I love how popular Strongman is becoming. Definitely helps how the big names have jumped on youtube like Eddie Hall, Shaw and Thor.

Eddie hall AND Brian Shaw would be incredible guests

Eddie Hall should be on here. Without doubt.

KZfaq is the best thing to happen to Strongman

Eddie hall would be a pretty cool guest, he's funny and a strongman

He should get Brian Shaw or Eddie Hall on his podcast

I went to school with this guy and even trained with him. Springfield College in Springfield, MA. He was a cool dude. We took first place as a team in Rhode Island powerlifting meet. Thanks to him, Jeff and Mark Bruno, and our coach Jaffey.

This dude probably eats more food in one day then I eat in a week

Brian Shaw would be a cool guest.

It's interesting watching some of these competitions and how some events cater not only to raw strength but also different body types. Some are better for short people some are better for tall people. Some are easier for the heaviest (not necessarily the strongest) people. The Hercules hold is easier for guys with short arms cause the pillars are more vertical making it less leverage pulling on your extremities. However the best body type still doesnt always win it so.. yeah.. it's fun to watch it play out

Bring on Brian Shaw, Eddie Hall or Martins Licis Joeeeee

When I flip through the channels and strong man competition shows up, I always get mesmerized by it and end up watching

Louis Cyr is a Montreal legend!

Ratings on this much better than on your last video!!

When I was in high school lifting weights Magnus was the man... for 3 years in a row!

I love watching strongman comps

Rob Kearney is an awesome communicator! He speaks clearly and charismatically!

Hahaha in the thumbnail it is just joe and joe with an purple mohawk and beard looking at you😂

FINALLY AN EPISODE I CAN ENJOY WATCHING

ZYDRUNAS SAVICKAS AKA STRONGEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED

Joe "that dude has preposterous muscles hehehohohaha" Rogan

3:35 if anyone's impatient

I can't visualize him doing a dead hang. He would squish his head. HAHAHAHA

Rob sounded very humble in this video

Mark felix also works full time as a plasterer

Shoutout to Norwich CT

Get Martiiiinnnnnssss on here!

We need the mountain there

Eddie hall and Brian Shaw on the same episode would be hilarious

I remember way back in the day they had a guy win the strongman comps 3 years in a row. May be his name is or was Jon paul Sigmarsson (sp?)

What contest was he talking about in the beginning?

Please get more strongmen on the podcast.

Humans have been trying to out lift each other forever

We need Brian Shaw on here and Hafthor

Joe you better adjust those headphones evenly before i do it for you!

Strongmen is going insane from the start of 2019 big giants like Shaw,Thor,Eddie,Martin Licis would be dope to see them here too thank god for the history channel for blowing up strongman for social media

Every man should do strength training

Need to get Martins Licis on! He has the best youtube videos of the strongman and is reigning World's Strongest Man

World's strongest gay

Sounds like Eddie bravo

Soon we will have some Adeptus Astartes.

Gotta feel for this dude. Goes on JRE and all of the comments are asking for eddie, brian, and thor aha

You need to get Eddie 'The Beat' Hall on this show

He should include sport climbing 🧗‍♂️ in his training for grip strength.

Also the hormone therapy's getting better, and a lot more available.

Training and Practice. The Two Factor Model of Sports Performance.

Eddie Hall NEEDS to be on here that'll be amazing

He got that junior Alex Jones voice

“...when the fuck is this gunna stop?!” - Rob Kearney 2020

one thing Ive always wondered about shit like this is cant they pick who makes it to the finals by which events they select. Because different body type will have large advantages over others bases only on the movements required right?

Joe should interview Martins...........that dude can give him all the answers he is looking for. Literally. Martins knowledge of the human body is fucking insane.

Ok, one thing that Rob touches on only briefly. The equipment, especially the support gear... he's right that the availability of equipment helps. But also, guys are using ten times the support that they did a short while ago (Raymund Bergmanis squats anyone?) Today's guys are way WAY more supported than before. They would never be able to even move these weights without straps, the sleeves, double belts, the tacky, the pharmaceuticals, etc. Guys are also on average 80 to 150 pounds heavier than like 10-15 years ago. In his time, Hugo Girard was considered HUGE, and he wa a tad over 300 lbs, which is light these days. What I would like to see is someone calculating the increases in weight lifted vs the increases in bodyweight of the contestants minus the help from the support gear. In 1990, 280-320 lbs guys were lifting 800 + deadlifts without straps, and now 350-400 lbs guys are lifting 900-1000 lbs with straps.... So it's always funny to hear these guys say how the weights increased like crazy! They are MUCH heavier and bigger than before and have MUCH more help. This does not mean that they are not strong, they are VERY strong, but it's funny how they always leave that out of the conversation... because on a pound for pound basis, the weights didn't increase that much actually.

Let’s get Martins on here!

Strongman is not a sport... Its an outragesly amazing show of resolve and heart. I mean, it has to be set appart as something very very special.

It must be alot harder to be a strong man competitor in countries that don't have free health care. I heard this guy say in another video the money is pretty crap and the risk is huge and you aren't insured while competing. Surely that leaves certain guys at a massive disadvantage? Anyone have any idea?

