Eddie Hall reveals SECRETS to building CRAZY SHOULDER POWER 

literally IS built different - he does have an advantageous genetic building block that allows for less restricted muscle growth.

Sumo wrestlers in japan weighing in 300+ kg

@@jeremymuir4332If Eddie has that then other strongmen also have it. Eddie did not have more muscle than some of the top guys now.

@@stokiemanbrent4200 The elite strongmen are all anomalies... but not all of them have this genetic coding. It's an ancestral Scandinavian trait.

Was? This absolute beast of a man is walking around rn in peak form

It was not each arm. 60kg each dumbell x 2 = 120 kg. But 120kg each arm sounds harder

@@jebudylajtwejt8051 he literally says 120kg each arm are you deaf 😅

Unless you take gear... Then its not so unreal

@@joshjackson2295still unreal, he held the axle press WR at one point. So compared to other steroid users he’s still got top 5 strongest shoulders ever

@@ronnana694 and yet, if he was never on steroids would he have got even half that number... Definitely not. Just takes it away from the achievements that most of his strength was paid for in steroids. Who knows what he would have lifted without them

And being severely severely severely... Dehydrated

Why would he be dehydrated he’s a strongman not a bodybuilder

Tart combo.

​@@Kyle-cq7ilyou obviously don't watch Eddie Halls channel then lol

U missed the comma after "half a family "

Nah man u also strong af

I can do a max of 16kgs 12 reps 😢😢😢

42 for 8 reps is hella impressive mate! Keep it up, I’m doing 36 for10-12 reps 3 times then then like a burnout set of 15 reps ish with 30’s a year ago I could hardly do 25’s so I’m happy with the progress so far! 👍👍

@@Ahmad-ug9qs Just keeping working at it my man, keep doing what you're doing then every so often go a bit heavier for less reps

@@danfrith924 Nice one man, you've definitely got a minimum of the 40s in you, as I pyramid up I do about the same with 36s so you should give it a go, thats fast progress as well I have to say

That's great bro, but don't compare yourself to the strongest men in the world and do ur best 👍

He really was the strongest man ever.

We all caught that sneaky flex there 😂 respect though 50s are serious

50kg already puts you in top 2 to 5/‰ of men

@@davidc4408 ur being generous. Ohp w 50kg dbells is something 99.something% of the male population cant do

Very true

2017 Eddie hall was genuinely the strongest man to ever grace the planet, the 216kg axel press, the 500kg deadlift, the amount of presses he could do was inhumane

Big Z is the strongest man to ever walk the 🌎

@@charles-mp9nt Eddie was stronger than Z statically

@@Agnes135 🤣🤣 that's funny Eddie never even made the podium at the Arnold Classic which is the heaviest competition they have hell they had to bring in a lighter log because nobody else including Eddie could lift the big log but Big Z for 2 years in a row and everytime they went head to head Big Z always won

Maybe the idiots don't realize 120kilos is 260lbs.

Just because someone is strong or has a good physique, doesn’t mean they know everything, and it doesn’t mean they’re training the most efficiently. Usain Bolt’s coach can’t run very fast, never competed. You think he knows less about training than some 18 year old who can run fast? Eddie might have even found the perfect rep range for him, but doesn’t mean established sport science is suddenly wrong.

Yes the guy is gifted . But you can t imagine the amount of work to achieve what he already did .

Steroids help alot with that...Full ROM is better than 3/4 of a rep, the studies and research has been done. With full ROM he could get the same amount of hypertrophy and strength gains with half the amount of reps.

Do you wanma be a strongman or wanna get stronger? If you wanna be a strongman like him, it might be a good way, shorter muscles are not a problem if youre a strongman, and are that short But if youre an athletic guy with long limbs who likes to be flexible and keep his full range of motion, this is not a good way to train "in my opinion"

Beat thor by half a point

@@stani6024still won

@keepingkey3912 he said no1 was on his level. Big Z shaw and thor have all won more trophies

@@stani6024 and that’s a completely different conversation

Big z and shaw have 4 titles each

That's the right way to do it it keeps tension and the muscle gets stronger because rhey are harder reps

60kg isn't a heavyweight boxer u fool 😂

@@Henson-xl3qvhe said 120kg each arm was his peak…. That’s heavy weight

@@Henson-xl3qvin fact In boxing that’s nearly 30kg more then what’s classed as a super heavy weight

@@BasedAlfredbased

Tbf his partials are still about 90% or more of a full rep, he's just not locking out or resting at either end.

RIP mountain dog , he is legend!❤

​@@jotarokujo3603tbh he probably can't even do "full ROM" because he's so goddamn big.

