INSANE.

There's more in the tank. He'll be adding to that record for years to come.

RS

My son was telling me he read an article that said Thor will have hemorrhoids for weeks, and is checked out by an eye doctor pretty soon after the lift. I guess bloody noses are pretty common.

Dude will be dead by 45. Geez....

I would be surprised if he gets ten more years before he keels over.

He is a big fellow.

Impressive but I don't see the purpose.

He could rip your head right off.

I'm 5'11" He'd be nuts over me!

He's already had a bad bout with Bell's palsy, or at least it was blamed on that. He is an incredibly strong human being, but this is all going to come at some cost, for sure.

Looked smooth. Still, he got to pick the venue, the time, etc. Not the same as competition. Who knows what everyone does in training?

He might visit the US and want to pick up a woman from Minnesota.

John

Be a cool thing to manage with a couple of rounds in his chest.


Or don't you remember that bit about "making men equal"...size really doesn't matter.

Lifting more than any other human ever has. Glad to help.

If that's Hafthor, WTF would Full-Thor be able to do?

That picture puts it in perspective, he really is a big fellow.

added, I totally missed that second picture.

LMFAO!!

His now wife is fairly impressive in her own rights when it comes to fitness endeavors.

Thanks for coming in today

The heart attack/stroke that's headed his way is gonna be a lulu.

The man is a fugging Monster!!

Are these guys drug tested? Not saying he is using. Just curious.

Hahahahaha!

What a pussy

Damn! Big Cat best be careful, he'll be headed for a heartbreak if he doesn't spool it down, A LOT, good luck, health and long life to him.

Yes, they are for the sanctioned competitions. Thor has the juice but has never tested positive for a competition.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/26522096/got-strongman-champ-admits-steroid-use

B.M.F.

450 body weight X 2.5 is 1125

I'm twice his age 148# X 2.5 is 370.
I pull 360, NO STRAPS, NO BELT, NO SUIT in a conventional DL.

So, excuse me for saying, I ain't impressed.

LOL

The record would make more sense to me if they were comparing his lifting to his weight.
If I'm lifting 2.5 x my weight, folks would say, meh so what ...

This is one of the dumbest comments I have read in a great while. Trying to exponentially compare your weight versus his is simply inane.

I wonder if he is injecting steroids.

If his social media presence is any indication, he's been working towards this for quite some time. I'd not call it training as much as a one person world record attempt.

Not that Bjornsson sucks at competitions. Didn't he pretty much dominate the Arnold this year?

Hall looked absolutely gutted after his big pull a couple years ago. I tend to believe that Hafthor had a bunch more in the tank. Like instead of pulling 501kg, I bet he could have pulled upwards of 525. That weight looked like it went up relatively easy, considering it was over 1100 freaking pounds!

Just think how much more that big fugger has to eat than 148# ringworm! LOL Pure economics.

One would hope the toilet is of a robust build.

10000 calories a day!

................

The real question is how that guy didn't split that girlfriend in two.

Well huh...less than your average fat girl.

Damn! Really, you just went there?

The answer may relate to just how much steroids he has used.

You’re right..

360 vs 1125 is most unimpressive.

Wonder how much Andre The Giant could have lifted if he would have weight trained

And Hervie Villachese, too.

Pretty sure he suffered from giantism so it is likely his system wouldn't have handled the strain.

Give that thor bloke his due, he has a robust system and a good bone structure.

laffin’

Crazy power


I was hoping he’d take a 4th attempt at 510-520. Maybe when the Rona is gone and everything is open he will go to a comp and hit 510-520.

How'd you like to be a 5' 9" English man at arms and see something like that step off the Viking ship...

No problem, as soon as he gave chase he would have a heart attack.

added, and I am pretty 5' 9" would have been a giant in England at that time.

Dude cmon. You've lifted weights long enough to understand

One of the side effects of steroid use would lead me to think she wood not get split in two. I work out seriously 4x per week and am in the company of many guys just like Thor. I wouldn’t take steroids for all the tea in ?China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjiIirDgHzI

I wouldn't mess with him. Be a handy guy to have around for changing a motor out.

