Adelaide’s Eddie Jo Williams is a multi-talented man. Not solely is he a two-time Australia’s Strongest Man winner in a position to carry unbelievable weights, however he can maintain a giant tune too. Actually, the man-mountain appeared on each Australia’s, and America’s Acquired Expertise, flooring audiences together with his ferocious power and velvet-like vocal expertise.
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 nearly all of his time smashing them as an alternative. The strength athlete holds the Guinness World Record for pulling a tank over 10 meters in 36.65 seconds and set one other world report in 2023, when he appeared on the Giants Dwell 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 outcome 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 right down to is the ache threshold,” explains the crushing crooner. “Whoever’s prepared to go to these darkish locations and simply actually struggle by means of your fingers, feeling just like the rings are going to chop by means of your fingers. So, it simply exhibits, it’s not solely about being robust, it’s additionally with the ability to simply maintain on, even if you’re like, ‘I’m in all probability going to interrupt a finger.’ It’s that type of grit.”
One of many greatest challenges that strongman athletes face is the irregular and unpredictable weights that they need to conquer. “Once I acquired the Guinness World Document for pulling a tank, how do you practice for that? Use a cow?” jokes Williams. “You utilize a automotive, however a automotive rolls and builds up momentum. A tank is completely totally different.”
As a lone strongman competitor in Adelaide, Williams needed to appeal the proprietor of his native health middle, the Strength Lab Gym to retailer all of his unconventional train gear. “I don’t assume she anticipated that I might 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 feel I’ve damaged extra issues than anybody else within the gymnasium.”
Happily, Williams is prepared to pay issues ahead for the subsequent era, permitting up and comers like BJ Stone to play together with his taxing toys. “I’m excited for him,” says Williams. “We practice 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 Trying 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, turned what Williams regards as a “recreation 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. With the ability to focus extra hours on strongman is paying dividends, and noticed the massive Aussie qualify early for the 2025 WSM by inserting third in final yr’s Giants Dwell 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 infrequently takes the mic following an occasion, a lot to the delight of audiences world wide. “So, as a lot as this can be a competitors in regards to the prime 20 guys, 27 guys on the planet, it’s a means for me to be taught extra about myself, so then I can enhance each competitors.”
