Adelaide’s Eddie Jo Williams is a multi-talented man. Not solely is he a two-time Australia’s Strongest Man winner capable of carry unimaginable weights, however he can maintain an enormous tune too. The truth is, the man-mountain appeared on each Australia’s, and America’s Received Expertise, flooring audiences together with his ferocious power and velvet-like vocal abilities.
Now, Williams is readying for the hotly anticipated 2025 World’s Strongest Man contest, and in an unique chat with M&F, the record-breaking athlete explains what separates the soldiers from the weaklings.
The 2017 and 2018 Australia’s Strongest Man, Eddie Williams has a voice that ought to be heard on information, however he spends the vast majority of his time smashing them as an alternative. The power athlete holds the Guinness World File for pulling a tank over 10 meters in 36.65 seconds and set one other world file in 2023, when he appeared on the Giants Stay Strongman Traditional on the Royal Albert Corridor in London and carried two uneven Nicol stones for 31.66 meters.
With one stone weighing 251 kilos (114 kilograms) and the opposite a whopping 306 kilos (139 kilograms), this feat stays unmatched, however one end result that Williams is chasing with extra vigor than ever earlier than is the title of World’s Strongest Man. With simply days away from the competitors, Williams informed M&F precisely what could make all of the distinction in every occasion.
Eddie Williams Proves There’s No Achieve With out Ache in Strongman
“What I put it all the way down to is the ache threshold,” explains the crushing crooner. “Whoever’s prepared to go to these darkish locations and simply actually combat by way of your fingers, feeling just like the rings are going to chop by way of your fingers. So, it simply reveals, it’s not solely about being sturdy, it’s additionally having the ability to simply maintain on, even while you’re like, ‘I’m most likely going to interrupt a finger.’ It’s that sort of grit.”
One of many greatest challenges that strongman athletes face is the irregular and unpredictable weights that they need to conquer. “After I bought the Guinness World File for pulling a tank, how do you prepare for that? Use a cow?” jokes Williams. “You employ a automotive, however a automotive rolls and builds up momentum. A tank is completely completely different.”
As a lone strongman competitor in Adelaide, Williams needed to appeal the proprietor of his native health heart, the Power Lab Fitness center to retailer all of his unconventional train tools. “I don’t suppose she anticipated that I’d convey every part. Atlas stones… yoke. Now she’s like, ‘you possibly can convey it in, on one situation: you possibly can’t break something,’” he shares. “And I believe I’ve damaged extra issues than anybody else within the fitness center.”
Fortuitously, Williams is prepared to pay issues ahead for the subsequent technology, permitting up and comers like BJ Stone to play together with his taxing toys. “I’m excited for him,” says Williams. “We prepare fairly a bit collectively.” It’s abundantly clear that William’s is an inspirational athlete and is constructing a strongman empire in South Australia.
Eddie Williams is Seeking to Progress within the 2025 World’s Strongest Man
Shortly after his spectacular fifth place on the 2019 World’s Strongest Man occasion, Williams took round 2-years off the from the game. Whereas his return has seen him break information, the athlete can be hoping to progress in WSM. Six months in the past, The Walker Company, the place he works as a safety guard, grew to become what Williams regards as a “sport altering” sponsor who not solely give him the time he wants to coach, however in addition they use his singing prowess at firm occasions, too. Having the ability to focus extra hours on strongman is paying dividends, and noticed the massive Aussie qualify early for the 2025 WSM by putting third in final yr’s Giants Stay Strongman Championships in Las Vegas.
“I like Strongman, since you be taught a lot about your self at competitions,” explains the multi-talented star who has serenaded Arnold Schwarzenegger and sometimes takes the mic following an occasion, a lot to the delight of audiences around the globe. “So, as a lot as this can be a competitors concerning the high 20 guys, 27 guys on this planet, it’s a means for me to be taught extra about myself, so then I can enhance each competitors.”
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