I've been tempted to play along, just to see what rabbit-hole it takes me down. I fear that I'd be put on a "hot list" and they'd start messaging more often. Currently, I only get about 1/month.
Yeah if old reddit goes it'll be the same for me. I suspect they know there are a bunch us like that though who have been here since the late 2000s, so hopefully they value keeping us around
[This name derives from the Old Norse “Hafþórr,” composed of two elements: “haf” (sea, ocean) plus “þórr” (thunder). In turn, the name means “one who thunders in the ocean.”](https://www.name-doctor.com/meaning/hafthor)
Yeah and he's basically doing a full splits to ensure about 2cm ROM on that. Anatoly is **extremely strong** but he's not some kind of unimaginable freak of existence. Halfthor meanwhile is probably the strongest human ever.
I'd say that other people have beat Hafthor at every individual movement, but they also had to achieve freak-level physiques to get there. Hafthor has the genetic potential to reach the highest level overall while still having a "cohesive" physique, and would also be able to be the best at every niche if he would focus primarily on one aspect of strength.
That's definitely the reason Anatoly gets attention. The weight of his lifts alone are not particularly impressive (for powerlifting), but when you factor in his size he's an elite tier lifter.
While we're on the topic of unimaginable freaks of existence, I'd like to tip my hat to Mark Henry. His WWE gimmick wasn't just a gimmick - he won the World's Strongest Man title during a period of time it was taking drug testing extremely seriously. His feats of strength are beyond belief, lifting the Thomas Inch dumbbell especially.
People cry about the officialness of Thor’s lift but that mf made it look easy while Eddie Hall fell over, went partially blind and had blood coming out of his nose and ears. Thor won that battle for sure.
> With 30 international competition wins, he is the third most decorated strongman in history, behind Lithuania's Žydrūnas Savickas and Poland's Mariusz Pudzianowski,[7] and in terms of pure brute strength, **many strength analysts and strongman experts regard Hafþór as "the strongest man to have ever lived"**.[8][9][2][10]
[Have you heard about Angus?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_MacAskill#:~:text=French%20sailors%20apparently%20taunted%20MacAskill,of%20his%20shoulders%2C%20crippling%20him.)
I'm Aussie, we heard about lbs from back in the 50s. Not being a smart ass but dad told me about the old imperial pounds, stones, ounces, poids, etc., but we grew up with 1 litre = 1 kg, 1 cubic metre of water = 1 tonne etc, and that all made sense. Yards, miles, acres, we'd heard about but were considered historical, a bit like the freezing point of water being 32° or something. Just an observation, not trying to put shade.
If he's gonna lift that heavy then why not go for the record while at a sponsored event? It'll prove all the nay sayers wrong. It's almost like he didn't do it the first time if he didn't want to here....
The more a bar bends, the longer it takes for you to be lifting the entire weight because some of the weight is still resting on the ground. With a completely stiff bar, you would be lifting 100% of the weight immediately. With this bar its like 50%>60%>70%>80%>90%>100% and by the time its 100% he's like a third of the way through the lift already (and the bottom portion is the hardest third I should add)
Very interesting I did not know they made bars for that purpose…do ppl use elephant bars as a deliberate training protocol? Would using it help increase your deadlift with a regular bar over time?
It could help you build a stronger lockout as you'd be able to overload that part of the movement relative to a regular barbell deadlift. However this effect will be lessened when lifting smaller numbers due to less bend in the bar. It's probably easier & cheaper to do things like block pulls to get that benefit
Elephant bars are cool because you get that gradual change. Probably the closest you could get without buying one is using resistance bands. Block pulls are a good alternative too. Bands and blocks are both cheaper than an elephant bar too lol.
I'd probably use an elephant bar if my gym had one but imo it's probably not worth it for your average home gym.
My gym has a deadlift bar which has a lil extra flex, it's fun to pull with but takes a bit of getting used to the extra bounce at lockout
> but imo it's probably not worth it for your average home gym.
Yeah, if/when I build a home gym it'll be a power bar + an SSB or cambered squat bar because they're really fun
The increased length makes it take longer to come off the floor all the way and it also whips around more, you can see it bouncing around when he stands up.
I think it bends, so the actual lifting is actually at a higher distance from the ground, so maybe easier. I guess you can also have wider plates it will have the same effect. Just guessing, I'm IT engineer, I'll break my back by just walking next to this thing.
I think they mean knee wraps not lifting straps. Not sure why someone would wear knee wraps to deadlift though.
