2013 Arnold Strongman Classic Photos, Videos, Commentary & Results + Powerlifting & Highland Games!

[SallyAnne]

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Join Team Rx Muscle here for all things strongman, powerlifting, and highland games for the 2013 Arnold Sports Festival!

[Bryan Hildebrand]

Busy weekend for the strength team at the Arnold:

Fri morning, we will be covering some of the Arnold Am Strongman 60 athletes from 20 countries.

Fri afternoon events 1 and 2 for the Arnold Strongman Classic. Americans Shaw, Poundstone, Burke, Scherr and Pritchett are on to represent the US against the Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Icelandics and Brit!

Fri evening has Rx Team Strong heading to the movie premiere BOSS, Brothers and Stone and Steel which follows Derek Poundstone and Travis Ortmayer from their 2006 beginnings through 2012 and all it entailed.

Sat morning sees us heading to see Mikey J, my co-host on the Rx Power Hour compete in the XPC 3 meet powerlifting meet.

Sat afternoon event 3 of the ASC on the main expo stage.

Sat afterwards I have arraigned for a meet and greet with a few strongmen to meet with Ronnie Coleman at the RCSS booth. Ronnie needs to see what real size looks like!

Sat evening will have us at the Vet for the finals of strongman. Bill Kazmaier, Mike Jenkins and myself will have unique perspectives on the weekends strongman events.

Sat night/night will have me editing video and not out at the Arnold after party.

Sunday we will be out at the Highland Games Heavy Events outdoors in the rain, sleet and snow. Kilted men throwing big objects! the current and two former world champions will be contesting the 5 events for the amazing bronze Dinnie statue!

Sunday night is time to unwind with a staff dinner and to celebrate SallyAnnes birthday!

Monday.... sleeping in!!!!!!!!!

[guruhonza]

this will be fun

I really hope Derek wins this.

[M4BTEAM]

this will be fun

I really hope Derek wins this.

Good luck to Mikey J. He said he'll be attempting 1000lb squat, so let's hope he can pull it off. That's an insane amount of weight!

[Big Barry]

If Mikey manages that squat Bryan should interview Mikey on Power Hour... even though he's the host! LOL

[TheRage93]

this will be fun

I really hope Derek wins this.

I like you. Derek Poundstone and Kevin Nee are the 2 main people who have influenced my decision to strength training. Amazing athletes. They're my heroes! I hope Derek wins as will. I know one thing... No one is beating him in the circus dumbell!!

[guruhonza]

Derek is THE REASON I follow strongman competitions. He does well promoting the sport.

[Big Barry]

I would love to see Poundstone win! People have thought for a while that he's in decline now, I want him to kick some ass and prove everybody wrong! That would be pretty damn cool.

[M4BTEAM]

Derek will have some tough competition, if he wins he will be regarded as one of the front runners for the rest of the year, and the lead up to WSM.

[Bryan Hildebrand]

boys were just announced and we are ready to begin.

Adam Scheer

Mike Burke

Brian Shaw

Krtysztov Radzikowski

Derek Poundstone

Vytautas Lalas

Jerry Pritchett

Mark Felix

Mikhail Kokliev

Thor Bjornsson

Scherr and Thor pass on the big log.

Shaw up first on the big log. 440lbs! Cleans the log and looses his balance and drops it. 2nd clean is good, near miss. Cleans count for points. He may come back and try the smaller sub-400lb log.

[Bryan Hildebrand]

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Misha nails #1! Good clean, missed press. 3rd clean is good. 90 second time limit. 3 cleans and 1 press is the new leader.

[Bryan Hildebrand]

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Jerry Prichett with a good clean, missed press.

Radz is up and nails the first press! 2nd press nails it! just missed #3. New leader!

[M4BTEAM]

Great to see this underway. Good luck to all the athletes and hopefully nobody gets injured this year... the weights seem ridiculous!

[Bryan Hildebrand]

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Vytautas up next. Dark horse material! nails number 1. all muscle, no technique! good clean, no 2nd lift.

Derek is up. Little Torx to clear his head... good clean, missed press. two cleans.

Mike Burke has a good first clean, drops it and tried to pass out. fell to the ground, a little wobbly but ok. helped off stage but appears to ok.

[Bryan Hildebrand]

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Adam Scherr up first. Big Country up first on the small 378lb log. clean and lost it on the top... falls off over the back of his head. 2nd clean easy. just missed two presses but couldnt lock it out...