If you do a weight this light, the resistance of the movement at the top and bottom are probably actually useless. However, if you do anything in the 6-15 rep range, the top and bottom are NOT "relaxing". You still have tension in your muscles, and honestly, even if you relax, this isn't a conoetetivensetting where reps need to be legit, you are trying to become stronger, and if you can do an additional 3 reps because you did a small break at the top of your movement, that's perfectly legit.

You can’t mention West Side Barbell Club and leave out the man behind it, Bill ‘Peanuts’ West. A real legend in lifting history and dubbed the Godfather of Powerlifting.

Debunked tho

​@@vandidovanno it hasn't

​@@vandidovanliterally where? Like please I beg, show me a study or a meta analysis. You can't just throw stupid baseless claims around.

one of the most important things out there actually@@vandidovan

@@vandidovanStupidity loves speaking the loudest

Gain 100lbs and see what happens bro

you can't naturally reach his level, and even with steroids, it's pretty damn hard.

@@diobrando7642there is no steroid in the world that would take average lifter to his lvl ever. You need to have the genetic base from the begining.

​U need genetics and gear getting fat won't make u strong

Take a shitload of 'roids as he does and youl'll get there too.

Literally bro. He got to 420kg simply deadlifting every week 😭. I genuinely believe Eddie Hall in 2016-2017 was the strongest person to ever walk the earth

​@@dantemorales2493Big Z is the strongest man to ever live. His stats are insane, not to mention his peak was 15 years lol

That says a lot about his talent, and explains his bad training advice.

Is there any research on that?

​@@quitchemmy y do u need research, go try it for yo shelf

50 reps is Excessive. I mean, obviously it's going to do something, but I don't think you will develop a lot of explosive strength through that training. The reason it works so well for him, is probably that he is using PEDs. If you use PEDs, than any stimulus will lead to WAY more muscle grow than it would naturally. That's why people get huge traps and shoulder. Just doing Bizeps curls or anything else with your arms automatically loads the upper back muscle a LITTLE BIT, but that stress is enough for your body to build muscle there.

@carlpanzram7081 yeah I probably wouldn't go that far. But higher frequency than some other muscle groups, id def do that.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@quitchemmyit’s repeated and accepted that slow twitch muscle fibers grow more from high reps. Haven’t read anything on it but I know calves get used 24-7 by the body for walking and they seem to respond better to high reps in my training and from seeing people grow big calves through running. Wether that applies to shoulders is a different story. Everything is a fckin posture muscle. Back, core, glutes. For me I go as heavy as I can where the weight doesn’t negatively impact going to failure and maintaining acceptable form. Which sometimes isn’t heavy especially if my shoulders are being clicky and weird. But no reason to do 50 reps like Eddie. That’s cardio. If you can handle 60 pounds perfectly there’s no reason to do 50 pounds

Yeah much harder than you’d think haha

Whatever you can press for 8 reps clean half that weight and you can easily get 40-50 reps after a few sessions as it takes time to adapt

How many sets?

Apparently such a simple and easily observable phenomenon is "bro science" now.

And yet he is telling the truth. He is not normal. He is superhuman.

His PBs aren't overly different from any other top level strongman...infact several are lower.

Doesn't seem humanly possible.

Unbelievably what?

@@MadSupra354 *ble

I agree, it's unbelievably.

Muscle building is more mental than physical

He's explaining in layman's terms long length partials. Time under tension

It's not bro science you muppet

He using what feels good for him. Which is a value of its own. Avoiding the very top and bottom of the press to keep constant tension on the muscle is a solid reason. 50 reps is excessive though.

and when it comes to strength training, a lot of bro science is better than stuff coming out of research studies. You have decades of actual experimentation and observation vs things like "6 average trained individuals doing one exercise, 3 times a week over 4 weeks and we concluded.... blah blah blah" I'm not saying follow bro science blindly, but a lot of bro science basically says, track what you're doing, measure what the result is, and if you're not getting the desired result, change things up. Rinse and repeat. Which is pretty much what science is about.

Always context dependant 🤷‍♂️ Strength is RoM specific, stretch under load (full depth) is probably the most power stimulus for hypertrophy. However with the amount of reps he's doing, this is pretty much an endurance application so fuck it 😆 It's definitely is not responsible for "power" as he claims though but, then again, a lot of people misuse the word. Eddie has a lot of dumb bro science explanations unfortunately.

Well that's true for everything.

the nonsense that earns world records, yep

​@friedchicken4326 A bad driver will still win the race if he is driving a F1 car on a straight road when the rest are driving Hyundai i10s.

