• Eddie Hall becomes first man to deadlift 500kg (1102lbs)
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[QUOTE=Buck.;50760925]I could have sworn Zydrunas Savickas did more than that. [editline]23rd July 2016[/editline] [B]Yeah he did. But on tyres so it's not exactly the same height.[/B] [/QUOTE] Not to mention that the amount of flexing in that bar makes it incomparable to a proper deadlift of that weight.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;50758571]And here I am, unable to lift even 50kg. This is fucking insane.[/QUOTE] Trust me. You can lift 50kg easily. I surprised myself by how much I was able to lift on my first try, I weigh 65kg, have never worked out a day in my life, yet I was able to pull of two reps of 80kg the first time I tried deadlifting.
[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;50760824]I clicked on the video and I was completely unprepared for how fucking [I]dwarfy[/I] that guy is[/QUOTE] He looks pretty dwarfy because he's so wide, but he's actually 6'3 Here he is next to mere mortals [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CW5wPhbWwAAhokl.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=tom1029;50762179]He looks pretty dwarfy because he's so wide, but he's actually 6'3 Here he is next to mere mortals [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CW5wPhbWwAAhokl.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Jesus christ he's like a goddamn ogre
[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;50760824]... How? Genuinely curious, I was tossing 50lb feed sacks when I was 12 so maybe my upbringing is skewing my perspective a bit but surely you can lift 110lbs just... I don't know, by default. Or maybe you're just being hyperbolic and I'm missing it, I don't know. 110lbs is like a single girlfriend or two six-year-olds or five corgis. Surely you can lift five corgis.[/QUOTE] It was hyperbole. Although it was less funny than the image of trying to bench-press small yappy dogs so it apparently wasn't very good hyperbole.
This is what can happen while lifting huge weights, i'll just post it in link form because its kind of disgusting [URL="http://i.imgur.com/qaHoJlQ.jpg"]http://i.imgur.com/qaHoJlQ.jpg[/URL] (actually from a bench press record but yah)
[QUOTE=uitham;50762840]This is what can happen while lifting huge weights, i'll just post it in link form because its kind of disgusting [URL="http://i.imgur.com/qaHoJlQ.jpg"]http://i.imgur.com/qaHoJlQ.jpg[/URL] (actually from a bench press record but yah)[/QUOTE] That's one hell of a hickey
[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;50760939]I was looking up strongman stuff and I found that the 2004 winner of the log lift is now... [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/qdmQLI1.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] If Latvia ever gets invaded, they just let that fucker loose in the middle of enemy forces.
[B][I]HALL SMAAAAAASH[/I][/B]
[QUOTE=uitham;50762840]This is what can happen while lifting huge weights, i'll just post it in link form because its kind of disgusting [URL="http://i.imgur.com/qaHoJlQ.jpg"]http://i.imgur.com/qaHoJlQ.jpg[/URL] (actually from a bench press record but yah)[/QUOTE] Yeah, you can tear muscles for sure. Gastrocnemius tendon tears can be more gruesome. Imagine your Achilles tendon snapping like a rubber band and rolling up in your leg.
[QUOTE=uitham;50762840]This is what can happen while lifting huge weights, i'll just post it in link form because its kind of disgusting [URL="http://i.imgur.com/qaHoJlQ.jpg"]http://i.imgur.com/qaHoJlQ.jpg[/URL] (actually from a bench press record but yah)[/QUOTE] The hell causes that?!
[QUOTE=MaximLaHaxim;50765241]The hell causes that?![/QUOTE] Torn pec from trying to benchpress a bit over 700lbs.
[QUOTE=cathal6606;50760883]I think even if you had the muscular strength to lift 1000kg the other structures in your body wouldnt be able to hold up. You'd probably rip your arms off, snap your spine, dislocate your shoulders/knees/hips or something along those lines.[/QUOTE] Nah. The limitation won't be the structure of our bodies any time soon. It will be our cardiovascular systems. The amount of internal pressure required to stabilize the body while lifting that kind of weight is immense, your heart literally stops beating due to your blood pressure reaching astronomical levels momentarily. That's why guys like Eddie are busting blood vessels in their eyes and heads and shit. It will eventually become potentially deadly to lift like that, if it isn't already. You can strengthen your bones, joints, ligaments, and muscles over years of training. But you can't make your blood vessels stronger as far as I know; the internal pressure required to lift heavier weights will eventually become higher than blood vessels in your brain can tolerate.
I wonder how easily he could crush a man's head with his hands
[QUOTE=Kylel999;50770391]I wonder how easily he could crush a man's head with his hands[/QUOTE] "235 kg (520 pounds) or 2,300 newtons of force would be needed to crush a human skull, almost twice as much force as human hands could possibly muster." If he was to constantly punch the temple or back of the skull it might be possible? [editline]25th July 2016[/editline] 'Lenny Bernstein from the Washington Post spoke to neurosurgeon Tobias Mattei and reported that a skull fracture requires 500 kg of force. It would be possible for a man who weighed 500 kg (remember The Mountain only weighs 190 kg) to fracture a skull by stepping on it but, according to Mattei, it would be “impossible [for a man] to break [a skull] with his hands even if 90 percent of the 235 kg were biceps muscles.” Moreover, “It would be almost impossible … to ‘blow up’ the head’s top from inside… No explosion would be seen. The eyes of the victim would be pushed backward some few inches. That’s it.”' [editline]25th July 2016[/editline] [video]https://youtu.be/KVQQTLZMkFY[/video]
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