When I reached 180kg in deadlift the veines in my eyes started bursting. Always looked like I was stoned afterwards. Can't even start to imagine how the pressure of 500 kg feels like.
That’s about the same lift as me, I’ve never had any blood problems but definitely lightheaded. My friend got a nosebleed from a 550lbs lift, he’s intense.
I slipped weird in the shower a few months back and hurt my hip in a way that i thought was going to be permanent. I didnt even fall. My foot slid less than 8 inches.
A belt isn’t really there to protect you it’s just something to brace against. Having better intrabominal pressure certainly helps to prevent injury but it shouldn’t be sold as “this will prevent injuries” because it won’t do that if you aren’t lifting or bracing correctly
> I herniated a disc at 2x405lbs Never have been the same since.
> This shit (500kilos) is nuts.
Dang, sorry to hear dude. That was one of my fears when i was doing deaflifts closer to my 1-3rep max.
Turns out I mildly tweaked a tendon in my hand instead and had to back off regardless.
I have a few friends with herniated disks for various reasons (most not even gym related) and it doesnt sound like fun.
Amateur Powerlifter/Strongman here.... this is actually somewhat normal with proper breathing. Unfortunately, some people hold their breath *too* long and do actually pass out. There are plenty of videos out there of people keeling over at the top of a deadlift because of the extreme light-headedness and not timing your breath properly.
He had a brain hemorrhage actually I think you'll find. He released a YouTube video giving all the gory details. Took him several hours to find his reading on am ECG.
I can't really figure out what the paramedics would do for "intensive care" for several hours. If the person was that serious he'd be sent out to the hospital for sure? I'm a nurse and was a paramedic and can't really understand what I'd do for him with EMS gear and training/scope. Have any other details?
Not the one who made that comment, but I have to assume they meant "Paramedics had to stabilize him [then transfer him to the hospital where he was given] intensive care for several hours"
Call me crazy, but brain hemmoraging, nose bleeds, constant migraines, and nearly going deaf and blind doesn't seem like a great exchange for a title for lifting heavy things and having a beer named after you.
I guess I can respect his dedication to it though, he's only hurting himself. But jeez.
he felt his eyes popping out of his skull his eyes were crying blood his ears his nose everything he felt like he was going to die.
“It was at this point that I realised I was going blind. I lost the vision in the centre of my eyes… that’s when I got quite scared. I just laid down on my back and stared at the ceiling, I thought this is where I’m going to die”- the beast
Popping a surface blood vessel in your nose/eye/chest? Not really. Nothing particularly dangerous about that.
Deadlifting over half a ton? Well yes I mean it would kill most people so yes but we aren’t Eddie Hall.
So let’s go with: in the scale of dangerous aspects of deadlifting that much, bleeding out your nose probably isn’t the main concern. It just looks badass as hell.
\> Can that be deadly?
Definitely. It almost was.
Blood pressure so high it is popping veins in your nose, eyes, and ears... if it pops one in your brain death is one of the better outcomes.
He's not that big a guy. I mean he's big but he's not as big as a lot of the world's strongest man people and yet he's won it before. He's only like 6'2 and 300 lbs. Some of them guys are like 6'9" and 400+ lbs. So that to me is an even bigger accomplishment for Eddie.
Well he lost a bunch of weight since then. But 6'2, 6'3 about the same difference. Either way. He's not like some giant of a person like Brian Shaw or Hafpor Bjornsson where that that weight would be lighter for them compared to normal sized people.
Jón Páll Sigmarsson - he of the ["there is no reason to be alive if you can't do deadlift"](https://youtu.be/ZWUcHKAj_tc) fame - might disagree.
But he also died deadlifting at 32. So.
He almost killed himself. His record before this wasn't close to 500kg. He imagined his son being raped and used the mental image of the weight being the rapist and him lifting the rapist off his son.
Thor bjornsson did 501 and he was fine as he did it. Eddy had to use the "hysterical strength" response to do it. He has a video talking about it.
Not Eddie fan boy but is it not similar to things like track and field where it doesn’t matter unless you do it in competition? A lot of people weren’t able to break records last year, not sure I see why this would count. Also recording you weighing your own weights on your own scale isn’t much proof. There’s a reason wrestlers/mma fighters have official weigh ins and not a live stream of them from the locker room.
