I've seen Larry compete with Strongmen in the gym and you can tell he's not there yet. He does have incredible static strength, but will not be good at the dynamic loading and carry events.
Small structure, he's no Pudzianowski.
Yeah, Larry seems to have put his strongman career on hold.
I suspect he has stepped back and taken stock of his own potential in the sport .He has lots of thing going on and he might well feel that for him the price- in terms of injuries and health - of competing on the international strongman circuit, is too high to pay.
"Strongman I've decided is a dangerous sport , because ,when I do strongman ,I don't want to do it for health and conditioning. I want to do it to compete at the highest level. So,when i'm training for strongman when i'm doing the movement it's hard for me to dial it back . Otherwise if I dial it back, i'm not enjoying the workouts.
So,with that said ,I've had two injuries already : a sub-q or potentially lat tear.I'm not sure what it was...I haven't been able to- I actually did get a CT and MRI , but nothing showed up. And the bicep i'm getting a scan tomorrow. So we'll see exactly what it is. There is pain , which is a good sign my PT tells me, meaning that the tendon ligament may still be intact. So it could be just something in the muscle belly - something minor. It's getting better daily .It happened a few days ago.
At the moment , I think it's wiser to focus on arm wrestling and bodybuilding , because for me to train strongmen and enjoy it and get the most out of it , I want to train towards something. Right now, there are no strongman competitions going on that i'm interested in. I have some unfinished business with Giants Live . I got injured a week out. It's where I had my first bicep tear, which was very serious. It couldn't be surgically repaired. So it's just hanging here towards the shoulder , if you can see the indentation. I want to do a Giant's Live strongman competition. So ,until that is up and running again and it's concrete set in stone, there's no chance of it getting cancelled because of Covid, I'll be doing bodybuilding and arm wrestling."