Or if you needed someone to kick-start the Queen Mary.

Surprised he didn’t sheet out a kidney

At that pressure it would probably be liquid.

An other worldly amount of training and genetics to achieve that, no matter how many roids your pumping.

Good for him. Hope he lives a long and happy life.

Doubtful any human has ever lived, yes even a Viking, that was ever that big and strong.

Yep. Good post.

If the English guy had a longbow and a few cloth yard arrows, no problem. One dead oaf.

English longbows were later in time than the Viking invasion period.

For a short guy....Paul Anderson’s lift was kool

A back lift true....but 6270 is still impressive

Walked past him at the WSM in Florida last year. I’m not a small guy, but he’s a fuggin monster of a human. One of my friends and ex football teammates is 6’-7” and about 315. Thor made him look average.

The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings used bows of the same form as the English longbow, some made of yew, others made of elm or other timber. They were used to fire over the shield wall from the rear ranks, to rain down on the enemy behind his shield wall. There's surviving examples of yew longbows been found in Britain and continental Europe from the period, and some others dating back thousands of years.

There were quite a number of notable casualties who fell to arrows in battle in the Viking period too. A number of kings included.

Back to the conversation at hand, that bloke is built like a brick sh.thouse, and no doubt could lift one of them too.

Saw something on youtube about weight lifting and stupid stuff like this is a big thing in Iceland...
but as you suggest the life span of the weight lifters who get heavily into this stuff, is cut short..
dying in the 30s to early 40s...

Easy to guess who's on top in that sexual relationship...

she better hope she never gets pregnant...

be like a great Dane cross with a chihuahua... the offspring would kill the mother...

I predict that before the month is out Eddie Hall will beat that weight.

I think Eddie is done. He wants to live. This is dangerous stuff. Lifting that much takes the body past the design limits. Some people are willing to take the risk. When I was lifting very heavy (in gear), I knew I had about a 5 year window of opportunity, and explored my limits as far as bodyweight/strength. Once I peaked both at the same time, I quickly learned it was not sustainable. I instinctively knew when my limit was achieved. I think Eddie is there.

I know I shouldn't assume,but I always look at these gigantic specimens and wonder if he took anything that helped him get this big that wasn't legal.

He admits to steroids, it is all too common in these giants. However, he's never failed a test for competition.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/26522096/got-strongman-champ-admits-steroid-use

Agreed

I wonder if these guys have surpassed the limits of human grip strength. The last deadlift over 1000 lbs without straps I can recall is Benedikt Magnusson and he did it like a boss. He pulled it easily, held it for a few seconds smiling for the cameras, then lowered it to the floor smoothly.

He already has one daughter from another women, and he and the current wife( the tiny women in the picture) are expecting already

Impressive for sure that he lifted that. I do get what others are saying though about measuring lift by size. A man who is 150 dead lifting 2.5 times his weight is impressive for sure, but I wouldn’t try to compare that to a man lifting over 1000 pounds as if it’s not that impressive. It is!

I’m 34, 5ft 6” and about 178. Need to get to about 165lbs and tone up a bunch. I can dead lift 325lbs and I really just started working out again after a long hiatus one month ago. While I feel that’s really good for my size, it’s not going to impress people like 1000 pounds.

It simply is not a linear process. It takes an awful lot more power to get a little more weight. I was always in the drug free top ten in the world as a 181 shirted bencher, even as a master lifter . As an experiment, I tried gaining weight, and getting as strong as possible. It wasnt too hard to get to 185 or so, and 600. Getting from there, to 190 and 700 took 2 years. The difference in effort, was astonishing.

Unless using a hook grip the strain on the bicep when using a mixed grip would be the end of a bicep with those weights. Strongman training is hard enough on biceps, I dont think many biceps would stand up to the strain/stretch of that very much. Straps are just safer, they have the grip strength to hold it.

