Strongman Training for Beginners

My mate in Australia, Shannon Green (owner of Warrior Performance – website and Facebook fan page), competes in strongman with his mates Stuart and Shane. They are all great guys. Shannon is a real sharp guy and has spent a lot of time studying many different aspects of physical performance. He has made, collected, or bought the majority of the implements he would need for strongman training, and I asked him to throw together some information on how to train for it.

Check out this video from when Tom and I visited Shannon’s training dungeon.

This first post pertains to what strongman is and what some basic requirements are. A second post will put it all together into a programming template.
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