Wow Big Z took the record from 193 kg to 215 kg so an improvement of 22 kg. I wish they contested the axle more in competitions than Z would have taken the record atleast to 230 kg as the axle is easier than the log. He hardly touched the axle after 2010.
You say the axle is easier than the log, but the world record for the log is 12kg heavier and more people have lifted >220 on the log than >210 on the axle
@@mrRunist That's a valid point, you rarely see people posting their axle PRs either. Logs are favoured in comps as well as by fans. I still say the log is easier though, continental cleans are pretty brutal compared to rolling the log up, and the starting position being higher due to the thickness of the log makes the range of motion for the press slightly shorter
@@douglasnisbet1189 I disagree. Having tried both, the axle is harder to clean and harder to press because you cant generate as much force on an axle bar as you cant grip it as well as you could with a log due to its circumference
@@mattwad9738 Nonsense, the man was a contender for the title in 2016 and won it in 2017. He wasn't so dominant in moving events as static but to say that he wasn't that great as a competitor is just not true.
@@jonathandixson1424 only for 2 years? I´m just saying that he isn´t a legend like Z, Thor, Shaw or LOZ as a Strongman competitor. His performance wasn´t that consistent.
@@mattwad9738 Ah yes, that's certainly true, I'm not gonna dispute that lol. I suppose this is a bit of a semantic difference, I struggle with the description of someone with a wsm title and was a contender for the win the year before as "not that great". But it seems we agree on the actual state of things
I would love to have seen Eddie Hall and Z at their absolute prime go head to head. They would have pushed each other so hard in these overhead events.
What the hell was that bar lol. It looks like someone slid weights on to a scaffolding bar and macgyvered that s*** lol. I am so glad i wasn't the team setting that bar up before each lift, I think I would have been like "F*** this I'm going home do it yourself"
@@Texansfan437 ur stupid as fuck...do ur homework boy ...I'm in Dallas I bet I'm stronger than u too.. Olympic weightlifter/ powerlifter right here boy
@@joshc8907 Me too, Big Z is the greatest strongman as a competitor, that´s hardly debatable with 4x WSM and 8X ASC, but talking pure strenght Eddie Hall in 2017, Brian Shaw at his prime, Hafthor Bjonsson the last two years are have been stronger than Z ever, however i do admit when comes to press overhead Big Z was the greatest for far too long
Just goes to show how far ahead of his time Z was in this era. Only Loz managed over 200kg too, and his lift was pretty much his 1RM. Mind you, fast forward to 2017 and Eddie Hall strict presses a kilo more!!
@@traininggrounds9450 It's difficult, isn't it? Eddie's lift was so iconic that there'll be a huge anticlimactic cloud hanging over the deadlift for a while, until someone beats 500kg by a substantial margin. I don't see that happening on a regular bar for another 5 or 10 years.
@@elvikingobarbaroja If the record is beaten its beaten by a pound or a kilogram. That's still 500kg in tow. To match the record would be an accomplishment so beating it by whatever margin has nothing to do with how Eddie Hall had beaten the record by a large margin. All it does is delay when the next WR holder will be revealed. It has nothing to do with margins.
@@traininggrounds9450 I disagree in part, although lifting 501kg would indeed be an enormous accomplishment. Who was the second person to lift 400kg or the second person to lift 1000lbs? On the day, noone else managed 500kg, and everyone who was likely to even manage the penultimate weight was there. Margins are important because they show just how far ahead of the game the record breaker, Eddie, was.
@@elvikingobarbaroja Right, the margin that Eddie set. But the margin after Eddie has nothing to do with his accomplishment. 501kg is the new WR whether you dream it up or not. The person who does it will be doing the exact same margin Eddie did plus 1kg. It's more the fact that it is 500kg itself and the number speaks volumes besides the margin. It was a historical moment that Eddie did and nothing may be as historical as that. But it doesn't change what it means to be a WR holder.
He took a year out to let his body fully recover from injuries. He did a team comp in Lithuania recently, but he wants to nail his training to (hopefully) be somewhere closer to his best for WSM 2020 and the ASC!
@@elvikingobarbaroja Would be great to see him again but at 43 with all the injuries he suffered... That'd be awesome if he tried to compete while being ripped. He'd be weaker but quicker (and a bit healthier).
@@swapnilsmite17 Winning strongman competitions doesn't mean you're the statically strongest. Martins is not the strongest at anything yet he has won WSM. You just need to be in the top3 at most events
@@alexisvnc Did u start watching in 2017? Z holds more static records. Atleast 3 squat( 330 for 15 reps,), log lift and hummer deadlift than eds 2 record in total and I m not talking about z's other records like power stairs and fingals fingers. For static strength arnolds is the heaviest and ed has 0 titles compared to Z,. Shaw and thor. Plus learn to know difference between powerlifting and strongman.
@@swapnilsmite17 I hate to say it but big Z squats high asf. In a powerlifting competition Eddie would destroy him (both at their peak). Bench we dont even need to talk about it. Same goes for deadlifts with straps. And strict ohp is the same thing. Literally Eddie is the strongest in static events. And I also find him cringey asf when he talks about the whole alpha male bullshit but the man has proved he was the strongest ever (for a short period of time yes)
