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The Stoltman Brothers: The Race To Be The World's Strongest Man | On The Wall | Myprotein
Jan 30, 2025
Luke and Tom Stoltman are self-described as the World's Strongest Brothers. Follow their journey before the WSM tournament in 2022.
In 2022, Tom and Luke travelled to California to compete for the World's Strongest Man title. Myprotein travels to Scotland to go behind the scenes regarding their training, nutrition plans and daily life. Whether eating epic eating plans or going cold water swimming, it's all part of the process to get to their ultimate goal to finish together on the podium in 1st and 2nd place.
Winning isn't as simple as it seems, hard work and dedication can take every ounce of energy. See what it takes to get there with Luke and Tom Stoltman.
See more Tom on Myprotein here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biobYVBsg6Y&list=PLkb17OgnhB-ExpMDLNJESGfuq1XZLtkW1
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I remember seeing it to the promoters 10
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years ago Tom and I are going to be
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running World's Strongest Man one and
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two and they just you know they had a
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chuckle and you know whatever Luke here
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cool story
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[Music]
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to make that historic
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statement happen it's something that
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gets me really excited
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just that title the World's Strongest
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Man if that doesn't motivator then you
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should just leave the sport
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that force that we have it's never been
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like our world's strongest man before
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second unfair advantage in my eyes it's
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like two gigantic two Titans coming
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together to take on the rest of the
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world
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were just Unbreakable
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[Music]
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the gemstone for me I really kind of
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thought it was just big guys growling at
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you and ladies just with bikini kind of
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tops on and just trying to pose and a
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lot of posers and mirrors and stuff
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growing up I was a little bit nervous a
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little bit shy but in the gym I felt
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very confident and comfortable
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not one like that
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like right now it was what they kind of
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said to me why don't you come to the gym
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I didn't speak once I had my hood up
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didn't say hi to nobody Luke was
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obviously speaking to his people he knew
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supported everyone he was confident I
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just hid behind Luke and whatever Luke
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said to do I would do
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without Tom I wouldn't be sitting here
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he was increasing at such a rapid Pace
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that pushed me to keep up with him and
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now we have battles every day in the gym
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[Music]
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let's find the last one come on
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my first kind of few years in strowman I
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was physically strong but mentally I
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would let a lot of people get to me
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having Luke there to help me and to
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build that confidence solely really
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helped me to then push on to you know
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staying there getting addicted to it and
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not quitting
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I think about every day every time I get
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a second I think about you know what's
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in my mind all the time and it's been
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that way since last world's strongest
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man come on there we go there we go
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there we go
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you know I wake up thinking about it I
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go to sleep thinking about it it's just
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there you know it's it's that thing
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that's always in front of you and to one
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World's Strongest Man is such a
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massive achievement because I can't even
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put into words how much it means to me
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it's just this huge thing it is just all
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consuming
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I think if you don't have the right
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support people around you you're never
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going to be a good straw man yeah you
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can go into the gym and lift weights but
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whatever's happening outside the gym if
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it's not positive if you're not the
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right people you're just going to
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crumble
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all right
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all right
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I'm gonna show them
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we trained here like
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10 past years ago so these are kind of
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Battle Scars of when We Dead lifted
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dropping Yokes and stuff so nice sweet
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memories following fun when he's walking
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about so my dad's took him over the
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place now but uh
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oh
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as you can see they've still got a bit
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of the gym in it we've got we had a so
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we basically had a pull-up bar here
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across this wall we had a at the stone
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platform I like the stone were tucked
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under here was a mirror and basically
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all we had was Max some deadlift bars
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some weights spread out across here in
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some dumbbells we had a fire behind us
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that we kind of we lit when we were
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trading because it was really cold in
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here I mean we were coming here at one
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Earth icicles were uh forming on the on
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the bars so that was pretty intense
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that's Luke's dog no
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this is a living in a living room oh
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look at this
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Fighters This is just local tires 20
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minutes away
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look carrying me I don't think you'd
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ever see that before so all our memories
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in here there's another picture of that
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was on hold in Turkey yeah Egypt Egypt
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that was in Egypt
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again the difference is that skinny
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glasses this was one of Luke's first
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competitions it's got a straw is man
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look at that man the Beast of her trophy
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so that's
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second place was Australia's man and
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first place well Australian man trophies
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I wanted to get started back to my dad
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you know I always said to my dad if I
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went World strong as man that I'd put
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the trophy there
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I have the reminder every day
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when I wake up when I drive down to the
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office with oil rigs in the background
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I feel a god looking over there man
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that is there for me you know if I don't
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succeed if I don't work hard if I start
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to
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doubt myself and think of as this
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really worthwhile you know there was
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always a gym there so the gym was my
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kind of sanctuary away from
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the mundane tasks that they have to do
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having that ability to to survive and to
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become successful no matter what I think
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that's has been ingrained in me and it's
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nice to to Showcase that I have that