Magnusson pulled it strapless with a mixed grip but he has also failed to break the 500kg barrier with a setup like Thor’s. I’m certainly not taking anything away from any of these guys. Moving these kinds of weights is beyond most people’s comprehension.

Maybe you took me wrong, I can see it’s not a linear process. Obviously you are way more knowledgeable on this than I ever will be as you have put in the work, and have years of experience. Your lifts are crazy!

It’s just that saying his lift was not impressive( as some did because it was not 2.5 times his bodyweight) is simply not giving the credit due. It’s a world record. You need the size, genetics, lots of training, and potentially some chemical help to get to that place.

A 150lb man dead lifting 450lbs isn’t going to impress people like Thor lifting 1000

I could train all I want, and use all the chemical help I can get and never get close to this. I don’t have the genetics for this. It’s that simple. He does! And he has put in the work to get there.

I also think that a smaller weight/ framed individual who is lifting very heavy for size is impressive too. So don’t take that wrong.

I was visiting my Grandparents one summer when I was 8 years old and my 18 year old uncle was working under his '48 Ford. He had the rear end jacked up with blocks under one side and a bumper jack holding up the other side. The Ford fell of the jack and blocks onto to my uncle and he started hollering. His older brother who was 25 at the time was on home a leave from the Navy grabbed the bumper and picked the Ford up off of him while my Grandfather drug him out. Other than some minor cuts and bruises the younger uncle was fine. I have no idea what the rear end of a '48 Ford weighs but I was impressed that my uncle could pick it up.

Some don't seem to understand how relative strength scales with size. Ants carry around something like fifty times their weight.

Ironically before he got into the strongman stuff he started off as a basketball player.

Hey! Just like Ringman!

On the drug tests most of the pro strongman contests only tests for stimulants, they don’t want someone dropping dead on tv from taking too much speed but don’t really care about steroids

As to Eddie Hall taking the record back, he looks likes he’s lost 100 pounds or so in the last year, he’s talked of making a run at the bench press record but I think he’s done for good unless he puts the weight back on which he doesn’t appear to want to do

In those pics, there is a massive difference from 2009 - 2015. Even bigger now. I bet he discovered steroids in 2010.

There have been big fellers throughout history. Maybe training, nutritional and recovery cycles have peaked performance. The Din stones in Scotland show that strong folks have always been there. I betcha there have been some pretty big stonemasons through time-sure they used technology but there is a series of Strong Men travelling around the world doing legendary feats of strength and they are pushed a bit.

Some of those Cruiserweight lifters like Pete Rubish and Cailer Woolam are absolute beasts. There is a video of Woolam doing rows with 500+lbs.

He has also won the Arnold Strongman three years running. Saw him on TV today. Prerecorded of course. Event took place in early March.

Fugging guy can toss a 100# sack straight into the air over a bar about 18-20ft high.

Those guys would be kicked outta Planet Fitness with all that yellin!

Pretty sure Brian Shaw got kicked out of one. He's a real nice guy, too. Thor, not so much.

But.......if they were larger they couldn’t. It’s physics.......

Some suggested this moose will probably die young.

Is that due to his heart being too large? Or, suspicion that working with absurd amounts of weight will stress his organs to the point of failure?

😎

Really large people don't usually live long. Steroids tend to grow the heart, along with the other muscles, and it can become too enlarged to operate effectively. Both those kinda work against him.

Interesting, Benchman. I’ve heard of extremely large NFL lineman dying at a fairly young age - early to mid 50’s.

Imagining the reasons you outlined are probably responsible.

Thank you for the information. 😎

IIRC, the general consensus was that he will chit out liquid kidneys.

According to some studies, just being taller tends to reduce life expectancy. More work for the heart to pump the blood around perhaps.

Its true in other species too. Look at dogs: a big breed like a Great Dane is lucky to see seven years, while little terriers and toy poodles will routinely see 16.

I suppose genetics might play a role.

Might explain why we haven't seen any Papua New Guinea Pygmy power lifters on the scene??

That's my point.

