GIANT STEPS

WANT BIGGER BETTER GAINS? TRAIN LIKE THE COLOSSI OF WORLD’S STRONGEST MAN

Most people think World’s Strongest Man competitors are to be marvelled at rather than emulated – after all, you’re never going to have to pull an 18-wheeler truck or heft a gigantic log overhead, are you? But the powerful and functional compound movements of strongman training can benefit everyone, not just man-mountains. A study from New Zealand compared two groups performing strongman and traditional resistance training over seven weeks and found that the strongman group saw benefits in muscle mass gain and their one-rep max. You’ll find strongman kit in plenty of gyms across the country now, so make a

start on the moves below and get a bigger, stronger everything this year.