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Building a Strongman – Mark Felix
Considering the popularity of a recent strongman post, I believe many will enjoy the video below.
Take a look as strongman Mark Felix prepares for the World’s Strongest Man in yet another low-tech, high-effect environment. As you will see within, Mark trains like a beast without any of the fancy amenities that you’ll find in most modern gyms.
Fortunately, the crude environment hasn’t slowed his development. Mark Felix continues to improve, despite his late start to strongman competitions. It wasn’t until age 37 that he began competing.
As for his specialties, Felix is known to possess incredible hand strength. Below you can see one display of such strength as he crushes a one arm deadlift following an injury in 2008. Clearly, he wasn’t one to sit around and sulk during the injury. He found other ways to stay busy.
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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
- T.E. Lawrence
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Damn! A one-armed deadlift with 405lbs! And given how easy he did the weight it looks like he could slap on two more wheels and do 495.
Ross – AWESOME stuff, I should be stopping by MORE often! One of my athletes was a college football player, then after graduation began boxing…. his coaches told him to stop lifting.
When he told me this, I told him to visit your site!
He was FIRED UP!!
I hope the fam is GREAT!
Wow! That’s amazing – and really neat he is successful even with the late start!
The videos are very impressive and informative. I totally like this post! Great share.
There is another video on Youtube where Felix does I believe a 475lb single-arm deadlift. This guy indeed must have hand strength off the charts to perform such a feat. Would be interesting to see him test his grip on a #4 Captains of Crush gripper or even see how well he would do in arm/wrist wrestling competition.
Good post ross
Felix is a beast! , lets hope for better luck in the WSM qualifiers for 2012
Started participating in strong man competitions when he was 37!? Never too late to be great!
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Man I wish I knew guys like this and could be their platemonkey and just bask in the hardcore as a reminder to emulate them daily.