Trey is such a humble guy. I like how Brian touched on him coming out of his shell over the years. I always wondered if that was just the limited spotlight Trey was given or if that was an accurate representation. I also forgot how young he is... He's got a WSM title in his future, and likely an ASMC title if he keeps progressing. I dont think we've even seen a glimpse of what his max potential looks like yet. And that's TERRIFYING to think about as an Open competitor myself. LOL
Such a nice bloke, the gentleman of strongman, love the guy. Thanks for doing this interview Brian, I think it's the first real interview we've had with Trey, including his back story.
Awesome one here. Trey has been my favorite since the second Arnold classic when he told us the story about his high school coaches. After Brian retires, he will be my top guy I'm rooting for.
Man, I hope his grip comes around. He would have no weaknesses and would no doubt have a great career. Not usually a podcast guy, but this one was great.
Brian’s gettin really good at this. He knows how to naturally keep the conversation going with guys who may not have a lot of experience speaking on podcasts and keeps it interesting. Good luck to you both this year! Also, good on you Trey for chasing what you wanted. I’m older now, but looking back my parents instilled limiting beliefs in me too as a child with stuff they didn’t understand. Is what it is, but everyone definitely chase your dreams. You only need to prove it to yourself
Trey's awesome, dude's definitely become one of big threats to anyone trying to make the podium of any given contest! Also the new table looks dope, hope you gave the plastic lawn table a proper send off
Trey, you remind me a lot of Big Z. Quiet and confident and let your actions speak louder than words can ever do. Will see you at the WSM next week! Am driving 18 hours to get there!
I’m not a huge strongman fan. If it wasn’t for Brian I might not have ever gotten into it at all. Super excited for Trey. He seems like he can take Brian’s spot as a guy I get excited to watch compete.
That push mower story brought back-lit of memories. When we got our farm it was run down. 3ft grass in the yard. Take the old Toro push mower forward 1 ft, pull it back. Forward a foot, pull it backwards. Our lawn was huge. Still is. God that sucked.
It's great to see what the athletes are like away from comp and interviews they do, this more laid back personnel approach makes you appreciate the person more
Knowing you are retiring, it’s very good to know there are a couple Americans who can compete with the best at WSM and probably win with Trey and Evan. Bobby to. You got one more left Brian, but time to pass the torch after.
Brian Shaw has always been a favorite for me in Strongman. I use to watch WSM with Magnus and then Phil Phister and Derek Poundstone and Žydrūnas Savickas. Trey has a good old school approach with not having grown up with much of a approach other then just lifting without a lot of professional training or knowledge. That shows natural strength as well. Great to get to know his background having not knowing much about him until this You Tube video and Brian’s podcast. Thanks this was a fun episode. Hope Brian wins and Trey does top 3. Also Luke and present strongman Tom Stoltman. Love for Luke to get top 3 he’s getting more towards Shaw’s age.
I know it's not gonna happen, but I'd love to see every training session with Trey and Brian. When Trey finds out he's pretty awesome, it's gonna be cool.
@@jackstepney3281I’d be good with Trey being the next Big Z. Most people say he’s better than Brian. I doubt he ever does as many comps as Big Z though.
Trey is a great strongman right now. Hard to imagine him being up there with Brian and Big Z. Similar to Mateusz in that they have a glaring weakness In which they could finish last in an event. Mateusz deadlift and Treys grip. I hope Trey can at least be mid pack in grip events, but you don’t see guys make up that much ground in grip very often. So easy to overtrain grip.
i have 0 doubt trey will make the final -- and with a the final events - realisticly i see him in 4th overall -- but with this years line up that will be an insane finish for trey -- leaving him ready to defend his shaw classic title
If Brian can mentor Trey. And help aid Trey with resources to fix the nerve damage from his accident Trey will be WSM. this interview shows clearly it’s time to put the coach hat. Call me a whatever but Trey has strong similarities and traits of prime Big Z and Brain
What sort of training style is recommended for training grip? Is it better to do heavier weights with 20-30 second holds. Or 10-15 second holds? Or 60+ second holds. Not sure which has the best carry over
probably 60+ secs or at least close to that. they are small endurance muscles which respond a lot more to constant middle load than short max out power, unlike other muscles. think of an old farmers / blacksmith's hand and how they built it for confirmation
Brian I hope you take a 5th title, I know Big Z was great, but I feel you're nearly as good as deadlifter, and yes Z was unrivaled overhead ... But you have always been in the mix for second, and Big Z was only decent in the moving events, and throwing, frankly the only one possibly able to compete with you is obie and Thor but I don't think either of them would claim to be a better thrower than you. Between your variety of objects, weights, and heights I think are basically unmatched. Basically I think you have the most area under the curve so to speak in being a week rounded capable strongman. If you have a bad event it's usually due to an injury that either didn't heal right, or recently occured, or you just knew how well you needed to place, and did just enough to manage it.