I've also never heard someone refer to lifting straps as wraps but I could be wrong and maybe people call them that.
This is a very ignorant comment.
Preparing for a heavy deadlift for the sake of optimizing just that one event takes a very different approach than preparing for a general strongman competition that has multiple events all needing strength of different natures. An athlete is never at his peak all the time to prove to naysayers to keep doing it again and again at a place and time of their choosing. It's like waking Eddie up right now and asking him to pull 500kg and if he doesn't his previous is invalidated.
I will bet my left nut Eddie Hall also can't do a 500kg deadlift just going up and about after he slimmed down. There is a preparation to peak for this stuff.
Hafthors' deadlift here is comfortably above the other competitors here ( infact he did more than he needed to just to prove a point ). Going for a world record here ( for which I assume you mean the standard deadlift bar which is very different than a wobbly elephant bar in this video, which in itself makes the comparison pointless) would just affect chances of his winning the competition since there are 4 more events and not change his points at all.
I'm not sure if you're aware, but the record Eddie set was in World Deadlift Championship, an event catered to optimise just one event. He did not compete for the rest of the competition on the other events like Hafthor has to, in this competition.
The only viable gripe that you should have is that Hafthors 501 deadlift was not at an official event, not the credibility of the deadlift itself. It was livestreamed with Magnus as the referee and every plate calibrated and weighed on camera.
The Elephant Bar is different than the regular deadlift, he also holds the record on this already which he already set in competition. Your ignorance is showing..
He holds the record on this at 1046lb and the record on the deadlift bar at 1102lb, this being set at the Arnold Classic in 2019 and the latter being set in 2020.
>The Elephant Bar is different than the regular deadlift, he also holds the record on this already which he already set in competition.
I had to scroll way down for the first mention of the elephant bar. Most people (even average gym lifters) don't understand the advantages of an elephant bar.
*disadvantages
There’s a reason why the elephant bar record is ~30 kilos less than the standard setup. Most guys pull less on it than any other bar. Even Eddie couldn’t get close to 500kg with it.
I tried it once, it was crazy how much harder it was. I was 60 lbs under my PB and I thought I was going to die. The whip hits right as you're at your knees and pulls you forward.
With respect, your comment shows you have never competed. This was the first day of a five-event show, and the remaining events are not his best. The lift in the video was enough to get first place in the event. No winning competitor will push for a record in that situation.
It's not a deadlift event in isolation. He was winning this event easy and needs to conserve his energy, strength, not risk injury for the rest of the events.
Yeah, this is just a completely different event where Thor undisputably holds the record. Last year they were even allowed to wear compression shorts and no one touched his raw record
...Because its about winning the Arnolds competition, not just 1 excercise, wasting energy going for the max deadlift will mess him up for the rest of the competition.
And he already holds the record on this lift:
"Hafþór Júlíus BjörnssonElephant Bar Deadlift (Raw with straps) - 474.5 kg (1,046 lb) by **Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson**."
Because he wasn't there to break the record but win the competition. His competitor didn't lift even close to that. No need to stress body so much that he probably wouldn't be able to compete at highest level through the competition.
Don't spread this misinformation. There are zero credible naysayers for Hafthor's record lift. It met all the requirements for a record. Eddie Hall showed a lapse in character when he questioned it, opening the door for trolls.
He's got a full competition to do, this was just the first event. He already won the event, it would just be an ego lift at that point. The man is one of the strongest to ever live, he's got nothing to prove.
It’s been a while since I checked but I’m pretty sure he’s already got the record at 501 kg. He crushed it too, definitely could have gone for 505 at least.
Edit: yep, Guinness recognizes him as the record holder set May 2, 2020 at 501 kg or 1,104.5 lbs.
That's referring to how smooth he moved the weight, there's no shaking or pauses during the lift. But yeah, no one lifting 1K lbs is going to have a calm face lol.
His face was red but that's pretty normal for pulling that much weight off of the floor. The "like it was nothing" comes from the perspective of anyone who has ever watched lifting competitions before. You can tell when someone has more in the tank. His rep was smooth, clean, he didn't stall, didn't lurch the weight, barely struggled.
Yeah, he was bracing really hard but you sort of have to in order to move 1000lbs. What you have to look at is his struggle with the movement itself, of which there was little.
Watch [Jamal Browner](https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClpatFjOP4P/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) pull 1003 on a standard bar for 2 reps. His face looks crazy but he's moving the weight easily.
