Sons of Anxiety Strength Club

Sons of Anxiety Strength Club is a Blackburn based free strength/strongman/woman group that welcomes 18+ year olds regardless of experience/strength/fitness levels. It was formed to make training accessible to everyone who finds traditional gym environments a challenge. There are coaches to help and you’ll always be met with a warm welcome in our private well equipped unit. Sessions are every Sunday at 3pm. Message if you’ve any questions 🙏🤓

Sons of Anxiety’s free session is on at 3pm today in Blackburn. There’s coaches on hand to support new people. These sessions are a great way to get involved in a community of people working on being better humans

What a day!! It was a beautiful thing and it couldn’t of happened without some absolute soldiers;
Leah & Paul Wilkinson
Paddy Lawsonand Grace
Danny Scott
Ben Dean
Wayne Fulton
Steve the Mighty Duck
Stevestrongmanfan photos and vids
Andrea Seed
Abby Carter
Tommy Cunningham and Michelle
Red Rose Recovery
Fielding's Plumbing,Heating & Tiling
The Hub At Shadsworth
Xplosiveape
Kaos Strength Gym
Green Slate Trophies
The Big Local Community Shop
Shad Chefs - The Council Estate Food Connoisseurs
All the spectators 🤓
All of the awesome athletes 🦍⚔️
Thank you all for your work, dedication and passion.

We’ve had a few of our loaders for tomorrow’s event cancel and so we’re looking for volunteers to help between 11-3 tomorrow at Delph Lane Field BB1 2HP. You don’t have to stay the whole event if that’s an issue. You’ll be fed, watered and appreciated. Message me if you need more information.

Tomorrow is the day!!
POSTCODE BB1 2HP
There’s a primary school and old folks home; between them is a footpath you can drive down to access the field.
We’ll be there before 10am and the competition starts at 11am. Athletes arrive no later than 10am please.
Big thank you to sponsors;

Fielding's Plumbing,Heating & Tiling
The Hub At Shadsworth
and
Xplosiveape for providing the T-shirts

The printing presses have been rattling away; the T-shirts are being collected tomorrow and the programs are done 🦍
2 days until the Shad Showdown Strongman/woman Competition.
Free for spectators.
11am onwards
Delph Lane Field
BB1 2HP
Our event sponsors logos are looking good 🤓
Red Rose Recovery
Fielding's Plumbing,Heating & Tiling
The Hub At Shadsworth

Meet Larry (70kg), Curly (80kg) and Moe (90kg)! These bad boys are fresh out of the packet and loaded today with 240kg kiln dried sand. The inters lifters will be hoisting them over a 240kg yoke that they’ve already carried 15metres. This event is going to be extremely tough IMO.
Athletes eat, sleep and hydrate well in your preparation 🦍⚔️
Shad Showdown Strongman/woman Competition. is nearly here!
Gratitude to our sponsors and supporters;
Red Rose Recovery
Fielding's Plumbing,Heating & TilingThe Hub At Shadsworth
Community CVS
and hosts for the day at their awesome carnival The Big Local Community Shop
The competition is being held on a tarmac football pitch at Delph Lane Field BB1 2HP and athletes must arrive no later than 10am to register, get T-shirts and be briefed for the first event.

Good news for SoA lifters; I weighed the log which i previously believed was 40kg whilst preparing for the upcoming competition. It turns out it actually weighs 47kg!!

Shad Showdown event rules.
Postcode for the event is BB1 2HP please park responsibly either on the field accessed by driving down the footpath (space allowing) or on the road outside NOT BLOCKING other drivers or entrances.
I love strongman/woman because of the community and support we show each other; let’s show those assets to the wider community.
Work hard and be decent folk 🦍⚔️

A big shout out to Leah for putting together this top quality event day program. This will showcase the athletes, referees, event details and more. On the day there will be glossy copies handed out free which will be a great keepsake for those involved.

The time is approaching!! Spectators and Competitors the postcode for the event is BB1 2HP. Competitors please arrive promptly at 10am or before to register, sign disclaimers and collect your T-shirts then you’ll be briefed on event 1 🦍

The trophies have landed!! These awesome metal and glass beauties will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in both Men’s Novice and Men’s Intermediate categories 🏆
First place winners in both categories will also get £50 in cold hard cash 💷
Roll on the 3rd August.
Thanks to our sponsors Red Rose Recovery Fielding's Plumbing,Heating & Tiling and The Hub At Shadsworth.
Lets get it on!!!

Don't miss our Summer Carnival incorporating the fantastic Strong Man Competition by Sons of Anxiety Strength Club
We will have a selection of stock from our The Big Local Community Shop plus lots of activities such as Archery, Axe throwing and S'mores with Lancashire Outdoors Bouncy Castles, Owls by MMB Falconry, dance performance by Zoë Taylor Dance Academy - Blackburn, Music by our friendly DJ - Darren, Food & Refreshments plus lots of games and crafts stalls such as Rustic Beam Craft and charity stalls such as Carole's Charity Corner
You will also see representatives from Shad Chefs - The Council Estate Food Connoisseurs Man Hub and Red Rose Recovery plus lots more 🎈🎈 Looking forward to seeing you there 🎈🎈

Free this Sunday in Blackburn at 3pm. Log pressing with Sons of Anxiety

A big thank you to Xplosiveape and Marc Cherry for hooking Sons of Anxiety Strength Club up with 33 Xplosive Ape T-shirts for the competitors and crew at the upcoming Shad Showdown strongman competition (3/8/24 in Blackburn). Marc messaged me seeing I was running a competition and offered the T-shirts for free (£10 postage) and they arrived today; within 24 hours of posting 🦍.
They’re now at the printers having the other logos added and the guys will be looking fine on the day!
If you’re a competition organiser then get onto Marc and he could save you dough by doing the same.
Cheers dudes!
Thanks as ever to our other event sponsors Red Rose RecoveryFielding's Plumbing,Heating & Tiling and the hub at Shadsworth.

FREE!!
Freestanding pull-up/dip/captains chair
AND
Rowing machine.
Collection only from Blackburn

ONLY 3 weeks to go!!
We’re looking forward to seeing you all at Delph Lane Field BB1 2HP on Saturday 3rd August with the competition starting at 11am sharp.
ATHLETE REGISTRATION is at 10am where you will be given your competition T-Shirts and then a briefing on the running order and rules of the first event.

We have ourselves a competition people!! 🦍
Unfortunately we didn’t have enough female sign ups but we do have two meaty men’s categories.
All the sign ups are done and here’s our athlete list;
MENS NOVICE
Harry Starkie
Steven Driver
Connor Gregson
Liam Conlon
Kris Lee
Jamie Fitton
Bradley Saggers
Grant Saggers
Nathan Jackson
Gaz Gorton
Curtis Darby
MENS INTERS
Adam Shackleton
Daniel McKenna
Dan Charlson
Mike Redd
Josh Lingard
Johnny McGee
David Armstrong
Dan Fish
Get yourselves down to Shadsworth for a great family day out on 3/8/24 from 11am.

Today is the last day for signing up to the Shad Showdown Strongman/Woman competition! There are spaces for Female Novices and Intets however if we don’t get a minimum of 4 in each of these categories then they won’t be run. Currently there are 2 Inters and 0 Novices. If you’re a female and want to inspire others and challenge yourself then this is your last call to arms.
Check out the weights and events by looking at the pinned post on our page