Henry Loveless Crushes the Competition
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PCPTs can not only talk the talk, they can walk the walk. Mr. Henry Loveless, owner and proprietor of Changes One, one of the premier personal training facilities in the St. Louis area, entered and won the M i s s o u r i S t a t e strongman competition this past September 16th. Henry s t a r t e d things out by winning the tire toss. He turned a 600- pound tire, end over end, for 80 feet. In the second event, comp e t i t o r s dragged a sled loaded with 250 pounds for two lengths (up and back) of a 40-foot course before having to go a final 40-foot length with 500 pounds in the sled! Henry took second and indicated that his lack of height (compared to the other competitors) hurt him in this event, “The taller guys could hold the sled at a higher angle as they dragged it and this lessened the friction.”
Still, second place wasn’t anything to sneeze at and he was in the lead going into the third event, the farmers walk. In this jolly event, competitors had to walk as far as they could carrying two 200-pound dumbbells. Henry won this event outright walking 60 feet before dropping the two monster weights. In the one arm dumbbell press, H e n r y snatched victory from the jaws of defeat when he pressed a 140-pound dumbbell for a single rep. “I missed 130, made it and then went on to push 140 for the win.”
The Marquis De Sade must have devised the last event. The event was a backbreaking relay in which the already exhausted athletes placed heavy objects on a 4-foot high table. They started off with a 250-pound anchor and chain. Next, a 250-pound keg of beer (and these are treacherous). The liquid sloshes from side to side as the keg is hoisted up. Not finished, the strongmen then tackled a 175-pound stone, perfectly round. The next weight was a 225- pound, 10-foot long pole with handles. For the grand finale the huffing and puffing musclemen had to deal with putting a 275-pound rock on the four-foot high table.
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“My cardio conditioning really came into play. I am a bodybuilder and I blew away all the powerlifters, guys with huge muscles and giant lifts. A bodybuilder who practices regular and intense cardio training has a tremendous advantage because these events are as much a test of muscular endurance as they are pure strength.” Henry said he “loved the whole experience, the camaraderie amongst the competitors was great.” He definitely plans to enter more strongman contests but not to the exclusion of his bodybuilding aspirations. “Hey, I intend to compete in future strongman competitions and future bodybuilding contests. In fact, I’m giving serious consideration to entering the upcoming ‘Mr. Caveman’ contest.” Pressed for details Henry revealed that “they call it the Mr. Caveman because they hold it in a cave – I kid you not! It is a bodybuilding contest held in a cavern.” Well, what do you do for an encore after being crowned strongman? Capture the Caveman!
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