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My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

I remember tuning into ESPN in high school and college to watch the strongest man in the world competitions.

In each of these episodes, these enormous men with

thighs the size of my entire body would compete in crazy events like semi-truck pulling,

enormous boulder carries, car lifting, and giant tire flipping. And until recently, I wondered

whether this kind of training was only for some strange subset of the male population who weighed more than 300 pounds, spoke with Scandinavian accents, and had an obsession with moving heavy objects.

But a new study actually investigated whether this strongman style training can get you benefits that go way above and beyond just being able to lift the car off the ground or carry a heavy log across a football field.

Benefits like fat loss and lean muscle gain and increased athletic performance and mobility

and the results from this study are actually pretty intriguing.

So in this episode, you're going to learn how to use strongman workouts for fat loss,

for muscle gain, and for performance. So now let's jump into this study I mentioned about

strongman training. And the study was called strongman versus traditional resistance training

effects on muscular function and performance. What it did was it looked at the effects of seven

weeks of strongman

training versus regular weight training on things like body fat, strength, power, and speed.

Now, in the traditional weight training, they did things like overhead press and back squat,

single arm rows, deadlifts, and pretty basic traditional exercises. But in the Strongman

protocol, they did things like log lift, farmers walk, axle press, which I think is just what it

sounds like, pressing an axle of a car overhead, heavy sled poles, prowler poles.

And it turns out that based on the results of this study, the folks competing in the

world's strongest man competition may actually be on to something because the results

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