
American guy. He's known as the world's
strongest bodybuilder. So I was with him for two months
and then I saw and it worked great.
Fair play to him. You know, it was a great
nutrition plan and things and it worked really well.
But I just sort of fell off the bandwagon and I think and the
cravings took over. Like, you know, they took over
and I sort of fell off that bandwagon.
But I mean, that was before the Welsh as well.
So as I said, for nutrition, they say like, oh, you've got to
eat loads of food to get big and strong.
And this idea the my opinion, I don't think that's the case.
I mean, you don't have to be like, say my size to be really
strong because I mean, there's some of the other like weighing
like 85 kilos and they're definitely over like 300 kilos.
And yeah, it's nuts, you know what I mean?
So I don't believe in that myself, but as long as you try
and stay healthy, I think you've got to in this sport, it's all
about longevity. I think like you've got to do it
the healthier way. I think obviously not myself at
the moment, but I'm trying to get back into that, that stride
of doing it healthy. But obviously I'm not lost wrong
and my blood's done and they're not too bad.
So my OK I've got my chance here to get back healthy so.
What are your voices? Oh yeah, sweet tooth fair.
Like, you know, you got your ice creams and your chocolate.
Yeah, definitely ice cream. Or you know, like sometimes a
mom and ice cream every single night before bed like.
Is it? Yeah.
It's not good. No, you want to try?
Have you seen the Halo Top ice cream?
Yes. 300 calves for a whole tub. Yeah.
So you can have like 3 tubs then?
Wow. I normally stick to the, you
know, like the Ben and Jerry's or the Haagen Dazs.
Like, and I know, man, yeah, it's it's like when you sit in
bed, you're like, well, I'm when these four go sleep, put the
film on. Yeah.
So no bad habit to get into, but I'm trying to get out.
You'll be fine. Like, you just need another
goal. You need another competition.
Like they'll lock you in. Like, yeah, how much like does
nutrition how, how much importance can you put on a
nutrition when you're trying to be a strong man?
Oh, it's very important. Plays a vital role.
Yeah, definitely. I would say especially obviously
with how you feel as well. I mean, you know, if you're
feeling groggy and you're feeling shit, that could be
because of how your nutrition is going as well.
So yeah, it's very important and.
What? How many calories are you
looking to shovel in? When I was on my old plan before
I was only on about. I was quite surprising for a guy
my size. I think it was about 3 1/2
thousand calories a day that. Is.
Surprising. Yeah, that's a standard beyond
There's only four meals a day as well.
It'd be like something like steak with carrots and a jacket
potato. Second meal and be like some
scrambled eggs on sourdough toast.
And I know he had his his sort of famous drink as well, which
would be fat free Greek style yogurt dripped in with orange
juice. Mix it together.
It actually tastes really nice. It's really good.
But now it's probably sort of up in the 10,000 calories.
Oh really? I think that's where the extra
weight is coming from, you know? Yeah.
I mean, like, does weight make a difference when when you go into
competition at any point, are you trying to cut fat or
anything like that? Or is it all about building
strength and muscle? Building strength and muscle, I
would say, as I say at the moment I'm not so really fall
when anything besides obviously my training plan.
So if my training plan is going good, I know I don't really sort
of really need to try it change anything other than so maybe
doing it the healthy way because you know, obviously we've got
things like cholesterol and things like, I mean, if they
keep up with you, maybe a bit knock and then but mine sort of
all right at the moment it's not too bad.
I do need to get back into sort of a nutrition plan to sort of
go forward. What about protein?
What were you? Were you hitting a certain
target? Say, I'd say for say my size,
you're talking maybe 350 grams a day, three. 50 grams. 350 grams
a day. I'm struggling now because I
I've, I looked online, it's like, was it the recommend 2G or
sort of a gram per 2G per KK? I think is it 2G per say?
Yeah. So it came out in like 160
grams, started trying to be, I'm struggling with that like, and
you've got to double that. Guys my size, they're looking
around that Ranger. Yeah.
How many chicken breast is that? God knows that's a lot.
Are you good friends with the Butcher?
Yeah. Funny enough, time with me.
Yeah, yeah. I sort of get my sauces sort of
mainly from, say, protein shakes and like steaks, things like
that. Like, you know, protein bars,
like chicken. Not much of A final chicken,
really. I'd have a steak every every day
if I could like. Present.
Should be costly now. Yeah.
Seen in Tesco. They got security packaging on
the stuff on the steaks now. It's like bringing 9 quids and
£910.00 of steak is very expensive.
Yeah, so it's expensive in a strong man.
I bet it is like do you need sponsors like that then you to
help like. Yeah, definitely.
I mean, if I could get like a sponsor can sponsor me that I
mean it would save a little bit. And, you know, sponsors are so
important as well because if you've got say enough
sponsorship on board means then you don't have to say sort of
work and you can fully concentrate then on on say
strongman yourself and then progress further.
