Urgent a heavy steel log overhead is only a warm-up for Tyler Sigurdson.
“It’s probably the most thrilling sports activities on the planet as a result of it’s by no means the identical, it’s all the time altering,” Sigurdson stated.
Sigurdson runs Iron Age Power health club and StrongManitoba, the province’s solely strongman promotion firm.
The objective of the game is to carry the heaviest issues doable.
“Once you see somebody deadlift a automobile, if you see somebody pulling a semi-truck by simply utilizing their physique, it’s not one thing they might think about doing earlier than doing it themselves,” Sigurdson stated.
Initially considered a ‘huge man’s sport,’ strongman is open to everybody. Sigurdson has helped develop the game in Manitoba from only a few athletes to almost 100.
“Tons of males, tons of girls, tons of older lifters, tons of sweet sixteen lifters. We have now all totally different sorts of individuals from all totally different walks of life who do our strongman stuff now and it’s simply all the time rising and all the time getting higher,” Sigurdson stated.
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One strongman athlete coaching at his health club is Kelly Giddings. She was impressed to take up the game after seeing considered one of her associates pull a truck.
“As a masters athlete, I by no means imagined I’d be capable to get stronger. 12 months after 12 months, I hold getting stronger and getting PRs [personal records],” Giddings stated.
Private development is what fellow athlete Aaron Clark additionally loves most about Strongman.
“I’m hoping I can get to provincials, nationals. Simply attempting to climb my method up the ladder the most effective I can and enhance myself, primarily,” Clark stated.
StrongManitoba hosts a number of competitions a 12 months, every with its personal set of occasions.
“You might be urgent overhead, you might be deadlifting, you might be carrying heavy masses, you might be testing your grip. There’s all types of various methods you’ll be able to compete in strongman,” Sigurdson stated.
He encourages anybody within the sport to succeed in out. With a number of affiliate gyms throughout the province, he says there’s a spot for everybody.
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