Its quite easy to understand. I also knee a dude in my teens who never lifted but looked jacked. He looked like a mens health cover model year out without training while eating a ton of shit the whole day. He kept this body until around 28-30s. Thats when the fat began to creep up on him. What im trying to say is, we are not all the same. Some of us have incredible genetics and gain a ton of strength and muscle while looking at a dumbell. Doesnt mean we have to adapt their style of training. I found out for myself that i need more recovery then others so i went down from 4-5 days to 2-3 days of lifting in a week. This man is a unicorn no doubt. But i wouldnt recommend what he said

@@user-cp1nr9ob5w I feel like I was following the premise, Friedchickens argument involved using Eddie's accomplishments as proof, I highlighted that being a genetic specimin helped him overcome his somewhat lacking methodology. Analogies are normally used in discussions and I feel like mine was used aptly.

​@@Undercover1987whats wrong with 40-50 reps?

that promotes fatigue more than tension. Tension is the biggest at the complete bottom. It's still a way to train that brings variety, but it is not superior to full rom reps, per se, unless you have some sort of physical impairment. Not locking or fully stretching at the bottom makes you lift more and not stimulate your soft tissues as much, which is not exactly good if done the majority if the sets

I feel like people are largely mistaking what he just talked about, which is still extremely close to the full rep, with people who lift more than they actually can and just can't complete the exercise. This dude is just avoiding any chance to rest but still does 99% of the rep. He can also absolutely complete the rep. When people complain about partial reps this is not what they're complaining about, they're talking about ego lifters who can't finish what they start.

lol

Apparently not a whole lot. Although absolutely an integral part of his overall training, this is not where his power came from.

@@SmokePurp305 So where did it come from?

@Tobias Reaper The short answer is it's going to probably be from the 85%-95% area with rep and set ranges varying between 5x5, 5x3, 3x5, 4x5, 5,3,1's, 5x1, 3x1 etc.

​@@SmokePurp305 Then you might be surprised to find out he never trained like that. But Eddie was unusual in many ways. True freak athlete.

no you wont lmao

This is wrong.

Yes, these muppets in the comments calling it "bro science" have no idea what they're talking about

it does the opposite but nice try

ofc it is wdym

heart day everyday

​​@@Sangiu6142 bro do you know how much steroids he takes?

And tons of steroids

Well that's their fault for not realizing he's talking to other guys like him. He's giving tips for how to be a strongman. Bodybuilding is completely different.

Yeah trust the science 🤡 genetics have been over hyped for many years, that’s everyone’s excuse now.

Don't forget drugs ;)

What Eddie is saying makes perfect scientific sense though

​@@RevZman No, it doesn't. Sets of 50 are not gonna improve power; strength is RoM specific; loaded stretch (the bottom bit he's cutting out) is the most powerful stimulus for growth. This'll improve his endurance and cause some growth, sure, but it's not particularly a great idea. Especially since he'd do this BEFORE his heavy log work which makes no sense. I'm a big Eddie fan but he talks a lot shit when it comes to the rationale for his training methods. He's a beast, a legendary strongman, and a great entertainer though.

He’s doing 40-50 reps without any pause or rest. That’s all time under tension. Sure, if you did the same amount of reps at a slower pace you would have more time under tension, but if you’re banging out 50 reps like he’s doing that’s still more than enough time

Did anyone ask here about hypertrophy ? Go relay the hypertrophy trash somewhere else pls. Stop giving bodybuilding advice on strongman forums.

Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about. He just described TUT

He can

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he never said it was his maxx are you braindead dont try to make him sound dumb when you dont listen

he literally did 100kg dumbell for 7 reps

Easily 120kg, so might have even been more, not easy...

The evidence your referring to is not about postural muscles though. So im not sure if it applies to the back of your shoulders.

@Mr Sensei Postural muscles, are the deep muscles in your abdomen, pelvis and back.

And how many of "those" people that have these "studies" has actually achieved a WSM title? LMAO, none of them! The Science is Wrong 😂

Endurance is killing your gains!

@edwinprado5620 As you may know, a strongman can not just train like a power lifter. Strongman athletes need to be able to perform 1 rep Max's, speed reps, high reps, and endurance training. Without being a "Swiss army knife" of strength sports, they wouldn't get very far in most cases.

Kevlar Tendons

You just have bad shoulder mobility

@@neal520 you're right. It shouldn't hurt to dumbbell press

Eddie maintained some tremendous shoulder mobility for his size after his swimming career

people don’t realize that if you train your shoulder mobility or any joints in your body for that matter, you can put a lot more stress on the than you think. healthy joints are strong joints

why 'almost failure' and why only on last set? I do full failure on all sets.

And this is not optimal for any of them.

@@iamthemobey Phwa agreed their bodies are pushed to the max the heart risks alone