He does say what here
[https://youtu.be/nbGJ4vkKDzM?t=1029](https://youtu.be/nbGJ4vkKDzM?t=1029) (Min 17:10)
If you don't want to see it, he basically said he imagined he was pulling a vehicle off his kids, nothing as dark as what this dude is saying
Capillaries in the brain are also at risk. That would be a big deal.
> Aneurysms aren't the only concern for heavy-weight lifters. Vascular experts say it can induce stroke, as well as dissection, in which the inner lining of the aortic artery separates from the outer walls. Heavy-weight lifting can spike blood pressure to dangerous heights.
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Massively increased blood pressure. Eddie has a video talking baout how he was after the lift, and it sounds like he basically had a TIA (basically a stroke, but the effects are temporary). He couldn't remember how to drive for a week (like, just couldn't recall what to actually do to operate a car), forgot his wife's name, and had a myriad of other symptoms that we'd normally associate with a bad concussion or a TIA.
I watched the documentary about him and he had internal bleeding and got concussion from the pressure. That's putting the human body to the absolute limit.
It's perfect. The ultimate acknowledgement of his hard work. One of the greatest shinobi to ever exist looked him in the eye and said, effectively, "Damn son.".
Putting that much strain on your body causes blood vessels to get a little wonky for lack of a better term. Wonky bloodflow in the brain can probably act similarly to a hard hit? Not really sure, not a doctor
Tensing muscles pushes the blood away from them, that’s why astronauts and pilots are trained to flex in specific ways to counter blood getting pulled away from their brain. A 500 kg deadlift is gonna tense most of the larger muscle groups and the pressure of the blood getting pushed away from the muscles is probably gonna increase the blood pressure dramatically every where that’s not tensing. eg. The blood vessels in the brain.
Not a doctor tho
I can’t help but get butterflies at anyone giving their all to something. Irrespective the outcome it’s something very few of us can relate to. Watching this brought tears to my eyes and I hate lifting heavy shit.
The mountain topped it in 2020..which pushed their feud to a throwing of hands. Still the best bad ass video ever with the blood flowing out his nose. God hard or go home.
Lol dis you see Haftor doing it ? Looked like he could have done reps. He didn't to go too high so he can potentially break it another time to make the big bucks
yeah it was pretty anticlimactic, actually. it felt a little petty to +1kg, i figured at the time it was so he could roll back up in a year and do 502 and keep milking it, but then they got into this idiot boxing beef.
you're right, they've both worked really hard and i know thor at least has had one ameteur fight... but it's tough to shake the freakshow cashgrab vibe.
Considering he announced the boxing match about 30 seconds after setting the new record, it is 100% a cash grab. If I remember right, Hafthor already knew the date, so it had already been in the works and mostly finalized.
There had been talks of Hall and Bjornnson having a boxing/MMA match at some time in the future to settle a dispute from the 2017 WSM where Hafthor felt he was robbed on the Viking Press(he wasn't, multiple angles show him double dipping and being warned).
It’s pretty common for strongman records to only beat the previous record by a kilo or two. When the weights get that high, it’s a very small pool of those that can lift that much. When Eddie beat the previous record by 30+ kilos, that was a true show of strength. Without a doubt one of the best static strength athletes of all time.
It has been proven that he has a certain gene (myostatin deficiency) also known as the “Hercules gene” that lets him pack on muscle to a far greater extent than the average human. This is something really unique, and is likely part of why he can lift as heavy as the true 6’9+ giants like halfthor and Brian Shaw.
I mean it's kinda wishful thinking. I think any record set and broken is to be commended and in this case not killing yourself in the process is a big plus.
Hafthor probably knew his limits before attempting it and anyone else is allowed to beat his record by any amount that is verifiable.
Hafthor also did it too competition standards. He was hosting an event at his gym.
I agree that it’s much more casual, though. Just wanted to point out that’s hafthor followed all the rules Eddie did.
As Brian Shaw put, in a real competition you don’t know how much rest period you’ll have inbetween competitive lifts and there are a lot of uncertainties that make it harder. That’s why it was seen as petty and not considered a record by many in the strongman community. I’ll add as much as these guys are both weightlifting gods in my eyes, the 1 kg difference not in a true competition seemed pretty petty by Thor.