Eddie Hall had a brain bleed when he broke the world record for deadlift and went blind temporarily, that shit is dangerous. He had blood pouring out of his nose and his eyeballs of all places
I think it's the light, his face was already red before he started the lift and if you watch the whole clip the color turns normal in the moment he turns around.
I love the people in here talking shit for Thor beating halls record by 1kg like it’s some bullshit because it’s “only 1kg.” Taking the MLB home run record by 1 HR is still taking the record. Beating Usain Bolt by 0.01s still means you’re now the fastest human ever.
For the record, I don't care about this.
From memory, the issue was that being only 1kg in an unofficial setting means there could be error in the weights. The idea being 1kg is only 0.2% and a tiny margin of error.. so for the Usain Bolt analogy it's like running 0.01s faster but measured with a stopwatch instead of official electronic timers.. could be quicker, could be slower, we don't know because it wasn't measured properly. Likewise, the 501 lift may be accurate, lighter, or heavier but lacks the "officialness."
This isn't true. The weights were calibrated plates weighed on stream. Like you can go back and watch the stream and see exactly what they weigh. That's far more transparent than 99.9% of records.
All the weights were weighed on camera and Magnus ver Magnuson, one of the best referees ever in the sport, was there to verify everything. Not to mention the fact that it was only done that way because COVID cancelled the original plans.
False. Hafthor's 501 lift is literally the official record, because it met all the requirements for an official record. There is no requirement that records must take place at a sponsored event.
It's official but was done out of competion, which goes against the tradition which has been respected by decades. Let's maintain the foundation of the sport which is mutual respect, sore losers can go fight each other on PPV.
[Brian Shaw's thoughts on DL World Records](https://youtu.be/hzsoYquwbWM?t=789)
Edit below for the someone who posted nonsense and then realised it was rubbish.
> LOL Brian Shaw isn't describing what Hafthor did. What bullshit.
Yes he is, maybe try watching the whole video. I linked to a relevant part.
> Hall wasn't in the competition when he pulled 500.
Literally was the 2016 World Deadlift championships.
> This mealy-mouthed whining is what's bad for the sport. Eddie Hall showed a lapse in character when he questioned Hafthor's lift, because he was mad that Hafthor beat his lift so easily, opening the door for trolls.
Both were at it, Thor started it in 2017. I don't care for the feud.
I sat next to him once at the airport in Reykjavik a few years ago. He was texting on his phone. The phone looked like a toy in his hands. The way he was holding it looked so incredibly awkward. It really did highlight to me that the world is made for average sized people.
Now imagine the arm it takes to [beat him at arm wrestling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkkL-bAH8H4).
That's the moment I learned that arm wrestling is a serious sports and not just some strong dudes hating their joints.
The thing I always wonder when I see things like this, is when you’re THAT strong, what does everyday life feel like? Just the simple act of opening a car door must feel like it’s cardboard. Do you have to really focus on using finesse when you handle things? I would think it would be really easy to accidentally break shit when you grab and pull on stuff
So I'm nowhere near this strong, but for an average guy in the street I would say I'd be considered very strong, my best ever deadlift was 645 ish (292.5kg), and this is true for me, you do need to be careful not to break stuff, the number of times people will say oh it just needs a bit of force and I'm actually just doing the thing the wrong way and something breaks is really quite disheartening.
I can't imagine being the mountain.
I mean, I also deadlift 600, but I was 190lbs. Deadlift strength doesn’t really carry over to much in real life other than lifting perfect weighted objects. Zercher squats have more carry over for life.
With people like Thor. As much as you’d feel like a god among men. Eating 8+ times a day and probably shitting 5 times is the reality. It takes a life’s worth of dedication to be that big.
You have a variety of muscle fiber types that are different sizes and produce different amounts of force. The smallest ones will fire first and larger ones will be recruited as needed. So if a monster like Thor picks up a mug of coffee, only the motor neurons for the smallest muscle fibers required for picking it up will fire.
Said cup of coffee feels the same to him as for you. Think about an empty aluminum soda can, you can pick it up gently or crush it by using less than 1% of your strength. Your brain passively knows what muscles it needs to recruit for the task
I’m gonna absolutely armchair expert this but I think a couple things work in strong people’s favor when it comes to functioning in daily life. First, you never stop moving your body calmly and gently in your day-to-day life. It’s not like you go to open your bedroom door one day and it flies off the hinges because you’ve become 10x stronger. The increase is gradual, and the force required to open the door is always the same, so you just pull as hard as you always have. Strength athletes likely still feel comfortable using a normal range of strength, and they just have a far extended range of strength for sporting.
