Meanwhile in Australia … at the 2015 Arnold Classic
Eddie Hall deadlifts 462kg (1018 lbs) with straps.
Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Meanwhile in Australia … at the 2015 Arnold Classic
Eddie Hall deadlifts 462kg (1018 lbs) with straps.
Statically, the strongest man in the world.
Not even a hitch in there. No suit either.
Still, I found it surprising that he lost the Hummer tire deadlift to Brian Shaw in Arnold Strongman (video on ATG). Shaw must be a beast in deadlift – his lift looked a lot easier than that of Hall’s.
The height of the athlete can be a factor in the tire deadlift.
Can it be better to be taller? Shaw is over 2 metres I think, and Hall should be the shorter one. Seems that should make most deadlift variations easier, since the taller athlete lifts the bar hiher (provided his/her arms are not very long).
It’s more a matter of it just being two different lifts, despite seeming similar. I might even guess that it’s a matter of grip strength. Hall has lost deadlifts before even with straps (these are massive loads, so even strong guys can have trouble holding onto 450+ kgs!). Anyway, as any weightlifter knows, lifts vary, and lifters have different strengths. I don’t think Benni Magnusson ever won the Hummer tire deadlift event when he competed, and he’s pulled 460 kgs without straps very easily in powerlifting competition.
I have never tried rack pulls myself, or anything pull related that starts higher than from the floor, so I don’t know how the difference feels. Just as you say, it’s probably a different lift altogether.
Looking at the hummer tire deadlift, it seems most lifters simply use the back a lot. There seems to be little forward movement of the knees over the bar.
It also had to do with the format of the competition… They were only given three lifts, Hall took his last lift and then Shaw took his last to beat it by a couple kilos… Maybe things would have been different with unlimited attempts, maybe not
This is pretty amazing. I wonder what his numbers are without straps? Too bad about the potatoe camera.. 🙁
Better quality video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30N4H0TdVV4