There are a few dwarves in powerlifting, and they do very well. I think joint problems are an issue though. Strongman is not powerlifting, though. Similar, but different. Size is generally better, since you have to be able to reach platforms and grab implements. A lot of strongman events involve awkward lifts, and bigger is better.

I was agreeing........just ‘Splainin

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cb...former-worlds-strongest-man-in-2021/amp/

This may be pretty interesting. Supposedly he’s going to have a pay per view boxing match next year against Eddie Hall.

Had a buddy that started working out with us while I was in college. At that time I was at my best ever on bench @ 390#. He started out with just a bare bar (45#), working up from there.

The local steroid guy (every gym has a dealer) got him hooked on dinabol. I six months...six months!....he shot past my weight like it was nothing. He said it was worth it despite the fact he couldn't get an erection, had zits all over his back and, by his own admission, coughed up a cup of blood every morning. Sure hope it was worth it!

What weightlifting body sanctioned this as a world record?

Some weightlifting organizations don't allow lifting straps.

None. There’s was a strongman deadlift contest a year or so ago that allowed straps and that’s where Hall set the “record”. Bjornsson basically filmed a gym lift, a very strong lift but still a gym lift, and called it a world record

Thanks,the OP was misleading.

No weightlifting federations allow straps, hitching, etc. That's strongman stuff. Huge weight though, just wouldn't pass in any federation I'm aware of.

Paul Anderson still remains the strongest man to ever walk the face of this planet.

He was a natural strongman who did not use anabolic steroids.

This what other strongmen thought of Paul Anderson:

Chuck Ahrens (Strongman of the 1950s)
"I could do 310 in a standing one arm side press with a dumbbell, Paul could do it for reps with ease."

Ed Coan (powerlifting record breaker)
"Though I never met him personally until the Strength Symposium in Florida, I saw films of him lifting in his heyday, with such absolute ease it was astonishing. Using his strength to benefit others is something that should make all powerlifters proud. What a great benefactor to mankind."

Jon Cole (powerlifter of the early 1970s)
"My love and respect for Paul runs deep. His ability to lift enormous weights in limited movements surpasses all. Those who attempt to discredit him shame our sport."

Bill Kazmaier (3-time World's Strongest Man)
"He's the king of strength. His backlift was unbelievable. But more amazing was his total commitment as a Christian."

Don Reinhoudt (one of the strongest powerlifters of all time)
"Paul was an inspiration to me. Some of his feats may never be surpassed."

Oliver Sacks (neurologist and Muscle Beach powerlifter)
"A lot of lifters gathered at Sydney's on Santa Monica Beach near the base of the Pier. Here, as they got pissed [drunk], their stories became more and more fantastic. One heard of deltoids like watermelons and squats of a thousand pounds. This last turned out to be a solid fact for the incredible Paul Anderson. He was squatting with almost twice as much as anyone else's maximum."

Bruce Wilhelm (2-time World's Strongest Man)
"Absolutely no question, Paul was the strongest of the strong. His physical deterioration and prolonged illness for the last 16 years of his life was a fate unbefitting such a great strongman and humanitarian. Paul was really a powerlifter and did the overhead lifts only because powerlifting as a sport did not exist 40 years ago. He excelled and was world and Olympic champ because he was far stronger than anyone else. When I hear people talk that a powerlifter will never win an Olympic gold medal, I tell them that Paul Anderson already did it, almost forty years ago."

The 5'6" 135 lbers would still bitch and cockadoodle doo about how they could beat him in a marathon

No one knows what Anderson used or didn't use, Dianabol was invented by the national team doctor and was released publicly in 1958, but was informally "tested" by several national level lifters as early as 1955. Anderson won his olympic gold in 1956 and most of his bigger lifts were in the late 50's and 1960's after he was banned by the AAU for using exhibitions to raise money for his youth home.

I don't have any problem with his being the strongest squatter of all time, and he devoted his life to helping kids but I don't know that it can be said with certainty that any person from the mid 1950's to the present day was or was not using

According to my information your timeline is off by several years.