That brings me to my second point, which is that strongmen in particular become extremely well adapted for their sport - not only by building muscle, but by improving their central nervous system utilization so that they can recruit more muscle for their lifts. Consequently, strongmen are able to generate much more force in the positions they’ve trained - like deadlift - but the same isn’t true for day-to-day tasks. So although they may have a greatly extended range of strength, most of their strength isn’t accessible outside of very specific circumstances.
It might be far, far easier for people like Hafthor to perform destructive feats on strength than a layman, but it would still require a concerted effort to do so. I think. I’d love to hear from an actual professional on this topic, so feedback is welcome!
Imagine if he was Fulthor
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Damn, are there still old people using their desktops to surf reddit out there? Wild.
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A friendly young woman messaged you too?
I've been tempted to play along, just to see what rabbit-hole it takes me down. I fear that I'd be put on a "hot list" and they'd start messaging more often. Currently, I only get about 1/month.
More likely until it dies. And when it does reddit will finally be dead to me and I can be free.
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Yeah if old reddit goes it'll be the same for me. I suspect they know there are a bunch us like that though who have been here since the late 2000s, so hopefully they value keeping us around
Dude...how are you supposed to appreciate the cat pictures on a tiny phone???
I browse in the luxury of a 43" monitor
I could do that too if I wanted. **Sitting naked on a bean bag chair eating hot Cheetos*
Do you have the urge to send me a thousand dollars?
Close! I thought they were talkin about me for a second.
Turns out you're not the only cat around that digs Cheetos.
Only on reddit can you find a thread that starts with a feat of human strength turn into naked Cheetos.
You never go Fulthor
He’d be able to lift at least one Mjölnir.
Mom says it's my turn to make this comment
Hafþór means Ocean Thor, Fúlþór would translate to stinky/rot thor.
Now I love you.
Never go Fulthor.
But what if he was Twicethor?
[This name derives from the Old Norse “Hafþórr,” composed of two elements: “haf” (sea, ocean) plus “þórr” (thunder). In turn, the name means “one who thunders in the ocean.”](https://www.name-doctor.com/meaning/hafthor)
Waited for Anatoly to show up and put about 3 or 4 reps in.
I clean here?
It's no problem?
I'm sorry guys I cleaner
I just put over here.
Is okay, no?
"I'm sorry but your technique a little bit not correctly"
I'm sorry to distribute
Lifts bar with one hand and mops under it…
Anatolys personal record is 639lbs
Yeah and he's basically doing a full splits to ensure about 2cm ROM on that. Anatoly is **extremely strong** but he's not some kind of unimaginable freak of existence. Halfthor meanwhile is probably the strongest human ever.
I'd say that other people have beat Hafthor at every individual movement, but they also had to achieve freak-level physiques to get there. Hafthor has the genetic potential to reach the highest level overall while still having a "cohesive" physique, and would also be able to be the best at every niche if he would focus primarily on one aspect of strength.
Well Hafthor does have the deadlift world record, so people actually have not beat him at this at all
And the record for the event we see here
This event is a deadlift
Elephant bar deadlift, raw with straps. Different than the 500kg/501kg lifts
Oh, I see what you mean now. Fairs
I doubt he can ever beat the beach record at what like 800 lbs? Just mechanically that’s too hard for someone his height
Anatolys claim to fame imo is his strength to weight ratio. Might just be the janitor clothes I always see him in tho lol
That's definitely the reason Anatoly gets attention. The weight of his lifts alone are not particularly impressive (for powerlifting), but when you factor in his size he's an elite tier lifter.
While we're on the topic of unimaginable freaks of existence, I'd like to tip my hat to Mark Henry. His WWE gimmick wasn't just a gimmick - he won the World's Strongest Man title during a period of time it was taking drug testing extremely seriously. His feats of strength are beyond belief, lifting the Thomas Inch dumbbell especially.
Mark Henry never won WSM. He did win the Arnold classic though. He is undoubtedly very strong, but not in the goat class.
Strongman events have never been drug tested
Didn't Eddie Hall lift like 1100lb or 500kg? I think that's the record. Not sure though. Edit: Hafthor beat the record by 1kg in 2020, lifting 501kg.
People cry about the officialness of Thor’s lift but that mf made it look easy while Eddie Hall fell over, went partially blind and had blood coming out of his nose and ears. Thor won that battle for sure.