You know, that's the same like Eddie Holden, you know, he was
working as like a HGV mechanic and then yeah, like enough
sponsor on board. And we had like his old security
company. I got rid of all and quit his
job. And he was like, he took that
risk. And you know, I'm quite a big
believer as well. You know, if you don't take
risks, you never know what the outcome is going to be, you know
what I mean? So.
Is this a goal of yours? Yeah, definitely.
When I sort of get up, you know where I can sort of make my job
full time like you know, so hopefully one day well, you got.
I guess, you know, silverware at the end of the day is the
biggest. It's the thing that's going to
attract these sponsors. If you can say I am world's
strongest man, you pick a few more of those up, you'll be
laughing, I bet. Like, yeah.
You know, I got a few, few plans in place.
There's also few comps I want to win.
But like, well, this, you know, I've got a big, big year this
year. I've got, you know, Gav Bilton.
No. He's in with, they say World's
Strongest Man. You know, Giants Live.
He is one of their competitors. He's he's the other swim wheels.
You got two wheels Strongest man competitions, you got ultimate
Strongman and then you got the Giants Live Welsh or say the
Welsh qualifier, because if you win that Welsh, you get the
opportunity then to go to Giants Live, Britain's Strongest Man.
So that's sort of the road there with ultimates them, which is
the one I won. You get to go to U KS.
Then if you if you place top three in the Welsh, you go to UK
strongest man, then ultimate strongman, which is obviously
what I've got. No, the beginning of August.
I've also got the Ultima Welsh again.
Then at the end of August I have got Gav Bilton's qualifier as
well which I believe would be from June at some point.
Hoping to qualify for his Welsh and then hopefully win it and
then get the Giants live then Britain.
Stronger man. Yeah, that'd be Brill.
That'd be brilliant. Yeah.
If I can do that this year, I'll be over the moon and.
That's the aim this year, yeah, that's.
The goal, but. Consistency.
You've been telling me. You've been telling me I'm going
to throw it back at you. Consistency.
Like that's the one, yeah. What's the biggest mistake you
see people making when they're trying to get stronger?
Gosh, I see it sometimes, like when I'm in the gym, you know,
when you've got like, say people are training, yeah, and you've
got them squatting and they're using like spongy shoes.
I'm, I'm like, no, like they're squatting down and the ankles
are twisting in and it's like, you're going to cause yourself
huge injury. You need to do a barefoot or
with all Olympic shoes on, you know?
And that's, that's one big mistake I've seen people doing,
especially when they're squatting or even log, even
pressing overhead. You know, the same thing sort of
happens there. Yeah.
You'll be very dangerous. Like, you know, so absolutely.
Because you get these big Nike, Nike, they're basically running
shoes. Yeah, they've got the big
padding on the heel, haven't they?
Like massive padding. Like you look, Nike now the
padding's only getting bigger and bigger.
Every shoe they bring out, it's ridiculous, like. 5 inches at
the moment is that? Yeah.
No, it is. It is.
And so you see people in the gym using that like, yeah, I have.
To go up to them and tell them like, because I like this is if
like a sort of like final destination sort of stuff
happening, you can see something's going to go wrong.
Yeah, you've got to go over and tell them, Yeah.
And then they, they take our advice and board then, and then
they they switch. So and it's, you know, if you
can help them that like just a little bit, you know, it means a
lot. Now what do you think of this?
I I did a video the other day of me squatting and I was in my
slippers. Oh.
But they're flat. So someone caught me out.
They're like, why are you in slippers?
And I was like, what? They're just flat.
I'm in my house as well. Come on now, give me a break in
it. Well, I wouldn't say they're
that supportive, but. Right, OK, I'll get some.
I I. Either do a barefoot or or with
the Olympic shoes on. I mean, I, I didn't, I didn't
have a dressing gown on at least like, so you know, at least I
was in. A tea, A long job.
Pajamas Is your pajamas on I. Got my Yeah, I got my strongman
pajamas on. Yeah, I got Eddie Hall pajamas.
Although, but he just normally wears budgie smugglers.
So does he? Yeah.
Did you have them on? I did, but they were under the
under the trousers. You wouldn't have seen.
I got a funny picture up there. I'll show you after seeing my
budgie smugglers. Actually, I'll show you because
we're not just all record Breakers here.
Like I've got my own and I'll show you after what's what,
What's 1 movement? You see people getting wrong all
the time. If then someone that knows what
they're doing I would say it's deadlift.
Like you'd see someone deadlift them in their form is could be
all over the place. That's the trickiest 1 to get I
think. Yeah, yeah, it is very.
I same for myself. I mean I've got the best form.
I mean, obviously with my height as well as, so I had to sort of
get down in the bar for meaning we've got tight arm strings and
tight low back because I had to get down.
Obviously got to stretch and warm up, you know, accordingly
later sort of make sure your form is spawn.
