The 2017 World's Strongest Man.
The 2017 World's Strongest Man.
I wish someone could tell me how this would translate if he were a 6'0 210 lb linebacker.
Better yet, what is the equivalent 1-arm assisted bench press with bad form?
Who will answer these questions for me
Down right crazy. That is enertia. That man is pure Beast
i need a conversion wrote:
I wish someone could tell me how this would translate if he were a 6'0 210 lb linebacker.
Better yet, what is the equivalent 1-arm assisted bench press with bad form?
Who will answer these questions for me
Someone call Matt London
I call bs.
He doesn't tend to BS, but after he said that he does a mile in 7:00-7:30 every day, I want to see it on a track. Otherwise, if not BS, he is mistaken.
Far more impressive than those lame sub 5 mile and over 500 pound squat guys.
He's squatted 716 pounds - for 15 reps....in the middle of a full strongman competition. He's also a very good swimmer, he was way under the standard in the swim despite swimming 50 meters further than required.
dumbassMF wrote:
He doesn't tend to BS, but after he said that he does a mile in 7:00-7:30 every day, I want to see it on a track. Otherwise, if not BS, he is mistaken.
Yeah, no. If not bs, then a mistake. A 7-min mile is 8.5mph—no way he could keep that up for 7 minutes.
Belarussiya wrote:
i need a conversion wrote:
I wish someone could tell me how this would translate if he were a 6'0 210 lb linebacker.
Better yet, what is the equivalent 1-arm assisted bench press with bad form?
Who will answer these questions for me
Someone call Matt London
No don't. His head is going to explode trying to figure out how a man that can deadlift 5x his max and weighs two times him can run a mile faster than he.
Maybe not so far-fetched. He showed potential as a swimmer in his youth.
The pull-ups got to be difficult at 360lbs. One out of those Ten may have been legit. But overall, good job to Eddie.
I thought about starting a thread about this, but the video looks like bs to me. He doesn't appear to be running anywhere near 7:30 pace the few times that the camera slows down. If he can indeed run this fast, he would totally change my perception of what big men can do. I would have expected him to struggle to break 10 in the mile.
None of those half pushups counted....
Still, dude is an athlete and has abs. WSM has some pretty high intensity endurance requirements....in that 30-60s all out range. Yoke carries, truck pulls, etc.
His time doesn't surprise me.
Alan
pure bs, heavily edited.
Eddie Hall only became a strongman because first he couldn't make the draft, and then he was too slow in the 60 yard dash. Everyone knows that the only reason to include friction elements like weights and obstacles is because you lack the natural speed to be competitive in the dash.
Sincere regards from your slightly injured local youtuber.
fatb wrote:
pure bs, heavily edited.
I mean...what does he gain by BSing a 1.5mi Run? You think he does this just to troll LR? I believe his goal was something like 10.5 minutes for the seal test? Why not just fake a 10.5?
It's totally believable. He's not some out of shape fatso.
Alan
16.55 / 16.56 in the video he clearly stops at the very end of the panned out view.
That was only 2.45 into his run! He looked gassed, yet still had 9mins of running left to do?
Ok maybe he did it as a run/walk, but still..looks a little suspect.
His friend was equally suspect, not as big as Eddy but a big guy still - 9.15? 6.10 pace? and not looking too out of breath at the finish?..hmm.
So he would literally be running 7:38 per mile. He would be a second faster with every pound lost. If he dropped 235 pounds to an ideal 130 then he would also have the WR of 3:43
John Scott wrote:
Everyone knows that the only reason to include friction elements like weights and obstacles is because you lack the natural speed to be competitive in the dash..
?. This is absolutely true in my case.
But then weights can become their own thing, and you start doing the Olympic lifts and powerlifts.
But yeah, that’s me?
The replies on this thread are ridiculous.
I don't think people on this board realize just how amazing this man is as an athlete.
Newsflash to Letsrun: you aren't a well-rounded athlete or anything special just because you ran a 32:00 10k back in college and you still pump out a mediocre 45 miles a week so you can run your local 5ks in 17:00, get a medal, and feel like you are king sh*t.
The feats of strength this man is capable of are incredible. The fact that he has some modest running goals and achievements he puts out there, even if they don't come close to the almighty Letsrun standards, are still amazing given the context.
Good luck to the average letsrunner trying to deadlift 20% of what this guy can manage. If you watch his documentary on Netflix you'll see how hard this guy worked at his craft. I'm blown away at the ridiculousness and the self-inflated ego of the people on this board