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resilience as well
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so doing what I do now
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you know putting my body through four
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days of pain and a day of recovery I
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never think about giving up it's like
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if I give up that I'm going back to the
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oil rigs
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that old wife keeps me pushing forward
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in my new life
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[Music]
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[Music]
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setup I think our main priority has
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obviously been been a strong man being
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an athlete wedding shows
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um
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but then we also understand that like
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strongman doesn't last forever so we've
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gonna set our part our business at the
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moment we're doing so we sell clothing
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we've got merchandise we're looking to
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go into more of our kind of gym range
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maybe next year so this is where
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our brother Hardy so he does all the
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kind of the merchandise stuff for us
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having Hardy work for the business now
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because then we don't have to
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like worry about that type of stuff like
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parking merchandise and
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jumping it out and it gives him a job as
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well so
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um he's he used to work offshore in the
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other rigs as well so now he's home
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and gets to see his wee boy
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whenever he wants which is nice so
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he's waiting for me what is it what is
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that I'm doing I think again why are you
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going to send all this yeah to party
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people keep asking on YouTube and asking
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me why am I going to Rangers when I've
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got Welsh drivers man what I love to do
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is go and do football games on a weekend
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that's my uh go-to and to get to get
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away from stroma and that's my a copy
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mechanism mechanism of getting away and
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you know on the weekends I don't have to
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talk about strong man I don't have to
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talk about the gym watching a football
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game with 50 000 other people who are so
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passionate about food Planet you know
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makes me kind of happy as well just like
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cold water makes good copy you know
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everyone will see how much work I've put
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into Australia when I'm over there and
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you have to realize as well worlds
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doesn't start till the 24th I'm
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traveling out five days before it so
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yeah it doesn't bother me
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just arrived here that uh how to do a
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YouTube video with Simon about
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my Rangers top at your life a few people
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ask us why I'm going out to like our
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Rangers game two days before I fly to
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Australia's man so I just wanted to
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clear I think people think I'm going to
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be going out there on top of statues
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drinking and stuff like that and then
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after that YouTube video it's just kind
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of sorry some stuff out in here you know
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a nice chilled out just maybe see if
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anything else he's done and then usually
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after lunch half an hour after lunch 40
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minutes sometimes we go trade
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good
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because we're so close to the world's
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strongest man this is when my body feels
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the worst
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everything's just hurting
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you've done that training camp you know
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for 12 weeks and just been solid
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training every day every week for
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training training training
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and all I want to do now is go and
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compete go and showcase what I've done
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training under the team come naturally
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to me with autism
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I use the term autism to superpower
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because it's an invisible kind of
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thing that a lot of people have who I
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got teachers tell me I'll never be
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anything I got people judging me back
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you know how I looked how I was very shy
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how my head was always down and stuff
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but now standing on the podium first
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place last year it was Australia's man
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and beating all these other guys that
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don't have this superpowers I will
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I've got the superpower I can be
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anything I want to be in life
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thank you
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[Music]
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I know how hard it would be for another
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set of Brothers to finish on the podium
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at World's Strongest Man
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to make that historic thing happen is is
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incredible
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hey I'll be crying for weeks on end but
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it'll be just super emotional and so
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proud of the the hard work that both of
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us have put on
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[Music]
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[Music]
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cold water gives me whatever I need
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wow
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if I need to cry if I need to be angry
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if I need to be happy if I need to be
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content or whatever emotion I'm feeling
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I'll get that in the cold Waters
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you know I probably started when mum
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passed away you know mum passed away
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almost six six
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ago
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so I that time when she passed away was
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very
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it was a dark place you know I was very
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angry I resented people I resented my
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wife and her family and I just had this
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this dark place and then
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I started going in the water maybe a
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year or two after and then it just
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completely transformed me
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now when I do it you know most days when
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I go there by myself I'm listening to
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some music I remember Mom
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I'm like just all these little memories
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that come back with mum and and that's
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the kind of
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that's the sheer beauty of it for me
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very powerful and it's it's what gets me
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you know through the busy days
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when we're out there in California
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competing the the diet gets really it's
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called a very dirty counterfeit diet
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we have like a competition on an event
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in the morning and an event in the
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afternoons and between that you have to
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try and get as much calories as you can
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and you and working with a nutritionist
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um
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he tells us
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um