Wooot wooot I’m related to Lois Cyr!

He should have Kyle Loftus on teh show! True American success story

EDDIE "THE BEAST" HALL

ah, now that's better :)

Tony Ferguson is the type of guy to Shadow box and win by submission.

Joe Roids has a Full moon face

Gotta love this peacock inspired thing

Rob Kearney is literally Brain Shaw but smaller

Spread that Kearney name!

Brian Shaw next

This guy sounds like Brian Shaw

Brian shaw should be on here

Get Brian Shaw on this podcast!

Get eddie or Brian or martins on the podcast I watch all the podcasts but id love to see that episode

Martins!

Someone fix Joe’s headphones, its driving me nuts!

3:40 your welcome

Martins should get on

Martins Licis? He lives in LA already and is the current worlds strongest man?

Strong has always been impressive, to all

Pat MaCaffee with a mohawk

Because its cool Joe, because its cool.

Get Marshawn lynch on here man

He sounds like Pat McAfee

Joe "That is proprosprius" Rogan...

Tom Stoltman is coming!

Uhm Joe, is everything ok? You seem a lil hungry 🤔

None of Cyr's lifts were authenticated, all were done during exhibitions, also HGH and steroids are, along with training techniques, partially responsible for the bigger lifts.

Jujimufu/eliot hulse dude

Jachin & boaz.

I'd go out on a limb here with no scientific evidence at all, and say A) sports medicine improvements and B) The viability of bodybuilding and strongman competition as an actual sustainable career are the reason main reasons along with C) As with population growth, and public visibility, the genetic talent pool is ever growing are pretty likely reasons. Imagine being a competitive powerlifter in the 50's-60's-70's. The popularity of the sport both with the talent and potentially interested spectators had to be 1000th of what it is today (The Arnold Classic Fitness Fest is a sight to behold if you want to quantify this visually). Therefore any competition purses would be limited and parody to drive competition would be lower- in a sport based on numbers, that means lower numbers. If the purses are small that means competitors need side gigs. Freak shows. stunts. opening gyms. working loading docks. driving trucks. More gigs means less time training and perfecting nutrient plans. Outside of your big players, being exclusively a full time bodybuilder/powerlifter wasn't really a viable full time career until what....the very tail end of the 80's-90's when the supplement industry really started taking off. Even today these guys have instagrams dedicated to pimping out their sponsors' products (good on them, they deserve that platform to promote themselves and the people that pay their bills). If it weren't for the steroid era of olympic athletes in the battle of the soviets and the west, i don't know if the sport would be where it is today, but outside of the olympic teams there weren't many options to put food on the table. And if you weren't juiced to the gills, there was no career path at all until recent years. Then obvious advances in sports science and medicine. Certain ligament injuries 30 years ago would be career enders. Training methods are constantly challenged, repeated, and vetted. Nutrition still seems like a shot in the dark sometimes but there's a wealth of research. Body building is somewhere between the NFL and motorcross in this respect. You can look at the NFL's history and see direct correlation. Almost all the guys the won the first super bowl worked full time jobs 9 months of the year. These were mostly country strong athletes that worked at sawmills and drove semis most of the year, then were the best football players in the world in the fall. Of course they didn't have time to devote their life to their bodies to squeeze every last drop of talent out. There have always been body conscious athletes, but if you think the second string left tackle for Pittsburgh steelers in 1968 squatted 675 for reps like today that's just not true. And on sports medicine a knee injury for a running back as recently as the 1980's was a career death sentence. If you think there was anybody that looked, played, and moved like Calvin Johnson 40 years at the level he did it, it's just not a think. The gene pool wasn't that deep. The sports science wasn't there to get specimens like that to their full potential, and they sure as shit didn't have time or resources to run on treadmills with oxygen mask and sleep in hyperbolic chambers to heal. And motorcross is very similar to bodybuilding/strongman here. What used to be.... let's be honest, a rural small time white dominate - grip it and rip it on the weekends- sport 30 years ago, is becoming an international, racially diverse, sports science drive spectator sport with real financial incentive from industry sponsorship, where being a guy who goes fast is no longer enough. A lot of top guys train in ways you'd never imagine, and with time and financial resources that weren't obtainable 20-30-40 years ago.

Mark Felix is a plasterer by trade and still does it. Apparently his his hands span is 13 inches.

I’ve been thinking of doing this. Strong man competing

Joe “I already get it, but let’s expand it” Rogan

joe " mmmm " rogan

Eddie Hall SHOULD be on here

Eddie hall should be brought on. He lifted 500kilo a half a ton off the floor. The strongest man to ever live.

Get bill kazmeier on joe.

Why have none of strongmen, who have been on JRE, mentioned Eddie Halls 500kg deadlift?

Mark felix should be on here

joe Rogan head looks like a poached egg getting a sun tan

Get Martins Licis!

Mark Felix !

1:29 Improvements in training and diet are responsible for the rapid progression. I mean in 1955 Roger Bannister was the first to run a *4* minute mile, and now that's nothing special. At least not compared to other elite runners. Yes evolution is real and that plays a factor, but in the grand scheme of things 200 or even 500 years is practically nothing.

Rob Kearney is the strongest gay in the world, props to him!