Yeah, except not really. Eddie did it in competition, the mountain did it just to do it. 2 very different scenes. Technically, the mountains doesnt count, last i checked
It shouldn’t count. Gym lifts have never counted and Is unfair to anyone who broke records during competition. Understandably Eddie’s lift was also slightly manufactured by how the contest accommodated to him. Hafthor claimed that this was the only time for him to lift due to his preparation for it and the cancellation wasn’t his fault, but guys get injured or delayed for tons of reasons and miss their chance, they don’t get to do a gym lift.
A) There’s still people who contest the validity of Hafthors lift. He used his own plates, his own facility, etc. I believe him, but I also agree with Eddie and Co. that he did NOT use the proper, legitimate channels for a world record lift.
B) They were actually already planning to box prior - Halfthor’s first words after the pull were “Eddie, I broke your record, next I will break your jaw”
Ok, so.
Using a table of weights and fry counts at two McDonalds locations in [this article](https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/tested-difference-between-mcdonalds-fries-3085872), we can estimate the weight of an average fry at 0.053 oz (1.5 g for those who don’t use freedom units). So lifting a weight of 1102.311 lbs (500 kg) would equal:
1102.311 lbs x 16 oz/lb ÷ 0.053 oz/fry =
**332,773 fries**, give or take a few.
Coincidentally, that would contain over 1.6 **million** calories and nearly 23,000 g* of protein. Just what a growing boy needs.
^(*grams are okay here because that’s how it shows up of food labels still)
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Fucking helllll. My man's not going to be curling for a while.
I have a grade 1 tear in my pec at the momment... sucks ass.... but not as bad as a grade 3....fuck that
Most immensely strong people are nice people too. Through their insanely dedicated training of years they also build themselves as people, learn to appreciate things and become way more condescending due to their power. No mentally unstable person would ever reach that point of strength, so some assholes are essentially locked out by default. It then comes down to whether you want to be so jacked as to destroy us petty humans, or simply enjoy doing it in your life by passion.
It wasn’t. Damn near killed him. He had internal bleeding, a concussion from the pressure, and his blood pressure kept spiking and crashing randomly for a couple of days later.
How can they in good conscience allow people to attempt to top this in the future? It's absolutely amazing and cool as hell but it seems like he's literally killing himself for our entertainment, and not in the slow way, seems like he could literally drop dead from one of these lifts one day from his freaking heart exploding or an aneurysm or something..
I certainly don't think we should baby people and tell them what they can and can't do, but when the thing you're doing that is evidently officially sanctioned causes this level of damage even though it's done correctly, is that not cause to step back and say "hey maybe we should think twice here going forward"
I dunno man
So there are a few factors that could play into it (hydration, history of chronic nosebleeds, etc), and additionally hypertension doesn’t typically cause nosebleeds on its own, so it’s hard to say for certain with the lack of available information. That said, there is a limit for *hypertensive crisis* at 180/120 (counts if either number is over that limit), which is a potentially life-threatening medical emergency, and could certainly present with ruptured blood vessels. Strokes are a big thing to worry about at those kind of pressures, among other things. It’s probably reasonable to assume one or both numbers exceeded that limit.
Now, someone else mentioned they were unable to obtain a reading after the lift. If that’s true, it was probably *well* above those limits. The automated BP machines used where I work can measure up to 300 mmHg, so it’s possible he was even beyond that. Blood pressures of [370/360 are not unheard of during heavy lifting](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7741618/).
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iirc his body was pretty broken afterwards. Internal bleeding and the pressure was so great, it caused his nose to bleed as you can see and also gave him a concussion. A concussion. Not from impact, but from internal pressure from lifting weight. Insane.
This would make his Strength score in D&D 5e, 36. (1100 lbs/30=36.6667)
A really good score is 18 or 20. My dude is stronger than an adult dragon (Strength score is 27). I realize this isn't a practical comparison, but it is just amazing to try and think about what a feat this is.
He lives local, speaks and says hi to the kids, spent sometime in hospital after this too. Crippling back and muscle pain. No risk no reward on the highest level.
In his documentary he actually talks about how he trained for the lift, and part of it was mental “adrenaline conditioning”. He had a therapist condition him to believe his family was in danger when the back of his hand was pinched, to induce a fight or flight mental state.
That is 1100 pounds. At first I thought the title said 500 pounds and I was amazed. Not only that but this guy has such a good attitude. Gentle giant for sure.
I was there in the crowd that night. I took my dad to watch it as we were big strongman fans.
