News Articles of Justin Blake

There are two big strongman related occurrences that have been going on in my life over the past month. One is the Cardinal Strength Challenge and the other is training for America’s Strongest Man. The Cardinal Challenge was a NAS sanctioned strongman contest that was promoted by ...

Over the past couple weeks the quality of my training has been improving drastically. Some highlights from my last two training sessions include: • Power Cleaning 240lb x 6 reps on a 2-5/8” diameter axle • Deadlifting a clean 705lb with just a belt • Log pressing 280lb for sets of...

Last Saturday morning was the King of the Mountain 3 strongman competition. With over 40 competitors, it would be a tough contest the whole way through. I got up around 6 a.m., and the family and I packed up and headed to Mt. Pleasant. After getting signed in, I had some time to check out the e...

Since competing in two strongman contests back to back in April, I took some much needed, although not desired, time off from training for strongman. Fortunately, I was still able to get in a couple of gym sessions in the interim. With a busy work schedule, a fast-growing baby girl, and finishi...

The Strongman Show of Champions at the Europa Supershow in Orlando was the first ASC pro strongman contest for the year. I am proud to have been able to compete and represent Team HMB at this contest. HMB has been an essential part of my regimen for the last 18 months by improving my ability to ...

The last couple weeks have been quite the ride, my wife and I had our first child on February 19! We were blessed with a beautiful baby girl, Mckenzie Joy Blake that weighed in at a trim 6lb-12oz. With the new addition to the family and the responsibilities that come along with it, recovering fr...

So far 2010 has been great, I’ve been working hard in training, building some good strength as well as getting better at strongman. My next contest will be in Orlando in April at the Europa Supershow. I can’t wait to compete again. Even though it seems like a long time from now, I&rs...

I recently returned from the World Strongest Man 105K Championship. Strongman Champions League and the Ukraine Federation of Strength Athletics hosted the competition. I left the USA on Wednesday night and 20 hours later I was in the airport in Kiev, Ukraine. A taxi was waiting and took us direc...

The last couple months brought a change of season and location to the Fenton Strongman Club(FSC). At the end of October all of our equipment was moved to a new location. The set up is awesome, in addition to our normal strongman equipment an Olympic lifting platform has been added and a nicely s...

The day started off as a typical fall day, cold and rainy. Since we are both new to the event, Adam Thatcher and I travelled down to the contest early to get familiar with the caber toss implements. After taking several tosses with the smaller cabers we decided we had learned enough to be compet...

With the new fall season comes a new challenge. I will be competing in my first highlander contest in October. The contest consists of 3 highland games throwing events, and 3 strongman events. The highland games events consist of a Braemar Stone put, 56lb weight throw over a bar, and the caber to...

Got to the venue in Bangor, Maine around 6:30, and it was pouring rain. I warmed up a little bit on each of the implements and then waited until the contest began. The dirt track we were on was starting to get slick but the surface was solid enough that we weren’t sinking in. The axle and ...

My training for 105k America's Strongest Man has been fierce since the beginning of the 2009 strongman year. As the defending champion, my number one goal in 2009 is to repeat (and keep the title in Michigan for the 4th straight year). This would allow me the opportunity to represent the USA at ...

This past weekend I competed in the Monsters of the Mall Strongman Challenge in Salina, Kan. I left Michigan Friday afternoon with my wife Jessica and Barkley from the Motorcity Strongman Crew. We arrived in Kansas City around 6:30 p.m., met up with John Albrecht and hit the road for the remaini...