When Dianabol became available,CIBA (1958) reportedly asked Dr.Ziegler to administer the newly developed Dianabol to Olympic weightlifters training at York Barbell in late 1959. He subsequently prescribed 10 milligrams of Dianabol per day to weightlifters John Grimek, Bill March, Tony Garcy and Louis Riecke. They were the very first athletes to use Dianabol.

10 milligrams amounts to almost nothing,especially given the steroid/HGH/insulin regimens of today's bodybuilders and strength athletes.

Testosterone was being used by some bodybuilders on the west coast during the 1950's but anabolic steroid use[Dianabol] didn't occur until late 1959.

Bill Starr has an article floating around that Dr Z put March and Louis Riecke on an earlier version shortly after the 1954 world championships. Not trying to split hairs and Anderson was an amazing lifter and Starr's stuff was written from memory 50 years later so may be well off, I wouldn't be surprised if he was clean when he won his gold medal, but I'm not comfortable declaring him lifetime drug free when dianabol was freely available during the 60s when he was putting up his big exhibition lifts.

also agree with you that 10mg is small enough that it probably didn't give any of them much more than a placebo effect

Paul Anderson had Brights disease and using oral anabolic steroids,Dianabol,would have been a death sentence.

He was also a deeply Christian man and he would have eschewed the use of such drugs.

PS: Dianabol was synthesized by researchers at the CIBA laboratories in Switzerland. CIBA filed for a U.S. patent in 1957,and began marketing the drug as Dianabol in 1958 in the U.S.

So Bill star's timeline was off by several years.He may have been referring to testosterone which had been available about two decades before the first oral anabolic steroid.

AFA steroids, they provide the body with the building blocks. They don’t put them together. Ie. you still have to do the work, you still have to have some natural ability and you still need the basic physical attributes.

Meaning, all the anabolics in the world aren’t going to turn a midget into Thor.

Ed Zercher pulled 560 conventional, no straps at a body weight of 155. Thats fkin strong.
Moving a ton when your a biscuit shy of a half ton?
Not impressed, sorry.

Possible you don't know what a ton is....

'Viking' Jon Pall Sigmarsson died at 32.
(harking back to the Bill Kazmaier days)
https://youtu.be/8tzouM3fWFw
Jon Pall died of cardiac rupture during deadlift training.

other strongmen have died younger.
Jesse Marunde died age 28.
John Perry 29,..
one competitor died in competition , age 21..?

That chip on your shoulder make you walk in circles?

No one has said he's the consummate athlete.

The amount of power required to pull ANOTHER 500 pounds, is absolutely phenomenal. I know guys that bench more than 900 in a shirt. When I was doing 700, I did partials to 855. The difference was significant. I can't even imagine a full rep with 800 plus.

That's why God made Glock.

Here’s a look at some of Paul Anderson’s record lifts:
Height: 5ft 11inches Weight 360 pounds
* Back Lift: 6270 lbs.
* Squat: 1185 lbs.
* Bench Press: 625 lbs.
* Deadlift Record without Straps: 780 lbs.
* Deadlift Record with “Hooks”: 820 lbs.
* Clean & Press: 485 lbs.
* Clean & Jerk: 485 lbs.
* Snatch: 375 lbs.
* Push Press: 545 lbs.
* Dumbbell Side Press: 240 lbs. x 40 / 300 lbs. x 11

Thor Bjornsson record lifts:
Height 6ft 9 inches Weight 452 pounds
Deadlift– 472 kg (1,041 lb) wrist straps

Squat– 440 kg (970 lb) with wraps
Squat 440 kg (970 lb) raw

Bench press– 250 kg (551 lb)

Now, that's a little bit funny. GD

Yep!

I could smoke him in a bicycle race, and I wouldn't even need my spandex to do it.

How many drummers does it take to change a light bulb?

One to change it, every other one to say, "Sheit, I could do THAT!"

Believe Marunde had a genetic heart defect that they didnt' know about until they did an autopsy. Good guy but given that probably the last guy that should've gotten big and pursued pro strong man. Big people in general just don't live as long. When's the last time that you saw a 300 pound 80 year old, or someone that age that's over 6'3"?

