*** Members' Interview with bigscottishbastard ***

bigscottishbastard

Pete_L


Thats a beast of a truck!! Whats the name of the Burger place and ill give it a shot when im over in a few weekends time?

Yeah its a great truck mate, shall be putting my numbers on twice a week of a good while cause I want it so much haha!
 
It's called Ketchup mate and is on Ashton Lane, just off Byres Rd.

Nice one cheers, might take a wee jaunt over on Sunday if I get the time!!

No worries mate, I reccommend the Black & Blue Burger!

How come strongmen and powerlifter types don't seem to bench that often?

Powerlifters do bench often as thats one of their diciplines in competition.

IME strongmen don't bench often due to bench not being in comps, I've only ever known of bench to be in two comps, both were put on my Magnus Samuelsson and thats his best event.

Overhead press is more important to strongman as thats the pressing dicipline in competition.

I only ever do CG Bench or floor press lockouts.

If I remember Kazmier(sp) was an amazing bencher, he had a 300+ raw bench and I'd always thought the attitude may be, 'if it's good enough for him it's good enough for me'.

Thinking about it there doesn't seem many events in WSM based around pushing in front of you.

I didn't think powerlifters did it much because I read an interview before I think it was Cohen or maybe another bloke who was missing a finger and they said they rarely did bench, well one of them said it. I read both interviews in the same day so I'm getting confused.

I think one of the reasons that Kaz had a great bench was due to his imvolvement in powerlifting aswell as strongman.

Powerlifters definetly need to cause there are three types of powerlifting comp and they all include bench; bench only, push pull (bench and deadlift), and the full meet (squat bench deadlift).

Kenneth

Do you think you living in scotland has had an impact, positive or negative, on your development in strongman, it would seem easier for you to get to uk's/bsm living in scotland or wales than it is if you live in england, but obviously once you are told you have got to that level, our training must go supersonic to go out there capable of making the final/winning

what do you reckon??

Carl

That is actually a very good question.

I think it has probably had a positive impact because once I reached the level I got to to qualify for UKs last year it opened my eyes a bit more to the standard of athlete outwith Scotland which then gave me more motivation to work harder towards my goals and redevelop my training.

sivvy1


Kenneth

Do you think you living in scotland has had an impact, positive or negative, on your development in strongman, it would seem easier for you to get to uk's/bsm living in scotland or wales than it is if you live in england, but obviously once you are told you have got to that level, our training must go supersonic to go out there capable of making the final/winning

what do you reckon??

Been thinking about this a bit over the past day or so and come to the second conclusion that it may have been detrimental to my strongman development. MAybe, I wasn't ready for that level of competition becuase I came up the ranks so quickly, when I went to UKs I had only done 3 proper open level comps and I didn't have enough comp experience to perform how I should of.
 
My pressing definetly wasn't strong enough for that level, but I think that also helped me as it showed a definite weakness in my push press vs. my jerk which then made me focus on my push press more.

I seem to remember through past discussion you are quite tall (hope I've got that right) - do you think height in strongman comps is an advantage or a disadvantage.

Bearing that in mind what would (in your view) be the perfect weight & height ratio for your discipline?

I'm probably on the shorter end of the scale at approx 5'11", but I don't think it's hindered me too much. I messed up stones to high platform at SSM in May, but that was more to do with lack of high platform practice.

I think that around 6'2" and like a leanish 140kg BW would be a good combo!

Hey bud by the year 2019 what would you have hoped to have achived on the strong bastard scene?

Haha, not thought that far ahead to be honest mate.

I'd have liked to have won the Scottish a good few times, finished high at both BSM and UKs and been to WSM a few times too.

Well good luck you've got the genetics for it. All the best, i hope you do well.

genetics for it??

thats like saying you could do **** all training and still do ok

the only reason ken is as good as he is is because he is very methodical with his training, nails weaknesses, and has a very good training programme, and trains with some top guys

Cheers bud, progress will be documented here on MT!

sivvy1


genetics for it??

thats like saying you could do **** all training and still do ok

the only reason ken is as good as he is is because he is very methodical with his training, nails weaknesses, and has a very good training programme, and trains with some top guys

 
Very true mate, definitely wouldn't have progressed as quickly as I have done if it were not for guys like Andy Cairney and Stevie "Stainless" Murray!
 
I used to not be methodical at all, but Loz Shahlaei opened my eyes to more rep work and things have been going awesome since. PBs every session pretty much!

Re: Gentics.

In the world of bodybuilding, genetics plays a huge part. We all know the guy in top condition who eats sh1te and trains pretty poorly. How much do you think genetics play a part in strongman? Some are naturally stronger than others but for example in BBing all the dedication, drugs, perfect diet/training in the world won't get you to the top without the genetics. How much do you think this does or does not apply to strongman?

I think its relavent in a sense, because a guy can be big and relatively strong without doing much, but when it comes to actual competition if you haven't used cartain equipment and gotten the technique right you're not doing much. You also have to be fit so its not just about being a big guy.

Hi mate,
How do you cope with any injuries,i mean do you tend to work round them or stop untill fully repaird?
Also who is your strength hero currently?