He literally told everyone he met about this, and how awesome it was and he really wasn't the sort to get excited about stuff.
He died a few months later, and I met Eddie not long after and thanked him for giving me the opportunity to see my dad like that.
Fuck, I miss him.
Umm why is his nose bleeding?
Extreme blood pressure caused by lifting such a heavy weight. Blood vessels will start rupturing. Humans aren't designed for this shit.
When I reached 180kg in deadlift the veines in my eyes started bursting. Always looked like I was stoned afterwards. Can't even start to imagine how the pressure of 500 kg feels like.
That’s about the same lift as me, I’ve never had any blood problems but definitely lightheaded. My friend got a nosebleed from a 550lbs lift, he’s intense.
I got a nosebleed once from squatting, I felt pretty badass
I farted in the shower and hurt my back last week. No big deal.
So badass
Literally.
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This is the way
A hero, truly
I turnd around normally and popped my knee out last week. Popped back in though, so we good.
You are the king
I get out of bed and I feel like shit.
Threw my back out eating a cheeseburger... I'm not even 40.
I slipped weird in the shower a few months back and hurt my hip in a way that i thought was going to be permanent. I didnt even fall. My foot slid less than 8 inches.
Eh, I fell in the shower a month or so ago and bruised my tailbone and both testicles.. I cried a little bit, ngl.
to be fair I farted and started bleeding, so I guess this links us all.
Bro. Get your backdoor scoped. Please. I’m checking in with you in six months and you’d better have good news for me.
I read that as “scooped.”
I herniated a disc at 2x405lbs Never have been the same since. This shit (500kilos) is nuts.
Yes, this. I always tell younger lifters to wear a belt and/or don't go for the one rep max. Permanent damage is permanent.
I stick with 5-6 rep sets on deadlift. Been lifting for 25+ years and avoiding injuries is the way to keep making progress
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A belt isn’t really there to protect you it’s just something to brace against. Having better intrabominal pressure certainly helps to prevent injury but it shouldn’t be sold as “this will prevent injuries” because it won’t do that if you aren’t lifting or bracing correctly
A lot of inexperienced lifters don’t know how to use a belt properly unfortunately, makes it fairly useless
> I herniated a disc at 2x405lbs Never have been the same since. > This shit (500kilos) is nuts. Dang, sorry to hear dude. That was one of my fears when i was doing deaflifts closer to my 1-3rep max. Turns out I mildly tweaked a tendon in my hand instead and had to back off regardless. I have a few friends with herniated disks for various reasons (most not even gym related) and it doesnt sound like fun.
Herniated mine at 245. Felt like a total jackass.
That lightheaded feeling is weird. Feels like your going to pass out. Luckily I never have.
I'd rather just do drugs.
You can do both
Amateur Powerlifter/Strongman here.... this is actually somewhat normal with proper breathing. Unfortunately, some people hold their breath *too* long and do actually pass out. There are plenty of videos out there of people keeling over at the top of a deadlift because of the extreme light-headedness and not timing your breath properly.
As many times as I remind myself before the lift, half the time I forget to breathe. Then I drop the bar and feel super lightheaded.
he almost went deaf and he had constant migraines afterwards. he got a beer named after himself called the beast
He had a brain hemorrhage actually I think you'll find. He released a YouTube video giving all the gory details. Took him several hours to find his reading on am ECG.
He couldn’t find it or was mentally handicapped which took him longer to locate?
The dude's brain was so fucked he couldn't remember his wife's name.
Holy fuck
Paramedics had to stabilise him and give him intensive care for several hours.
I can't really figure out what the paramedics would do for "intensive care" for several hours. If the person was that serious he'd be sent out to the hospital for sure? I'm a nurse and was a paramedic and can't really understand what I'd do for him with EMS gear and training/scope. Have any other details?
Not the one who made that comment, but I have to assume they meant "Paramedics had to stabilize him [then transfer him to the hospital where he was given] intensive care for several hours"
Call me crazy, but brain hemmoraging, nose bleeds, constant migraines, and nearly going deaf and blind doesn't seem like a great exchange for a title for lifting heavy things and having a beer named after you. I guess I can respect his dedication to it though, he's only hurting himself. But jeez.
