Warrick Brant

Warrick had a good weekend at the Gold coast Strongman Challenge where he broke Derek Boyers current log press record by over 20kg and pulled the heaviest deadlift in Australian history.  Go to his youtube link to watch the videos.

Here is the report from Queensland Strongmans Joel Malone

Well, what a day! This was without a doubt the most difficult day I have ever had in any strength comp ever. Here's the run down on the Amateurs. And Warrick...LOL. Everyone rocked up at around 11am and we went straight into comp mode. Everyone was weighed in, the offi...cials and loaders were introduced and the laws were set…this was going to be one tough comp, I could feel it! As much as we were all there to do our best and push past standard our PB’s it was always going to be push between the top Ams and Warrick to see who the best was. Be honest isn’t it always like this ha ha. We all started off with a deadlift off the floor with straps or no straps it was up to you, there were no point deductions for straps as we were going by the Wilkes formula and weight was the governing factor. Deadlift: Mike – 300kg – missed a 330kg (JUST!) won on formula Dane – 300kg – missed a 310kg Joel – 270kg – missed a 280kg (JUST) this 280 seems to be the milestone for me right now ha ha. Then Warrick…..this man is amazing and pulled a clean and I mean clean 392kg dead from the floor with no suit!!!!! This ladies and gents is a new OFFICIAL AUSTALIAN STONGMAN RECORD….I do not care what anyone says, I was there and the video will be released soon. Then we had the 12.5” log press for max weight. This was were the animosity set right in and the uncertainty was thick as I have been sprucing off a bit lately about some bigger presses. Well here show we went. 12.5” Log press: Joel – 140kg press – could’ve done a 145 maybe a 150 but was happy to take the win. Mike – 130kg press – missed the 140kg Dane – 110kg press – missed the 115kg. And again Mr Brant came out and showed us how it is done with another AUSTALIAN RECORD of 181kg log press!!! Seriously amazing stuff. Video with lift and scaled weight coming. Well done Warrick. At this stage everyone was tiring as we had to wait for the novices and women lifters to go through all of their lifts and kudos to them all as they were all pushing great numbers and PBs were set by a few which was great. The medley was up next and this has been the cause of great controversy the entire time as the farmers implements to put it politely are F%$#en terrible!! They are the same height as barbell deadlift and seeing as though I am a 270kg deadlifter there was no way I was pulling 300 and walking with them! Due to this argument nearly coming to blood and tears (tears on my behalf ha ha) we all decided that the medley should have been done first so we dropped the weights. This was how it was set: Yoke = 360kg – 12m Farmers = 130kg – 12m (very low pick) Tyre = 280 x 2 – 360 x 2 – 520 x 1 No one finished the event including Warrick…so this was going to be interesting! Warrick – Yoke – Farmers – 2 x tyres Mike – Yoke – Farmers – 2 x tyres Dane – Yoke – Farmers – 2 x tyres Joel – Yoke – 6m farmers I was truly devastated after this event and was emotionally and physically destroyed, I could not believe I couldn’t do the farmers when I had been doing runs with 140’s that week!! Destroyed! Come this point everyone was truly knackered and was close to shut down but the thought of the last event was what was going to see me possibly take Mike down so I had to stay positive. This brought us to front squatting. Now I know what you are all thinking…this was designed for the two GC boys…but hey it was their comp so they can do what events they like. Front Squat: Mike – 202.5kg – Missed 230kg Joel – 185kg – JUST missed a 202.5kg (thanks for the big jump Jonesy!) Dane – 140kg Warrick – 280kg – Missed a 300kg…huuuge day was affecting us all. But I was not going to leave it there I had done a nice squat the week before and wanted to go for a 260kg raw. I ended up having to try for a 272kg which was damn heavy and I just missed it with big Dane having to give me a little help up…but a little help means no lift so I settled for a 255kg and did it with ease! I was happy now and could rest knowing I broke PBs on every event except the medley. After this we did the presentations and Warrick really out did himself with prizes and the winners from each category won a CAR!!!....nah just kidding ha ha. BSC supplied Warrick the prize packs which consisted of: - shirt - beanie - protein - protein bars - sample packs - shaker - and I think there was more So for all those putting on shows, get your finger out and start giving some top prizes as this was a real incentive for those just starting out. We all then showered and packed up and went for a top feed at Nonnas steakhouse and eat and drank like Vikings for the next 3-4hrs. This was a top day and a huge thankyou goes to the Brant family and the Jones family for all the work they obviously put into the event as it was true testament of two blokes who love the sport. It was a pleasure to be able to compete here. This event will be a yearly event and will be a classed as a very heavy pro/am next year and will once again be invite only for the top level guys in Oz to see where we are at. Till next year, thanks guys!