STRONGMAN SVEND KARLSEN REVEALS ITS POWER SECRETS.

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VIKINGS – POWER

THE STÄRKSTE MANN THE WELT, SVEND KARLSEN OFFENBART SEINE POWER SECRETS.

In a sport full of exotic names and eccentric characters Svend Karlsen from Norway is still one of the most colorful of everyone who has ever held the title of World's Strictest Man.

With the shouts of "Viking Power" before each startling attempt Karlsen entertaining and dominant. The 1.88 m tall, 136 kg heavy Colossus with 58 cm arms and 155 cm chest reveals his Training secrets and some competition stories from earlier Time.

QUESTION: You have before Strongman sport in powerlifting and bodybuilding competitions disputed. What did that teach you?

KARLSEN: I believe from bodybuilding too come gave me an advantage with the strongmen because I was with Knowledgeable about nutrition, which most strongmen athletes don't the case is. The discipline of being a bodybuilder helped me.

On the other hand there is a lot more camaraderie among strongmen. Everyone wants you help. In bodybuilding everyone had an ego. And do you ever have one Bodybuilder seen satisfied with his during a competition Was placed even if he didn't win? Strongmen are always friendlier and more humble.

QUESTION: You've got a joke at a strongman competition took part. What was your first impression

KARLSEN: I participated in exercises in the studio by far the strongest guy. But I had no technique. When I was in 1996 started, I had

everything, what I could, seen on TV. I didn't have any devices for the training, as nobody in Norway did strongman back then. But I almost made it to the final. So i decided to go home and get it right.

QUESTION: What were your best performances?

KARLSEN: The best squat I've ever done was 399 kg. The was raw (without tools). I managed to bench press and 408 kg deadlifting. I was shooting at a strongman competition over a 598 kg tire faster than anyone else. six Revolutions in 24 seconds. I think the hardest thing I have ever done was when I was pulling a heavy airplane.

QUESTION: What was your training program like?

KARLSEN: I always did a seven-week cycle. I made Sets of four repetitions each.

For example, if I wanted to do four reps with 400 kg deadlifts, I did seven sets of four reps each and 258 kg in the first week.

The next week, it was six sets of four repetitions each and 272 kg. Then five sets of four repetitions and 300 kg.

I further reduced one set and added 20 kg.

It is felt easy the whole time. I used the system for any exercise I wanted to be strong at.

QUESTION: After winning the World’s Strongest Man in 2001, you said that you are not happy

KARLSEN: Right after the win, I thought, “Now what?” I was so close to becoming world champion in bodybuilding and powerlifting, and I was so close to becoming world champion in strongman too. I didn't know what else to do.

For for a few moments I feel a little empty. But then, an hour after the award ceremony, I sat by the pool, drank an ice cold coke - as it was 43 ° there (in Zambia) - and heard AC / DC music. Then I could really enjoy it. All of the next year I became treated like royalty.