Ep. 31 - Chronicling Weightlifting & World’s Strongest Man (ft. Randall Strossen)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Over the last three decades, Randall Strossen was there for it all. World records in weightlifting at the Olympics and world championships, incredible performances at the Highland games world championships and the worlds strongest man; if he wasn’t behind the lens as a photographer, he might have been the commentator, or written about the performances in Milo magazine or in his sport psychology column in Ironman magazine which ran for 12 years. Randall has a Ph.D. in psychology, founded IronMind in 1988, and Milo magazine in 1993. Thousands of lifters have seen what level of IronMind Captains of Crush grippers they could close, most serious strength athletes from prior decades owned a copy of his book Super Squats, and he took every iconic picture that adorns the covers of Milo magazine, which ran for 25 years from until 2018. Sit back and marvel at the rich iron game experiences and personal insights that Dr. Strossen had to share with Omar and Eric on this episode of Iron Culture.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	If you've taken a look at images of muscular lads over the last 25 years, odds are you've seen one of the photographs taken by Randall Strausson, the founder of Ironmind, Milo Magazine, Captain Crusher, Capton of Cruces,
0:14.0	Caput.
0:15.0	Crips.
0:16.0	He basically pioneered the athletic strength athlete photo, where if we take a look at a lot of
0:22.8	the legends we've spoken about previously on Iron Culture, so guys like John Grimmick, Tommy
0:27.6	Kono, there are good photos of them lifting, but the art of encapsulating what it means
0:34.9	to be a strength athlete, the power of the majesty, as we spoke about, really
0:39.4	started with Randall. And he wasn't just a photographer. He was an entrepreneur. He had a full-time
0:45.1	job working in marketing at a bank. But he decided to launch Iron Mine because he was passionate
0:50.5	about it. And these days, when you know the likes of ATG and
0:54.9	apparently Randall said that the founder of ATG all things Jim gave him
0:59.0	immense credit for inspiring him to get into that path hook grips and now now we
1:02.9	see a lot of you know power lifters 9 for 9 media it all kind of started with
1:06.9	Randall and some of those immortal images that we see of Pyros of these lifters started with
1:13.7	him and I think it's so important to respect it and with Iron Culture about history, science,
1:19.3	culture to chronicle the culture and portrayed in a way that an outsider, a picture being worth
1:25.9	a thousand words, you could try and describe
1:28.2	a weight lifting is like, but if you show that image, Pyrus at the bottom of a snatch, multiple
1:33.7	images like that, it conveys so much more.
1:36.7	Yeah, what's the saying?
1:38.2	Art reflects life and then life reflects art.
1:41.7	Because Randall Strausson started Iron Mind and Milo Magazine 31 years ago, back in 1988,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The MASS Crew, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The MASS Crew and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.