This Pint Has 20 Ounces

Andrew Bolinger, founder of The Strength Edge, joins us on This Pint Has 20 Ounces to chat about Calgary’s powerlifting and strongman community and why he founded The Strength Edge as a place for the city’s strongest men and women to get together and train together. A self described misfit, Andrew was having a hard time finding a gym where he could do strongman training and got wind of a group of guys who trained in a parking lot on Sundays. The first time he showed up he wasn’t quite sure what he was in for and started looking around for the strongest people he could find and asking them if they were there to train strongman. After only a few confused responses he eventually found 3 guys and a shipping container, flipping tires and lifting heavy stuff. Before long he recognized a big flaw with this arrangement - they couldn’t train in the winter, which made it pretty hard to master the events when they could only train for half of the year. From here they’d get set up with their first indoor “gym”, a double