In conjunction with the DYMATIZE Bro’s vs. Pro’s VI, RxMuscle.com ventures into new territory with the AtLarge Nutrition Strongman Tire Flip Challenge. On Saturday April 23, 2011 outside the Arlington, Tx Metroflex gym we will contest a roughly 625lb tire to be flipped over a 60’ distance. The winner will be the person who can get across the finish line fastest. American Strongman Corporation Professional Strongman Ryan Bracewell will be our Pro for this event and he has issued a challenge to anyone with the balls enough to face him. Chris Mason from AtLarge Nutrition has long supported the strength community and jumped at the chance to be the title sponsor for this first time event. AtLarge Nutrition is awarding $500 and a complete nutritional supplement package to the events winner. No pre-registration and no entry fee required. Have you got what it takes to beat the best?
Every sport has a cheerleader. The one person not appointed by anyone in particular that rides the emotions of that particular sport with unbridled passion. When powerlifting took a turn into near oblivion, there was still that one guy who refused to let it disappear into obscurity. He is the Rainbow haired John 3:16 sign waving fanatic omnipresent at 1970’s Los Angeles Rams football games. He is Bill the Beer Man from all major sporting events in Seattle. He is the Valhalla Viking sitting front row, 50 yard line at the Minnesota Vikings football games. In the powerlifting community, that insanely passionate fella is Sean Katterle.
Where do we go from here?
The Strongman Section and the entire Strength Section at RxMuscle.com began as a natural progression of the bastardized relationship between iron fanatics training for posterity and those training for strength. Whether it is powerlifting, strongman, bodybuilding, highland games, fitness, figure, bikini or physique, we all have that one commonality; the drive to be the best we can be in a very misunderstood community. That’s the adage I am taking as I assume the new RxMuscle Editor in Chief of the Strength Section.
MHP's Kings of the Bench V & Clash of the Titans IVThe Ronnie Coleman Classic Expo
April 2nd, 2011, Mesquite Convention Center, Mesquite (Dallas), Texas
When I got the invite to this show I was extremely excited and to be honest a bit nervous. My log training had been going very well and I have improved it so much in the last six months or so that I was pretty confident I could hit a good number. The event was to be held live on Eurosport in Vilnius, Lithuania using the old IFSA metal log. Traveling to Lithuania is definitely long and arduous. I missed a flight connection from Frankfurt to Vilnius which put my arrival time at around 8pm rather than the original 1pm. On top of the delay, United Airlines actually lost my baggage!
Brian Shaw of Lupton, CO won the contest over an international field to capture the 8th Annual Arnold Strongman Classic title. Shaw received a $45,000 check and the Louis Cyr trophy by Gerard Dente of MHP, an Audemars Piquet watch from Shane Dixon of Ricart.com, and congratulations from Arnold Schwarzenegger...
As I predicted, this year’s Arnold Strongman Festival has turned out to be a hugely exciting event. First Derek Poundstone, the 2009 and 2010 ASC champion bowed out of competition due to complications of a previous back injury only three days before his pending arrival in Columbus. On the same day 6x national powerlifting champion Brian Siders also withdrew due to an unspecified injury. Veteran Mark Felix takes gets a 72 hours-notice invitation to fill in one of the spots, but the other remained vacant. Add in a new world record, broken not once, but 3 times, in the deadlift and it makes for a wild start to the weekend.
As I have written before and will probably do until the games change; I am not a fan of most
professional sports. The spirit or soulfulness of these games has been lost to mediocre men
wielding large sums of U.S. currency as their weapon. "Do not hold the delusion that your
advancement is accomplished by crushing others." - Marcus Tillius Cicero. The 1st century roman
philosopher and political theorist couldn’t be more correct, 2000 years later.
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