Training like our ancestors and bringing back the old ways that were gone but not forgotten


Is there a test of strength more pure than putting the wind beneath a natural stone?

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Conor Heffernan

(Dr Dolittle)

Dr. Conor Heffernan is Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Ulster University. He studies and writes on the history of strength and fitness over the past two hundred years. An avid stone lifter, Conor co-wrote the first academic article on stone lifting in Ireland

Conor in action 1

 

  
     
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