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'The Mountain' from 'Game of Thrones' goes for 501kg/1,104lb deadlift world record this Saturday, May 2nd

Do you think 'The Mountain' will break Eddie Hall's 500kg/1102lb deadlift world record?

  • Yes

    Votes: 34 72.3%

  • No

    Votes: 13 27.7%
  • Total voters
    47
  • Poll closed .
MaestroMike

MaestroMike

Gold Member
Hype surrounding the 2018 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) champion and 3-time Arnold Strongman Classic (ASC) champion Hafthor Bjornsson 501kg/1,104lb deadlift attempt continues to build as the internet debates whether or not it should be considered the new official world record or not.

“The Mountain” will perform the deadlift at his home gym in Reykjavik, Iceland with strongman Magnus Ver Magnusson present as the official referee.

Whether you agree that a successful attempt by Bjornsson outside of competition should be considered the new world record or not — and every big name strongman is weighing in on the discussion — here are all the ways that you can watch the lift happen live on Saturday, May 2nd.



ESPN
World’s Ultimate Strongman (WUS) announced their official broadcast partnership with ESPN earlier this month. ESPN will broadcast Bjornsson’s 501kg/1,104lb deadlift attempt live at 12pm EST (5pm GMT) on May 2nd throughout the United States on ESPN2 — which was rebranded to “ESPN8: The Ocho” on March 22nd, 2020.

CoreSports.world
The 501kg/1,104lb deadlift attempt will also be live streamed on CoreSports.world at 12pm EST for anyone around the globe.



The Build Up
Bjornsson has not been shy about his training leading up to the 501kg/1,104lb deadlift attempt. Recently, he streamed a successful 470kg/1,036lb deadlift live on Twitch from his garage gym. If you happened to miss that lift, you can see it below:




The World Record
Although WUS, ESPN, and Bjornsson himself have all advertised the 501kg/1,104lb deadlift attempt as a world record attempt, many other prominent strongmen such as Brian Shaw, Eddie Hall, Robert Oberst, and Zydrunas Savickas have voiced that they do not believe it should be considered as such because Bjornsson will be performing it outside of competition.

Regardless of what the record books deem to be the official world record deadlift, if Bjornsson’s attempt is successful, it would be the heaviest deadlift ever recorded.
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Eddie Hall has the current deadlift world record of 500 kg (1,102.31 lb):




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The Lift

 
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The Rain King

The Rain King

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He made 470 look easy not long ago, but it'll be a much different story going for WR with officials there and whatnot. Eddie said he was concussed for about two weeks after pulling 500 (was bleeding from the ears etc) and the jump from 470 to 500 is massive. Hoping everything goes well.
He'll either make it look easy, and say he could have gotten 520, or he won't get it past his knees.
I think he'll get it personally.
 
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Kenpachii

Kenpachii

Member
So when is it happening

GHG said:
If he pulls it off it will be a hell if an achievement.



Eddie Hall fucked himself up breaking the previous record.
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@15 minutes he talks about his vision going out.

I have had this multiple times, its a migraine that hits the eyes.

ocular-migraine-678x450.jpg


It's always this form, remove the red part however, its a blur that gets bigger and bigger rapidly until u can't see or read anything anymore. In really extreme cases that i had shit went just dark entirely. it stays for about half a hour.

I typically got it with extreme trainings for triathlon where u even started to hallucinate before it happens. When u really push your body to the absolute limits.

Example of training.

Biking:

Cold weather, rain, mud, with lots of wind.

Hour 1: struggle to get going, because u just start
Hour 2: Goes smooth
Hour 3: Goes great
Hour 4: struggle hard
Hour 5: hitting a wall ( 120km ), body starts to protest
Hour 6: goes smooth again
Hour 7: hitting a second wall ( 150-160km ), speed drops drastically u start to not keep track of much other then repeating the same though processes.
Hour 8: goes smooth again
Hour 9 : ( 200km mark ) start to come up with excuses why u should stop, but keeps going, brain is clearly tired of your shit but u keep going, food intake gets worse.
Hour 10: goes somewhat smooth again but slow
Hour 11: I are basically in a zone where there really isn't much protest anymore of your body to keep going, u just go and that's it.
Hour 12: ( 250-260km mark ) body either refuses through food not getting absorbed anymore, or u simple lacked food intake through problems earlier on and fall appart here into super slow mode.
Hour 13: u are basically zombie mode where u just keep peddling
Hour 14: hallucinations start, u see cars drive through tree's and see cars drive through your wheels, and it all makes perfect sense. U see people bike around u on a long empty road that suddently disappear into thin air after u look away, i have issue's staying with your bike on the road itself ( almost impossible to keep biking straight ).

