Rob Kearney, Professional StrongMan, World's Strongest Man Champion, strength coach of some of the toughest guys around, is happily dating a dude.Īs soon as his post hit, the strength and bodybuilding communities shifted a little. And that heart was pounding inches chest that Monday morning as he went on to Facebook and, for the first time in his life, gushed about how much he adored his boyfriend:
While Rob's professional athletic career may thrust his body in the spotlight he is nonetheless as human as the rest of us, and he has the heart of a romantic. But what about becoming an icon of social equality heroism? Yeah, that role would be a new one for Rob. He knows what it is to become an icon of accomplishment. And having managed so many strength accolade's before age 25, he is already quite clearly comfortable with being received with awe, envy and admiration. Global acclaim? Yeah, no big deal for Kearny. He recently came in second as a middleweight in one of the most prestigious of these global-level contests, making him, in effect, officially the second strongest man of his weight-cohort on planet Earth. Rob is already no foreigner to the spotlight: he's not only a professional strongman (yes, that means he lifts heavy stuff for cash money, folk), but he actually competes on an international-level, on the world stage among the strongest human beings currently documented. It is just a part of his day.īut this particular Monday would be one where Kearney shifted the thinking of an entire community and stepped - quite suddenly - onto the pages of social change. But unleashed, male super-strength is not uncommon to Rob. Thousands of pounds of steel and cement obey his aggressive, almost hostile muscular force.
His ability to use his thick, muscular frame to make immobile objects take momentum is astounding, and even intimidating. Rob's lifting and training make the rest of us gym-goers look like we're playing a lazy game of croquet. The guy moves quite literally tons of weight each week with nothing but his bare, brute strength. With his imposing shoulders and rebellious mohawked hair, Rob Kearney is undoubtedly a certain type of red-blooded man's man the type of powerhouse that holds the rest of us guys absolutely dumbstruck. One of Rob's days is a lot more - how shall I put it? - a lot more macho than the rest of us. Rob Kearney did not roll out of bed on Oct.