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Great video, Pleasure meeting you the meet! I was the tall blasian guy that tore his glute on the SD deadlift I did warm up but it ended up being to earlier took like 30 minutes for my starting weight after my warm up
Always thank the organizer afterwards. You'll see their faces light up because this is often thankless work that gets a ton of flak from competitors rather than gratitude.
Hey Bromley, it was very nice meeting you at the show. I was one of the spotters/loaders and I really hope it wasn't me that dropped the pad in the wrong spot on Fingals. If I was, I apologize. The implement was bouncing and moving around so much between reps, we were all having a terrible time with it. You had a great show, and it was awesome to see you back competing and doing well. Good luck at the Arnold. Great video, too. Lots of wisdom in here! Edit: just watched the clip on your IG and it looks like it was the other spotter who botched the pad drop. I will DM him and let him know that he is now infamous 😂
Lol no, he specifically acknowledged and apologized for it which I sincerely appreciated. Not mad or salty in the slightest; I've spotted on such events and know that these things are guaranteed to happen. I mean 100 athletes doing 3 flips each... you guys were ninjas and I didn't envy your job! Im not trying to make anyone famous or make an example out of anyone. It was just a relevant experience for this vid, i just want to tell competitors that they can speak up when things do go sideways.
I remember when I went to Barbell Apparel to look at your stuff/Clarence's and within 10 minutes of shopping and reloading the page the price of the SAME PAIR of jeans had skyrocketed to an extra $100 - Still "sale" price, mind you. This was on a pair of jeans that was already ridiculously overpriced. Next day I looked and it was the same. And no, it was not a price error. It was price gouging. I work in tech for a popular app and I know a shitty website that is running an A/B experiment when I see one. I got in their "will this idiot pay that much?" bucket and noped the fuck out and never visited again. I ended up getting a $25 pair of "tech stretch" jeans at Old Navy during a big sale which I absolutely love and I'm sure they're just as good (and probably better, tbh) that the Barbell jeans. Congrats on your win.
Since you are a tech guy, use VPN or a VM,. sadly shady tricks like this are common nowadays. Just try to book a flight, they gonna level it up the closer your desired date comes.
Those who haven't competed are watching this like: "the fuck is the matter with these people, why all the fuckups!?" ... Those of us who have are like "yup." I just competed at SCC Provincials Ontario, and just off the top of my head: the guy loaded 90lbs extra on my yoke, had to do the plate math over for him before he believed me... Same guy set my yoke height like 4" too low, didn't believe me until I stood it up and had like a foot of clearance... We had a car/UTV/ATV deadlift, they told us to start warming up, but didn't tell us which one... We assumed the side-by-side, so my entire division warmed up with it... Felt a bit heavy... Turns out we warmed up with an extra 150 lbs, they had us on the ATV instead. Shit like this is par for the course. Loved every second of it!
Congrats Bromley! Awesome and fun to watch you smash the 70s powerlifter volume, clean up the diet, and take it at regionals! Keep doing what you are doing.
First off - congratulations on the win Bromley. Second - pretty much everything you detailed in this video applies to Highland Games. My mentors taught me all the same stuff, notably: - there is enough variation in the 'standard' implements that still falls within the rules that you *always* warm up on the real thing if they let you. Most ADs and judges encourage it. - similar to your medley times example, HG height events accumulate more points faster than distance events. If you are looking to jump places, the height events are a key. - don't be a dick. ADs talk to each other regularly and you will find yourself mysteriously uninvited from competition. - the best part about strength sports is unquestionably the people. Sportsmanship matters a tremendous amount. Excellent video.
Congratulations on the win and that was a fantastic recap. I appreciate your measured response to not just being strong as hell, but using your head and being a decent human being as a competitor. You deserve many more wins!
Doing my first strongman comp next month in Sacramento, in the Mens LW category. Thank you so much for putting out such great content (including the older content from past years)!
I appreciate you and your guidance immensely. I feel like we're very similar in temperament and that inspires me. I'm a half crippled military vet and fear of failure used to prevent me from even trying to lift. I've grown emotionally and hope to match that physically. Anyway, much respect and appreciation. Congrats on your win!
I really enjoyed the camaraderie and help from the other people at my first meet, it’s like a big cook out, without the food and lifting heavy stuff instead of playing cornhole or horse shoes, much more enjoyable than powerlifting meets
22:40 Completely agreed, this is a phenomenally wise insight. In life, "true competitiveness" is actually a cooperative effort: everybody doing their best to raise the bar as a field in order to coax out the purest performance, inching closer and closer to the impossibility of perfection.
I wish I would have seen this before my first competition last week! I had a ton of fun and made friends, but nerves/poor nutrition cost me the first 2 events.
Congrats! Good words of wisdom there. If I ever get interested in competing (I'll probably be close to 50 by the time I get any potentially decent numbers), I'll keep that in mind. 😅
Big dreams and bad genes but the old man used time to his advantage and he’s winning! Quick question though Bromley, what kind of follower goal would it take to get you to shave your back?
Show boating is the other side of the trash talking coin, where the goal is to praise yourself instead of insult the opponent. The coin is tacky no matter which side lands.
I lost one last year. Heres what I did wrong. I cycled off way early, the comp wasnt in the plans when I started the cycle. I didnt bring food. Youre there all day and need snacks. Mostly though, and this is just silly in retrospect, I didnt do specific training with strongman apparatuses. I was touching some of these rigs for the first time. I was hoping just doing regular weightlifting for 25 years would be enough, but thats not how it works.
Man why wouldnt you get really lean just once, the shape that you are in now is probably the best you have ever been in, so why not push it a bit more and see what you would look like shredded, worst case scenario it would just be 2 months not making strength progress, but the experience and results would probably be worth the hassle