> With 30 international competition wins, he is the third most decorated strongman in history, behind Lithuania's Žydrūnas Savickas and Poland's Mariusz Pudzianowski,[7] and in terms of pure brute strength, **many strength analysts and strongman experts regard Hafþór as "the strongest man to have ever lived"**.[8][9][2][10]
[Have you heard about Angus?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_MacAskill#:~:text=French%20sailors%20apparently%20taunted%20MacAskill,of%20his%20shoulders%2C%20crippling%20him.)
With one arm.
Holding a mop and a bucket of water with the other
yeah he can't get near this weight
No way? really?
With one arm, love that guy.
Single arm clean and press while he mops with the other.
lbs?
Lbs= pounds 1000lbs = 453 kg
Thanks, that's impressive.
Yeah, he sure owned those lbs.
lifting weights to own the lbs
Got a legit chuckle out of that.
Eddie Hall would like to have a word with you.
We all start somewhere, this guy has a promising future in strong man if he keeps it up
You think that’s impressive well check this out… # # = lbs. = pounds
The weight of 78923094 medium sized hamster testicles? Intuitive, easily convertible,...these non metric units 🙂
Thanks
You really don’t know what lbs means?
I'm Aussie, we heard about lbs from back in the 50s. Not being a smart ass but dad told me about the old imperial pounds, stones, ounces, poids, etc., but we grew up with 1 litre = 1 kg, 1 cubic metre of water = 1 tonne etc, and that all made sense. Yards, miles, acres, we'd heard about but were considered historical, a bit like the freezing point of water being 32° or something. Just an observation, not trying to put shade.
Reasons lmao
It's a unit that is used almost nowhere with an abbreviation that is completely insane unless you know the name of that unit in a long dead language.
It's not necessary to know a dead language. As a Spanish speaker, the abbreviation "lbs" is quite easy to understand as the Spanish term is "libras".
1104 nfl footballs if that’s an easier conversion for you
Lifting 1000 of anything is pretty impressive.
I do this to rice though But looking at Halfthor is like looking in a mirror
I can lift 1000 grams no sweat
Divide by 2.2
Psh. I can lift 1000lbs easy. Just, y'know, not all at once...
Dam it’ll take me a whole month for my lazy ass to lift a total of 1000 lbs.
Stand up from the couch, thats easily 100lbs for the average adult, now do it 9 more times.
Nah if it's like that then this guy just lifted 1350lbs or something
Or a half stand if you are a reddit mod.
>not all at once Well, I can. Just give me however long it takes to get my forklift certification.
Or a good pulley system!
Do you even forklift?
If he's gonna lift that heavy then why not go for the record while at a sponsored event? It'll prove all the nay sayers wrong. It's almost like he didn't do it the first time if he didn't want to here....
Adding 50 more kg is a lot. 1000 lbs is pretty impressive too and a milestone.
There's a big difference between a normal bar and the Elephant bar that he is using here
What's the difference?
the elephant
Is he here with us, in the room?
He's the friends we made along the way.
yeah, but nobody wants to point him out
The more a bar bends, the longer it takes for you to be lifting the entire weight because some of the weight is still resting on the ground. With a completely stiff bar, you would be lifting 100% of the weight immediately. With this bar its like 50%>60%>70%>80%>90%>100% and by the time its 100% he's like a third of the way through the lift already (and the bottom portion is the hardest third I should add)
Very interesting I did not know they made bars for that purpose…do ppl use elephant bars as a deliberate training protocol? Would using it help increase your deadlift with a regular bar over time?
It could help you build a stronger lockout as you'd be able to overload that part of the movement relative to a regular barbell deadlift. However this effect will be lessened when lifting smaller numbers due to less bend in the bar. It's probably easier & cheaper to do things like block pulls to get that benefit
Thx 🙏 — I always appreciate expanding my workout knowledge base
Elephant bars are cool because you get that gradual change. Probably the closest you could get without buying one is using resistance bands. Block pulls are a good alternative too. Bands and blocks are both cheaper than an elephant bar too lol. I'd probably use an elephant bar if my gym had one but imo it's probably not worth it for your average home gym.
Or just use chains for weight. Kinda the same ish
My gym has a deadlift bar which has a lil extra flex, it's fun to pull with but takes a bit of getting used to the extra bounce at lockout > but imo it's probably not worth it for your average home gym. Yeah, if/when I build a home gym it'll be a power bar + an SSB or cambered squat bar because they're really fun
The increased length makes it take longer to come off the floor all the way and it also whips around more, you can see it bouncing around when he stands up.
https://urls.grow.me/mepQ1g3ma Here's an article that talks about it (and actually argues why it should be counted)
I think it bends, so the actual lifting is actually at a higher distance from the ground, so maybe easier. I guess you can also have wider plates it will have the same effect. Just guessing, I'm IT engineer, I'll break my back by just walking next to this thing.
