“I’m here for two reasons: to succeed at the sport of strongman, and to show LGBT folks and everyone else that this sort of success isn’t just possible but normal and acceptable,” Kearney tells me. And the third is that Kearney, openly gay since 2014 and married to husband Joey Aleixo since March of this year, pulls no punches about matters of identity. The second is that Kearney’s strongman workouts are masterpieces of technique and conditioning, where he uses excellent pressing technique to heft training logs and dumbbells and blasts through sled and yoke runs. The first is that Kearney, at 5’10” and 285 pounds, is a surprisingly normal-sized competitor-relatively speaking-in a sport filled with giants like four-time World’s Strongest Man champion 6’8”, 440-pound Brian Shaw and 6’9”, 440-pound defending World’s Strongest Man winner and Game of Thrones actor Hafthor Björnsson. Three things immediately stand out about Rob Kearney, a 27-year-old rising star in the professional strongman world who looks to make a big impact in this year’s World’s Strongest Man competition that starts June 13 in Bradenton Florida.
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