The moment you knock a round bale off the trailer in the wrong spot... And your grandpa isn't going to be happy about driving the tractor 2 miles to move it, you find out just how strong you are.
I hate the stone off in qualifiers. It's so grueling and depending on group composition, if you aren't first, there could be very little motivation to try in the qualifiers, you just do enough to beat the two worst competitors reliably, and then save everything for the stone off ... And personally I don't think the stone off is a fun or interesting thing to watch. At least put on a spectacle for the crowd with fingle finger off, like an 800 lb finger til the other can't match you. Or you could do a rising bar deadlift on 3 attempts, with an exception for unlimited attempts, if it would be a world record.
The stone-off is a God-awful tie-breaker. Every athlete hates it and it’s not even visually stimulating. Anything would be better than this. Hell, I’d much rather see a bench press off and a sumo deadlift ladder than a damned stone-off.
I like how everyone calls him Trey Mitchell the 3rd lol Do they not realize "Trey" is the nickname for the "3rd" part? It's like saying "ATM machine". It's just redundant.
Shaw Classic is a Brutal show, I know the Arnold advertises being the heaviest show on earth ... But they had to abandon that and go with more dynamic events, as their are so many fewer 400+ lbs behemoths vs back in the day with obie, terry, you Thor big Z, Eddie, and some high 300's, like Travis ortmyer, phister, Mike Burke, and a guy not z from Lithuania who for a few years showed up and was right around 400+/- 20 ish lbs. The sport is going smaller these days and personally I hate it as a spectator, as a fan who also cares about the athletes and their ability to live life after strong man and not die excessively early, I do like the move towards more movement events. But I do think it's worse to watch most the time, I like watching worlds strongest man, not world's fastest mover of a fridge. So I do like for the sport to lean towards putting on a show, like throwing, fingle fingers, whippy deadlifts maybe from more like a 12 inch pull rather than a puesdo rack pull, I think Brian has some like 70lb 24-30" plates from rogue, personally I think using those rubberized 70's on an elephant bar would be an amazing show for the crowd. Since they look like normal sized weights from a long distance, but then you put a normal plate next to them and you're like holy crap. That would be a way to standardize a big deadlift for people to train that is still something to put on a show, rather than practice on a powerlifting bar with powerlifting plates, and then showing up pulling 4 inches higher and on a whippier bar, without gyms needing the cartoon sized tanks on the ends of the bars, and they could likely find a leg press to that fits 70's and that would be a natural place for normal people to regularly use them. Since I think a lot of gym goers would regularly want to warm up with 1,2,3, and 4 of those a side then make smaller jumps from there. 140, 280, 420, 560+ the sled, and I think it would be more reasonable to accommodate people like you, who thinks 600 on a leg press is probably the amount of weight the sled alone should be.
Conan's wheel personally I don't know why I don't like it, but what I think would be cool is if you guys did more inch dumbbell snatches. I think strapless inch dumb snatches for reps would be a very good final event of a contest, preferably requiring the use of one dumbbell per hand and simultaneous lifting.
Thanks for having me on Brian!
Such a great time up there!
Trey you are absolutely my favorite strongman and inspire me to do better everyday
It would be awesome if you put out more content,your very inspirational
Was lovely to see a full interview. You’re so nice.
Thanks for representing us country boys! #Country Strong
Looking forward to seeing you at Worlds big man, have fun
Trey seems like old school strongman. I loved this interview.