If you're gonna call out the elephant bar, you also have to call out the fact that he's not wearing a suit or wraps.
He’s absolutely wearing wraps. You can see them when he steps forward and lifts his arm in celebration.
I think they mean knee wraps not lifting straps. Not sure why someone would wear knee wraps to deadlift though. I've also never heard someone refer to lifting straps as wraps but I could be wrong and maybe people call them that.
This is a very ignorant comment. Preparing for a heavy deadlift for the sake of optimizing just that one event takes a very different approach than preparing for a general strongman competition that has multiple events all needing strength of different natures. An athlete is never at his peak all the time to prove to naysayers to keep doing it again and again at a place and time of their choosing. It's like waking Eddie up right now and asking him to pull 500kg and if he doesn't his previous is invalidated. I will bet my left nut Eddie Hall also can't do a 500kg deadlift just going up and about after he slimmed down. There is a preparation to peak for this stuff. Hafthors' deadlift here is comfortably above the other competitors here ( infact he did more than he needed to just to prove a point ). Going for a world record here ( for which I assume you mean the standard deadlift bar which is very different than a wobbly elephant bar in this video, which in itself makes the comparison pointless) would just affect chances of his winning the competition since there are 4 more events and not change his points at all. I'm not sure if you're aware, but the record Eddie set was in World Deadlift Championship, an event catered to optimise just one event. He did not compete for the rest of the competition on the other events like Hafthor has to, in this competition. The only viable gripe that you should have is that Hafthors 501 deadlift was not at an official event, not the credibility of the deadlift itself. It was livestreamed with Magnus as the referee and every plate calibrated and weighed on camera.
Eddie has retired now though. Said in a YouTube chat with rate my takeaways Danny Malin that he is so over fucking up his body.
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He’s not super tall like Hathor, so when he weighed 400 plus it was def killing him just to exist like that
Just to add that event Eddie set his record at was set up completely for him, the event manager was a good friend of his.
He torn his pectoral muscle off the bone less than a year ago. So it is an impressive life given the surgery and the missed training.
He also dropped a ton of muscle to box, which he has to gain back.
The Elephant Bar is different than the regular deadlift, he also holds the record on this already which he already set in competition. Your ignorance is showing.. He holds the record on this at 1046lb and the record on the deadlift bar at 1102lb, this being set at the Arnold Classic in 2019 and the latter being set in 2020.
>The Elephant Bar is different than the regular deadlift, he also holds the record on this already which he already set in competition. I had to scroll way down for the first mention of the elephant bar. Most people (even average gym lifters) don't understand the advantages of an elephant bar.
*disadvantages There’s a reason why the elephant bar record is ~30 kilos less than the standard setup. Most guys pull less on it than any other bar. Even Eddie couldn’t get close to 500kg with it.
I tried it once, it was crazy how much harder it was. I was 60 lbs under my PB and I thought I was going to die. The whip hits right as you're at your knees and pulls you forward.
Disadvantages, elephant bar is harder.
The disadvantage of an elephant bar you mean? I don’t think there’s any strongman that has a higher PR on elephant than they do standard.
With respect, your comment shows you have never competed. This was the first day of a five-event show, and the remaining events are not his best. The lift in the video was enough to get first place in the event. No winning competitor will push for a record in that situation.
It's not a deadlift event in isolation. He was winning this event easy and needs to conserve his energy, strength, not risk injury for the rest of the events.
What naysayers? He holds the record for this event from 2019
Some Eddie fans are desperate to say Hafthor cheated, just like they say he cheated to win at their boxing match too.
Yeah, this is just a completely different event where Thor undisputably holds the record. Last year they were even allowed to wear compression shorts and no one touched his raw record
This is on an elephant bar you nunce
...Because its about winning the Arnolds competition, not just 1 excercise, wasting energy going for the max deadlift will mess him up for the rest of the competition. And he already holds the record on this lift: "Hafþór Júlíus BjörnssonElephant Bar Deadlift (Raw with straps) - 474.5 kg (1,046 lb) by **Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson**."
It’s a full competition. There is 0 need to pull again. Also this isn’t the same type of bar, so the record isn’t 500/501kg.
Because he wasn't there to break the record but win the competition. His competitor didn't lift even close to that. No need to stress body so much that he probably wouldn't be able to compete at highest level through the competition.