But like you know, you see some people in the gym and they're
dead lifting. Are they sort of try to get up
or like when it gets onto their thighs, they sort of try to row
it, you know? I mean, yeah, it's rather than
just going straight up your legs and straight straight back.
Did I go there? Sort of do like a bent over row,
you know? Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's not an upper body
movement. That's it.
Yeah, that's it. The lower back I'm saying
glutes. That's what I find because
because obviously there's so much weight on it, it's a high
risk movement. Yeah.
And when you're doing it wrong, yeah, Look, how many people do
you know that put their back out on a dead lift?
I've not. I've known a few.
Yeah, there's a few things have gone pop with a few people.
Yeah, because someone told me this one before.
It's not a squat. It's like you shouldn't because
you see some people that they're using their legs.
Is it more of a lower back exercise?
Yeah, I mean, yeah, legs are involved.
Yeah, I'd say sort of it's all, it's to do with it all.
But as I said, long as they're not, you know, they get to their
thighs and then they're going to attempt to roll it.
If if you, I mean they, you know, they're not keeping
everything straight locked in. You know at the start, you know
when you get on the by twist, twist the wrists, lock the lats
and then you go to pull straight up the legs.
This would get a halfway up and then do the bend and arm motion
like I'm like what are you doing?
This is like a compound movement.
Now is it like do a little row in there as well?
Between like, yeah, that's one thing I've noticed a lot of
people that they do and if I do see it, I sort of try and help
them out as well because I don't like it when I see people.
So there's something wrong in the gym.
You got to go over and give them a hand leg, you know?
Yeah, no, I like that the gym's got it.
Should have a community feel, isn't?
It yeah, that's it. I mean, we're all there for the
same reason, so, you know, and if you're there to help someone
out as well, you got to give them a hand when it's needed,
like, you know. What what gym you're currently
in? I'm all.
Over I'm all yeah, I go everywhere.
I mean we, I go there's a group of us.
So you got them at the top of their units, sort of what my
coaches started up. I go there every Sunday to sort
of do the events because that's where all like the strongman
equipment is like logs, stones, yolks, sandbags.
Like you know, you're like that big dumbbell that goes on the
shoulder press overhead. You got all them there.
So I go there every Sunday. I go to Snap Fitness.
This is internally Cowie Glen Abbey Gym are Stand by Me in the
Warehouse. The gym, then is in Comedy in
Swansea. Customer fortunate memberships.
Travel, Travel. I paid sort of possessions
because I don't know I'm going to be at the time because it's
so busy all the time, like with work and everything.
So I just sort of pay as I go really.
It's easier for me that way. So I.
Suppose you you need the specialist equipment then
really, don't you? Because it's not.
Depending what you're training, yeah, you're.
Not going to pure gym and yeah, like you need, you need the
stones, you need the yoke, It's all special stuff like that.
So like as if if say it's competition prep, we sort of go
down the unit, then this is twice a week.
So it's normally it's sort of tend to aim for like a Wednesday
and a Sunday and then do all the other movements then in the week
like squats, dead lifts like done by me.
There's not many gyms that have got the strong mind equipment as
well as that's why we go to that unit.
So I normally tend to stick then just dead lifting the squats
then where I live and then go down the unit then to do all the
other stuff. What's some of your PBS on the
major ones? What should your deadlift squat?
Do you do much bench press? No, there's no much bench press
in a strong man. No if, if, unless it's using
this as an accessory work, then it's not.
We don't really do it, although I did.
We were training one day and one of the boys is benching and they
had like something like 160 on the bench.
I was like, oh, I'll press that. No, he's like, no, you won't.
So I went over there, watches. No completely raw, no elbow
sleeves, no belt, nothing. As I went over there, I was
like, oh, just lifted it off, went down, buff straight up.
So I've had like 160 in the bench row, but I've had a 330
deadlift, 330K deadlift. My Max squat at the moment is
285, but I've done 260 for three, so yeah.
It it, it's just it blows all my training, all the water.
Like there's me with my little lady weights.
Like it's like it's actually same higher reps higher.
I don't even know about that, to be honest.
Yeah, I'm mental. What's what's the future now?
So what's this year going to look like for you?
Well hopefully retain my title again this year, win the Welsh
again and get the Giants life. Britain's strongest man?
And what's, what's the, what's fervor in the future for you?
Where? Where are you aiming?
World I like to get I like to at least get the world's strongest
man, you know, if not when, at least get there.
So that's my goal anyway. He's world's strongest man,
that. 'D be Brill and if people want
to follow your journey, how? How can they follow you?
On Instagram or Facebook? Yeah, or TikTok.
What's are you on TikTok? You're doing all the dances.
Lives known again, yeah. What's What's your username?
It's Jamie BWN, under score strongman.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They can follow the journey.
Jamie, good luck. Yeah.
Cheers, brother. Thank you.
Pleasure.
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