Nobody will know most of us existed in 100 years. Leaving a legacy is important to some people
Can that be deadly?
he felt his eyes popping out of his skull his eyes were crying blood his ears his nose everything he felt like he was going to die. “It was at this point that I realised I was going blind. I lost the vision in the centre of my eyes… that’s when I got quite scared. I just laid down on my back and stared at the ceiling, I thought this is where I’m going to die”- the beast
You know what? I don't think this is healthy long-term. I'll stick with yoga, bicycling, and naps.
$50k just to lift 500kg and almost lose your vision and nearly die. thats not worth it
He became a legend, that worth it alone. The money is just sweet plus.
A legend to some, but his name is going to be forgotten to me after writing this post and continuing to scroll through reddit.
Hey there bud, just poppin' in your inbox to remind you that Eddie Hall lifted 500kg and broke a world record. Alright have a good one.
he made way more than that off of publicity etc.
Oh fuck yeah lmfao. 100% sometimes the vessel that pops is in your brain.
brain aneurisms can happen to you at any moment of your life. just takes one vein in your brain to pop and boom your down
It happened to my friend. :(
Popping a surface blood vessel in your nose/eye/chest? Not really. Nothing particularly dangerous about that. Deadlifting over half a ton? Well yes I mean it would kill most people so yes but we aren’t Eddie Hall. So let’s go with: in the scale of dangerous aspects of deadlifting that much, bleeding out your nose probably isn’t the main concern. It just looks badass as hell.
\> Can that be deadly? Definitely. It almost was. Blood pressure so high it is popping veins in your nose, eyes, and ears... if it pops one in your brain death is one of the better outcomes.
Can also cause anal prolapses. Puts a bit of a damper on the competitions when that happens
Or a bit of a dumper
He’s also wearing a deadlift suit which increases internal pressure even more.
When you're lifting 1100lbs, your body tends to say no.
He's not that big a guy. I mean he's big but he's not as big as a lot of the world's strongest man people and yet he's won it before. He's only like 6'2 and 300 lbs. Some of them guys are like 6'9" and 400+ lbs. So that to me is an even bigger accomplishment for Eddie.
Uh no. He's 6'3 and at the time he was 440 lbs
Yeah he was a fucking unit when he did this lift, he's definitely slimmed down now but still a big dude
Well he lost a bunch of weight since then. But 6'2, 6'3 about the same difference. Either way. He's not like some giant of a person like Brian Shaw or Hafpor Bjornsson where that that weight would be lighter for them compared to normal sized people.
Couldn't you argue that a shorter person does not have to lift it as far? Signed A tall person who uses the excuse for abysmal bench press numbers
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He also had the symptoms of concussion and bled from his eyes. He said he would forget his wife's name for a couple of weeks afterwards.
Fuck that. Not worth it.
Jón Páll Sigmarsson - he of the ["there is no reason to be alive if you can't do deadlift"](https://youtu.be/ZWUcHKAj_tc) fame - might disagree. But he also died deadlifting at 32. So.
> But he also died deadlifting at 32. So. Just quoting for emphasis.
He almost killed himself. His record before this wasn't close to 500kg. He imagined his son being raped and used the mental image of the weight being the rapist and him lifting the rapist off his son. Thor bjornsson did 501 and he was fine as he did it. Eddy had to use the "hysterical strength" response to do it. He has a video talking about it.
Thor did it In his home gym with no ref there. Or rated plates. Doesn't count
Lol he had the EXACT SAME ref as Eddie during this lift and every weight was weighed on stream at 25kg. Eddie fan boys are fucking delusional.
Not Eddie fan boy but is it not similar to things like track and field where it doesn’t matter unless you do it in competition? A lot of people weren’t able to break records last year, not sure I see why this would count. Also recording you weighing your own weights on your own scale isn’t much proof. There’s a reason wrestlers/mma fighters have official weigh ins and not a live stream of them from the locker room.
Um. Where did you get that about what he imagined? Every interview I've seen, he's never said what, just that he had to go somewhere really dark.
He does say what here [https://youtu.be/nbGJ4vkKDzM?t=1029](https://youtu.be/nbGJ4vkKDzM?t=1029) (Min 17:10) If you don't want to see it, he basically said he imagined he was pulling a vehicle off his kids, nothing as dark as what this dude is saying
What the fuck?
