Kalle Beck talks to the producers and directors of Born Strong Film. Gary Cohen & Ross Hockrow.
Born Strong is a documentary that follows Zydrunas Savickas, Eddie Hall, Brian Shaw and Hafthor Bjornsson as they prepare for The Arnold Strongman Classic in 2016 and showcases them throughout the contest.
We talk about how the film came to be, what it was like shooting the film, behind the scenes, and more.
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Nicolas Cambi is a 105kg Pro Strongman that just got done competing at America's Strongest Man.
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Michael Battaglino and Kalle Beck discuss what happened to America's Strongest Man, The Truck Pull World Championships and look ahead to Amateur Nationals.
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Lynn Morehouse comes is this weeks episode for a record 3rd time.
Lynn talks about The Official Strongman Games (Worlds Strongest Woman and Worlds Strongest Man U80,U90,U105kg, etc) now that the online qualifiers are done. What he learned, what he would have done different and looking ahead to the event in the Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina on December 16th & 17th.
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Kalle Beck & Michael Battaglino talk about the past weeks happenings in Strongman including the Giants Live Finals and the Official Strongman Games online qualifiers coming to an end.
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Matt Mills is a 105kg Pro Strongman with a third place finish at America's Strongest Man. He is now a few weeks out of Strongman Corporation Nationals where he is looking to win his heavyweight pro card.
Matt also owns and runs one of the best Strongman gyms in the world Lightning Fitness located in South Windsor, CT and has wrote numerous articles as a columnist for EliteFTS
Matt talks with Kalle Beck & Michael Battaglino about running a Strongman gym, building a community, some America's Strongest Man 105kg talk, how Matt approaches training for himself and clients and more.
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Pat Davidson is a Strongman competitor who has competed at the Arnold World Championships but more than that Pat has a PHD in Exercise Physiology and one of the smartest people in the sport.
Kalle and Pat talk about how his students (Rob Kearney, Andrew Triana, etc) got him into Strongman training, how he did and would approach Strongman training and his new book MASS II which is a treasure trove of knowledge which you can pick up here
https://rebel-performance.com/product/mass-two/
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Boston Jacobs is a middleweight Strongman competitor with a 2nd place finish at Nationals and has competed at the Arnold Amateur World Championships. A former wrestler who battled dark bouts of depression and a suicide attempt after his career ended. We talk about how art helped him come out of this dark time and how he now uses Strength as a platform for suicide awareness and prevention.
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This week Kalle traveled up to Santa Cruz Strength to talk to the owner Clay Edgin about his story in purchasing and running a Strength gym. Clay is a longtime friend and Strongman competitor along with competing in grip contests, MAS Wrestling, Powerlifting and more. We chat about his back story, going from a corporate job to running a gym, what he has learned and advice for anyone that wants to do the same.
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This Weeks guest Jessica Fithen won the SHW championship belt at United States Strongman Nationals and has a strong meme game.
Jessica signed up for coaching with Kalle Beck after USS Worlds and we talk about her start in the sport, finding something you enjoy, improving her deadlift, the value in driving hours away to train with the right group and more.
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Brian Clark won his ASC Pro Card in the heavyweight division by winning the Dallas Europa and is just back from competing in China, Russia and at Giants Live.
We Talk training, The Strongman scene in Arizona past and present, and more
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Caitlin Yuhas is a Pro Strongwoman in the Lightweight and Middleweight category she won the Lightweight Arnold Amateur World Championships and United States Strongwoman Nationals in the Middleweight category.
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Christina Bangma is a top ranked Lightweight Strongwoman competitor who has won United States Strongman Worlds, Competed in the Arnold Classic and is fresh off her win at USS nationals. Christina also runs Champs Academy gym in Huntington, Indiana.
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This weeks guest is Steve Barkley who hosted United States Strongman 2017.
Kalle & Steve talk about how it come about, everything that goes into hosting such a large event behind the scenes and more.
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This week we have Lynn Morehouse of Train Strongman back on (check previous episode 78 for the first interview) to talk about hosting the "Official Strongman Games" and answering questions about how the online qualifiers will work.
Kalle also talks about his recent competition.
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This Week Kalle Beck talks to Michael Battaglino about what happened to StartingStrongman.com and what is next.
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We also discuss the release of Strongman Corporation Nationals events, our thoughts and if we will compete. Along with talking about Kalle's first contest in two years which is this weekend.
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Anthony Fuhrman won his pro card in the middleweight (105kg/231lb) class at the Mid Atlantic Strongman Challenge. Kalle talks with Anthony about his career in Strongman, how he approaches training, dieting down to 231 to go pro without the traditional water cut, whats next and a bit of pro wrestling.
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This week we have Canada's Nutrition Coach aka Dain Wallis on talking to Kalle Beck about competing in the Arnold Classic, just missing the finals twice, coming back from injury correctly by fixing the imbalance and movement patterns. How Dain approaches dieting with himself and clients, and we tease a breathing and bracing article Rain wrote for StartingStrongman.com
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In Kalle's hotel room in New Braunfels, Texas two young up and coming Pro Strongman stop by to... Record a podcast. Robert Kearney & Adam Derks are part of the future of the sport and before they compete at IFS1 we sit down and talk about training, traveling to WSM, how you can be so strong at just 24 years of age. How Adam built his deadlift and Rob built his Log Press and how the week was leading up to IFS1.
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Andrew Triana is one of the smartest people we have ever talked to about training and the sport of Strongman. This episode is jam packed with tips and advice on training and you will be stronger once you are done listening.
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Kalle Beck & Michael Battaglino recap a very exciting and eventful Worlds Strongest Man from conspiracies theories, to amazing performances and everything in between!
If you don't want spoilers don't listen.
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This week Kalle is joined by now first time recurring guest Chris Vachio who just got done promoting America's Strongest Disabled man. Chris talks about the contest, contest promotion and his next show "Unspeakable Strength III" The heaviest amateur Strongman contest in the world.
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On This weeks episode Kalle Beck & Michael Battaglino recap Arnold South Africa and look ahead to give insight and predictions on this years Worlds Strongest Man and that the real storyline should be that Brian Shaw & Zydrunas Savickas are both going for their 5th title.
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This weeks guest Lynn Morehouse is a Strongman competitor and contest promoter. Lynn runs the beloved group in North Carolina Train Strongman. Lynn talks about starting out in the sport and how it helped him go from a sedentary life style to losing a significant amount of weight, starting a training crew, love of the sport, how they promote a successful contest and tips for contest promoters.
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This weeks guest Dave Daly is a ASC Pro Strongman in the middleweight (105kg/231lb) division. He won his pro card in 2014 a long with his first pro contest "Mid America's Strongest Man" a few weeks later. Dave has since been chasing his Heavyweight pro card with multiple podium finishes at Strongman Corporation nationals but just missing the overall and the pro card.
Dave is fresh off competing at the Mid-Atlantic Strongman Challenge a Open pro show which allowed him to compete against some of the best HW Pros in America. Dave had a very consistent day placing 2nd in every event which was just enough to take the overall win by 1/2 a point over Robert Oberst.
Listen in as we talk about Dave's history in the sport, changing weight classes, winning the Mid-Atlantic Strongman Challenge, what is next and what he has done to bring up his pressing strength
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