![]() A lot of people tend to make fun of me in my videos, like, “Oh, Martins can’t win another competition, look how light he’s lifting.” They keep comparing the weights I do in my training, but I spend a lot of time just reinforcing the quality of my motion. How do you manage to have such great form at such heavy weights and high intensity? Everyone knows they should drop the bar as soon as they can't complete a perfect rep, but in practice it’s awfully hard to do so. Something that's often said about you is how damn immaculate your form is. It’s almost like tuning up an instrument I’ve spent that last 18 months tuning my body up to be able to perform better. Then when I start lifting heavy again my strength can increase that much more quickly. I’m evaluating what my deficiencies are and improving those, improving ranges of motion as well as I can, and even though I’m not directly working on my brute strength I’m working on the quality of motion my body can achieve. ![]() I don’t just sit on a couch and wait for injuries to heal themselves, and I feel like a lot of people have that approach. While I’m recovering, I’m training a lot. How did you manage to build back so decisively while you were rehabbing injuries? This comeback is nothing short of astonishing. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. We recently caught up with Licis about his training program, recovery, and his thoughts about what his sport needs to continue growing into the future. Add in a fractured thumb and burst appendix this year, and nobody would have expected him to place at Rogue’s first Strongman Invitational this October-and yet he came first, beating the reigning World’s Strongest Man Tom Stoltman and earning a cool $133,351 in the process. Then came the injuries: nerve damage in his neck, hip and knee pain, wrist and elbow tendinitis (“I couldn’t even lift a 200-pound stone”), and then a car accident that damaged his tailbone and shoulders. At “just” 6'3", he was going toe to toe with monsters like four-time winner 6’8" Brian Shaw and the 6’9" defending champion Hafthor Bjornsson, yet he decisively won by a huge eight-point lead, the widest in years. "Anytime you're doing that type of lifting, you are stressing your system but you're also sending massive amounts of different recovery hormones and whatnot to the rest of your body, which is going to help heal that injured side a little bit faster.If there’s an underdog story in the sport of strongman, it’s about Martins Licis-and he just had his Rocky sequel comeback.ĭespite training for the sport since his teens, the 31-year-old raised a lot of eyebrows when he won 2019’s World’s Strongest Man competition. ![]() The single-leg squats were the most important exercises for Beckham's recovery because not only did it help build the strength and balance in his injured leg, but it also sped up his healing process, according to Hill. Single leg squat - A back squat that is only done on one leg that builds muscle but also helps improve balance and stability. ![]()
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