Matt Vincent, Professional Strength Athlete on Drinking Beer and Throwing Heavy Rocks in a Field - Ep 5

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Business, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Matt Vincent is one of the most interesting humans I've had the privilege of meeting. He is a 2x Highland Games World Champion, which basically means he's the best in the world at throwing a bunch of heavy shit. One of the biggest takeaways for me out of this interview was the emphasis on staying healthy for his actual sport-throwing. He repeatedly emphasized the fact that the training in the gym is only a small part of his overall training. It is only there to support his technical work with throwing. With that said, he shares how he breaks down the year, what exercises he uses, how he recovers and prevents injury etc. He also goes into how he lost 30+ lbs. of fat and is still hitting PRs in the gym and on the field.

When he's not power snatching 330lbs or out training in the field, he enjoys a wide variety of art, craft beer, and even paints his toe-nails. This dude's perspective on life is absolutely inspiring to me. On one hand he is in constant pursuit of excellence in the form of Highland Games' competition. On the flip-side, he has a great ability to balance that with time spent just having fun and enjoying his life. I hope you enjoy the show.

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0:00.0	What's up guys? This is Mike Kaseh, this is the brute strength podcast.
0:05.0	This week I went down to Louisiana and interviewed Matt Vincent, two-time Highland Games world
0:09.3	champion. The Highland Games is an event where you pick up and throw odd objects as far or as high as possible.
0:17.0	So this guy is truly a master of strength and power.
0:20.0	We go into his training methodologies inside the gym on the field and how he ties the two together
0:28.1	He tells me how he lost I forget how much exactly it was like 30 to 40 pounds of nearly pure fat and how he continues
0:36.8	to set PRs on the field.
0:39.8	We also talk about how he just lives an overall balanced life. He's a world champion, you know,
0:45.9	he still has great relationships in his life, and he tells us how he does that. Hope you
0:51.8	enjoy the show.
0:54.0	What's up guys? This is Mike Kaju. This is the brute shoot. I'm here with Matt Vincent.
1:00.0	Thrower four years at Ellis Shu. He was a two-time world champion Highland Games, which is
1:10.3	a world strongest man in kilts.
1:14.0	Kinda, yeah, it's Scottish Heavy Athletics.
1:16.0	So it's been around like a 1,100 years or so.
1:19.0	Word, we're going to get into that in a second.
1:21.0	He is also the owner of hate brand goods. Let's get him to talk about that.
1:27.0	And then the Drifta Lifter series and just the tip series. So he's got a ton of shit going on.
1:33.3	He's also a phenomenal salesman.
1:35.5	Tons of shit going on and he's very successful at all of it.
1:40.4	So hopefully he'll tell us a little bit about how he how he does all that
1:44.9	So that's fun appreciate you having me man. Yeah man. It's stoked so to have someone else come in the garage. Yes indeed yeah we're in a we're in a really interesting community in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It's kind of
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