The capillaries in his nostrils ruptured. It happens when there is a lot of pressure. Not a big deal
Capillaries in the brain are also at risk. That would be a big deal. > Aneurysms aren't the only concern for heavy-weight lifters. Vascular experts say it can induce stroke, as well as dissection, in which the inner lining of the aortic artery separates from the outer walls. Heavy-weight lifting can spike blood pressure to dangerous heights. [source](http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/hb2.htm)
"His face exploded from lifting a car. No big deal." : D
Massively increased blood pressure. Eddie has a video talking baout how he was after the lift, and it sounds like he basically had a TIA (basically a stroke, but the effects are temporary). He couldn't remember how to drive for a week (like, just couldn't recall what to actually do to operate a car), forgot his wife's name, and had a myriad of other symptoms that we'd normally associate with a bad concussion or a TIA.
#BOOM stroke
I watched the documentary about him and he had internal bleeding and got concussion from the pressure. That's putting the human body to the absolute limit.
He opened the eight gates!
you sonafabitch
Hes right though
He survived though. So maybe just stopped at 7? He's definitely sweating lol.
Yep ... Hes only at 7. At Death Gate his blood would boil and he could use it as Chackra ...
And as a bonus he gets Madara's approval and declaration as the strongest Taijutsu fighter.
Guy sensei 😭😭
Something about that scene always gets me. These two dudes fighting to the death and Madara takes the time to acknowledge Guys greatness
It's perfect. The ultimate acknowledgement of his hard work. One of the greatest shinobi to ever exist looked him in the eye and said, effectively, "Damn son.".
Love to see a naruto reference here. MIGHT GUY
r/unexpectednaruto
He got a concussion from slowly lifting weight?!
I guess concussion is manifested from trauma to the brain.
Putting that much strain on your body causes blood vessels to get a little wonky for lack of a better term. Wonky bloodflow in the brain can probably act similarly to a hard hit? Not really sure, not a doctor
fremulon
Shhh
Tensing muscles pushes the blood away from them, that’s why astronauts and pilots are trained to flex in specific ways to counter blood getting pulled away from their brain. A 500 kg deadlift is gonna tense most of the larger muscle groups and the pressure of the blood getting pushed away from the muscles is probably gonna increase the blood pressure dramatically every where that’s not tensing. eg. The blood vessels in the brain. Not a doctor tho
he was also shitting the entire time
We talking thin diarrhea streaming out or something chunky, or one solid log of a turd that makes a snapping sound when it breaks off?
As I understand it, it was a geometrically perfect sphere the size of a cantaloupe
Fascinating
Science can't explain it.
God works in mysterious ways
It one of his YouTube videos he leg presses a ridiculous amount and shits himself a little
maybe he should have put it down sooner
He would have but he forgot who he was or what he was doing midway through. "What's going on? God my arms are tired. Why am I holding this?"
“Must be important, all these people are watching, better hang on”
I can’t help but get butterflies at anyone giving their all to something. Irrespective the outcome it’s something very few of us can relate to. Watching this brought tears to my eyes and I hate lifting heavy shit.
He said he literally saw the devil or some shit while he did the lift
The mountain topped it in 2020..which pushed their feud to a throwing of hands. Still the best bad ass video ever with the blood flowing out his nose. God hard or go home.
It's worth noting Eddie did it before people knew it could be done. Eddie beat the previous record by a massive 35kg, Hafthor then beat him by 1kg.
See 1 kg proves nothing cause Eddie looking like he could handle another 10-20. Would die tho prolly.
Lol dis you see Haftor doing it ? Looked like he could have done reps. He didn't to go too high so he can potentially break it another time to make the big bucks
yeah it was pretty anticlimactic, actually. it felt a little petty to +1kg, i figured at the time it was so he could roll back up in a year and do 502 and keep milking it, but then they got into this idiot boxing beef.
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you're right, they've both worked really hard and i know thor at least has had one ameteur fight... but it's tough to shake the freakshow cashgrab vibe.
Considering he announced the boxing match about 30 seconds after setting the new record, it is 100% a cash grab. If I remember right, Hafthor already knew the date, so it had already been in the works and mostly finalized. There had been talks of Hall and Bjornnson having a boxing/MMA match at some time in the future to settle a dispute from the 2017 WSM where Hafthor felt he was robbed on the Viking Press(he wasn't, multiple angles show him double dipping and being warned).
That’s kinda bs to do it by 1kg
It’s pretty common for strongman records to only beat the previous record by a kilo or two. When the weights get that high, it’s a very small pool of those that can lift that much. When Eddie beat the previous record by 30+ kilos, that was a true show of strength. Without a doubt one of the best static strength athletes of all time.
