Megan is a Powerlifter, Weightlifter and ex Ironman/Marathon runner. With a whopping 5 World Recorders and 12 American records under her belt, she has shown the world there isn't much she can't do well! Megan, now a new mother, also looks to juggle the life of a professional lifter and successful online coach, alongside two newborn children.

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Oleksii is the current reigning Worlds Strongest Man and securing the title at the impressive age of 24! With an progressive run of better and better results since his first professional competition at Arnold Pro back in 2019, Oleksii has shown the world that he is hungry, eagar and powerful enough to imprint his name in strongman history.

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Ray is the current 5x IPF Classic Raw World Champion, 4x Arnold Pro and 490kg Raw Unassisted Squatter, making him the top dog in the Super Heavyweight division. Ray, whilst being the arguably the strongest man on the planet right now, also spends a large portion of his time working in junior college football, where he continues to share his love and passion for the sport football and strength and conditioning with his team.

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Shane is a u80 & u90kg world class Strongman & Powerlifter. Establishing the MST Systems in 2016 Shane has successfully scaled his online coaching business to new heights. Working with both national and international standard athletes, all while smashing a host of world record lifts in various weight classes. Shane wants to make high quality training the industry standard.

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In episode 41, Vytautas Lalas recaps the recent successes at the 2020 world's strongest man competition and talks to Matt about why having more federations in the sport is going to help improve the standard of the competitions, how strongman can continue to grow and who we should be thankful to for helping grow the sport so much. Vytautas also explains why you have to be aware of the fine line between training and overtraining when going into big competitions, why you have to be made of tough stuff to compete in strongman and why lots of "influencers" just aren't built for it. 

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This week, Matt discusses the rebirth of Travis Ortmayer, the reason he had been out of the game for a few years, why he is back and ready to get on that WSM stage and how competing to the standard of athletes now is so different from when her was previously competing. Travis also talks about why he believes the best coaches have to have experienced and lived what they are teaching and why positive habits can be reinforced just like negative habits and how he turned his life around doing so. 

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Episode 39 features James Spurgin aka @1armpower telling Matt about how he had to figure out for himself how to use the lifting implements back in 2006 because social media wasn't there to teach him back then and how he doesn't follow a strict lifting regime and simply focuses more on how his body is feeling each day. James also talks about why his training is going so well, shares some secrets that have helped him smash some personal records in the past couple of months and how he is going to attempt to lift the world famous Dinnie Stones in Scotland.

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In this episode, disable strongman legend Martine Tye chats to Matt about, why the disable sporting world tends to have less bad blood than able bodied sports, the process of choosing the international competition events depending upon the athletes who enter and the disability they have. Martin also talks on his hunger to be the best no matter what he does and how that’s helped him to be a national level rower, Invictus gold medalists and now multi world record holding strongman and much, much more!

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In this episode Phil speaks on how being on the smaller end in the football field, forced him to work hard on his power, speed & nutrition in order to hang with the bigger guys. How Phil’s training principles have been inspired by some of the legends of the Conjugate training method and how the Darustrong programming has been manipulated for combat sports. Matt and Phil also talk through the comeback from ACL & PCL tears and discuss some of the key factors coaches need to take into account when working with their athletes.

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In episode 36 Heather tells Matt about how she failed all of her lifts in her first competition but became 1 of only 2 women to ever deadlift 4x their bodyweight in the IPF. Heather also opens up about the words of wisdom from her father shaped her as an athlete, her journey through her lower lat strain and how she holds herself accountable for all the kids she teaches back home. 

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