After posting Miika Antti-Roiko’s Front Squat video reader Nortah commented:
You want to see finnish front squat power?
Yes I do! And I thought you would too.
Here is Jani Illikainen, Finland’ Strongest Man 4 time winner in the 2000s. with a 305kg Front Squat.
270kg x3
Ew, cross grip! Crazy strength though.
| Ew
Haha,I share your thoughts. But strongman are allowed to do that.
I do strongman and enforce the clean grip!! I feel like I am betraying strength sports if I used the cross armed technique.
A man with honor, I like that.
But who knows, maybe Jani had a wrist injury of some sort.
I love watching that dvd. Svend Karlsen is one of my fav strongmen. Magnus Samuelsson has a good training dvd as well.
“Vikings eat chains and s*** chains!!”
I love Karlsens’ old training facility; an abandoned warehouse on a mountain in Norway. What a fantastic place to train.
Plus, it comes with a mountain river to take ice baths in. What more can one ask for? Well maybe a sauna…
But that place looks just fantastic.