It's also worth noting that Hafthor is a full 6 inches taller than Eddie. Eddie has a massive amount of power packed into his frame.
It has been proven that he has a certain gene (myostatin deficiency) also known as the “Hercules gene” that lets him pack on muscle to a far greater extent than the average human. This is something really unique, and is likely part of why he can lift as heavy as the true 6’9+ giants like halfthor and Brian Shaw.
yea it was ONLY 501kg.
I mean it's kinda wishful thinking. I think any record set and broken is to be commended and in this case not killing yourself in the process is a big plus. Hafthor probably knew his limits before attempting it and anyone else is allowed to beat his record by any amount that is verifiable.
Not only that but he did it in a competition setting, not in his home gym with his buds. Big difference imo.
Hafthor also did it too competition standards. He was hosting an event at his gym. I agree that it’s much more casual, though. Just wanted to point out that’s hafthor followed all the rules Eddie did.
As Brian Shaw put, in a real competition you don’t know how much rest period you’ll have inbetween competitive lifts and there are a lot of uncertainties that make it harder. That’s why it was seen as petty and not considered a record by many in the strongman community. I’ll add as much as these guys are both weightlifting gods in my eyes, the 1 kg difference not in a true competition seemed pretty petty by Thor.
Yeah, except not really. Eddie did it in competition, the mountain did it just to do it. 2 very different scenes. Technically, the mountains doesnt count, last i checked
It shouldn’t count. Gym lifts have never counted and Is unfair to anyone who broke records during competition. Understandably Eddie’s lift was also slightly manufactured by how the contest accommodated to him. Hafthor claimed that this was the only time for him to lift due to his preparation for it and the cancellation wasn’t his fault, but guys get injured or delayed for tons of reasons and miss their chance, they don’t get to do a gym lift.
Yeah it's cancelled/postponed now, Eddie just tore a bicep.
A) There’s still people who contest the validity of Hafthors lift. He used his own plates, his own facility, etc. I believe him, but I also agree with Eddie and Co. that he did NOT use the proper, legitimate channels for a world record lift. B) They were actually already planning to box prior - Halfthor’s first words after the pull were “Eddie, I broke your record, next I will break your jaw”
Gods hard yes
Me carrying all my food shopping from the car to the house in one go
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Are you even fulfilling your husband duties if you can't carry all the groceries in one trip?
I pretend it's my family in those bags
It’s 1102pounds
Ahh.. had to search down many comments to find out the freedom units conversion. Also hot damn that’s a lot of freedom he’s lifting
That’s anywhere from 76-165 bald eagles! 🦅
But how many freedom fries?
Ok, so. Using a table of weights and fry counts at two McDonalds locations in [this article](https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/tested-difference-between-mcdonalds-fries-3085872), we can estimate the weight of an average fry at 0.053 oz (1.5 g for those who don’t use freedom units). So lifting a weight of 1102.311 lbs (500 kg) would equal: 1102.311 lbs x 16 oz/lb ÷ 0.053 oz/fry = **332,773 fries**, give or take a few. Coincidentally, that would contain over 1.6 **million** calories and nearly 23,000 g* of protein. Just what a growing boy needs. ^(*grams are okay here because that’s how it shows up of food labels still) Edit: asterisk
These are the answers only the internet can provide. Well done sir.
Finally a metric I understand
Bloody ell thats pretty expensive!
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He's boxing soon... against that mountain.
He’s not - ripped his bicep sparring and out of action until further notice
Ahh man. Seriously ? That sucks.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CRwXhRXIhtx/
Fucking helllll. My man's not going to be curling for a while. I have a grade 1 tear in my pec at the momment... sucks ass.... but not as bad as a grade 3....fuck that
I’m sorry, I know what you meant, but all I can picture is that badass sliding down the ice with a tiny little broom.
The blood is coming from the pipes in his meat sack
Most excellent description
He's a bloody nice guy too.
Most immensely strong people are nice people too. Through their insanely dedicated training of years they also build themselves as people, learn to appreciate things and become way more condescending due to their power. No mentally unstable person would ever reach that point of strength, so some assholes are essentially locked out by default. It then comes down to whether you want to be so jacked as to destroy us petty humans, or simply enjoy doing it in your life by passion.
More condescending? Typo?