Trey is such a humble guy. I like how Brian touched on him coming out of his shell over the years. I always wondered if that was just the limited spotlight Trey was given or if that was an accurate representation. I also forgot how young he is... He's got a WSM title in his future, and likely an ASMC title if he keeps progressing. I dont think we've even seen a glimpse of what his max potential looks like yet. And that's TERRIFYING to think about as an Open competitor myself. LOL
Such a nice bloke, the gentleman of strongman, love the guy. Thanks for doing this interview Brian, I think it's the first real interview we've had with Trey, including his back story.
I think that's the most I've ever heard trey talk lol. I love trey he's a awesome person
Really hoping trey gets a spot on the podium this year at WSM and the Shaw Classic!!
Awesome one here. Trey has been my favorite since the second Arnold classic when he told us the story about his high school coaches. After Brian retires, he will be my top guy I'm rooting for.
Man, I hope his grip comes around. He would have no weaknesses and would no doubt have a great career. Not usually a podcast guy, but this one was great.
Yeah really hoping he can eat sleep & breath grip for the next year or 2, get advice from Brian and Loz
Trey may be a soft-spoken southern gent but the dude is a unit.
Hearing their philosophy for success is very motivational.
Trey's humbleness makes him very likeable.
Just a humble hard working man reaping the results of his work.
Trey takes his anger out on Brian by winning The Shaw Classic. 😆
Brian’s gettin really good at this. He knows how to naturally keep the conversation going with guys who may not have a lot of experience speaking on podcasts and keeps it interesting. Good luck to you both this year!
Also, good on you Trey for chasing what you wanted. I’m older now, but looking back my parents instilled limiting beliefs in me too as a child with stuff they didn’t understand. Is what it is, but everyone definitely chase your dreams. You only need to prove it to yourself
Trey's awesome, dude's definitely become one of big threats to anyone trying to make the podium of any given contest! Also the new table looks dope, hope you gave the plastic lawn table a proper send off
Currently my 2 favorite strongmen, no doubt.
Such a gentleman. Great interview by Brian, opening Trey up in a different light. Cannot wait for more episodes.
TREY IS AWESOME AND BRIAN IS A GREAT MENTOR
Trey Mitchell is the epitome of "Country Strong."
I fully expect Trey to make the final at WSM and would not be surprised at all if he made any position on the podium. He's the goods...
So far so good!
Thank you for opening up Trey. He seems like a real Shy Guy I really appreciate this interview.
huge fan of trey, cool to see him in some long-form content. he’s a quiet guy, just likes to lay back and put the work in.
Trey, you remind me a lot of Big Z. Quiet and confident and let your actions speak louder than words can ever do. Will see you at the WSM next week! Am driving 18 hours to get there!
Trey such a humble down to earth dude one of the best strongman no question
I’m not a huge strongman fan. If it wasn’t for Brian I might not have ever gotten into it at all. Super excited for Trey. He seems like he can take Brian’s spot as a guy I get excited to watch compete.
I got into Strongman through Brian around the 2016 WSM, and have been a follower of the sport ever since.
Trey has the honor of being the first person to sit at the new table
That push mower story brought back-lit of memories. When we got our farm it was run down. 3ft grass in the yard. Take the old Toro push mower forward 1 ft, pull it back. Forward a foot, pull it backwards. Our lawn was huge. Still is. God that sucked.
It's great to see what the athletes are like away from comp and interviews they do, this more laid back personnel approach makes you appreciate the person more
Two of the sweetest guys ever ❤
Knowing you are retiring, it’s very good to know there are a couple Americans who can compete with the best at WSM and probably win with Trey and Evan. Bobby to. You got one more left Brian, but time to pass the torch after.
Great pod cast. Trey is such a good humble guy!
Brian has got to pass the Torch to the next Great American Strongman. USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I love this guy
Nice to see some more of Trey
You actually got Trey to talk. 💪🏻. Great guy!!
I enjoy Trey’s “Road to Arnold”. Wish they were longer
I forget about how rural some areas are. Treys story about weights is like he grew up 80 years ago
Love Trey! I loved seeing him with Will T!
Another great interview Brian!!! Trey seems like just an awesome friend to have. Great guy!!
