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His passion outside strongman is football (Celtic IIRC).
He's very much a Rangers fan and seems to have a lot of the opinions that implies!
His passion outside strongman is football (Celtic IIRC).
BigLozOfficial on Youtube (Laurence Shahlaei). By far my favourite strongman channel. He and his wife Liz had someone Facetiming events to them as they happened and were live streaming what was happening. On two out of the four days that the show was on, they were the top-grossing channel in the UK for Super Chats. Loz is Mitch Hooper's coach (along with a few other pros), so it was fun to watch him watching his athlete.Yeh shame Tom couldn't three peat but by all accounts Hooper fully deserved it.
Shame that couldn't watch it live considering a Tom and his brother were competing and have to wait til January to watch it 9 months after on C5.
What's Big Loz's channel?
Cheers, can't say I follow the WSM comps that closely. Tended to only watch the finals and of course last year when Tom won to defend his ***le sparked my interest again. I thought last year whilst he wasn't the winner of each individual event within WSM he was really consistent. The Ukrainian strongman who was leading after about 5 events was winning each one and then burnt out and crashed and burned on the last day IIRC. Tom played it smart just doing enough and finishing in the top 3 before winning the stones competition at the end to win overall.BigLozOfficial on Youtube (Laurence Shahlaei). By far my favourite strongman channel. He and his wife Liz had someone Facetiming events to them as they happened and were live streaming what was happening. On two out of the four days that the show was on, they were the top-grossing channel in the UK for Super Chats. Loz is Mitch Hooper's coach (along with a few other pros), so it was fun to watch him watching his athlete.
I have nothing against Tom Stoltman, but I'm not a fan of the way that he puts all his eggs in the WSM basket or his history of going through the motions at some competitions. I'd have found it bizarre to see move alongside JPS, MVM, Brian Shaw, Pudzian and Big Z as a 3+ time winner despite never having won an international competition outside of the worlds, so I was happy to see Hooper win. He's now won 5 of the 10 international comps he's competed in and is half way to a "strongman grand-slam". He came third in the Rogue and the Shaw Classic last year, so has a fighting chance of pulling it off. With better coaching and preparation, I could see him winning the Rogue, the Shaw Classic is the bigger challenge IMO. Brian tends to pick events that suit the static monsters, while Hooper is far from weak in static events, if the particular events chosen don't suit him, he could struggle to topple Trey Mitchell or an in-shape Brian Shaw.
The live stream thing comes up every year and the situation remains the same. Worlds is more akin to the filming of a TV show rather than a stadium show like Giant Live or the Arnolds. The company that owns the rights and produces the show would lose a lot more revenue by devaluing the exclusive broadcast rights than they would ever make by monetising a live stream. Also, it would be very much for hardcore fans only - including delays, the "wait party" live stream of the max dumbell event in the final took close to four hours! I've watched a whole Giants Live show in that time. Now that everyone does the same events in the groups, watching the same event 15 times (or 30 in the case of the Conan's) would be a bit of a test of patience too.
Cheers, can't say I follow the WSM comps that closely. Tended to only watch the finals and of course last year when Tom won to defend his ***le sparked my interest again. I thought last year whilst he wasn't the winner of each individual event within WSM he was really consistent. The Ukrainian strongman who was leading after about 5 events was winning each one and then burnt out and crashed and burned on the last day IIRC. Tom played it smart just doing enough and finishing in the top 3 before winning the stones competition at the end to win overall.
Read Tom only scraped through qualiying this year, so maybe it's his strategy to save his energy for the world's then?
Wasn't it Brian Shaw's last WSM I was reading?
Comfortably the most annoying thing about the gym I currently use is that there are 4 bench presses, but each one is fixed at a varying level of incline/decline; only one of which is flat bench. So inevitably you'll have a few people all waiting to use the flat bench, while a couple of the others (the decline in particular) go mostly untouched.Nothing worse than getting to the gym for chest and the bench being taken (my gym is pretty small so only has one dedicated flat bench, which had a group of three people working on)
Flat bench is the only exercise where I fully hate any machine/cable alternative - did machine bench instead and it just feels like such an unnatural movement in my shoulders
Do you train alone?I switched to DB bench about a year ago now. Felt it much easier on the shoulders and seems to have worked well for hypertrophy.
I'd 100% recommend you start doing some DB bench.Do you train alone?
I've always done barbell flat and dumbell incline - the thought of trying to get dumbells into position on a flat bench always put me off, I feel awkward enough lying down with an ez curl bar for skull crushers
The only people in my gym that I've seen doing heavy flat db bench have someone to pass them the second db when they're flat
Literally the worst part of dumbell shrugs is picking them upI always found deadlifting the dumbbells the tricky part of a heavy DB press. Only gym injury I ever got was doing that, fortunate to get away with a mild back strain but far from enjoyable
Just more motivation not to failHe put a lot of faith in that weak spot haha
Weight like that I'd expect guys on either side