Some big numbers put up this year Blaine Sumner the first man in ipf history to squat 500kg [ame="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2WAgwkXwmg"]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2WAgwkXwmg[/ame] Bonica Lough became the first woman to squat 600 pounds raw https://www.instagram.com/p/BCiNsLbCZTd/ Jerry pritchett became the first american to deadlift over 1000 pounds https://youtu.be/Qi4oRDUfJTs Then brian shaw went and beat eddie halls record in the deadlift https://youtu.be/jqaJcp-UmuI Just for hall to then retake the deadlift record with 465kg https://youtu.be/Mr5OSXnhaMc And then this man went and won the Arnold's strongman title for the 8th time, cementing his place as the strongest man of out time https://m.facebook.com/kestutis.maciulis/posts/10208828866626017
He did, Shaw looked so easy at 463kg and could have done more , but they only got 3 lifts and i think he was being calculatd for the rest of the comp Eddie struggled to lock 465kg but got it but then if you decide your opener is going to be 460kg on a bar you have never tried you are going to struggle lol Shaw injured his hamstring and Eddie had to pull out with a tricep injury, worlds strongest man is only a few weeks away as well apparently
Eddie Hall long bar deadlift. Incredible. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AexFtd8rC3I"]Arnold Strongman Classic 2016 Deadlift - Eddie Hall - YouTube[/ame]
i think the strongman organisers are hanging their hats on eddie and the deadlift as a way to break into mainstream strength sports and into the public eye more, people can relate to this more than they can to stone lifting, or tyre flipping Even though powerlifters will point out its not a proper lift and would never pass in any competition anywhere Eddie got more coverage in the newspapers for this than any of the winners of WSM have in the past decade, And now he is the face of the sport, even though he hasnt won a single major competition as far as my memory serves So they are pushing it big time, europes strongest man now starts with the world deadlift championships, the traditional tyre deadlift at the arnolds has been replaced with this standard bar lift and so on Of course the problem becomes when they get so injured from doing the deadlift they cant carry on for the rest of the comp, eddie pulled out of europe's this year due to wrecking himself in the deadlift at the start, shaw injured himself here, the only guy to take it slow and steady was Big Z, and he went on to win the whole thing Not to mention it over ran so they had one event on the saturday the deadlift, and four on the sunday.... two pressing and two huge carrying events ...great planning!
In other news Thor set a world record by throwing a 56 pound kettle bell 19 ½ feet into the air.. as you do