Ed Cosner CSCS

This is a short clip of a longer story I’m writing, often I’m asked how I got started on this unbelievable Journey I’ve been on, traveling the world to lifting and throwing Steel and Stone So come along with me as I jump in my Time Machine and head back to Dec 1981 when my training partners and I headed out on an epic journey that honestly changed my life!! One night after training we decided that we needed to travel around Europe for a few weeks of lifting, throwing, eating big, drinking good beer and chasing girls (not that I had any chance of catching one since I had less ‘skill’ then than I do now!! 😂). We met in Frankfurt and boarded our train headed to Paris then it was off to Barcelona, it was there that we decided to go to Rome to see the ruins and explore everything Gladiators, next we dropped down to Naples before going to Venice and then hitting Munich for the Christmas markets then sadly heading to Würzburg where we ended our journey. We had no timetable, we stayed in each city as long as we wanted, trained like manics at hardcore gyms we discovered, found places to stay like military bases, hostels or just crash on the floor of our new found friend’s places. We ate good food and drank even better beer and wine… I even managed to talk to a few girls!! On this trip I was bitten hard by the Iron Bug and honestly I’m still just as passionate some 40+ years later at 63 as I was back then at 19. #powersportstrengthconditioning #oldstrongguysrule

@josiahjdp I did because of your story today!!! Looking forward to more from you

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@josiahjdp Just WOW!! Amazing writing captivated me!!!

Let's do this again in the next coming story. Anticipate this coming one! Promises to keep you on your toes. 🍿 Until then, see you.

Part 5 🍿 (Final) The divorce took five months. That sounds fast unless you are the person living inside it. Then, five months is long enough to age a year every week. May was depositions. June was financial discovery. July was custody evaluation reports, attorney letters, and Paige trying three different emotional strategies in the parking lot after exchanges. First, she was sorry. Then she was angry. Then she was nostalgic.

Hahahaha!!! This is absolutely brilliant I wish I’d have thought to do this when I got my “Dear John” letter when I was in the Army

What an incredible voice

@MarkHoover71 @MonteSparkman @bighousepower Started using a Tendo Unit back in the mid-2000’s …. still use it often in my training especially during throwing season in the Highland Games. Too damn many coaches jumping on the bandwagon with no clue on why… they’re also the first ones to jump off too!!

@MonteSparkman Yes 🤣 I think it’s hilarious that people saw @bighousepower post and thought he was saying don’t use VBT!! I talk to him every day. Trust me he uses it. He was just giving his opinion on how to use it!! Crazy the firestorm on IG 🤣

So……..Is everyone still using VBT, or no???

@RealMikeBoyle Love the old squat racks and while we had supportive gear back then it was nothing like this crap today!! Hell the knee sleeves today are tighter than any wrap I ever had on my knees!!! Get out meet shirt one size smaller thinking it would help us in the bench press!!’

@EdCosner Here’s me coaching Howie Hoffman multi time Teenage National Champ. Boston Open I think?

#NewProfilePic Competing in my First Powerlifting Meet - 1985 198 pound class - 1st Place 600 Squat 402 Bench Press 578 Deadlift

I remember a post where you said you powerlifted 💪 I love the way we trained for powerlifting back in the 70’s 80’s and early 90’s, Eddy Coan and I had a long talk about how we trained back then and I still train that way with a few adjustments and I’m (fairly 😉) healthy and still training hard because of how I train and I keep learning BUT this is how I train and it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s how I train everyone. I learned early in my career that not everyone loves lifting heavy like me!! (YOU were one of the coaches I learned that from!!!) I still wanting to come out and hang out with you

Wish I had more pictures of my lifting and throwing. Here I was fresh outta the Army having just moved to Corpus Christi Texas to train for powerlifting under Rick Gaugler, I had been driving 6 hours down to Corpus almost every weekend to train and make it back to Ft Polk just in time for Monday morning formation and PT Strength has been my obsession for as long as I can remember but I also competed in the Highland Games where you have to demonstrate that strength. I’d love to see some old pictures of you lifting!!! You need to find a few and get them up Mike!!!

@EdCosner I wish I had pictures. Probably did my first meet in 1980? 475-275-475. Respectable, no drugs. Maybe people wouldn’t think I’m a pencil neck old man with glasses ( even though I am)

I’m cleaning out my gym bag and honestly sometimes I’m amazed at the things I’ve collected throughout the years. First picture was from the inside pocket, each thing I picked up I thought about and remembered where or who I got it from and of course there is a story behind each and every thing you see, like that purple Sharpie, my favorite color, given to me by someone very special to me back in the mid-90’s and it’s still going strong!! The pattern with the lifter on it was from hats a friend of mine made for me to sell to raise money for travel and training to compete at Texas Strongest Man back in 1998 or the little stone with a smashed face that when it was given to me she said that’s what I looked like when I squatted heavy!! 😂 On one end you’ll find Optimus Prime and a jacked red M&M. The other end has both of my Captains of Crush tags and the luggage tag from my first year with the Spurs. So many stories and special memories from a life STRONGLY lived in the Iron Game. #powersportstrengthconditioning #oldstrongguysrule

Oh Good Lord what the hell was I thinking when I decided it was good idea to go for a walk dragging this thing!!! #powersportstrengthconditioning #oldstrongguysrule

The standard speaks for itself. More from @GatorsFB soon 👀 #gatorsfb #Sorinex #MadeUSA

@Sorinex Summer Strong 19 is fast approaching and I’m starting to feel like a fat kid waiting on cookies to cool so I can devour them!! My first was Summer Strong 2 and I always look forward to seeing my friends and making new friends of a shared love for the Iron Game and her amazing History. #powersportstrengthconditioning #oldstrongguysrule #sorinex

Had a guy look at my lifting shoes and say, “ya know maybe it’s time for a new pair?!” I smiled and said an emphatic “not a chance in hell!!” I just sat there for a few minutes and looked at my lifters, thought about just how many times I’ve laced these up so tight that it almost hurt, how much weight I’ve moved wearing these beautiful shoes, just how many platforms in gyms all over this world that these lifters have been on… held together by a little tape, gorilla glue, sweat, tears and a lot of love for the Iron. I know that most people won’t understand what I feel inside and that’s okay because after all the years sometimes I don’t understand the love and passion that I possess for the Iron BUT if you’ve ever been around me you’ll know that passion and love is real #powersportstrengthconditioning #oldstrongguysrule

@RichOToole That’s funny!!! I just go hang out at Central Market on Westheimer searching for my future ex-wife 😉😂

I’m going to start an OnlyFans and rake in all that divorced milf river oaks money to fund the next album.

@coach_mel_redd Let’s just say… no one could blink!!!

@EdCosner And whatever they pregamed with 😂

Found this gem of a picture and my brain automatically jumped in the ole Time Machine taking me all the way back to the early 90’s!!! I was waiting tables at The Naked Iguana on the San Antonio Riverwalk and the American Gladiators came in, said they had walked past a few times and were just drawn in by my energy so that had to come in!!! I remember we had a blast talking training and oh so much more which included…. ah well those conversations I might just have to take to the grave with me!! 😉😂 #powersportstrengthconditioning #oldstrongguysrule