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My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

- Brian Shaw
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I know in my training, especially when I'm building up to a big 'max,' I can take as long as I want to be ready for that lift and mentally prepare for it. In the contest, some of that goes out the window. When your name is called and the bar is loaded, you've got to go whether you're ready or not.

First thing in the morning, it's very important to eat quickly. So I'm reaching for eggs.

I think the first contest I did, I was somewhere just over 300 pounds. With my frame, I needed to add more weight and put more muscle on to get better leverage and be more successful. Just to get stronger, really. I had to work really hard.

If you're the best at everything, you've got no one to challenge you and make you better.

Being a strongman is a real test of functional strength. What can you pick up, carry and how fast can you move it. It's not a weight room strength, it takes brute strength and power to lift, carry and pull all types objects from fire engines, Mack trucks, transport planes and large stones.

I've had to have some of my dress clothes tailored.

I want to show people how to do this at an exceptional level whether they are a competitor, a CrossFit strongman or someone who just wants to do strongman workouts at home.

When you are in a competition, and there's however many men competing alongside you, you do not get to determine when you go to lift... you don't know how many guys will make it to the next round. You don't know how long they're going to take.

What I will say is that there is no governing body in strongman. There's no federation. There's no group of people or person that overlooks the sport, or says that this is a world record, or 'we'll count this as a world record.'

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My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.