This is a indication, u should stop however if you keep going.

Hour 15: Loss of vision, migraine on the eyes which forces u to stop.

I never could get further then 300km bike sessions in hard weather. About 12 hours was my usual cut off point.

The night after such session u probably won't be able to sleep, because your body is still for hours thinking its still biking. U will be sweating even while sitting still behind your PC. Also not hungry of any kind, or thirsty.
 
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GHG

GHG

Gold Member
Kenpachii said:
So when is it happening



@15 minutes he talks about his vision going out.

I have had this multiple times, its a migraine that hits the eyes.

ocular-migraine-678x450.jpg


It's always this form, remove the red part however, its a blur that gets bigger and bigger rapidly until u can't see or read anything anymore. In really extreme cases that i had shit went just dark entirely. it stays for about half a hour.

I typically got it with extreme trainings for triathlon where u even started to hallucinate before it happens. When u really push your body to the absolute limits.

Example of training.

Biking:

Cold weather, rain, mud, with lots of wind.

Hour 1: struggle to get going, because u just start
Hour 2: Goes smooth
Hour 3: Goes great
Hour 4: struggle hard
Hour 5: hitting a wall ( 120km ), body starts to protest
Hour 6: goes smooth again
Hour 7: hitting a second wall ( 150-160km ), speed drops drastically u start to not keep track of much other then repeating the same though processes.
Hour 8: goes smooth again
Hour 9 : ( 200km mark ) start to come up with excuses why u should stop, but keeps going, brain is clearly tired of your shit but u keep going, food intake gets worse.
Hour 10: goes somewhat smooth again but slow
Hour 11: I are basically in a zone where there really isn't much protest anymore of your body to keep going, u just go and that's it.
Hour 12: ( 250-260km mark ) body either refuses through food not getting absorbed anymore, or u simple lacked food intake through problems earlier on and fall appart here into super slow mode.
Hour 13: u are basically zombie mode where u just keep peddling
Hour 14: hallucinations start, u see cars drive through tree's and see cars drive through your wheels, and it all makes perfect sense. U see people bike around u on a long empty road that suddently disappear into thin air after u look away, i have issue's staying with your bike on the road itself ( almost impossible to keep biking straight ).

This is a indication, u should stop however if you keep going.

Hour 15: Loss of vision, migraine on the eyes which forces u to stop.

I never could get further then 300km bike sessions in hard weather. About 12 hours was my usual cut off point.

The night after such session u probably won't be able to sleep, because your body is still for hours thinking its still biking. U will be sweating even while sitting still behind your PC. Also not hungry of any kind, or thirsty.
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He burst blood vessels in his brain:

“I woke up in a massive pool of blood,” he recalls. “I had blood coming out of my nose, my tear ducts, my ears.”

Hall goes on to say that he remembers paramedics having to race to the scene to assist him. The athlete’s doctors told him that blood vessels in his brain had burst during the lift.

“My heart rate was through the roof, my blood pressure was unreadable,” he says. “I couldn’t see, I lost my vision for a few hours and for about two weeks I forgot my kids’ names”.

www.euronews.com

Strongman Eddie Hall recalls 500kg deadlift: “I woke up in a massive pool of blood”

As the World’s Ultimate Strongman 2018 competition was held in Dubai, last year’s World’s Strongest Man, Eddie Hall, was on the ground to oversee proceedings.
www.euronews.com www.euronews.com
 
Kenpachii

Kenpachii

Member
GHG said:
He burst blood vessels in his brain:

“I woke up in a massive pool of blood,” he recalls. “I had blood coming out of my nose, my tear ducts, my ears.”

Hall goes on to say that he remembers paramedics having to race to the scene to assist him. The athlete’s doctors told him that blood vessels in his brain had burst during the lift.

“My heart rate was through the roof, my blood pressure was unreadable,” he says. “I couldn’t see, I lost my vision for a few hours and for about two weeks I forgot my kids’ names”.

www.euronews.com

Strongman Eddie Hall recalls 500kg deadlift: “I woke up in a massive pool of blood”

As the World’s Ultimate Strongman 2018 competition was held in Dubai, last year’s World’s Strongest Man, Eddie Hall, was on the ground to oversee proceedings.
www.euronews.com www.euronews.com
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Fucking yikes dude.
 
JareBear: Remastered

JareBear: Remastered

Banned
lol im listening to the Luke Thomas watch along stream on youtube

"Why is this treadmill on fire? Only people in the fitness industry think this is a good ad"

is 501kg next?
 
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