After he was discharged, he returned to Cincinnati and picked up odd jobs ... It was like some guy who builds a rocket and it launches farther than any NASA scientist has ever been able to go.” ...

Competitors would pick one up at a time then try to push it down to the ground. The event came easy for some, like 6-foot-6 Tim Blakeslee, 33, of Waterville. “The strategy is to be a big guy and ...

but most of his exercises boil down to a millennia-old action you do every day—you pick something up, take it somewhere, and then put it down. “Strongman contests have been around since day ...