I started this section as a way of explaining why I started myself on a path to performing these feats of strength. Often people look at something like bending steel, ripping phone books and decks of cards, etc. and wonder why anyone would bother with it? The answer is strength. If you can do these things, you are strong, there’s no way around it. I like this concept for the same reason I like the deadlift. There’s no trick to a deadlift, no excuse to be made if it won’t move. You lift the weight or you don’t.

After I started training with kettlebells I began to consider myself strong. I was hitting good numbers in my snatch tests, I was pressing and getting up decent weight, my deadlift was getting better and better, but I still felt something was missing. I began following a blog by this crazy guy named Adam Glass who was doing these things that seemed impossible. Bending nails, bending horseshoes, ripping decks of cards, driving nails with his bare hands. As I researched this style of training more and more I kept coming back to one conclusion: It is possible for anyone to do this.

So that is where you find me now. Being that I’m very interested in history I am also interested in the history of performing strongmen. Not just the feats of strength they were able to pull off, but how they arrived there as well, and how they lived their lives. Over time I will be assembling the histories of individual old time performing strongmen in the links to the right.

Just as a note, when comprehensive information is available on the subject’s website I will just pull it directly from the source.