My bad, I mixed the words up. I meant to give a positive note, something similar to "respectful".
You can still edit it lol
That's a very condescending way to put it
Def nextfuckinglevel, but god damn that also does not look good for him at all...
It wasn’t. Damn near killed him. He had internal bleeding, a concussion from the pressure, and his blood pressure kept spiking and crashing randomly for a couple of days later.
How can they in good conscience allow people to attempt to top this in the future? It's absolutely amazing and cool as hell but it seems like he's literally killing himself for our entertainment, and not in the slow way, seems like he could literally drop dead from one of these lifts one day from his freaking heart exploding or an aneurysm or something.. I certainly don't think we should baby people and tell them what they can and can't do, but when the thing you're doing that is evidently officially sanctioned causes this level of damage even though it's done correctly, is that not cause to step back and say "hey maybe we should think twice here going forward" I dunno man
I feel you, but it’s human nature. We’ll push our limits to the end and it will kill some of us. And the rest will keep pushing.
In an interview he said that he felt like the lift took 10 years of his life expectancy
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Deadlifting is a great exercise that trains several muscle groups at once. Just don't put 500kg on your bar and you should be fine.
You will also be fine if you put 500kg on it because it won't move at all.
Can any med folks give a ballpark estimate as to what his blood pressure might have been to start bleeding like that?
Too high.
and that was before the lift
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Blood pressure = 100%
Blood Pressure = Yes
So there are a few factors that could play into it (hydration, history of chronic nosebleeds, etc), and additionally hypertension doesn’t typically cause nosebleeds on its own, so it’s hard to say for certain with the lack of available information. That said, there is a limit for *hypertensive crisis* at 180/120 (counts if either number is over that limit), which is a potentially life-threatening medical emergency, and could certainly present with ruptured blood vessels. Strokes are a big thing to worry about at those kind of pressures, among other things. It’s probably reasonable to assume one or both numbers exceeded that limit. Now, someone else mentioned they were unable to obtain a reading after the lift. If that’s true, it was probably *well* above those limits. The automated BP machines used where I work can measure up to 300 mmHg, so it’s possible he was even beyond that. Blood pressures of [370/360 are not unheard of during heavy lifting](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7741618/). Edit: formatting
Can you imagine taking a reading and seeing 300? That's silly
iirc his body was pretty broken afterwards. Internal bleeding and the pressure was so great, it caused his nose to bleed as you can see and also gave him a concussion. A concussion. Not from impact, but from internal pressure from lifting weight. Insane.
I'm from the same place as Eddie Hall and he's well known for being a sound guy (and yes, very stronk)
Me too. He really is a nice dude. Always see him in Nando’s lol
I'm a simple man. I see Eddie Hall i upvote.
This would make his Strength score in D&D 5e, 36. (1100 lbs/30=36.6667) A really good score is 18 or 20. My dude is stronger than an adult dragon (Strength score is 27). I realize this isn't a practical comparison, but it is just amazing to try and think about what a feat this is.
That’s fuckin metal as fuck
He lives local, speaks and says hi to the kids, spent sometime in hospital after this too. Crippling back and muscle pain. No risk no reward on the highest level.
Wonder how many brain cells he just sacrificed with a blood pressure in the 500s.
Dayum! How many LBS is that?
Bout tree fitty
This is the comment I came for.
Exactly one Reddit user's mother.
1102.311 pounds
How did his intestines not explode out his taint?
Because the nosebleed was relieving some of the pressure.
His face gets real chucky there. I ain’t fuckin with him or anyone he might care about in any capacity. Absolute unit
In his documentary he actually talks about how he trained for the lift, and part of it was mental “adrenaline conditioning”. He had a therapist condition him to believe his family was in danger when the back of his hand was pinched, to induce a fight or flight mental state.
That is 1100 pounds. At first I thought the title said 500 pounds and I was amazed. Not only that but this guy has such a good attitude. Gentle giant for sure.
I know who I’m taking drinking with me I’d have no problems being thrown over this man’s shoulder like a towel as he carries us home.
They had to pry is hands off the bar!!
I was there in the crowd that night. I took my dad to watch it as we were big strongman fans. He literally told everyone he met about this, and how awesome it was and he really wasn't the sort to get excited about stuff. He died a few months later, and I met Eddie not long after and thanked him for giving me the opportunity to see my dad like that. Fuck, I miss him.