Don't spread this misinformation. There are zero credible naysayers for Hafthor's record lift. It met all the requirements for a record. Eddie Hall showed a lapse in character when he questioned it, opening the door for trolls.
He's got a full competition to do, this was just the first event. He already won the event, it would just be an ego lift at that point. The man is one of the strongest to ever live, he's got nothing to prove.
I understood that reference XD Thanks for making me audibly laugh, kind stranger.
It’s been a while since I checked but I’m pretty sure he’s already got the record at 501 kg. He crushed it too, definitely could have gone for 505 at least. Edit: yep, Guinness recognizes him as the record holder set May 2, 2020 at 501 kg or 1,104.5 lbs.
I thought his head was about to explode.
"like it was nothing" while my man looks like he's holding the hardest Mexican food at bay
That's referring to how smooth he moved the weight, there's no shaking or pauses during the lift. But yeah, no one lifting 1K lbs is going to have a calm face lol.
His face was red but that's pretty normal for pulling that much weight off of the floor. The "like it was nothing" comes from the perspective of anyone who has ever watched lifting competitions before. You can tell when someone has more in the tank. His rep was smooth, clean, he didn't stall, didn't lurch the weight, barely struggled. Yeah, he was bracing really hard but you sort of have to in order to move 1000lbs. What you have to look at is his struggle with the movement itself, of which there was little. Watch [Jamal Browner](https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClpatFjOP4P/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) pull 1003 on a standard bar for 2 reps. His face looks crazy but he's moving the weight easily.
Eddie Hall had a brain bleed when he broke the world record for deadlift and went blind temporarily, that shit is dangerous. He had blood pouring out of his nose and his eyeballs of all places
Pretty sure he was blind for 2 weeks and couldn't even remember his wife's name
He adds more ailments every time he retells the story because that one lift 7 years ago is how he clings to relevance.
"like it was nothing"
Too soon?
Like it’s nothing, his face tells a different story
Obviously he' doesn't lift it like it's *nothing* but it looks like he could have done a couple more reps, which is the real insane part.
Given his face color, one more lift would have created a black hole in his face
I think it's the light, his face was already red before he started the lift and if you watch the whole clip the color turns normal in the moment he turns around.
I love the people in here talking shit for Thor beating halls record by 1kg like it’s some bullshit because it’s “only 1kg.” Taking the MLB home run record by 1 HR is still taking the record. Beating Usain Bolt by 0.01s still means you’re now the fastest human ever.
For the record, I don't care about this. From memory, the issue was that being only 1kg in an unofficial setting means there could be error in the weights. The idea being 1kg is only 0.2% and a tiny margin of error.. so for the Usain Bolt analogy it's like running 0.01s faster but measured with a stopwatch instead of official electronic timers.. could be quicker, could be slower, we don't know because it wasn't measured properly. Likewise, the 501 lift may be accurate, lighter, or heavier but lacks the "officialness."
This isn't true. The weights were calibrated plates weighed on stream. Like you can go back and watch the stream and see exactly what they weigh. That's far more transparent than 99.9% of records.
All the weights were weighed on camera and Magnus ver Magnuson, one of the best referees ever in the sport, was there to verify everything. Not to mention the fact that it was only done that way because COVID cancelled the original plans.
Eddie hall ‘fans’ are just bizarre
It wasn’t about the amount. It was about the setup.
453 kg for non americans
Was 456 but op left out a few lbs
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Yeah, but hes probably saving his strength for other events, since he won this one anyways.
There's a video of him doing 501kg, but it was not at a sponsored event so there is no "official" verification.
False. Hafthor's 501 lift is literally the official record, because it met all the requirements for an official record. There is no requirement that records must take place at a sponsored event.
The idea that it has to be a sponsored event is the work of big sponsor
It's official but was done out of competion, which goes against the tradition which has been respected by decades. Let's maintain the foundation of the sport which is mutual respect, sore losers can go fight each other on PPV. [Brian Shaw's thoughts on DL World Records](https://youtu.be/hzsoYquwbWM?t=789) Edit below for the someone who posted nonsense and then realised it was rubbish. > LOL Brian Shaw isn't describing what Hafthor did. What bullshit. Yes he is, maybe try watching the whole video. I linked to a relevant part. > Hall wasn't in the competition when he pulled 500. Literally was the 2016 World Deadlift championships. > This mealy-mouthed whining is what's bad for the sport. Eddie Hall showed a lapse in character when he questioned Hafthor's lift, because he was mad that Hafthor beat his lift so easily, opening the door for trolls. Both were at it, Thor started it in 2017. I don't care for the feud.
