Joe on Hafthor Bjornsson Transitioning to Boxing

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Rob Kearney

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Rob Kearney is the world's first openly gay professional strongman. He's also the co-author of the children's book "Strong," along with writer Eric Rosswood, and illustrator Nidhi Chanani.

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What we do doesn't make sense and I do it. You know, like at World's Strongest Man in 2019, we had to pull two monster trucks because one was too light. Like come on. Like personally, that pissed me off because I suck at that event. Do you? Yeah. And it was a slight incline. Is that a weight event? Like where it helps to be like a 400 pound guy versus a 280 pound guy? With that event, mass moves mass. Yeah. Oh, no. Right? I had Thor in my group. The dude weighed 430, 440 when we were competing against each other. But he's pretty light now, isn't he? Yeah. He's I think about 330. He's actually right down the street. Oh, really? He was at the Onnit gym. He put up his Thor's Instagram. I knew he was in, I knew he was here lately. I know Rain had them in LA and stuff like that. He might even be here this weekend. I don't know. I think he's here right now because he was at Onnit gym and he put up video of him hitting the pads. And I have to say, like he's doing everything right. It looks solid. He looks really, but it's interesting because he's learning how to box because he's having these boxing matches. But the way he's doing it is very intelligent. Like he's not just like gritting his teeth and throwing his arms as far and using all his physical muscle power. He's learning how to do it correctly. And everything is like real smooth and polished. When you're fighting, you do have to be pretty relaxed when you're doing it. You have to be able to generate force quickly, but you also have to be supple. You have to be relaxed because if you're relaxed, you actually can move faster. When you're really tense up and wind up, you lose a lot of your ability to close the distance quick. It's got to be efficient. And the way you get efficient is by repetition with proper technique and learning how to hit paths with proper technique. And when I first saw him doing that, I was like, oh my God, imagine going from being strong man and being the mountain and game of thrones to trying to box. This is so awkward, but not anymore, man. When you see him, did you find it? I don't see it at all. At least not at all. Oh, maybe it's in the on it gym. I was looking nice. I switched to that and I wasn't seeing it there either. God, maybe it's one of the trainers I find. Is it pretty new or is it like recently? Yeah, today. Okay. Maybe it's one of the trainers I follow that posted it. Fuck, I really think it was him. Shit. I mean, I know he's in the States right now because he was just in LA. He's in Austin a week ago. He's in Austin. Let's see that that right there. See that right there. That's not at the on a gym. It's just him. Yeah, he's lost like about 100 pounds. Yeah, he looks great. Yeah, no, he looks awesome. It's crazy. It's like a totally different kind of human now. Big time. He looks like a big athlete. I wonder what his like long term goals are in that are. I don't know. There's a lot of money in like freak boxing matches. I know. You know, it's crazy. If you get like Logan Paul to box the mountain. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Penowski. Yeah, he just he yeah, he won. But he's been fighting for a long time now. Yeah, ever since he stepped out of World's Strongest Man, he went into the MMA world. Watch this. This is an interesting pretty quick. Okay, guy. Watch this. Boom. Boom. Yeah, crazy. The guy who fought is a giant too. Yeah. Crazy. But Pudzianowski has been fighting in MMA for a long time. He fought Tim Sylvia, who was the former UFC heavyweight champion. And that was a crazy stupid fight. Like he has a good. Was it good? No. No, he got his ass kicked. But I mean, like, of course he got his ass kicked. Yeah. He's literally fighting a former world champion and he's just a really strong guy learning how to fight. Exactly. And he was a guy like when he first started fighting, he could see like he'd hit pads and he'd be like, it would be all arms. Just Neanderthal. Yeah. But now he's like throwing his shoulders in and moving his hips. He's become he's got he's still big as fuck, but he's like he's lost some weight. I feel like none of us strong men are ever going to be small. Right for the rest of the rest of the life. When you get to this level, like I think you're just like, you know, I look at my life and I'm like, probably the lightest I'll ever be is like two thirty to two forty. People are always coming to you to open the main H jar. Always. 100%. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're probably always keep. I mean, you only lose so much of it. You're not going to ever be like a marathon runner. Nor do I want to be. Right. Watch the entire episode for free only on Spotify.