I've known and trained with several guys that were high level in powerlifting and strong man and most went all out in everything they did, there was no moderation with them, between steroids, alcohol, diet and recreational drugs it's a wonder that any of them made it to 30.

If they don't die young, they can look forward to
falling out of condition like Geoff Capes..

https://www.google.com/search?q=Geo...md=inv&hl=en-US#imgrc=RL0f1GwJkMSmpM

Dad was 6”4” and died at 98 after a fall. Gave up driving at 95. No accidents for 70 years.
But walked every day. A poster child for his doctor. Still touch his toes with legs straight.
Very good health.

Something to consider is the distance he has to move this weight. A 5-11 guy will obviously pull it a lot shorter distance to lock out vs 6-9 guy. Very impressive.

Yeah, it would stand to reason, but ironically, a lot of very good deadlifters are quite tall. Must be more to it. Leverages/proportions must count more. Gary Heisy held the all time record for a very long time. He is 6'9".

Did a meet where Johnny Perry was helping out, 2 weeks before he died. Looked fine. Yeah, you're right about the balls to the wall thing. It seems the steroid guys dont just stop there. They do all kinds of stuff. Like an out of control perpetual 14 year old.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/the-mountain-fight-world-strongest-man-eddie-hall-in-boxing

lol

It's possible you don't know what a cock feels like stuck up your ass but I seriously doubt it..

Viking vs Austrian Oak size comparison,

https://images.app.goo.gl/xn2D9nCg1sDCxAnp9

Jon also won body building comps, which brings
to mind Franco...
who could lift heavy for his size,
and no slouch with his fists..!

Zing

Unfortunately that is more likely to happen. Same thing happened to Jeep Swenson, great guy, but it will take a toll. However it seems Eddie Hall has challenged this dude to a 7 figure fight deal. That'd be interesting to see if it even happens.

Ed Coan did a 901 dead at 220, not take anything away from this dude, but he'd have to pull 1,800 lbs to equal Coan.

A friend of mine was on track to beat Coans lift (but not in a full meet), but had to get a hip replacement. He was pulling 920+ raw at 213, in training. Brandon Cass. That stuff is hard on the body. Mark Chaillet can barely walk. He's my age - 65. I'm pretty sure Brandon and Eddie both understand the feat very well. There comes a point when the sheer weight overwhelms any weight advantage. Nobody is gonna pull 1800.

Thanks for the thread.

Reminds me, I need to order up another dozen of those 45lb plates from Rogue for the home gym.

I remember Mark Chailett and his friend Mark Dimiduk who recently died in 2017.

My older brother attended the University of Maryland and I used to visit him during the summers.He would work out at gym in Temple Hills,I think it was called Spartan.He later worked out at a really small gym called Dynamo.It was there that I witnessed Mark Dimiduk slap the living day-lights out of Chailett before he got under the bar to do some heavy squats.

The next summer I spent with my brother the gym had moved to its own building and was just a few minutes from the university.In that gym I met Ian Burgess,a little guy, and Bob Bernhards who later became the strength coach for the Redskins.

I also met Mark Cameron an Olympic lifter who was the youngest and lightest lifter to put 500 pounds overhead.

By the time I was 16 my brother was finishing his Phd.and during one of his training sessions at Dynamo I met two of the most physically impressive guys I met to date,Mike and Ray Mentzer.I had never met men whose arms were as large as my thigh.LOL

I talked to both of those guys and they were nice and informative even though at that time I was just a skinny kid.They assured me that if I was dedicated to lifting and eating well I could increase my weight and strength.

Yeah, I had a lot of friends work out at Mark's on Silver Hill Rd! I didn't, but pretty much all the guys were impressive. I have found most of the world level lifters to be good, supportive, and helpful guys. A few exceptions, but que sera'. Mark sure moved some weight. Hard to see him busted up so. Decent guy, in my experience. Ellen is in a lot better shape !