Brian Shaw has always been a favorite for me in Strongman. I use to watch WSM with Magnus and then Phil Phister and Derek Poundstone and Žydrūnas Savickas. Trey has a good old school approach with not having grown up with much of a approach other then just lifting without a lot of professional training or knowledge. That shows natural strength as well. Great to get to know his background having not knowing much about him until this You Tube video and Brian’s podcast. Thanks this was a fun episode. Hope Brian wins and Trey does top 3. Also Luke and present strongman Tom Stoltman. Love for Luke to get top 3 he’s getting more towards Shaw’s age.
Thanks Brian and Trey. 💪✌️
I know it's not gonna happen, but I'd love to see every training session with Trey and Brian. When Trey finds out he's pretty awesome, it's gonna be cool.
Damn that's a beautiful table. Love trey! Big inspiration
Loved hearing Trey's story...very imoressive and motivating stay strong 💪
This podcast room looks amazing.
Cool to see the new table in action already!
Favorite interview
God bless Brian and Trey 🇺🇸
Trey needs to push TH-cam. Grow your following while you're placing high. Earlier the better.
Great interview, wish it had been longer 👌🏼
That table looks like it weighs over 1,000 lbs 😳
Great stuff. Keep up the great work Trey!!!
First podcast with the new table💯👌
If trey can really work on his grip strength he is going to be arguably unstoppable.
I know for a fact that Trey will be the next Brian Shaw. He's got that drive and insane static strength
I feel like he’s more similar to Big Z but do see similarities to him and Brian
@@jackstepney3281I’d be good with Trey being the next Big Z. Most people say he’s better than Brian. I doubt he ever does as many comps as Big Z though.
Maybe his coach/mentor after retirement, he's already his guy winning his competition beating the man himself
Body type/shape & the way he moves definitely big Z yes
Trey is a great strongman right now. Hard to imagine him being up there with Brian and Big Z. Similar to Mateusz in that they have a glaring weakness In which they could finish last in an event. Mateusz deadlift and Treys grip. I hope Trey can at least be mid pack in grip events, but you don’t see guys make up that much ground in grip very often. So easy to overtrain grip.
The limo ridin, jet flyin, stylin and profilin, Rolex wearin Mr Brian and that fancy new table woooooo 💪🏆🤘 lol.
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Love these interviews. Definitely think Trey is a future wsm
i have 0 doubt trey will make the final -- and with a the final events - realisticly i see him in 4th overall -- but with this years line up that will be an insane finish for trey -- leaving him ready to defend his shaw classic title
Big T. He has the Big Z aura. Floats around like Z. Power belly like Z, static beats like Z
I'm ready for Evan TRex Singleton to be on the pod
Hope you both have a great WSM
Shout out to Trey. That SE Texas sleeper! 💪
Also damn sick table!
I like trey
Nice
I Love You Guys 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🥇🥇🥇🏆🏆🏆🏆🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️
If Brian can mentor Trey. And help aid Trey with resources to fix the nerve damage from his accident Trey will be WSM. this interview shows clearly it’s time to put the coach hat. Call me a whatever but Trey has strong similarities and traits of prime Big Z and Brain
Yo Brian! Have to ask link to you guys office chair lol big guy need some extra support. Keep up the great work
Table looks nice.
What sort of training style is recommended for training grip?
Is it better to do heavier weights with 20-30 second holds. Or 10-15 second holds?
Or 60+ second holds. Not sure which has the best carry over
probably 60+ secs or at least close to that. they are small endurance muscles which respond a lot more to constant middle load than short max out power, unlike other muscles. think of an old farmers / blacksmith's hand and how they built it for confirmation
Huge respect to those chairs. I couldn't support a 400+ pound man for 45 seconds let alone minutes
I am digging the table, is that Ikea ?.
Brian I hope you take a 5th title, I know Big Z was great, but I feel you're nearly as good as deadlifter, and yes Z was unrivaled overhead ... But you have always been in the mix for second, and Big Z was only decent in the moving events, and throwing, frankly the only one possibly able to compete with you is obie and Thor but I don't think either of them would claim to be a better thrower than you. Between your variety of objects, weights, and heights I think are basically unmatched. Basically I think you have the most area under the curve so to speak in being a week rounded capable strongman.
