Devon Larratt

That's probably a good example of how not to overload yourself

yeah definitely i think that's true i think we don't know where the limit is with climbing because you know what you lose in strength or power you'll make up for in technique and tendon stiffness and tactics and uh these things kind of negate each other and it is exciting um because i think we're going to see people climbing into their later years more and more um I was listening to Devon Larratt actually talking on the Joe Rogan podcast about being 51 and feeling like his performance is increasing.

And it's really interesting to hear his training approach is very different to what I'm talking about with climbers here in that the volume was really high.

And I found that really interesting.

But where did all of this begin? Where did the story of the Kandahar giant actually come from? Are these giants just members of an unknown human population hidden deep within Afghanistan's mountains? Could they be descendants of some undiscovered giant primate, or distantly related to the extinct Gigantopithecus? Or is the Kandahar Giant simply a modern legend assembled from much older stories? This is the mythology of the Kandahar Giant.

The legend resurfaced on June 2026 when armwrestling icon and former Canadian soldier Devon Larratt appeared on episode 2510 of the Joe Rogan Experience.

Before his armwrestling career, Larratt served in the Canadian Armed Forces, including with Joint Task Force 2, Canada's elite special operations units.

During the podcast, he described seeing an unusually large Afghan warlord while deployed in a mountainous region.