One of the coolest parts of the Scottish Festival was seeing all the different athletes competing in the different games. I would have loved to get involved in these types of sports if I were younger.
There was a booth for Bucked Up which is a local preworkout/energy drink company. They had a bench press set up with 135 pounds on it and gave out free energy drinks if you could get five reps. If you can do 50 reps of it, you get a free case of their energy drinks and everyone near the booth would get a free drink too.
I hadn't lifted any free weights outside of my Tonal for almost two years, so I wasn't sure how many I could get. When I lifted the bar off, it felt so much different from what I have been lifting, but I was able to get 38 reps, which isn't too bad considering I haven't bench pressed free weight in so long.
There were so many people there competing in feats of strength and it was so cool to see. I almost got hit by a stone someone threw while I was taking pictures of the people trying to throw a weight over the bar with a pitchfork. I think that event comes from people competing back in the old days when they were throwing hay.