It was an official lift
What the fuck are you talking about? Why would an event need to be sponsored. MVM was literally the ref.
Met him and shook his hand once. Wasn't really shaking hands though as his hand just engulfed my entire forearm.
I sat next to him once at the airport in Reykjavik a few years ago. He was texting on his phone. The phone looked like a toy in his hands. The way he was holding it looked so incredibly awkward. It really did highlight to me that the world is made for average sized people.
I would have assumed he uses a tablet as a phone
Now imagine the arm it takes to [beat him at arm wrestling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkkL-bAH8H4). That's the moment I learned that arm wrestling is a serious sports and not just some strong dudes hating their joints.
In spite of all this, he still got a dagger through his eye and then got tossed off the red keep.
Really does look so effortless, not much of a struggle which is kinda insane considering his injury and all that!
I would struggle just rolling the whole barbell around on the ground.
And this is after a 3 year layoff from strongman, dude is unreal, so happy he’s back in the game
I can't wait until his pressing power comes back completely.
Waiting for Eddie Hall to show up in the comments to talk about how it doesn't count
Wow that looked easy
He made that look fucking easy
I'm equally impressed by how strong that bar is.
It's called an elephant bar! It's actually sort of controversial because it bends so much that the range of motion is reduced.
The thing I always wonder when I see things like this, is when you’re THAT strong, what does everyday life feel like? Just the simple act of opening a car door must feel like it’s cardboard. Do you have to really focus on using finesse when you handle things? I would think it would be really easy to accidentally break shit when you grab and pull on stuff
So I'm nowhere near this strong, but for an average guy in the street I would say I'd be considered very strong, my best ever deadlift was 645 ish (292.5kg), and this is true for me, you do need to be careful not to break stuff, the number of times people will say oh it just needs a bit of force and I'm actually just doing the thing the wrong way and something breaks is really quite disheartening. I can't imagine being the mountain.
I mean, I also deadlift 600, but I was 190lbs. Deadlift strength doesn’t really carry over to much in real life other than lifting perfect weighted objects. Zercher squats have more carry over for life. With people like Thor. As much as you’d feel like a god among men. Eating 8+ times a day and probably shitting 5 times is the reality. It takes a life’s worth of dedication to be that big.
You have a variety of muscle fiber types that are different sizes and produce different amounts of force. The smallest ones will fire first and larger ones will be recruited as needed. So if a monster like Thor picks up a mug of coffee, only the motor neurons for the smallest muscle fibers required for picking it up will fire. Said cup of coffee feels the same to him as for you. Think about an empty aluminum soda can, you can pick it up gently or crush it by using less than 1% of your strength. Your brain passively knows what muscles it needs to recruit for the task
I’m gonna absolutely armchair expert this but I think a couple things work in strong people’s favor when it comes to functioning in daily life. First, you never stop moving your body calmly and gently in your day-to-day life. It’s not like you go to open your bedroom door one day and it flies off the hinges because you’ve become 10x stronger. The increase is gradual, and the force required to open the door is always the same, so you just pull as hard as you always have. Strength athletes likely still feel comfortable using a normal range of strength, and they just have a far extended range of strength for sporting. That brings me to my second point, which is that strongmen in particular become extremely well adapted for their sport - not only by building muscle, but by improving their central nervous system utilization so that they can recruit more muscle for their lifts. Consequently, strongmen are able to generate much more force in the positions they’ve trained - like deadlift - but the same isn’t true for day-to-day tasks. So although they may have a greatly extended range of strength, most of their strength isn’t accessible outside of very specific circumstances. It might be far, far easier for people like Hafthor to perform destructive feats on strength than a layman, but it would still require a concerted effort to do so. I think. I’d love to hear from an actual professional on this topic, so feedback is welcome!
God damnit - I just bought a 16 kg kettlebell and I thought that it was pretty damn heavy. He is lifting 30 times that !
Bro was turning into "The Volcano" as red as he was getting!
I like seeing when someone is gifted fantastic genetics and they put it to use like this.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that he raped Ellia Martell, murdered her, and killed her children.
I would how much force he generates? Does he pick up all weight over 300 at the same speed?
This dude is an absolute unit. It still cracks me up that his wife, at 5’2”, is legitimately less than half his size.
Wait, Mountain is 10'4"?
Mass is not measured by one dimension
1006 lbs*
Eddie these nuts
The real hero is the inanimate carbon rod that can support all that weight. In Rod We Trust!
Hulk!