Ep. 221 - The World’s Strongest Man (feat Mitchell Hooper)

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The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we’re joined by Mitchell Hooper fresh off his 2023 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) win. In addition to winning the 2023 WSM, he also won the 2023 Arnold Strongman Classic. He is among only four competitors to have won these two titles in the same year, and he is the youngest ever to do so, now sitting among living legends Brian Shaw, Žydrūnas Savickas, and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson. In our conversation we discuss how Mitchell seemingly burst onto the scene out of nowhere, what it’s like competing in the WSM, his future, the future of strongman and the WSM in the modern era, and his perspective on being a champion and ambassador. Finally, we discuss how Mitchell’s education - having a master's degree in exercise physiology - influenced his training approach, which is surprisingly simple and seemingly non-traditional. As a relative newcomer to the sport, his approach hasn’t been influenced by typical strongman “dogma” and thus, his entrance onto the scene may have a revolutionary impact on how athletes train for strongman and strongwoman in the modern era.

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0:00.0	Eric.
0:02.1	Omar.
0:03.0	We did the damn thing.
0:05.7	We did it.
0:06.7	Well, we didn't do it, but someone else who did it is coming on.
0:09.9	The team did it.
0:11.3	We got the hunkiest hunk.
0:12.7	I believe it's called Mitchell Hooper.
0:14.6	You are the world's hunkiest hunk of 2023.
0:17.7	Is that what you won recently?
0:19.3	Everyone's going crazy.
0:20.2	That's what I heard. Multiple times. I believe that was one. The other one's World Strongest
0:25.6	Man. Oh, congratulations on that. Man, that's wild. Yeah, how did that go?
0:31.9	Well, what, pretty well by definition, didn't it? Um, yeah, look, I was one of the probably six or seven guys were to chant going in, and it was one of the
0:43.2	most competitive years, and to be honest, I overperformed and came out on top, so I'm very lucky.
0:50.6	No, it's an impressive performance, and it was absolutely against an impressive field, former champs, and we'll get into it, but what you've done is, I think, especially interesting, given how long you've been on the quote-unquote scene, and the fact that you didn't just win World's the strongest man this year, but also the Arnold.
1:12.2	And there's a very elite few who you're in company with, and especially at your age.
1:18.4	So we'll get into all that.
1:20.0	But Omar, I don't want to step on your toes.
1:21.8	I know you've got other things to say as well.
1:23.6	No, the only thing I want to say, I want to give a shout out to fellow Canuck. You might not be able to hear, uh, due to the accent that we're picking up, just a little
1:30.7	Australian flavor here, but my man is what, an hour away in Barry doing the damn thing,
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