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Five Guys Five Guys Burgers that's our
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goal to
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um competition meal just and I can see
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why people can I question what we eat
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um
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but because strong mothers are so unique
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it needs a unique diet as well so for us
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to eat clean and chicken and rice to get
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the same amount of calories with clean
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food and we're doing those like high
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calorie meals and dirty meals we need to
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get a lot more which animal cause more
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growth
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it keeps up to the 10 000 calories
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during the competition which is
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yeah it's not nice we end up putting on
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probably about five to seven kilos when
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I'm competing
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it's like a healthy diet and that's the
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thing
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um but it has its
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reasons for it and
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that's what we've got I think now it's
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just that's the reason why we're there
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it's there because it gives us the fuel
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to One World strong and smart
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[Music]
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I know this is like the biggest show in
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the world I get impatient rather than
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nervous the hours of training every
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sacrifice not able to go to people's
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weddings parties birthdays any other
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stuff
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good
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[Music]
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all I care about is this one moment I've
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got this one chance
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it's not until literally we get to the
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arena and in like 10 minutes before the
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first event where my name said Tom
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you're up next that's when I'm back
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I have that tunnel vision
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I Loosely down the lane and go right
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that's me that's on the door I'm ready
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to charge it
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I get to almost become this too freaky
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to almost you know you get to go and
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lift these incredible things pull these
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buses monster trucks I don't know I just
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come alive
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[Music]
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this year I'm just clearing the same
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confidence you know it's like the last
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two years
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no one's kind of really come close to me
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put me in brown shorts to keep me in
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Martinez group put me in anyone's group
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and I'll do it because at the end of the
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day if I don't meet them in group stages
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I'm going to meet them in the finals so
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foreign
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against I'm the best in the world you
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know come come and take my titles
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it's been good good session happy new
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injuries get a troll now
15:47
one more light session Monday
15:50
um and then that's us ready to go out
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and do battle
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the best guys in the world it should be
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fun
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think of that really
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yeah confidence is high
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I get so motivated with worldstars man
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because it's the most prestigious title
16:27
in the sport and like even a week before
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I was going out I was just going in my
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head while strong as mine and I could
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just I was just finishing myself being
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the top Podium again
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I kind of knew I won on my maybe my
16:38
second last artist on because I see Nova
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cough I think he dropped it or he did
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something and when I came to the last
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one I had a smile on my face I was like
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yes and then that's the moment I was
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like yeah I've done it again you know
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like two times world's strongest man
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Tom was the
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most prolific athlete there he was calm
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composed the events were brilliant he
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smashed every event and for Tom to
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finish
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an event clear of everyone else just
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shows that pure domination you know that
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was the Tom Stockman show there
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coming back from Worlds I felt
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like I'd failed in my my quest obviously
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to become the World's Strongest Man I
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ended up coming I think it was seventh
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it took me a few weeks to
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to almost come to terms with that
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you know I was so happy for Tom but then
17:29
coming back and not living up to what I
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wanted to do was very hard as well so I
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was kind of learning to deal with that
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that sense of failure
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must be done storming for a year I'm
17:41
going to focus on having kids because
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like the pressure in your body the
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sacrifice like I said it's
17:46
that's just to spend as much quality
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time as I can with my family and my wife
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you know because you don't know what's
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around your car you know I don't know if
17:52
you could lose you know your loved ones
17:54
with the next day you just need to be
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kind of thankful for what you've got
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it's like
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absolutely
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because I love like I love strong man I
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love training I love competing I love
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pushing my body to that like
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it's not extreme level that's what I get
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the most out of life I think so for me
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to to take a step back it's almost
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allowing me to to get excited and to
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miss it and to to to to
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like cleaver
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foreign
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[Music]
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taking a step back from the game I'm
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still the best drummer when I switch on
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or when I want to go back into competing
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nobody can beat me so when I'm like 100
18:48
Tom stoker when I'm in that comp prep
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when I'm in that trading whatever it is
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nobody will get near me and that's what
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that trophy there is just in the
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background going right you've done your
18:57
hard work you can have some fun but when
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it's time to get back into World stores
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man I'm keeping that Trophy and that's
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what I think has motivated me like I
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said that just that title the world's
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strongest man you're like if that
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doesn't motivated you then you should
19:10
just leave the sport because as soon as
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someone says that like Tom wellstars man
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2023 is 12 weeks ago I was like let's do
19:16
it and I feel we plan on winning world's
19:18
strongest man that's my 100 goal but if
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I never live if I never manage to do
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that by doing what I do and doing insane
19:25
stuff influences and changes people's
19:27
lives for the better then I think I can
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be very proud and very happy in that in
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the fact that I'm doing that
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