If you have a bad event it's usually due to an injury that either didn't heal right, or recently occured, or you just knew how well you needed to place, and did just enough to manage it.
The moment you knock a round bale off the trailer in the wrong spot... And your grandpa isn't going to be happy about driving the tractor 2 miles to move it, you find out just how strong you are.
WHATSUP BRIAN!
Look at that table so nice probably more expensive than my car
I love this guy. I'm a brit but id sooner him win than any of the brits.
I don't have a James lol. When you win WSM you can get a James Trey.
Big upgrade from the plastic table haha
Trey needs to see Beau Hightower..he will fix him up
Can conquer about coaches from Trey’s home town.. a few a them were pretty damn shitty 😂 but that’s Texas high school football for ya.
Trey looks exactly like Eddie and Oberst had a child. He has Eddie's face and Oberst's beard
Does trey have good mobility? Feel like that is his weekness like Brian.
I hate the stone off in qualifiers. It's so grueling and depending on group composition, if you aren't first, there could be very little motivation to try in the qualifiers, you just do enough to beat the two worst competitors reliably, and then save everything for the stone off ... And personally I don't think the stone off is a fun or interesting thing to watch. At least put on a spectacle for the crowd with fingle finger off, like an 800 lb finger til the other can't match you. Or you could do a rising bar deadlift on 3 attempts, with an exception for unlimited attempts, if it would be a world record.
The stone-off is a God-awful tie-breaker. Every athlete hates it and it’s not even visually stimulating. Anything would be better than this. Hell, I’d much rather see a bench press off and a sumo deadlift ladder than a damned stone-off.
I like how everyone calls him Trey Mitchell the 3rd lol Do they not realize "Trey" is the nickname for the "3rd" part? It's like saying "ATM machine". It's just redundant.
So Brian has all those gyms, what's he doing after retirement? Caching and arm wrestling?
It's just a matter of when with Trey, not if.
Shaw Classic is a Brutal show, I know the Arnold advertises being the heaviest show on earth ... But they had to abandon that and go with more dynamic events, as their are so many fewer 400+ lbs behemoths vs back in the day with obie, terry, you Thor big Z, Eddie, and some high 300's, like Travis ortmyer, phister, Mike Burke, and a guy not z from Lithuania who for a few years showed up and was right around 400+/- 20 ish lbs.
The sport is going smaller these days and personally I hate it as a spectator, as a fan who also cares about the athletes and their ability to live life after strong man and not die excessively early, I do like the move towards more movement events. But I do think it's worse to watch most the time, I like watching worlds strongest man, not world's fastest mover of a fridge.
So I do like for the sport to lean towards putting on a show, like throwing, fingle fingers, whippy deadlifts maybe from more like a 12 inch pull rather than a puesdo rack pull, I think Brian has some like 70lb 24-30" plates from rogue, personally I think using those rubberized 70's on an elephant bar would be an amazing show for the crowd. Since they look like normal sized weights from a long distance, but then you put a normal plate next to them and you're like holy crap. That would be a way to standardize a big deadlift for people to train that is still something to put on a show, rather than practice on a powerlifting bar with powerlifting plates, and then showing up pulling 4 inches higher and on a whippier bar, without gyms needing the cartoon sized tanks on the ends of the bars, and they could likely find a leg press to that fits 70's and that would be a natural place for normal people to regularly use them. Since I think a lot of gym goers would regularly want to warm up with 1,2,3, and 4 of those a side then make smaller jumps from there. 140, 280, 420, 560+ the sled, and I think it would be more reasonable to accommodate people like you, who thinks 600 on a leg press is probably the amount of weight the sled alone should be.
they used to have fingals fingers alot
Conan's wheel personally I don't know why I don't like it, but what I think would be cool is if you guys did more inch dumbbell snatches. I think strapless inch dumb snatches for reps would be a very good final event of a contest, preferably requiring the use of one dumbbell per hand and simultaneous lifting.
Where is the badass plastic table!
Just go be a pro strongman, then tell your bullies to go check to see if their car is where they left it.
Take a drink for every “ya know”
Z 2.0
Some people just aren’t made for podcasts
Nice knee high sox with shorts lol
you know
I hate when someone talks and like every other word is like
Trey no Grip Mitchel
Table looks good