The Strongest Man in History

Excellent show. The sportsmanship is amazing. No drama. Awesome feats of strength. I use to watch the strongman competitions when I was younger. And this is that at its highest level. The only reason I didn't give it a 10 was because there was no heads up it was being filmed in Virginia. I would have traveled a hour to watch these guys live if it was an option. Always rooting for Nick!

I love watching this show. And it really highlights what an amazing guy Nick Best is.

I've always enjoyed the various strongman competitions since I was a kid. They would show up at odd times on ESPN, and they were almost always repeats (in other words--very different from watching a live world championship . . . . sometimes you'd be watching a competition from 10 years ago!). But they were still captivating, especially when Americans began showing up in the top ten. Hard not to root for the homeboys and hang on for the final event to see who'd come out on top.

Brian Shaw is from nearby Colorado, and it's hard not to like the guy. He is like this 6'8" 450 pound 5 year old. Not arrogant (and a 4 time world champion has earned the right to arrogance!), but gentle and thoughtful. I began watching occasional "Shaw Strength" YouTube clips a few months ago--which often feature him going back and forth with Eddie Hall (England's strongman and one time world champion) like two brothers with a great sense of humor.

So this show has added two more giants to the roster and follows them through a series of well scripted on location competitions which are tied to some old school legendary feat of strength. You get this mix of giants throwing around objects the rest of us can only stare at, and the kind of humor that makes a lot of us recall from playing high school or college ball -- so it's very funny and very watchable.

The thing I like--the real world strongman competitions are not making any of these guys rich. Training is clearly a full time, 365 day a year occupation requiring significant investments in training equipment, coaches, and diet. Even at the elite level, the prize amounts are a fraction of what American professional football and basketball players get. Bravo to the History Channel for finding a way to leverage entertainment and helping to support someone like Brian Shaw financially. I hope this series makes it for a few years and helps these guys out!

I'm watching this show from the perspective of someone who knows nothing about strongman. The only one of the guys I'd heard of before this show was Brian Shaw from a YouTube video of his diet.

The premise of the show is 4 guys doing feats of strength usually loosely based on a historical event. While it's always impressive to see the lifts, what really carries the show is their charisma and camaraderie. All of the guys are extremely competitive and constantly are hassling one another. Pretty much all my favorite parts of the show is when they're just interacting with each other.

While I'm usually not the biggest fan of reality TV, this show is definitely an exception. Everything about this show is genuine and sometimes they fail. I don't think these guys would ever deceive the audience with weight, they all have way too much pride.

The show can feel a little padded out for time sometimes, but I think that just comes with the genre. It also definitely makes you feel lazy and weak when you see how yolked these dudes are. I'd recommend this to anyone.

I like this show for the fact that these 4 strong men compete with each other to see who can compare to history's strong men, In a friendly competition And you learn a little history of each strong man who did epic feats of strength in history. The camaraderie between Brian, Eddie, Nick, And Rob is great!