Hey everyone welcome back to the barbo Medicine YouTube channel or our iTunes channel

where you're listening to the Silky Smooth Podcast.

We have a special guest tonight.

Alan Thrall decided to grace us with his presence.

We're going to talk about Strong man training for strong man competitors and also perhaps implementing strong man training for non strong man competitors. We're also joined with Dr. Austin Baraki.

What's going on guys? Not much.

Happy to be here.

Where are we right now?

We're in Philadelphia-ish territory.

Yeah, we're at Colmar, Pennsylvania, we're here at the Barble Medicine Seminar,

just outside of Philadelphia on a cool evening here in November.

So let's get into this.

Alan, can you take us through what strong man is from a competitive standpoint

for people who are unfamiliar with this?

I think everybody's probably seeing some of the stuff

on like world strongest man that's been on ESPN

and stuff like that, but how would you describe strong man training

and a strongman competition to somebody who's never seen it at all.

Strongman events usually typically have four to five actual events.

A strongman competition, four to five events.

There's usually a press, log, axle, circus dumbbell, or something else. There's a

carrying event like a yolk or farmer sandals, sandbag, keg. There might be a deadlift event, like a, you know, 15 inch or 18 inch

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