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The reigning World’s Strongest Man, Martins Licis, glorious proved that even when he isn’t performing at his easiest, he’s quiet greater than most. In a drawl video shared to Instagram, the Latvian strongman demonstrated how he’s adjusted his training routine whereas recuperating from a unusual accident that left him requiring stitches — after which showed off that he’s quiet ready to squat more than 400 pounds.
“About a weeks within the past I purchased hit by a automobile whereas utilizing my bike,” he outlined. “Received stitches in my left elbow, be troubled my left shoulder and bruised my tailbone. Fortunately, no fractures or broken bones! Oddly enough, light-ish, paused, zombie squats are the only squats that don’t be troubled excruciatingly fair now. So here’s the heaviest weight I’ve lifted in just a few weeks! 407lb (185kg) tender, temporarily paused, zombie squats.”
He then adopted his squats with the first set apart of farmer’s carries he’s been ready to pull off since sooner than the accident.
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Coaching through injury has change into a ordinary theme for Licis in 2020. After scraping by within the Arnold Classis 2020, he has been taking advantage of his time faraway from competitions in quarantine to focus on repairing injury to his knee, working with Dr. Aaron Horschig, DPT of Squat College to proper some ordinary an injury in his knee that had been causing anxiousness and affecting his coordination. Segment of that restoration activity has fervent incorporating more stabilizing exercises into his exercises, training for stability and mobility as effectively as energy.
And that exhausting work is paying off: Licis went procure-for-procure with old World’s Strongest Man title holder Hafthor Bjornsson, aka The Mountain, in a far off training session for the length of lockdown.
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